4    Administering Your Palace Site

Make a backup copy of your 

pserver.prp

 file, while it contains only those props 

you want it to contain. Periodically thereafter, you may overwrite your current 

propfile with the backup version. However, do not copy the prop file while your 

Palace is running. This can crash the Palace, corrupting the prop file and negating 

any changes you have made in authoring mode.

Art and sounds

All artwork and sounds for your Palace reside on your Palace web server. When users 

access your Palace, this web server provides the artwork and sounds for them. In 

addition, if a user with the stand alone Palace User Software accesses your Palace, the 

sounds and artwork for that room are downloaded to their machine from this web 

server.

Your Palace installation has a built in web server to serve this media. You can keep 

your media here, or move it to a different web server (for example, to reduce the load 

on your machine).

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To put your art and sounds on a different web server

Use the

  fileserver 

owner command:

 fileserver "http://macguyver.communities.com:9990/palace/media/"

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To customize sounds for your site

Your sounds are contained in 

.wav

 and

 .au

 files. The 

.wav 

files are for Palace User 

Software clients; the sounds in the 

.au

 files are for Palace Viewer clients visiting your 

site. Note that 

.au

 files need to be 8KHz and either 8 or 16 bit mono.

1.

To make a sound available for your site, make sure it exists in both formats, and 

copy the sound file(s) to the 

media

 folder of your palace server (by default, 

palace/media

).

2.

If you want users to be able to access and play this sound from their Sounds 

window, you must add the sound to your sounds list file. In your 

soundlist.txt

file (residing in the same directory), list the name of the file, minus the file 

extension. For example:

Amen

Applause

Belch

Boom

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