dashboard.example.json

{
  "repack": "C:\\my-server",
  "port": 8088,

  "_comment_mysql": "Either drop this file next to a repack that holds Settings/database.json, or point mysqlArgs at your own client file. Never put a password in this file: keep it in the MySQL client file, outside the repository.",
  "mysqlArgs": ["--defaults-file=C:\\my-server\\mysql\\root-client.ini"],
  "mysqlExe": "C:\\Program Files\\MySQL\\MySQL Server 8.4\\bin\\mysql.exe",

  "_comment_databases": "Only when your game databases are not acore_auth, acore_characters and acore_world, for a second realm on the same MySQL say.",
  "databases": {"auth": "acore_auth", "characters": "acore_characters", "world": "acore_world"},

  "_comment_paths": "Only needed when several servers run on the same machine, or when the folders are not the repack's own.",
  "worldserverPath": "C:\\my-server\\server\\worldserver.exe",
  "coaLog": "C:\\my-server\\server\\logs\\CoaBots.log",
  "chatLog": "C:\\my-server\\server\\logs\\Chat.log",
  "lootLog": "C:\\my-server\\server\\logs\\BotLoot.log",
  "crashesDir": "C:\\my-server\\server\\Crashes",
  "dbcDir": "C:\\my-server\\server\\data\\dbc",
  "incidentsLog": "C:\\my-server\\watch.txt",
  "_comment_client": "Optional: gameClient, a game client folder (with Data\\common.MPQ) for the map art and the armory's item icons; one beside the repack is found on its own.",
  "gameClient": "C:\\my-client",
  "_comment_web_icons": "The armory loads the item icons it cannot take from a local client from wow.zamimg.com, in the browser. false: never ask an outside site; those items keep their quality frame.",
  "webIcons": true,

  "_comment_settings_page": "The launcher owns the server's settings (it writes the .conf files again at every start): the dashboard only reads them. true brings back the Settings page and the cards that write a .conf file, for a server run without the launcher.",
  "settingsPage": false,

  "_comment_settings": "The Settings page (with settingsPage true) edits the module .conf files in this folder. By default it looks in the repack's CoA-Bots\\Core\\configs\\modules, then Core\\configs\\modules.",
  "configDir": "C:\\my-server\\server\\configs\\modules",

  "_comment_live": "Optional: the bot-status.json that mod-playerbots writes every few seconds when AiPlayerbot.CoaStatusFile names it (playerbots.conf), for live positions and what each bot is doing. Without it the map uses the last character save.",
  "botStatusFile": "C:\\my-server\\server\\logs\\bot-status.json",

  "_comment_dates": "uptimeSince counts the server hours from that date; countFrom makes every figure start there instead of at the bots' creation.",
  "uptimeSince": "2026-09-01 00:00:00",

  "_comment_pvp": "The PvP page shows the last 24 hours and a second window from this date (the game server's own time). pvpSinceTitle names it, English|French. Without pvpSince, the second window is the whole history.",
  "pvpSince": "2026-10-07 20:00:00",
  "pvpSinceTitle": "Since 1.9|Depuis la 1.9",

  "_comment_lan": "Optional: the public, read-only page on a second port for the other PCs of your network (http://<this PC's address>:8089). lanListen limits it to one address of this PC; without it, every network card.",
  "lanPort": 8089,

  "_comment_footer": "Replaces the line at the foot of the page. An empty string removes it entirely, links included, which is what you want while sharing the page before the sources are ready.",
  "footer": "",

  "_comment_publish": "Optional: a folder a web server serves. The dashboard writes only the public page there (index.html, static/, worldmap.json, maps/, stats.json and pvp.json every minute, live.json every 12 s), so nothing on this machine is reachable from outside.",
  "publishDir": "\\\\my-nas\\www\\bots",

  "_comment_realms": "The Wildcard and Reborn realms of the launcher (Royaumes folder) are found on their own; false shows the CoA realm only. publicRealms limits the realms of the public copy and of the local network page (all of them by default).",
  "realms": true,
  "publicRealms": ["coa", "wildcard", "reborn"],

  "_comment_monitor": "Server health: one reading every monitorEvery seconds (process figures from Windows and one 'server info' on each realm's console, never the database); 0 turns it off. console false leaves the realms' consoles alone (no tick, no players, no GM tools).",
  "monitorEvery": 60,
  "console": true,

  "_comment_gm": "The Game master page (this PC only): commands sent to the realm's console with the repack's console account. false removes it.",
  "gmTools": true
}