How is Counter Strike in NITs and IITs going on

I had an idea initially that I make a comprehensive Stats (Psychostats) and run the  website for all the NITians and IITians. But because of financial matter I have delayed it and have some more ideas too to be fulfilled later on.

Mean while if any one can finish it now, I would be happy. And I don't take it negatively, because good is good even if a bad thought does it.

I will reveal more of my ideas later on...

How to host Counter Strike 1.6 Server with Statistics Player Details

If you want to host a server with statistics showing on screen after every round, then you must go for AMX Mod X or StatsMe. You can download these from the Internet.

If you want to have player statistics on the Website, you can use psychostats. The Psychostats is a package which takes the stats from CS1.6 from HLDS.

See the posts below for more,
http://gaminglan.blogspot.com/2008/10/psychostats-for-counter-strike-with.html
http://gaminglan.blogspot.com/2009/06/psychostats-for-counter-strike-16.html

Psychostats For Counter Strike 1.6 Dedicated Server in Linux

The latest version of psychostats is 3.1 and is available for windows and Linux. Mainly Psychostats is used for displaying the game statistics like frags and aces in a website running on the same server.

The psychostats package consists of two parts one to update the stats to the webserver and another to show the stats in the web server. The first package is a Perl package and the other package is the set of php and html files showing the data in the website.

The windows version of the package is very difficult to configure for the users who have no knowledge of the PHP, SQL and other packages. So, the Linux version would help the users set the website very easily.

The Stats update can be done by just running a Perl script provided in the package itself. The Perl script takes the stats from the Counter Strike 1.6 Dedicated Server and sets the stats into the website.

Recently the Psychostats installation has been explained very clearly in their website and a flash demo is also appears to be made.

Psychostats 3.2 Whats New, Included GunGame and Call of Duty Games

Whats New in Psychostats 3.2:

According to Stormtrooper, the Psychostats 3.2 version is being released with GunGame and Call of Duty Support. In the version 3 and all the packages after that they were self instrctory intallers. an install folder is added in the upload package additionally just for administartors ease of setup.

it would be great to have the COD statistics and Counter Strike statistics hosted at a site in the intranet or the internet.

For installation topic of Psychostats for Counter Strike see the post of this blog.

Problems while setting up Psychostats Webserver With Apache for Counter Strike

1. You might be using Active Perl version 5.6.x which may not be fully compatible and better to go for versions 5.8.x or more.
2. You need to install the DBI and SBS-mysql Modules for Active Perl. You can do this by just typing ppm in the run box and giving the comand "install DBI", "install DBD_mysql" each at once in the command box which appears after running ppm from run or ppm.bat directly.
3. The above step will not work if you are unable to access internet or under a proxy server. For this set the proxy in he command prompt, like this "set hhtp_proxy=http://xx.xx.xx.xx:port"
4. You might not have installed PHP for the webserver either Apache or IIS. Download the PHP package and do it.
5. You might not have configured the Psychostats Web package. Do it by adding username and password in config.php file in that package.

Psychostats for Counter Strike With Apache Webserver

Psychostats is a package for showing the statistics of the counter strike game which is running in your server. This package allows you to get the statistics from the game counter strike and show them in a website. The template and all the package of the web server is included in the package. You need to update the server statistics timely and it will take care of the database.

The better part of the package is that it will take care of all the units like MySQL database management, Perl scripts for updating the statistics and more over the design is too cool.

How to set up the Psychostats server:
You can sset up the psychostats server for website in the internet or intranet if you have good understanding of aplications and how they work. And also you should be familer with what you are doing.

These are the basic requirements for the server if you want to set up one.

1. Psychostats package
2. Active Perl version 5.8.x and more is prefered
3. Apache Web Server
4. MySQL Package
5. PHP Appplication for web server

When you are sure that yo have all these, go to the topic Setting Apache Web Server for Psychostats in this blog.

DBI and DBD::mysql ppms needed for Perl to access MySQL for PsychoStats

The Intranet Server Setup is showing some problems as the MySQL module is not included in the installation package of the Active Perl. And also the Active Perl 5.10.x is said to have failed with MySQL Database. I dont know about this, but there should be some consideration for MySQL to be included in the Active Perl Package as it is hard to install it as a ppm.

Installing the modules as ppms can be directly done through the internet. But it is working only in the 5.6.x version of the active perl and it is not working in the newer versions. And the problem with the old 5.6.x versions of the Active perl was that they just support the MySQL Database Module version upto around 2.009 and nothing more than that.

The current version of the mysql module is 4.009 and is available for download at the activestate website.

The newer versions of the active perl is considered much more complex for operation because of the removal of the command promt ppm. Or may be I am not able to find it.

But for me, the repositories are being installed in 5.6.x version of active perl. And the psychostats is asking for better version.

And for 5.8.x and 5.10.x, the repository installation from the internet is difficult to carryout.

Appended:
Easy option is to get the latest version of Fedora Core, 10 or 11 and then select Perl and its addons while installation and then run stats.pl on this machine. Because this is pre-configured.