How to make proper startup files for Mini-Login use

[Congdar]

Tip: When you download the MiniLogin6.2.zip file(is there a newer one?), it comes with an opcodes.conf file. Don't use it. It doesn't have all the opcodes. Use the opcodes.conf file that comes with the latest build.
You only need the MiniLogin.exe and the LoginServer.ini files.

[Angelox]

This package contains Leslamarch's launcher, and Aerewen's PHP IPFixer (instructions are in the PHP script).
Once set up, you won't need to be setting account IPs in the database for yourself or anyone else, and, if you have at least a 'shallow' understanding of PHP ( I do!), you can alter it all and make it look real nice.

[ChaosSlayer]

you may want to include a LINK to wher actualy download the Mini Login software - I just tried finding it starting of main page and it took me like 20 min

http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...group_id=88515

[wicapirate]

Angelox
Will that zip allow me to run EQ on a LAN with no internet access?

[Angelox]

Originally Posted by wicapirate

Angelox
Will that zip allow me to run EQ on a LAN with no internet access?

I don't know which zip you're talking about, but Minilogin is for LAN or the client can be with the same machine as the server , so you don't need internet or even a LAN.
What I have posted at my site are packages I thought would make it all easier for you (granted you follow the instructions).

[cubber]

Thank you for this, I have had minilogin running under linux in the past but this made it much simpler to get away from the Public loginserver hell. I never new there was a web tool published to create your own gimp public server with minilogin. It is perfect for my setup after some modifications.

One thing you may want to note in the guide is that it is necessary to forward "UDP" port 5999 to your server on your firewall in order to allow public access to the minilogin server.

Second I see that accounts and passwords are limited to "9" characters on the web tool. This is not practical since some of my old users had account names greater than 9 characters with passwords greater than 9 characters. Granted when you switch from public to this type of login all of thier passwords are set to "blank" as far as minilogin is concerned they still have the same usernames. So you will need to go in and add passwords for thier accounts in your db in order for them to log in. In order to change the 9 character limit edit these lines in the index.php file:

<td width="326" align="left" valign="top"><input name="username" type="text" class="formelements" id="username" size="40" maxlength="9" />

to

<td width="326" align="left" valign="top"><input name="username" type="text" class="formelements" id="username" size="40" maxlength="25" />

to increase the username to 25 characters

and

<td align="left" valign="top"><input name="password" type="password" class="formelements" id="password" size="40" maxlength="9" />

to

<td align="left" valign="top"><input name="password" type="password" class="formelements" id="password" size="40" maxlength="25" />

to increase the password size to 25

[cubber]

Ports on your router that need to be opened;
3306/udp, 5999/udp, 9000/udp, 7000-7010/udp, 3306/tcp, 5999/tcp, 7000-7010/tcp
ports 7000-7010 are variable, pending on how many dynamic and static zones you start up. If you use 5 dynamic zones and 5 static, then 7000-7010, is ok, if you start more, then increase the amount accordingly.

I appologize, I did not see this part of the guide. You already did mention the port. But one thing to note is that you do not need to open any TCP ports. It is all UDP.

These are the ports I use on my firewall, and all works fine. I used to forward both tcp and udp ports until FNW told me on IRC a while back that it was a big misconception and that EQEMU only uses UDP.

UDP 	Uplink ANY : 7779 	=> 	192.168.42.4 : 7779 	EQEMU Mail
 	
UDP 	Uplink ANY : 7778 	=> 	192.168.42.4 : 7778 	EQEMU Chat 	

UDP 	Uplink ANY : 5999 	=> 	192.168.42.4 : 5999 	EQ Minilogin

UDP 	Uplink ANY : 9000 	=> 	192.168.42.4 : 9000 	EQEMU

UDP 	Uplink ANY :
7000 - 7010 	=> 	192.168.42.4 : 7000 - 7010 	EQEMU

BTW: what is 3306 for? I never use that port.