Secret-Reichstag-Server

Secret Reichstag Server

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

This project is a web version of a modified version of the game "Secret Hitler"

Running your own server

Prebuilt .jar files are available under the releases section

After you've downloaded or built a server JAR, you can run it using Java 11 or higher. Upon first launch, the server will generate a config.yml file which you can edit. The default configuration looks like this:

### CustomConfig version: 2.0
ssl: 
  enable: false
  certificate-path: "pem/cert.pem"
  private-key-path: "pem/privkey.pem"
  certificate-password: ""
server: 
  insecure: 
    host: "0.0.0.0"
    port: 34642
  secure: 
    host: "0.0.0.0"
    port: 34643

You can also create the config file before running the server

Enabling SSL

The server supports using secure websockets (wss://) instead of insecure (ws://) ones. To enable them, make sure you have a valid certificate and private key for your domain name and edit the paths in the config accordingly. Optionally, you can enter the certificate's password (if it has one). Then, you can set ssl.enable to true and you should be able to connect to your server using wss://your.domain:port

Setting up a proxy using Apache2

If you want to integrate the server into your existing domain/webpage configuration using Apache2, you can do so by using a proxy. Please keep in mind that these instructions apply to using Apache2 on Linux. If you're running it on Windows, you might need to adapt some of the steps.

Note: If you plan on hosting the web client as well, please refer to the README of Secret-Reichstag-Web and follow the instructions there

Using an existing domain

To use an existing (sub-)domain for your server, you need to edit the site's config file and add the following lines to its VirtualHost

	# For insecure WebSockets. If you're using secure websockets, disable this
	ProxyPass "/reichstag" "ws://localhost:34642"
	
	# For secure WebSockets, enable these
	# Note: Internally, this will always use insecure websockets. You can change this if you want
	# SSLProxyEngine On
	# ProxyPass "/reichstag" "ws://localhost:34642"
	# SSLCertificateFile /path/to/your/certificate.pem
	# SSLCertificateKeyFile /path/to/your/privatekey.pem

Make sure you've enabled the correct modules for Apache using

a2enmod proxy proxy_http proxy_wstunnel

then restart Apache using

systemctl restart apache2.service

If everything went well, you should now be able to connect to your server using ws://your.domain/reichstag or wss://your.domain/reichstag (depending on whether you're using secure WebSockets) in the app

Using a dedicated subdomain

To use a dedicated subdomain for the server (e.g. sr.your.domain), you first need to create a new site configuration.

Under /etc/apache2/sites-available/ create a new configuration file (e.g. secretreichstag.conf) with the following contents:

<VirtualHost *:443>
	ServerName sr.your.domain

	ServerAdmin [email protected]

	ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
	CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
	
	SSLCertificateFile /path/to/your/certificate.pem
	SSLCertificateKeyFile /path/to/your/privatekey.pem
	
	# For insecure WebSockets. If you're using secure websockets, disable this
	ProxyPass "/" "ws://localhost:34642"
	
	# For secure WebSockets, enable these
	# Note: Internally, this will always use insecure websockets. You can change this if you want
	# SSLProxyEngine On
	# ProxyPass "/" "ws://localhost:34642"
</VirtualHost>

If you don't want to use https, make sure to change the *:443 to *:80 and remove the SSLCertificateFile and SSLCertificateKeyFile

Before enabling the new site, you need to make sure you've enabled the right modules for Apache2 to proxy the WebSockets. To do so, use

a2enmod proxy proxy_http proxy_wstunnel

You can then enable the site using

a2ensite secretreichstag

and restart Apache using

systemctl restart apache2.service

Make sure you have a valid DNS entry for the new subdomain pointing to your server.

If everything went well, you should now be able to connect to your server using ws://sr.your.domain or wss://sr.your.domain (depending on whether you're using secure WebSockets) in the app

Building the server yourself

If you don't want to use the prebuilt .jar files or want to modify the server before building, you can do so using Maven. Just clone the repo, make your changes, then run

mvn package

Make sure you have installed Java 11+ correctly before trying to build