Administrative Docs

The following pages are aimed at game administrators – the higher-ups that possess shell access and are responsible for managing the game.

Installation and Early Life

• Choosing (and installing) an SQL Server

• Getting Started - Installing Evennia

• Running Evennia in Docker Containers

• Starting, stopping, reloading and resetting Evennia

• Keeping your game up to date

• Resetting your database

• Making your game available online

  • Hosting options

  • Securing your server with SSL/Let’s Encrypt

• Listing your game at the online Evennia game index

Customizing the server

• Changing the Settings

  • Available Master Settings

• Change Evennia’s language (internationalization)

• Apache webserver configuration (optional)

• Changing text encodings used by the server

• The Connection Screen

• Guest Logins

• How to connect Evennia to IRC channels

• How to connect Evennia to RSS feeds

• How to connect Evennia to Grapevine

• How to connect Evennia to Twitter

Administrating the running game

• Supported clients (grid of known client issues)

• Changing Permissions of users

• Banning and deleting users

  • Summary of abuse-handling tools in the default cmdset

Working with Evennia

• Setting up your work environment with version control

• First steps coding with Evennia

• Setting up a continuous integration build environment