How does the "whitelist" on a server work?
Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2021 11:42 am
Hey guys,
so I'm not sure if this has been posted here, I did search for "enable-whitelist" but did not find a relevant looking post here (googling is something else, but if nobody reported it here then I think it's good to have it reported)
Problem:
The following setting in the config.ini seems to do nothing. It has not enabled the whitelist on my server when starting my server.
I had to use the following parameter to enable the whitelist manually.
The parameter did not enable the whitelist in combination with the following parameter when the file could not be found. I think, if the whitelist file could not be found in the given path, it would be helpful if the Server did either not start or start but with a warning.
Also I did not find any relevant information about the whitelist on the wiki. (Maybe I just didn't see it)
https://wiki.factorio.com/Command_line_parameters
The following information is not helpful enough.
Which of the following paths would be right? I tried every single one (and other combinations) but none of them enabled the whitelist.
I hope this is helpful, maybe I did something wrong, but I think I did everything I could when trying to get it to work. xP
Hope this helps
PS I find it really cool that there even is a button to turn off smileys here on my post if I don't like them
so I'm not sure if this has been posted here, I did search for "enable-whitelist" but did not find a relevant looking post here (googling is something else, but if nobody reported it here then I think it's good to have it reported)
Problem:
The following setting in the config.ini seems to do nothing. It has not enabled the whitelist on my server when starting my server.
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; Options: true, false
enable-whitelist=true
I had to use the following parameter to enable the whitelist manually.
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--use-server-whitelist
The parameter did not enable the whitelist in combination with the following parameter when the file could not be found. I think, if the whitelist file could not be found in the given path, it would be helpful if the Server did either not start or start but with a warning.
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--server-whitelist
Also I did not find any relevant information about the whitelist on the wiki. (Maybe I just didn't see it)
https://wiki.factorio.com/Command_line_parameters
The following information is not helpful enough.
Where does the path start? Do I have to add the filename to the path?--server-whitelist FILE | Path to file with server whitelist.
Which of the following paths would be right? I tried every single one (and other combinations) but none of them enabled the whitelist.
- __PATH__executable__/../../
- server-whitelist.json
- __PATH__executable__/../../server-whitelist.json
I hope this is helpful, maybe I did something wrong, but I think I did everything I could when trying to get it to work. xP
Hope this helps
PS I find it really cool that there even is a button to turn off smileys here on my post if I don't like them