OVGME Repository creation help

[Yukla 27]

Does anyone know of an OVGME repo creation guide?

 

I have a repository created on a Windows Server 2016, with a valid .xml for it but I am unable to retrieve the files from it. I have opened the port (80) for it but when I am polling the files it is getting timed out.

 

I know enough about servers to get me in trouble, but I am not a IT professional by any means, so any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks in advance.

[DracoLlasa]

There is nothing special about the repository, what you actually need is a webserver with a few web accessible files. So without getting into details in troubleshooting, first work on getting a working webserver, with a few custom HTML files in some of the directories that will hold the mod files

 

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[BaD CrC]

You just need a direct link to the .xml file. Google drive or dropbox won't work. You need to use your web hosting.

[Yukla 27]

fixed

Edited August 14, 2020 by Yukla 27

[BaD CrC]

From what I can see in your XML file, it contains absolutely nothing required by OVGME and you didn't use any XML code in the file. So OVGME will just not understand what you want to do with the repo.

 

Open the file in Notepad++ and copy paste the following:

 

<mod_list>
<mod name="1a. CSG3 Coremods" version="1.0.0" url="http://23.254.244.106/Repo/1a.%20CSG3%20Coremods.zip">1a. CSG3 COREMODS</mod>
<mod name="1b. CSG3 Coremods" version="1.0.0" url="http://23.254.244.106/Repo/1b.%20CSG3%20Coremods.zip">1b. CSG3 COREMODS</mod>
<mod name="1c. CSG3 Coremods" version="1.0.0" url="http://23.254.244.106/Repo/1c.%20CSG3%20Coremods.zip">1c. CSG3 COREMODS</mod>
<mod name="1d. CSG3 Coremods" version="1.0.0" url="http://23.254.244.106/Repo/1d.%20CSG3%20Coremods.zip">1d. CSG3 COREMODS</mod>
<mod name="1e. CSG3 Coremods" version="1.0.0" url="http://23.254.244.106/Repo/1e.%20CSG3%20Coremods.zip">1e. CSG3 COREMODS</mod>
<mod name="2a. 93-FS Liveries" version="1.0.0" url="http://23.254.244.106/Repo/2a.%2093-FS%20Liveries.zip">2a. 93-FS Liveries</mod>
</mod_list>

 

You can complete this file on your own for the rest of the list of zip files you have (liveries). I didn't check the format of your zip files but you are aware that it requires a specific OVGME structure right?

The version=x.x.x is the most important part of your XML repo because this is what will trigger the update alert in your user's community. The format must always be x.x.x with x being one single digit number. I made up the versions, assuming they are all the first one. Also, I would avoid the blanks in your file names. You have to add %20 in place of each blank in the URL. It is a bit confusing and often a source of errors.

Edited August 12, 2020 by BaD CrC

[Yukla 27]

You were partly correct BaD CRC. Thank you so much for your input though as it brought me to what was actually going wrong.

 

Believe it or not it all came down to .XML when it should have been .xml

 

For some reason whenever I was uploading the xml it was capitalizing it. After I realized it, and renamed it, it finally started querying.

 

Again thank you so much for your input. Now I can work on correcting the versions etc

[CpAleks]

Hi,

 

i have the same problem on my hosted server. Ovgme shows me everytime the same failure

 

 

But when i open the Browser i can see the .xml file

 

 

The Link ist http://mods.vf235royaljackdaws.de/vf235.xml 

 

What i´m doing wrong? 

Edited March 19, 2021 by CpAleks

[davidp57]

That's a kind of bug that OvGME had from the beginning.

Some webservers work with it, some don't.

Either change of webserver, or correct the bug in the code

[hAirypAulsAck]

On 3/19/2021 at 5:46 AM, CpAleks said:

Hi,

 

i have the same problem on my hosted server. Ovgme shows me everytime the same failure

 

 

But when i open the Browser i can see the .xml file

 

 

The Link ist http://mods.vf235royaljackdaws.de/vf235.xml 

 

What i´m doing wrong? 

 

works fine for me. first time I had a timeout but that was expected because I use a third party firewall. Every time a new program attempts to make its first connection to the internet I get a popup dialog. Causes issues here and there with setups that create temp files that connect to the internet, but 99% of the time it works perfect. Far better than windows built in firewall which in no way lets you know about attempted connections. Only goes off the rules set by the installation program. 

So if ovgme installer didn't create the necessary firewall rules or you are using the portable mode one, you wouldn't even know that it was attempting to connect to the internet and failing because windoze. I mean, it's windoze. This kinda obviously needed and expected <profanity> just doesn't exist.

[RayBurge]

Need to know were to go to get space to create a repo? Any help would be nice.