NexusDashboard/README.md

Nexus Dashboard

Features

• Account Management:
  • Ban, Lock, and Mute accounts (This Mute affects all Characters)
  • Account Deletion
  • Email ( all optional ):
    • Require email verification
    • Reset Password via Email
    • Edit Email ( by Admin only )
    • User Registration
    • Invitations ( TODO: Implement this )
    • Invitation Only Registration ( TODO: Implement this )
• Play Key Management:
  • Create, Edit, and Add notes to play keys
  • View accounts Tied to a play key
• Character Management:
  • Rescue: Pull character to a previously visited world
  • Restrict Trade: Toggle the character's ability to trade
  • Restrict Mail: Toggle the character's ability to send mail
  • Restrict Chat: Toggle the character's ability to send chat messages
  • Inventory viewer
    • View backpack contents, vault, models, and more!
  • Stats Viewer
• Moderation:
  • Character Names:
    • Approve and mark as needs rename
  • Pet Names:
    • Auto-moderation of Pet names based on already moderated names
      • This is a scheduled tack that runs in the background every hour
    • Character Association, to see who has requested what name
    • Name cleanup: remove names of deleted pets/characters
  • Properties:
    • Approve and Un-approve Properties
    • Property/Model viewer
      • Pre-built and UGC model rendering
      • View Properties in full 360 in the browser!
      • View in LOD0 (High), LOD1(Medium), or LOD2(Low) quality
      • Download models
• Bug Reports:
  • View and Resolve bug reports
• Logs:
  • Command: View commands that have been run
  • Activity: View character activity of entering and exiting worlds
  • Audit:
    • View moderation activity (characters, pets, properties)
    • View GM Level changes
    • View Send Mail usage
  • System: View Extra logging of background activities of Nexus Dashboard
• Send Mail:
  • Send Mail to characters
  • Attach items to Mail
• Economy Reports:
  • Reports are generated as a scheduled background task run every day at 2300 UTC
  • Accounts with GM Level 3 and above are ignored
  • Item reports:
    • Reports numbers of items in existence
    • Includes backpack and Vault items
  • Currency:
    • Reports how much currency that characters posses
  • U-Score:
    • Reports how much U-Score that characters posses

Deployment

NOTE: This tutorial assumes you have a working DLU server instance and some knowledge of command line interfaces on your chosen platform

It is highly recommended to setup a reverse proxy via Nginx or some other tool and use SSL to secure your Nexus Dashboard instance if you are going to be opening it up to any non-LANs

• How to setup Nginx
• How to use certbot for SSL

Docker

docker run -d \
    -e APP_SECRET_KEY='<secret_key>' \
    -e APP_DATABASE_URI='mysql+pymysql://<username>:<password>@<host>:<port>/<database>' \
    # you can include other optional Environment Variables from below like this
    -e REQUIRE_PLAY_KEY=True \
    -p 8000:8000/tcp \
    -v /path/to/logs:/logs:rw /
    -v /path/to/unpacked/client:/app/luclient:ro \
    -v /path/to/cachedir:/app/cache:rw \
    ghcr.io/darkflameuniverse/nexusdashboard:latest

• /app/luclient must be mapped to the location of an unpacked client
  • you only need res/ and locale/ from the client, but dropping the whole client in there won't hurt
• Use fdb_to_sqlite.py in lcdr's utilities on res/cdclient.fdb in the unpacked client to convert the client database to cdclient.sqlite
  • Put the resulting cdclient.sqlite in the res folder: res/cdclient.sqlite

Environmental Variables

Please Reference app/settings_example.py to see all the variables

• Required:
  • APP_SECRET_KEY (Must be provided)
  • APP_DATABASE_URI (Must be provided)
• Everything else is optional and has defaults
• Property model viewer:
  • COMPRESS_MODEL_RESPONSES (default True): gzip model and brick database files for browsers that support it
  • CACHE_COMPRESSED_MODELS (default False): store a .gz copy next to each cached file instead of compressing on every request (uses more disk space, saves CPU)
  • PROPERTY_VIEWER_LOAD_REDRAW (default none): property viewer redraw while models load; none draws once when all models have loaded, interval redraws periodically so models appear progressively
  • PROPERTY_VIEWER_REDRAW_INTERVAL_MS (default 500): minimum time between redraws while loading when PROPERTY_VIEWER_LOAD_REDRAW is interval

Manual Linux Installation

Thanks to HailStorm32 for this manual install guide!

Setting Up The Environment

First you will want to install the following packages by executing the following commands presuming you are on a Debian based system.

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install -y python3 python3-pip sqlite3 git unzip libmagickwand-dev

Note: If you are having issues with installing sqlite3, change it to sqlite

Next you will want to clone the repository. You can clone it anywhere, but for the purpose of this tutorial, we will be cloning it to the home directory.'

Run cd ~ to ensure that you are currently in the home directory then run the following command to clone the repository into our home directory git clone https://github.com/DarkflameUniverse/NexusDashboard.git

You should now have a directory called NexusDashboard present in your home directory

Setting up

Rename the example settings file cp ~/NexusDashboard/app/settings_example.py ~/NexusDashboard/app/settings.py

Now let's open the settings file we just created and configure some of the settings with nano as it is a simple text editor that is easy to use nano ~/NexusDashboard/app/settings.py

Obviously you can replace this with a text editor of your choice, nano is just the most simple to use out of the ones available by default on most Linux distros

Inside this file is where you can change certain settings like user registration, email support and other things. In this tutorial we will only be focusing on the bare minimum to get up and running, but feel free to adjust what you would like to fit your needs.

Note: There are options in here that are related to email registration and password recovery among other features however those require extra setup not covered by this tutorial

The two important settings to configure are APP_SECRET_KEY and APP_DATABASE_URI

For APP_SECRET_KEY, fill in any random 32 character string For APP_DATABASE_URI, fill in the respective fields

<username>  --> database username
<password>  --> database password
<host>		--> database address
	(this will most likely be localhost if you are running the database on the same machine
<port>		--> port number of the database
	(this can most likely be left out if you are running the database on the same machine)
<database>	--> database name

If you are omitting <port>, make sure to also omit the :

For a configuration where the database is running on the same machine, it would similar to this

APP_SECRET_KEY = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz123456"
APP_DATABASE_URI = "mysql+pymysql://DBusername:DBpassword@localhost/DBname"

The rest of the file is left at the default values

Once you are done making the changes, save and close the file

Client related files

We will need the following folders from the client

locale
└───locale.xml

res
├───BrickModels
├───brickprimitives
├───textures
├───ui
├───brickdb.zip

Put the two folders in ~/NexusDashboard/app/luclient

Unzip the brickdb.zip in place unzip brickdb.zip

Remove the .zip file after you have unzipped it, you can do that with rm brickdb.zip

In the luclient directory you should now have a file structure that looks like this

locale
└───locale.xml

res
├───BrickModels
│   └─── ...
├───brickprimitives
│	└─── ...
├───textures
│	└─── ...
├───ui
│	└─── ...
├───Assemblies
│	└─── ...
├───Primitives
│	└─── ...
├───Materials.xml
└───info.xml

We will also need to copy the CDServer.sqlite database file from the server to the ~/NexusDashboard/app/luclient/res folder

Once the file is moved over, you will need to rename it to cdclient.sqlite, this can be done with the following command

mv ~/NexusDashboard/app/luclient/res/CDServer.sqlite ~/NexusDashboard/app/luclient/res/cdclient.sqlite

Remaining Setup

To finish this, we will need to install the python dependencies and run the database migrations, simply run the following commands one at a time

cd ~/NexusDashboard
pip install -r requirements.txt
pip install gunicorn
flask db upgrade

Running the site

Once all of the above is complete, you can run the site with the command gunicorn -b :8000 -w 4 wsgi:app

Manual Windows Setup

While a lot of the setup on Windows is the same a lot of it can be completed with GUI interfaces and requires installing things from websites instead of the command line.

Setting Up The Environment

You need to install the following prerequisites:

• Python 3.8
• Git
• ImageMagick
• 7-Zip

Next you will need to clone the repository. You can clone it anywhere, but for the purpose of this tutorial, you will want to clone it to your desktop just for simplicity, it can be moved after.

Open a command prompt and run cd Desktop (The command line should place you in your Home directory be default) to ensure that you are currently in the desktop directory then run the following command to clone the repository into our desktop directory

Run the following command to clone the repository git clone https://github.com/DarkflameUniverse/NexusDashboard.git

You should now have a directory called NexusDashboard present on your desktop.

Setting up

Now that we have the repository cloned you need to rename the example settings file, you can perform this manually in the GUI or you can use the command line, to do the latter run the following commands

• cd NexusDashboard\app
• copy settings_example.py settings.py

Now let's open the settings file we just created and configure some of the settings with the Windows default notepad.

• notepad settings.py

Inside this file is where you can change certain settings like user registration, email support and other things. In this tutorial we will only be focusing on the bare minimum to get up and running, but feel free to adjust what you would like to fit your needs.

Note: There are options in here that are related to email registration and password recovery among other features however those require extra setup not covered by this tutorial

The two important settings to configure are APP_SECRET_KEY and APP_DATABASE_URI

For APP_SECRET_KEY you can just fill in any random 32 character string and for APP_DATABASE_URI you will need to fill in a connection string to your database. The connection string will look similar to this. You will need to fill in your own information for the username, password, host, port and database name.

APP_DATABASE_URI = "mysql+pymysql://<username>:<password>@<host>:<port>/<database>"

and the rest of the file can be left at the default values other than the APP_SECRET_KEY which you will need to fill in with random characters.

Once you are done making the changes, save and close the file

Client related files

We will need the following folders from the client

locale
└───locale.xml

res
├───BrickModels
├───brickprimitives
├───textures
├───ui
└───brickdb.zip

Put the two folders in Desktop/NexusDashboard/app/luclient

Unzip the brickdb.zip in place using 7-Zip, you can do this by right clicking the file and selecting 7-Zip > Extract Here.

After doing this you can remove the .zip, simply delete the file.

In the luclient directory you should now have a file structure that looks like this

locale
└───locale.xml

res
├───BrickModels
│   └─── ...
├───brickprimitives
│	└─── ...
├───textures
│	└─── ...
├───ui
│	└─── ...
├───Assemblies
│	└─── ...
├───Primitives
│	└─── ...
├───Materials.xml
└───info.xml

We will also need to copy the CDServer.sqlite database file from the server to the Desktop/NexusDashboard/app/luclient/res folder

Once the file is moved over, you will need to rename it to cdclient.sqlite, this can be done by right clicking the file and selecting Rename and then changing the name to cdclient.sqlite

Remaining Setup

To finish this, we will need to install the python dependencies and run the database migrations, simply run the following commands one at a time in the root directory of the site, if you are not in the root directory you can run cd Desktop/NexusDashboard to get there (assuming you have opened a new terminal window)

pip install -r requirements.txt
flask db upgrade

Running the site

Once all of the above is complete, you can run the site with the command flask run however bare in mind that this is a development version of the site, at the moment running a production version of the site on Windows is not supported.

Development

Please use Editor Config to maintain a consistent coding style between different editors and different contributors.

• python3 -m flask run to run a local dev server