Updated Windows Server Setup Guide

[trevius]

Feel free to create a new wiki page for this guide or combine it with the existing one for Windows in the Wiki. That will make it easy for anyone to update it if anything changes or add more to it to make it more complete. Thanks for the Guide, Vales. I copied this out of the thread you posted it in and made it into a sticky since it definitely has some good info.

[vales]

Oh snap! It's a sticky!

Yep will add it to the wikki when I get a chance. I was going to grab some screenshots as well, but will also need people to verify it works to make sure the changes go in the first time around.

Thanks again!

[Burgh]

I tried a reinstall of mysql so I could do this fresh, and it won't continue the setup wizard without my old password. I did the first setup yesterday, and still can't seem to remember what I used as a password. Is there a way to find out in a file somewhere?

[Shiny151]

To anyone using this guide as a fresh/new server install. I have never setup a server before and I followed this guide to a T and was able to get my server and client running on the same machine with no problem. As of this writing I also used the two most brand spanking new versions of MySQL and ActivPerl installations.

I didn't use the bot installation as vales suggested so I get a couple of errors in my launcher but I'm not concerned with these and they do not effect gameplay if you're not using them. The one mistake I made was installing/checking out (with SVN) the quests and maps into a subfolder OF quests and maps; thus, build/quests/quests and build/maps/maps which is wrong; it should just be build/maps and build/quests. Otherwise when you log into your server the NPCs won't respond to hails for quest info and pathing is jacked up.

My client crashed on the first launch because my resolution is so high on my LCD monitor (1920x). After setting my res. down to 1400x the client loaded and I went to options and bumped the res to 1600. I logged out and then relaunched in a screen res of 1920 and then it worked fine.

I also started very light with the eqemu_config.xml file. I used the bare minimum configuration to enable my local client login. I didn't use the FULL version because I'm getting some odd heap dump CRT errors. I will slowly add the additional configuration lines to troubleshoot where the crashes are coming from.

I hope this helps other noobs like myself getting a server going for the first time.

-Shiny

[vales]

Updated the tutorial on the wikki!

So if there's anything people need help with, I guess they can ask here. The wikki version allows me or anyone to edit it if there's anything wrong, so it's much easier to maintain. Be warned though, the formatting for the wikki was pretty tough as I had to reformat ALL of the text from this post to gel with the wikki. I spent the whole day yesterday doing that.

I know there may be some stuff I might have missed, so feel free to post any discrepancies.

Oh yeah, link in my signature!