MinetestServer Web Gui

[SonoMichele]

Hi, I'm working on a minetest web gui (written in Python using Flask) that will allow users to manage their minetest server using a web app. My idea is to give them the ability to upload and download files via ftp directly from the webapp and visualize the server console's logs and to execute commands from the console.

I'm trying to implement the console system and I was able to get to stream content from the server process to the web page (route /) in real time.
My problem now is the execution of commands. When using the terminal directly I can execute commands just by typing /command.
So I created a route /test which should execute the command /status on the minetest server console but it doesn't execute it. I also tried to execute the command /kick SonoMichele (which is my in game name) but it doesn't kick me so I'm sure the command doesn't get executed.
The problems are that the command doesn't get executed and that the connection with the process get closed after the line

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SERVER_PROCESS.stdin.write(b"/status")

so my

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SERVER_PROCESS

will be

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NoneType

after some seconds but the minetest server is still running.
I also tried using

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SERVER_PROCESS.communicate(input=b"/status")

but I get the same result.

Here is my code (it's a Flask web app which I run on start.py using

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app = create_app()

and then

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app.run()

).

I don't know if it is relevant but when I run the command

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minetestserver —terminal

it uses an ncurses console as said here.

Here you can find the pypi page of the shelljob library.

Hope you can help me with my problems and thank you in advance.

[SonoMichele]

Nevermind I was able to do it and is now open source on my gitlab account here

[SonoMichele]

I decided to not work on the commands execution from the webapp since I don't have all this time to work only on getting this feature to work. I'll work on other features for the moment but if someone wants to help feel free to. You can just open an issue or pull request, contact me from my website or you can find me on Telegram @sonomichelequellostrano