{"id":535,"date":"2018-01-06T21:51:54","date_gmt":"2018-01-07T03:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/?p=535"},"modified":"2018-01-06T21:51:54","modified_gmt":"2018-01-07T03:51:54","slug":"pufferpanel-and-macos-high-sierra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/?p=535","title":{"rendered":"PufferPanel and MacOS High Sierra"},"content":{"rendered":"

We tried installing PufferPanel on a High Sierra Server today, but hit some snags with the installer and manually configuring Apache. Didn’t see much in the community forum<\/a>, so we logged on to Discord and puffrfish, one of the lead developers, was gracious to answer some questions, pasted below:<\/p>\n

Teddd just joined. Everyone, look busy!Today at 9:25 PM<\/p>\n

\nTeddd – Today at 9:27 PM<\/p>\n

\nHas anyone here tried installing PufferPanel server on a Mac?<\/p>\n

\npuffrfish – Today at 9:27 PM<\/p>\n

\nour installer isn’t designed for it, so while in theory it could someday work, it’s not going to right now<\/p>\n

\nI’d recommend running it in a linux VM instead<\/p>\n

\nTeddd – Today at 9:28 PM<\/p>\n

\nYeah, I saw the installer is meant for linux, but I figured I could manually configure it to work with Apache.<\/p>\n

\npuffrfish – Today at 9:29 PM<\/p>\n

\nwe don’t have a darwin build for pufferd yet, so it’s a definite no<\/p>\n

\nTeddd – Today at 9:31 PM<\/p>\n

\nIs the pufferd code available too? Just curious if I could try to recompile on Darwin.<\/p>\n

\npuffrfish – Today at 9:31 PM<\/p>\n

\nyes, it’s all available on GitHub, but take it from me (I use a Mac) that it’s not as simple as just compiling it<\/p>\n

\nTeddd – Today at 9:32 PM<\/p>\n

\nGood to know :smiley:<\/p>\n

\npuffrfish – Today at 9:32 PM<\/p>\n

\nI plan to someday get to it, as it’s not that much work, but the amount of people wanting it is almost none..in fact, you’re the first one
\nat least that I can remember anyway<\/p>\n

\nTeddd – Today at 9:34 PM<\/p>\n

\nI know there are a few more out there, but most probably write it off when the site only mentions linux distros as supported.<\/p>\n

\npuffrfish – Today at 9:34 PM<\/p>\n

\nvirtualbox works well enough though, just load up an ubuntu server iso into it and make sure networking is configured in bridge mode for ease of use<\/p>\n

\nTeddd – Today at 9:35 PM<\/p>\n

\nThanks for the tips. If you ever want to bring it to the Mac, I’d be interested in helping.<\/p>\n

\npuffrfish – Today at 9:35 PM<\/p>\n

\nanother issue is that the game servers themselves, for example srcds, don’t run well (if at all?) on mac<\/p>\n

\nwhat game are you looking to run?<\/p>\n

\nTeddd – Today at 9:35 PM<\/p>\n

\nMinecraft PC or else Pocketmine-MP.<\/p>\n

\npuffrfish – Today at 9:37 PM<\/p>\n

\nminecraft java would work, not sure about pocketmine but I imagine so<\/p>\n

\nTeddd – Today at 9:38 PM<\/p>\n

\nYeah, pocketmine works too.<\/p>\n

\npuffrfish – Today at 9:38 PM<\/p>\n

\nI have to say that it’s a little far off though, we have a lot of other issues we have to tackle first, mainly the panel itself<\/p>\n

\nTeddd – Today at 9:38 PM<\/p>\n

\nAt least we’ve run several versions of pocketmine-MP.<\/p>\n

\npuffrfish – Today at 9:38 PM<\/p>\n

\nbut we are set up in a way to theoretically support windows as well as macOS in future releases<\/p>\n

\nTeddd – Today at 9:40 PM<\/p>\n

\nThat will be an exciting day :joy:<\/p>\n

\npuffrfish – Today at 9:40 PM<\/p>\n

\nI wouldn’t hold your breath for it<\/p>\n

\nTeddd – Today at 9:42 PM<\/p>\n

\nHa, I won’t, but I think its really cool what you have already built with PufferPanel.<\/p>\n

\npuffrfish – Today at 9:43 PM<\/p>\n

\nthanks, I would definitely recommend just running it in a VM of some sort for now though. the game servers (besides minecraft) are more suited to running under linux. I’d say windows comes second since there are some windows-only games<\/p>\n

\nLord_Ralex – Today at 9:46 PM<\/p>\n

\nYeah, I know we wont have a build since environments are not set up for ot<\/p>\n

\nTeddd – Today at 9:51 PM<\/p>\n

\nAre there any alternatives to PufferPanel that might run on the Mac, like Multicraft?<\/p>\n

\npuffrfish – Today at 9:51 PM<\/p>\n

\nnot that I know of<\/p>\n

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