• 1 What is HercAdminTool?
• 2 What makes this panel stand out?
• 3 How do I use it? What are the system requirements?
• 4 Installation
• 5 A list of planned features?
• 6 Notes

1. What is HercAdminTool?

HercAdminTool (or HAT) is an online administration panel for your Ragnarok Online server running the emulator Hercules. It is written in PHP, Javascript, powered with Codeigniter and Bootstrap backends and as hosted on GitHub, it completely open source software, released under the Apache license. This gives you the power to modify, redistribute and such, as long as you return credits to me.

2. What makes this panel stand out?

It is understandable for someone to ask this question with all the control panels out there. HAT is built with security in mind. The panel is built to be completely hidden from your users behind an indesript URL. Want part of your RO server hosted on yourdomain.com/fluffybunnies? Perfect! Hide the panel behind an .htaccess and no one except your GM's will know its there. no longer will you be exposing your control panel to your users on the front page of your website.

3. How do I use it? What are the system requirements?

HAT is written in PHP, uses MySQL as it's backend and is a web application. Therefore, you will require, at the minimum:

• Apache2 server
• PHP5
• MySQL
• git
• sendmail
• An RO Server running Hercules.

NOTE: Your Hercules server MUST use Item and mob DB's in SQL and be updated for proper functionality. If you do not, then you will NOT be able to edit those as part of this panel. You will still be able to send items to players, delete items from players and guilds and such, but editing items or mobs will not be possible through the control panel. It might be in the future I will add this, but for right now, it is too much time and work and may not even work quickly or at all. If someone has a PHP script they would like to give me for this purpose, please feel free to donate.

The above is tested to function. Ngix, Lighthttpd and the likes are untested, but I would appreciate the feedback if you got it to work or not.

4. Installation

At the moment there is no point to install the panel as it's just flesh and bones right now, no real functionality as far as RO Server Managing is concerned. If you wanted to install, though, some simple steps:

• Copy everything to web directory.
• Run admintool.sql on your desired database
• Edit /application/config/config.php and /application/config/database.php to your desired settings
• Point your web browser to the correct URL

Coming soon will be an actual install script so that everything is done for you, even the download of the panel.

5. A list of planned features?

The control panel is designed with the user in mind. Here are some of the features we've either completed or are planning:

• Account interface - View/edit account information. Reset passwords, change gender of account, ban/unban account, change email of account, view/delete items in storage, ban/unban IP
• Character interface - View/edit character information. Set any parameter of a character, view inventories, delete items, send character mail, remove guild membership information.
• Log interface - View any server log, search by everything in logs
• Statistics interface - View how many items are on the server, where they are and who has them in what quantity, delete those items, how many accounts, how many characters, etc.
• Admin Interface - View/Edit GM list, assign/revoke permissions, create/edit/destroy groups, change HAT configuration parameters, view HAT logs
• Server Interface - Edit any configuration item on the server (battle.conf, maps.conf, groups.conf, etc) with a graphical interface, edit/delete/add items/mobs from /db/ folder or SQL with graphical interface, SFTP interface to server to upload/delete files or folders (will require java), download any file to your PC locally, backup server files/databases to any other server, the same server or to your local PC
• Sales Interface - View/Edit Cash Shop Items, view sales by item or character, view donation totals
• Ticket Interface - View/Reply to tickets, open new tickets for users, assign tickets to group levels.

6. Notes

As mentioned, the panel is not even close to done yet, and at the moment just has some backend account management interfaces. I hope to work on this almost full time to create something robust and useful.

For tracking, I will be using Github for all feedback and issue tracking. If you find something critical, please report it to me there. If you wish to assist, please submit a pull request!

Best wishes for a 2015!