How to launch a lua server?

Question

I wanted to know how to launch a lua server. I found a game I'd like to play with friends, though we do not know how to start the server that is .lua.

The game is here. Could you help us please?

Answer 1

Are you on Windows or Linux?

If Windows, get the LuaForWindows binaries from https://github.com/rjpcomputing/luaforwindows

If Linux, get the lua package from your distro's repository.

Then, open a command prompt and run the line:

lua /path/to/file/somefile.lua

using your own filepath of course. See if the server launches that way.

Answer 2

If you are on Windows: Download Lua from here.
For Linux check this website.
After you downloaded them either put the files in your current working directory or in the folder you want to execute them from.
Finally run this:
lua ./path/of/server.lua