!! UNFORTUNATELY, THIS PROJECT IS DEAD FOR NOW. YOU ARE STILL FREE TO PULL AND FORK AS YOU LIKE. !!

Blizzlike is a CMS for the TrinityCore Open Source MMO Framework.

This is project is designed to be a simple, easy to use web content management system and user registration portal for World of Warcraft private servers powered by TrinityCore. This is project is a work in progress, community contributions are always welcome!

Features

• Account creation page
• Easy to use and install
• A see who's online list that displays the players username, race, level and faction
• A "how to connect" page for the advantage of the users of the server
• Character search (Unfinished "armory")
• Server status
• CMS for editing posts/news on the website
• Forum (Working, but still requires more work.)
• Administration panel for editing server accounts without using the console
• Google Analytics, Ad and Auto Ads management. (Admin panel)
• Gallery

Installation on Ubuntu 18.04

(optional) Watch the setup video located here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1h0Cpr5Osg4

Pre-Requsites

• The project currently requires that all Trinity and CMS databases are located on the same SQL Server. We currently do not support hosting your Characters, Auth, World, or BlizzlikeCMS databases on different servers.
• You have the ability to sudo on the CMS server and the TrinityCore server. You can host both TrinityCore and Blizzlike on the same machine, but it is not recommended
• You have some familiartiy with using Linux and have configured networking correctly. It is recommended that you use static IP addresses for your servers

Things to be aware of

• BlizzlikeCMS does not include it's own user accounts. It will connect to your TrinityCore Auth DB and use the existing user accounts from the Trinity server.
• The GM level of your Trinity user accounts will determine who can access the Admin Panel on the CMS.

Create the BlizzlikeCMS database and SQL user account.

1. Log into the TrinityCore WoW SQL server and create a dedicated blizzlike db user account: sudo mysql CREATE USER 'BLIZZLIKE_USER'@'BLIZZLIKE_SERVER_IP' IDENTIFIED BY 'SOME_PASSWORD';
2. Create an empty Blizzlike CMS Database. CREATE DATABASE BLIZZLIKE_DB_NAME DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;
3. Allow the Blizzlike user to have admin access to the DB server GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'BLIZZLIKE_USER'@'BLIZZLIKE_SERVER_IP' WITH GRANT OPTION;

Setup the BlizzlikeCMS web server.

1. Install the project dependencies. sudo apt-get install -y mysql-client apache2 php php-gmp php-imagick php-mysql php-gd php-soap git
2. Clone in the project repo into the Apache web server root. sudo git clone [email protected]:MariusTBjercke/BlizzlikeCMS.git /var/www/html
3. Clean up file system permissions. sudo chown www-data:www-data /var/www/html -R sudo chmod 775 /var/www/html -R sudo chmod 777 /var/www/html/img sudo chmod 777 /var/www/html/config.php
4. Add the PHP_GMP extension to php.ini sudo vi /etc/php/{PHP_Version}/apache2/php.ini Add the following line anywhere inside: extension=php_gmp.so
5. Restart the Apache webserver. sudo service apache2 restart

Run the server install script

1. From your computer. Open a web browser and navigate to http://BLIZZLIKE_SERVER_IP/install.php
2. Use the database user you created in the SQL setup stage above.

Cleanup

Delete or move the file /var/www/html/install.php in order to keep your installation secure. Example: sudo rm /var/www/html/install.php to delete the file. sudo mv /var/www/html/install.php /home/$USER/install.php to move it into your home folder.

Log in and configure the CMS via the admin panel.

1. Navigate to http://BLIZZLIKE_SERVER_IP/admin.php
2. You will need to have a GM user in TrinityCore setup before you can log in here. If you do not have a GM user in TrinityCore yet, make sure you follow the steps outlined by the TrinityCore project https://trinitycore.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/tc/pages/77971021/Final+Server+Steps

Working with CSS/Javascript

If you are going to edit the stylesheet/javascript files you are going to need Node.js installed as this project comes with watcher/sass scripts.**

1. Setup Node.js by running the command npm install.
2. Next run npm run watch to start using the watcher.
3. Now you can edit the CSS and JS files located in the /src folder.

PS: This is still a work in progress, but I will try to update the project frequently.

Preview of the Legion theme