Empire LRP Map is just a static website. You can host the www directory contents with your favourite web server (like nginx). The website will work but will not contain the correct fonts; please refer to building Fonts.
Hosting the website "as-is" means that clients visiting your website, will get the map tiles and GeoJSON files from https://empirelrpmap.com/. To host these files yourself, you have to build them and change the Constants.
The easiest way to build everything is through docker, remember to change the constants before building!
docker-compose up --buildThis will build everything and start an nginx docker image hosting it all on port 1457.
The following steps assume that python refers to a Python 3 binary and that pip refers to a Pip 3 binary. If this is not the case, you are probably using Ubuntu/Debian, and I recommend installing python-is-python3.
The one thing you will most likely want to build if hosting outside of docker are the fonts used. The fonts are nothing special; they are really just fonts from https://fonts.googleapis.com/, but since Empire LRP Map is Cookie-Free Safe-Space™, we cannot include them directly. This is because CSS files from https://fonts.googleapis.com request https://fonts.gstatic.com for the actual font files, which, as you can imagine, is far from cookie-free.
To build/download the fonts:
pip install -r requirements.txt
python utilities.py degoogle-css -c www/css/fonts.css -d www/fonts -r fonts -u "https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Raleway:ital,wght@0,100;0,200;0,300;0,400;0,500;0,600;0,700;0,800;0,900;1,100;1,200;1,300;1,400;1,500;1,600;1,700;1,800;1,900&display=swap"The GeoJSON files included in the data-dir have not yet been populated with the Empire LRP Wiki data. I could probably, at this point, include GeoJSON files already populated in this repo without any problem. However, to not eventually end up with a giant JSON file containing the entire Empire Wiki they include just enough data to be automatically populated from Empire LRP Wiki. Furthermore, since the Empire LRP Wiki is constantly updated, it is always a good idea to regularly repopulate these files anyway. To do so:
pip install -r requirements.txt
python utilities.py populate-json -i data/nations.json -o www/assets/map/nations.json
python utilities.py populate-json -i data/territories.json -o www/assets/map/territories.json
python utilities.py populate-json -i data/poi.json -o www/assets/map/poi.json -n data/nations.jsonRemember to change the constant GEOJSON_DATA_BASE_URL in main.js!
Building the tiles for the tiling server is undoubtedly the most time-consuming part of the building process.
You first need to install GDAL on your computer. On Ubuntu, this is done so:
sudo apt install software-properties-common -y
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntugis/ppa
sudo apt update -y
sudo apt install gdal-bin libgdal-dev -yYou can now build the tiles. The following script assumes that wget is installed as it, unfortunately, has to download the raw image files from https://empirelrpmap.com. They are too large for me to include in this GitHub repo with my free account.
./build-tiles.shRemember to change the constant TILE_SERVER_BASE_URL in main.js!
If you are building and self-hosting the Empire LRP Map, you will want to at least change the two main constants, TILE_SERVER_BASE_URL and GEOJSON_DATA_BASE_URL, which exist at the top of main.js.
If you are proxying the docker container directly or serving the www folder (after building everything), both constants can be set to /, and it should work.
The ADMIN_EMAIL constant also exists at the top of main.js. It should probably also be changed if you want to receive contribution emails.
Lastly, four meta tags exist at the top of index.html, which point to https://empirelrpmap.com. Change these to your websites domain, so social media cards etc., links correctly.