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Setup

The ideal setup is the following:

• Linux Operating System (64 bit)
• Up-to-date MTA server
• Local MariaDB server with remote connections blocked
• Security:
  • Minimal port forwarding: use a firewall to only allow MTA ports and never open the MySQL port (default 3306)
  • Remote SSH access: disable password authentication and set up SSH key authentication

The following steps are for setting up the MySQL database:

1. Install a MySQL server like MariaDB
2. Configure a MySQL username and password that will be used by the MTA server
3. Access the data/mysql folder, which contains the necessary initial setup files
4. Create a new database with a name of your choice and preferably UTF8 charset
5. Run the mta.sql script to create the tables in your new database
6. Run the data.sql script to populate the tables created with initial data

The following steps are for setting up the MTA server:

1. Install the latest MTA 1.6 Nightly server (from https://nightly.mtasa.com/) on Windows/Linux (Tutorial here)
2. Clone the repository into server/mods/deathmatch/resources/. Resources are contained inside the [gamemode] folder
3. Access the data/config folder, which contains the necessary initial setup files
4. Configure the server's settings.xml and mtaserver.conf according to the templates
   • Fill in the MySQL connection settings with the correct credentials that you defined in MySQL server installation