Regarding running grasscutter in a linux env (arch)

[mellow panther]

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https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1037226581841694750/1040923153678995538/image.png

firstly, id like to ask if its common for grasscutter to use port 443 instead of an internal port

like everything uses https

[austere bison]

Although the top line says port in use, the lower error is the real cause: permission denied. Depending on your environment you may just need to sudo start the server, or you may also instead change it off port 443 to something higher

Also yes grasscutter always binds to 443 for dispatch by default

[mellow panther]

ohh

[mellow panther]

yeah i think i might have to change the port to somethin else...

[austere bison]

Yeah just edit config.json so that the bindPort for server is something else, probably not a common bind port would be better

[mellow panther]

if say i were to change the port from 443 to 6969, should i also sudo ufw allow 6969?

[austere bison]

Yeah that would be a good idea

[mellow panther]

les gooooooooooooo

thank you!

also, i now remember cultivation used localhost:443 by default

so instead of 443, id now have to connect the game to localhost:6969 but like...

how do i start the game?

right now,

i have a working game installation using this:
https://github.com/an-anime-team/an-anime-game-launcher

im really sorry i have never run the game raw with grasscutter(without cultivation)

[austere bison]

You just need mitmproxy which you can run from the grasscutter folder with mitmdump -s proxy.py -k (since proxy.py is there), you will want to make sure your system proxy is on, and you may need to do this as well #1030999313209380934 message

[mellow panther]

thanks for the link, ill look into it rn!

[mellow panther]

mitmproxy is also using port 443 by default

also, the proxy doesnt seem to work

welp,

also, what is this about tho?
what does "setting the http_proxy and https_proxy enviorment variables" mean?

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is it this?

[austere bison]

Ah right you'll need to edit proxy_config (in grasscutter folder) so that remote port is the same as the one your server is now hosting on. As for the environment variables, those should be for the system environment variables (you may just need to look up how to set those for your environment)

[mellow panther]

heya, i am not in arch right now but i yesterday i managed to run grasscutter in port 443(stopped the nginx.service) and then hit a hardblock while running mitmproxy

ill boot into arch later and try to document the current situation

[mellow panther]

didnt have to change the port since i got grasscutter running on 443

im able to access grasscutter from mongodb compass

but the proxy doesnt seem to be working

i have followed https://gist.github.com/franciscocpg/a4f52afcc00d472a9d7c407db16a92ee
and got the proxy's cert installed

[austere bison]

The proxy not appearing to work is because your traffic isn't going through mitm, you'll need to do this #1030999313209380934 message

[mellow panther]

yes that seems to be the case

regarding this text:
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im not sure where and what variables to put

[austere bison]

the arch documentation has info on setting those variables in the 'Proxy server ' page

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Proxy_server step 2 is the setting of environment variables

[mellow panther]

i see, ill search and try to troubleshoot

[mellow panther]

ohh thanks

export http_proxy=http://10.203.0.1:5187/ export https_proxy=$http_proxy export ftp_proxy=$http_proxy export rsync_proxy=$http_proxy

what must i set the http_proxy as?

sorry this is my the first time ever dealing with proxies

[austere bison]

http://127.0.0.1:8080/ would be my best guess, though to be fair I haven't set the env variables in arch for proxy before

[mellow panther]

i shall try and get back

is this normal

[austere bison]

well what are you trying to access? 8080 is just where the proxy is listening at

[mellow panther]

grasscutter is running in the background

and

[austere bison]

yeah you access grasscutter on 443

[mellow panther]

if mitmdump is not running, i shouldve just got not reachable i assumed... (i might be gravely wrong)

[austere bison]

your mitm should be good if you set the environment variables, I don't use mitm but on fiddler you would just get the loopback service if you went to localhost:8080

[mellow panther]

im pretty sure its a firefox problem?

[mellow panther]

can i just use fiddler instead?

[austere bison]

you could but I'm pretty sure the traffic issue is due to arch itself (since the applications use the env settings for proxy) and not what proxy you use, though no harm in trying if you can

[mellow panther]

these are the variables ive set

[austere bison]

yeah that should be good, have you tried logging in to the game with mitmdump and grasscutter running since you set that?

[mellow panther]

ill try my best getting mitmproxy working but if i cant, atleast i could try fiddler

[mellow panther]

no but...

this isnt going through the proxy

so the game shouldnt work right?

one of the url's from proxy.py

[austere bison]

that may be the case, you might want to change the http_proxy to be http://localhost:8080/ instead in that case first, just to see

Though some domains are specifically blocked rather than redirected/accepted

such as data uploads

[mellow panther]

like this?

[austere bison]

yeah

[mellow panther]

just noticed some activity

ill just try and launch the game at this point

[austere bison]

is your system proxy also on?

[mellow panther]

no only mitmdump is that system proxy?

[austere bison]

No I mean your actual system proxy settings, not sure where they're at in arch but should be in your network settings somewhere

[mellow panther]

i wasnt

also, i launched the game

and it connected to hoyo servers

installed gnome control center for now

got mitmproxy working

ill try launching the game

it auto logged into my burner account

i got it working!!!!!!!!!!!!! all i had to add was these env variables in the anime launcher serttings

i got this error tho

i assume thats cuz of an unpached ua.dll

[austere bison]

Ahh nice

Yeah that's because of needing patch

[mellow panther]

ill get back to you

i did the thing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

omfg

thank you soo much @austere bison

[austere bison]

Glad it all worked out haha

[mellow panther]

for anyone from the future looking at this post, this is a bad idea and do not do this. it f***s up your entire network and i have removed those lines that ive added

[mellow panther]

this(gnome-control-center) is a better idea instead

[mellow panther]

this, gnome control center tweaks + adding mitm cert should be enough for mitmproxy+grasscutter to work

[empty dome]

oh...you tried that already...did it work?\

[mellow panther]

yes

but like

itll work with basically any settings manager

even without one if you can craft the required command

i was using dwm and i downloaded the full gnome suite

to make my life easier

[empty dome]

Yeah I known....but let's just say I haven't had great experiences with networking stuff

[mellow panther]

so.. if you require help with anything linux grasscutter related, how about making a new support post while referring to this ancient post so that the new one can be marked as completed. cuz there arent many support posts related to linux and the existent ones are an intertangled mess. 💀

[empty dome]

yeah...that sounds better

[empty dome]

Got the same error...with gnome proxy and the http_proxy variables too

[mellow panther]

what error?

make sure you use http only. for both http_proxy and https_proxy too. else if you use https for https_proxy, ill be treated as if you are using encryption which afsik, shouldnt be using when you are locally hosting grasscutter.

[austere bison]

you do indeed use encryption for local hosted grasscutter

only cultivation is the odd duckling that requires it disabled

[mellow panther]

ohh

ill try to understand why thats the case

[austere bison]

cultivation doesn't use ssl for local connections iirc

[mellow panther]

ohh

[austere bison]

so it has to be disabled server-side or you will always error

[mellow panther]

ssl issue

damn

if there's ever gonna be a cultivation binary for linux, i think it would be easy for the devs to implement ssl and let the encryption be enabled by default

[austere bison]

that's something to do with cultivation's proxy being made for culti, whereas existing proxy programs (mitm, fiddler) do use it so the server has encryption enabled (thus encryption enabled being default for the server)

[mellow panther]

guess you gotta use https(since you are connecting to an external server)? i got no idea tbh

[austere bison]

https is required for any external servers

is that how the proxy works though? seems awfully wrong but

[mellow panther]

but i assumed cultivation was using mitm since you had to accept the installation of its root ca...

[austere bison]

you only have to accept the root cert for cultivation, not mitm (unless you installed mitm)

that's what the cert popup in culti is at least, it's for "Cultivation"

[empty dome]

like this?

[mellow panther]

but everytime i actually used https for https_proxy, i got that error which you get when you enable cultivation when connecting to local server

[empty dome]

Port needs to be specified?

[austere bison]

man I'm not sure how to tell you this but I'm 99% that is for your local system proxy

unless you want to try to send your entire system traffic to cherrymint (you won't be getting anything working)

your proxy should be 127.0.0.1 on 8080, then your proxy (which is listening on 8080) determines that the game traffic specifically is sent to cherrymint (on 443)

[empty dome]

so i dont touch nothing on the gnome settings

and i set the lauch variables?

[austere bison]

read from here down

you just need to send the game traffic to your proxy, which then sends it to the server specified instead of where it normally wants to go

[mellow panther]

**try this: **

for system proxy:
http_proxy http://127.0.0.1:8080/
https_proxy https://127.0.0.1:8080/

for an-anime-game-launcher:
http_proxy http://cherrymint.live/
https_proxy https://cherrymint.live/

ayo no...

it looks wrong

[austere bison]

aren't you using mitm alongside the launcher?

change the ip in proxy_config.py

[mellow panther]

i assume this could maybe work since when i was locally hosting, i had my config like this:

for system proxy:
http_proxy http://127.0.0.1:8080/
https_proxy http://127.0.0.1:8080/

for an-anime-game-launcher:
http_proxy http://127.0.0.1:8080/
https_proxy http://127.0.0.1:8080/

but it just looks wrong

[austere bison]

you were using mitm with that though right

looks right, the game traffic is sent to mitm which is listening at 127.0.0.1:8080 then mitm handles sending the traffic matching the script to the server and the rest is left alone to passthrough

[empty dome]

i got the python file ready

[austere bison]

ok set your http proxy like above and then change the remote host in proxy_config.py

[empty dome]

invalid data format

[austere bison]

what is this? It's called proxy config but that's not the actual proxy config file for grasscutter

[austere bison]

also still you should have it set like this

here I just went ahead and edited it for you since you're having a hard time

[mellow panther]

wait a sec, @austere bison , localhost:8080 is mitm and localhost:443 is grasscutter right?

[austere bison]

yes your proxy is on 8080, the server dispatch is on 443

you don't try to connect to the server on 8080

[mellow panther]

i think i get it now

[austere bison]

your proxy config is set to 8080 because that's where the proxy is at

the proxy application on your system (such as mitm)

[austere bison]

put the script above somewhere and then run mitmdump -s proxy.py -k where the file is, you may need to sudo

[mellow panther]

i dont think he needs to enable any system proxy.

i think this this worth a try:

in proxy_config.py:
REMOTE_HOST = "cherrymint.live"
REMOTE_PORT = 443

in the an-anime-game-launcher:
http_proxy http://127.0.0.1:8080/
https_proxy https://127.0.0.1:8080/

[mellow panther]

i wanna try the above mentioned method to properly test if it works but im running an upscale job since 2hrs and its gonna take another 4hrs to complete. cant test since i'd have to reboot into arch to do so...

[empty dome]

i cant login

[austere bison]

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I get the feeling the error you get is here

perhaps at the very top of the list

[mellow panther]

try using https for https_proxy

[austere bison]

also that

[mellow panther]

is the game even launching? when trying to login, what error is it outputting?

[empty dome]

wrong hoyoverse id

[mellow panther]

screenshot?

cuz

[austere bison]

sounds like your proxy isn't on

[mellow panther]

preciisely

[austere bison]

ok cool but are you sending your traffic there

can't route the traffic if your traffic isn't going through it

[mellow panther]

but how tho?

wait

[austere bison]

that's what the env variables are for, pretty sure you need the system proxy on too though

[mellow panther]

yes

maybe

[empty dome]

there?

[austere bison]

well the env variables are just telling the application where the proxy is, no?

[austere bison]

no you have put the ports in the address box

just change both address boxes to localhost or 127.0.0.1

[mellow panther]

like in systemproxy, http_proxy = localhost & https_proxy = localhost

[mellow panther]

are you talking about trying to push all system traffic to mitm then mitm starting a server on 8080 and in the game launcher vars, putting localhost 8080?

[austere bison]

in a normal setup that is exactly what happens

all traffic goes through the proxy, and the proxy script determines what passes through and what is redirected

[mellow panther]

yes thats why

[mellow panther]

so this basically? (askin cuz edited)

cuz if thats right in the theory part, its just a matter of implementing it through vars

[empty dome]

all other apps are going throught the proxy

[austere bison]

yes that is correct, then your game launcher needs the http_proxy and https_proxy variables set to send the game traffic there as well

[austere bison]

looks like you haven't trusted the cert yet though

[mellow panther]

locahost:8080

[mellow panther]

@empty dome in your browser, try visiting http://mitm.it/ and take a screenshot

[empty dome]

i understood that part....

the ssl cert

[mellow panther]

now that this is the case

[mellow panther]

try this, if it says proxy no work, then system proxy problem. if it shows a site with installation links for a cert, its either that you have yet to install their cert or that means your system proxy and mitm is working perfectly fine but the problem is with the the anime game launcher not receiving proxied traffic from mitm(which has cherrymint live as remote host).

[empty dome]

ok...why i cant install now

[mellow panther]

ssl cert?

[empty dome]

yeah

[mellow panther]

maybe you have it already installed

check the trusted ca's in your system settings

[empty dome]

the directory in fedora was diferent

[mellow panther]

so you running gnome on fedora?

[empty dome]

yeah

networkfailure

[mellow panther]

is that the error in the game?

try visiting localhost:8080 on your browser

[austere bison]

perhaps a network error of the code 4214?

[mellow panther]

i swear of thats the error...

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[empty dome]

bad getaway

[mellow panther]

sorry my bad

try https://localhost:8080/

[empty dome]

Welcome to Grasscutter!

[austere bison]

should be visiting an mhy or genshin site

much easier than trying to go to the proxy host address

just try opening the genshin main site

[mellow panther]

it should look like this but with localhost:8080 in the address bar

[mellow panther]

ohh yes right... i forgor 💀

my bad

[austere bison]

go to genshin site

[mellow panther]

hmmmm... try removing all of the http_proxy variables and just have the https_proxy variables only..?

[empty dome]

in the laucher?

[mellow panther]

yea proxy no work, problem with system not being able to route traffic through mitm

[mellow panther]

system and launcher

[austere bison]

your system proxy is on, right?

you didn't turn it off?

[empty dome]

nope

[mellow panther]

also, your launcher looks like the gtk version... so why do i have this smoolll feeling that its a bug with the gtk version of the anime game launcher? (since it worked for me using the stock aur version (i might be gravely wrong ))

[austere bison]

well it looks like it isn't on so you'll want to make sure it is, just like back here when your traffic was going through it

[empty dome]

i will change it...

i will be back

[mellow panther]

theres a migration process without reinstalling the game

[empty dome]

well...fuck

late

[mellow panther]

ohh nooo...

also, have you confirmed that the private server was working when you were hosting gc locally?

[empty dome]

Yeah...I will try again after my job is done...
Anyways if your want a REAL CHALLENGE try running grasscuters/joining private servers on Ubuntu touch lololol

[heavy knoll]

Any possibility on potentially doing a writeup on how to get it working? Got a laptop with Linux installed, and I was considering doing some work on a MelonLoader plugin that I'm working on which seemingly requires a private server instance to work.

[austere bison]

Use AAGL, there are newer threads with better info already, including one in the pinned thread

This one pretty much covers it though, use AAGL, get the game good to go with that, set up mitmproxy, set proxy in environment variables in AAGL, launch mitm with command line (see grasscutters github if you don't know), launch game. For running Grasscutter, download a full build from #resources, extract it, and start it

[heavy knoll]

So I've set MangoDB up, alongside getting mitmproxy mostly working (more on that later), and getting Grasscutter working with a 44300 port (as 443 is taken by my web browser).

However, I'm having a bit of a problem with importing the needed SSL certificates for HTTPS URLs to connect properly. The mitmproxy site (mitm.it IIRC) shows up, it's just that the import instructions for the key doesn't seem to work with Fedora (Which I'm using instead of Ubuntu, which is seemingly what the instructions are geared towards). Also, if I have Steam open, mitmproxy refuses to start up, and I'm wondering if I can change the port of that somehow. mitmproxy launches, it just doesn't make the .py script needed to configure anything.

[austere bison]

mitm isn't creating the .py script you need, it comes from the Grasscutter github (also included if you downloaded a full build), just to make sure we're on the same page
https://github.com/Grasscutters/Grasscutter

Just look up how to import root certs for Fedora, though I'm not familiar with it I'm sure the documentation has info for something so used

[heavy knoll]

Okay. Thanks for the tip!

[austere bison]

Sure thing

[heavy knoll]

Yeah, my bad. I got that set up, and now when I enter in one of the URLs in the host in my web browser, it says "Welcome to Grasscutter". Now when I try and sign in, it doesn't let me agree to the Terms of Service.

nevermind about that last part

Got that fixed.

Anyways, I got it up and running now.

Okay, now that I actually log in, it's now giving me an error with the code 12-4301

Alright, yeah I used the anime game launcher. Restarting still gives me the error

[austere bison]

Use new account, if it persists your game is corrupt, redownload

[heavy knoll]

On it.

Same error with the freshly created account.

Okay, Time to redownload the game.

I did move over my game data files from the RPM repository of the anime game launcher, as I figured out the dependency issues with the flatpak. So that might have caused problems.

Although when I'm using the 3.7 GC resource files from YuukiPS, it's trying to claim the game server version is 3.6.

I remember trying to download the resource files from the grasscutter wiki, and made an account and such to try and access it, but it wouldn't budge

[austere bison]

Resources have nothing to do with what version is displayed in the cmd, that's dependent on the jar

Yuuki resources are the correct ones to use

You're trying to use a 3.6 Grasscutter jar, so that's why that is displayed in the cmd

[heavy knoll]

The 1.5.0 jar in the releases section?

[austere bison]

If you're using the release on the github that is for 3.6 yes

It's the first line in the release notes changelog

If you want 3.7 then get the 3.7 commit build from actions or build from source

Any build from development branch after 3.7 commit will work too of course

[heavy knoll]

Thanks. Now it shows up right.

[heavy knoll]

Okay, redownloaded the game alongside updating the version of grasscutter, and it still prints out the same error code.

It gives me this in the logs for grasscutter:

20:40:06 <INFO:DefaultAuthenticators$SessionKeyAuthenticator> [Dispatch] Client [0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1] succeed to exchange combo token.```

Yeah, same error.

Tried making a new account.

[shy lance]

Hiya, were you able to solved this issue?

[heavy knoll]

No I don’t think so, will have to try again.

[shy lance]

Okay, let me know

Are you using VPS or LAN?

[heavy knoll]

LAN, but I had it set to connect via localhost.

As in I start the server on my main machine, and then connect to it with the same thing.

So like a listen server.