Ok, I should have started this earlier, but... anyway, I hope it's still on time for us to contribute and improve it before releasing.

 

 

 

Prerequisites: (there are several tutorials on the web, on how to install and configure these)

 

To start, of course, an IW5M dedicated server (I hope you checked this tutorial already)

A webserver (IIS, apache, etc will do it. Tested with IIS 7.5)

MySQL Server - http://www.mysql.com/downloads/ (tested with MySQL Server 5.5)

PHP - http://www.php.net/

PhpMyAdmin - http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/downloads.php

Python - http://www.python.org/download/ (tested with Python 2.7.3 64-bit)

MySql-Python - http://www.codegood.com/archives/129 (tested with MySQL-python-1.2.3 64-bit)

B3 Python source version - http://forum.bigbrotherbot.net/download ... iew;down=4 (tested with b3-1.8.1)

 

Later versions should work without any kind of problems (keep in mind about MySQL-Python compatibility with Phython versions though).

 

Now that you got everything above running, it's time to create your database. Login on PhpMyAdmin, create the database and import the sql template that you can find inside b3\sql on the b3 package.

 

Now it's time to actually setup B3.

Extract "to somewhere" the content on your B3 zip (for guiding on this tutorial, let's suppose that you extracted it to the root of C drive and then renamed the folder to "b3")

The next step is to copy "cod8.py" to your b3 installation. You can find "cod8.py" on "admin" folder on your IW5M server installation. Copy "cod8.py" to "C:\b3\b3\parsers\"

 

Now go here to generate a config file (b3.xml):

http://config.bigbrotherbot.net/

Of course that you won't find IW5M on the list MW3 was never supposed to have b3 support, right? Just choose "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2"

Fill in all your information there. Keep in mind that B3 config files only work with front slashes (/). As for the log file, it's getting created on "scripts" folder. So, the path would be something like "C:/IW5M/scripts/games_mp.log".

For RCON IP, use the local IP. Do NOT use localhost (127.0.0.1)

The "Server Port" will be the port used for rcon. The port used for rcon will be the "query port". You can check what's that server's query port by looking at the console's output when you launch the server. Look at this line: "Initializing Steam Game Server: game port *****, auth port ****, query port *****,"

Save the config and move it to "C:\b3\b3\config\"

 

Now open b3.xml with some text editor (notepad++ is great for it) and change the parser.

Where it says:

cod6

change to:

cod8

 

Important note to hosts running HC servers:

Although we unlocked dedicated server commands, there's still a bug with Teamkill. If you're running an HC server with teamkill disabled, b3 will still ban players for teamkill, although they can't actually kill their team-mates. To prevent this from happening, remove "plugin_tk" from b3.xml.

Just delete this line, if exists:

 

Now just save the changes and close the file.

Browse to C:\b3\ and start "b3_run.py" to start B3.

 

On another note, B3 is capable of registering data to xlrstats database already. But since there's not an IW5M xlrstats template available already to retrieve the stats, we'll leave xlrstats tutorial for later.

 

 

 

And ok, this was my lazy contribution

Please help me making this better. Also, some formatting could make this look better...

Why would you need a web server when you can use numerous non-web-based tools to import a database schema? Even more so, you could just as well use SQLite which takes even less dependencies.

 

Also, mention the g_log dvar for usage with people having multiple dedicated servers.

Well... the idea of b3 is also to include xlrstats support as soon as possible. That's why i didn't care to save on webserver/php/phpmyadmin.

But yes, we could include both options for people who might want to run b3 without ever intending on using xlrstats (someone experienced with sqlite please contribute).

About the g_log dvar explanation, it makes more sense to include that on the dedicated server tutorial.