left4me/l4d2web/README.md

l4d2-web-app

Flask web app for managing L4D2 servers through user-private blueprints.

Key v1 behaviors

• Local username/password login; no public signup
• Admin-managed overlay catalog
• Private blueprints per user
• Server creation from blueprints (live-linked; no per-server blueprint overrides)
• Async job model with persisted command logs in job_logs
• Desired vs actual state model
• Live logs for jobs and servers via SSE endpoints
• Host operations go through l4d2ctl via a local host command runner, not direct l4d2host imports

Frontend constraints

• Server-rendered templates (Jinja)
• Vendored HTMX (static/vendor/htmx.min.js)
• Custom CSS only
• Tokenized, consistent link and accent colors

Development

python3 -m venv .venv
.venv/bin/pip install -e .
.venv/bin/pytest tests -q

Configuration

The web app reads these settings from the environment:

• DATABASE_URL: SQLAlchemy database URL, for example sqlite:////var/lib/left4me/left4me.db.
• SECRET_KEY: Flask secret key used for sessions and CSRF-sensitive state.
• JOB_WORKER_THREADS: number of background job worker threads.

In the systemd deployment, environment is loaded from /etc/left4me/host.env and /etc/left4me/web.env.

Admin Bootstrap

Create the first admin account with the Flask CLI. Provide the password through LEFT4ME_ADMIN_PASSWORD:

LEFT4ME_ADMIN_PASSWORD='change-me' flask create-user <username> --admin