Minilogin to public server? (i'll settle for the minilogin source code)

[Aerewen]

when you say public login... you are referring to the login hosted on eqemulator.net right?

im suggesting the editing and release of a new minilogin so that users can host their own login server and not have to rely on eqemulator's login server for their connections

as it stands say i host a server on my home network... i can DMZ, set port forwarders etc etc etc till im blue in the face, but the eqemu server will still read incoming connections as 192.168.0.1 from the router... there is no way around it (trust me i tried :P) and i know there's gotta be a ton of people out there who have taken the time to learn eqemu, php, mysql, perl, and all the other stuff only to get the server running and *sigh* when they realize they cant play with 10 of their buddies at the same time because their router prevents it.

i just feel it would be worth the couple days of coding to release a minilogin/world.exe that checked accounts off username/password

i mean yeah i know the client software encrypts them before sending to the server... but it's not like we would be allowing people to edit the minilogin source to see the encryption used

Allowing anyone to host a login server is a bad idea for many reasons and will not happen.

[Sakrateri]

You CAN host a public server with the minilogin, I have been doing it and will always be doing it. Actually it is quite easy and gives you more control over who gets on your server and who does not. You start with DMZing or opening ports for the computer you want to run the server and then get the IPs of all the friends you want to join you, if they do not have static IPs then get them to use NOIP, And then put those IPs in the minilogin ip colum of your database, then they can connect... No problems doing it that way for me anyway. If you DMZ the computer just make sure to have good antivirus and a firewall running. The only problem with it is if two friends are coming from one IP they have to learn to share an account , so instead of eight characters they can each make 4.....unless one person is much bigger then the other then he can make 7 and the other person 1, lol well you get the picture.

[Angelox]

Originally Posted by Sakrateri

You CAN host a public server with the minilogin, I have been doing it and will always be doing it. Actually it is quite easy and gives you more control over who gets on your server and who does not. You start with DMZing or opening ports for the computer you want to run the server and then get the IPs of all the friends you want to join you, if they do not have static IPs then get them to use NOIP, And then put those IPs in the minilogin ip colum of your database, then they can connect... No problems doing it that way for me anyway. If you DMZ the computer just make sure to have good antivirus and a firewall running. The only problem with it is if two friends are coming from one IP they have to learn to share an account , so instead of eight characters they can each make 4.....unless one person is much bigger then the other then he can make 7 and the other person 1, lol well you get the picture.

Sounds interesting ... I would like to be able to let a few people come in and help me out with my database, and this would be the way to do it.
What's NOIP ( Like dyndns.org)? , I bet we can come up with a script that detects who is where, and will translate/change IP entry in the database.

[Sakrateri]

It sounds like dyndns is like NOIP which can be checked out at NOIP LINK . I have never had used either of them myself but its a way to get a static IP if you have a dynamic one. You can still let people in with dynamic IPs but its a pain having to keep changing them. I am not sure if you can come up with some kind of script as it is you have to reboot your server whenever you add a new IP or change an existing one before the change takes effect.

[John Adams]

I'm still not sure what the fuss is all about. Put up a public server, lock it, and add user accounts who wish to play on your server using a specific status level. If you are capable of writing a new minilogin server completely, you are capable of editing the minimum status allowed into a locked server.

I too was boggled by the fact I *had* to use eqemulator.net as a login server publicly (outside my LAN), but have since learned why and accept that. I guess I just don't need to be hidden or that private.

[Angelox]

Sakrateri;
Is your EqEmu server Linux or Windows?

[Aerewen]

Here's the solution to this problem temporarily.

Dowload the zip file with peq_updater.php and eqhost.txt file, install them on a webserver.
Modify the variables in the php file to your MySQL server information.
Read the info in the header of the php document to learn how this works.

I will not be providing support for this utility, but feel free to post bugs and whatnot here for as long as the moderators wish to allow it. You should already have PHP/MySQL installed if you are using the PEQ Editor on your system.

Download Zip File
Download RAR File

edit: added rar file for people who prefer it.

[Sakrateri]

Windows XP

[Angelox]

Thanks Aerewen, very nice - I'll be testing it and tell you how it went. My big interest was to have something fairly secure, and is why I asked what OS Sakrateri was running under. It's a lot easier to do something secure under Linux.
BtW Sakrateri, I tested and you don't have to reboot server ; I logged one of my accounts, then switched to another Via Database by changing IP's and it worked fine.

[John Adams]

Originally Posted by Aerewen

Here's the solution to this problem temporarily.

Hmm, that is very clever!

[sdabbs65]

Originally Posted by Aerewen

Here's the solution to this problem temporarily.

Dowload the zip file with peq_updater.php and eqhost.txt file, install them on a webserver.
Modify the variables in the php file to your MySQL server information.
Read the info in the header of the php document to learn how this works.

I will not be providing support for this utility, but feel free to post bugs and whatnot here for as long as the moderators wish to allow it. You should already have PHP/MySQL installed if you are using the PEQ Editor on your system.

Download Zip File
Download RAR File

edit: added rar file for people who prefer it.

FYI:
I tested it for fun just to see if it works and it only updates ip address's of existing accounts it dont add them like it says.
other than that it works great.

[otheli89104]

take it to another eq emulator site. -- matt

I have a more permenant solution

http://shardsofnorrath.no-ip.org:90/...er-1.0BETA.zip

It includes a launcher that the users login to and a server that handles the updating of ips based on their username and password giving the ilusion of a public loginserver while using minilogin