Unless you intend to play without an internet connection, it is probably best (and easiest) to just make your server a public server that uses the eqemulator.net Login Server.
Minilogin pretty much sucks for most people. The EQEmuLoginServer is really nice, but it has been changed a bit recently and none of the guides for it are fully updated for the changes yet. Maybe this guide can help you some, but again, it isn't fully updated:
http://www.eqemulator.net/wiki/wikka.php?wakka=ValesEQ
If you can log all of the way into your server, then you are doing pretty good. Being unable to zone may mean you need to increase the dynamics setting in the launcher table of your DB to 5 or greater. If you somehow have that set to 1, it wouldn't let you zone. Or, you may have some issue with ports or port ranges for your zones in the config and/or in your router config.