Minilogin - cannot see local server

[cutterjohn]

Oh well, couldn't edit the previous message any longer, but I went back and checked, and I had already had it set to try using 127.0.0.1 in the loginserver.ini.

Decided to load up everything again and give it a try, but still nothing shows up in my server list once I login...

Giving up for the night though...

[John Adams]

Personally, I wouldn't use the 127.0.0.1 for anything. While it is the hard address for localhost, I find using my actual IP works much better. I haven't run everything on one box since my first week (you know, had to spread the work over my server farm here ), but if you haven't tried yet, use your own machine IP for all values. "localhost" seems to work for mysql/database settings, if the world/zones are running on the SQL server.

There's a nice Wiki by Crabclaw that might help. Started me off right way back when.

http://www.eqemulator.net/wiki/wikka...iniLoginConfig


Edit: Hey, guess what just happened to me? Empty server screen. I was changing over to PEQ database to test the Fabled Crush loot thingy, when I saw no servers. :O Looking into it, I saw the variables table, LoginType was set to Public (from when I ran a server), so Minilogin didn't show up. I changed it to "minilogin" and now all is well.

And I had to add a column to table: account for minilogin_ip, and set it to my machines IP address - but I imagine you already did that one.

[joh77]

Not sure if it matters but your worldname in eqemu_conf.xml and loginserver.ini are not the same name.

[cutterjohn]

Originally Posted by John Adams

Edit: Hey, guess what just happened to me? Empty server screen. I was changing over to PEQ database to test the Fabled Crush loot thingy, when I saw no servers. :O Looking into it, I saw the variables table, LoginType was set to Public (from when I ran a server), so Minilogin didn't show up. I changed it to "minilogin" and now all is well.

And I had to add a column to table: account for minilogin_ip, and set it to my machines IP address - but I imagine you already did that one.

Ah! Hah! You WERE right in a way. I followed the mySQL 5.0.23(?) setup guide under the server section as I wanted to use a recent mySQL version.

I copied and pasted the list of INSERT queries to the variables table, and NEVER checked them!

So, after reading about your comment wrt LoginType in the variables I went and checked it to find the %#^&^*&@%*&@$%7!!!! EMPTY!

So I tried the guide suggested copy and paste all INSERT query into the query browser, bang complains about duplicate ailevel. Ok, so I remove it try again, still complains about it. Look at the variables table, and only ailevel is present. WTF?!

Short story ended up adding all of those(for now) individually via query browser. (Should've dumped 'em into a text file and fed the via the CLI interface, but oh well...)

Bang! My server is now listed!

Haven't logged in and tried making a character, but will do that shortly...

Must also remember to go back and check everything else that I did through that POS query browser. (mySQL's own GUI tools suck badly...)

As to running everything on one machine, I figure it's more than capable of handling it. Even the initial peq database setup was only pushing it to about 25% utilization on ea. core, and with the 5 zones, I still see less than .5G of total memory usage... I'd run it on another machine if I had one with enough memory to bother with. I have an old 1G T-bird, but it has no drives and only 256M... also sitting as a bare mb + cpu + memory stick...

1H later,
well, you were also right sort of, in that I had to go change all of the listed IP addresses to be 127.0.0.1 . I suppose that localhost should work as well as it SHOULD be directly mapped to 127.0.0.1 anyways.

(I found the above, as while I could see the server and login it would kick me out with a log message telling me to verify my account in the account table. I did so, and created a second test account with the same results, then tried changing all of the IPs. I'm, obviously, not 100% sure that they ALL needed to be changed but it worked for me and allowed me to create a character.)

Now, I just have to figure out why my movement keys aren't moving me...

[John Adams]

Originally Posted by cutterjohn

Now, I just have to figure out why my movement keys aren't moving me...

Make sure in variables table, the Rules value is empty. If there is data in this (even a space), your server will not allow any clicking or moving until you type #acceptrules. It's a way to prevent people from coming to >your world< and whining about how you choose to run a server.

Either that, or in your account record, rulesflag field, set it to 1.

Good to see you got it sorted out.
J

[cutterjohn]

Originally Posted by John Adams

Make sure in variables table, the Rules value is empty. If there is data in this (even a space), your server will not allow any clicking or moving until you type #acceptrules. It's a way to prevent people from coming to >your world< and whining about how you choose to run a server.

Either that, or in your account record, rulesflag field, set it to 1.

Good to see you got it sorted out.
J

Yeah, I just happened across that little item on cavedude/sesmar's forum. I didn't have a rules row in my variables table, but I started the game up again and tried #acceptrules which allowed me to turn left and right now, but not forwards or backwards.

Prior to that I could click and interact with things AND sit down... need to go check the db again, and more digging, I imagine...

[Angelox]

Originally Posted by cutterjohn

Yeah, I just happened across that little item on cavedude/sesmar's forum. I didn't have a rules row in my variables table, but I started the game up again and tried #acceptrules which allowed me to turn left and right now, but not forwards or backwards.

Prior to that I could click and interact with things AND sit down... need to go check the db again, and more digging, I imagine...

Also, keep on mind, some of us have problems with version EQEmu-0.7.0-941. one of the symptoms is, when you log into the zone, you can't move. The way to know for sure is, back down to an older version, like 940

[cutterjohn]

Originally Posted by Angelox

Also, keep on mind, some of us have problems with version EQEmu-0.7.0-941. one of the symptoms is, when you log into the zone, you can't move. The way to know for sure is, back down to an older version, like 940

Yep, almost beat you to it again, as I saw that mentioned either here or on Cavedude/Sesmar's forums and just checked which one I grabbed... 941...

Should I try an even older one that 940, or should 940 just do the trick?

[jjggbb]

>So, after reading about your comment wrt LoginType in the variables I went >and checked it to find the %#^&^*&@%*&@$%7!!!! EMPTY!

>So I tried the guide suggested copy and paste all INSERT query into the query >browser, bang complains about duplicate ailevel. Ok, so I remove it try again, >still complains about it. Look at the variables table, and only ailevel is present. >WTF?!

I discovered that using the SQL gui, you have to put the cursor at the end of each line and click execute on each individual line. You probably only executed the last line. Anyway, my variables table is full now, but I still con't seem to get the login up. I will plug away some more and see if I can fix it.