Issues Setting Up Dedicated Server

Hello,

Recently I follow Exodus Esport's guide on how to setup a dedicated PA server. I followed the instructions step by step on Ubuntu 14.04.3. Everything went well until I had to start up the server with the command " nodejs ./NodePAMaster/src/control.js". At this point I get the following message.


undefined:2
"server":b
^
SyntaxError: Unexpected token b
at Object.parse (native)
at Object.<anonymous> (/home/micah1711/NodePAMaster/src/control.js:2:17)
at Module._compile (module.js:456:26)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)
at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:497:10)
at startup (node.js:119:16)
at node.js:902:3

I am mostly a networking and computer hardware and virtualization guy. I have ok experience in linux and no experience in Java Script. Please help.

Best Regards,

Micah

It kind of sounds like there may be an error in the conf.json file. Can you post the content of that?

Sorry about the delay.

Here are the contents of the control.json file:

var fs = require('fs');
var conf = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(__dirname + "/conf.json", {encoding: "ascii"}));

var paVersion = fs.readFileSync(conf.serverversion, {encoding: "ascii"}).trim();

console.log("PA version is "+paVersion);

var serverExe = conf.server;
var params = conf.serverparams;
var paStatsHost = conf.pastats;
var paStatsPort = conf.pastatsport;

var serverIp = conf.serverip;
var serverPort = conf.serverport;

var paserver = require('./pa.js').paserver;

var sendGameToPaStats = function(game) {
var http = require('http');

var payload = JSON.stringify(game);

payload = payload.replace(/([\x09\x0A\x0D\x20-\x7E]|[\xC2-\xDF][\x80-\xBF]|\xE0[\xA0-\xBF][\x80-\xBF]|[\xE1-\xEC\xEE\xEF][\x80-\xBF]{2}|\xED[\x80-\x9F][\x80-\xBF]|\xF0[\x$

console.log("payload send to PA Stats:");
console.log("____");
console.log(payload);
console.log("____");

var headers = {
'Content-Type': 'application/json; charset=utf-8',
'Content-Length': payload.length
};

var options = {
host: paStatsHost,
port: paStatsPort,
path: '/addServer',
method: 'POST',
headers: headers
};

// Setup the request. The options parameter is
// the object we defined above.
var req = http.request(options, function(res) {
res.setEncoding('utf-8');

var responseString = '';

res.on('data', function(data) {
responseString += data;
});

res.on('end', function() {

});
});

req.on('error', function(e) {
console.log("error while sending game to pa stats");
console.log(e);
});

req.write(payload);
req.end();
};

var lobbyId = (Math.random() * 99999999999999).toFixed(0);

paserver.registerListener(function(beacon) {
var p = JSON.parse(beacon);
p.region = conf.shownregion;

var payload = {
beacon: JSON.stringify(p),
ip: serverIp,
port: serverPort,
id: lobbyId,
version: paVersion
};

if (conf.listonpastats) {
sendGameToPaStats(payload);
}
});

paserver.setServerDiedListener(function() {
lobbyId = (Math.random() * 999999999999999).toFixed(0);
setTimeout(function() {
paserver.init(serverExe, params);
}, 3000);
});

paserver.init(serverExe, params);

"conf.json", not "control.js". Close!

Are you saying I should run conf.json instead of control.json?

Because when I run conf.json I get similar errors.

Im sorry to be so helpless.

No, I meant you should post the content of conf.json. The conf.json file is read by the control.js file in this line:

Code:

var conf = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(__dirname + "/conf.json", {encoding: "ascii"}));

The error you posted earlier seems to suggest that there may be a formatting error in the conf.json file.