Can I create a server using Windows 98?

[IANumtin]

Woot! :lol:

[MatthewF]

when i open up world.exe it still disappears............right after it loads all the text,poof

[Hardy]

Correctomongo

[Hardy]

Eck! Did you remember to change loginaccounts, db.ini, etc..?

[MatthewF]

so world.exe SHOULD disappear right after all text is loaded?

[Hardy]

NO! :(

[MatthewF]

oh,ya i put everything where it should be.......i put my ip where it should be,put my username and pass where should be

[Hardy]

Go to dos-prompt, open up world.exe that way, post the errors for us. It should stay open through dos, actually it will stay open. No it won't work running it that way, thats just to get the errors.

[MatthewF]

for boot5zones file it looks like this
REM: ****Read this first!!!****

REM: This file requires your real IP in the place of "YourIP" when you are connecting
REM: To the EQEmu Loginserver.

REM: When you are using minilogin, Replace all IP Addresses to say 127.0.0.1

REM: If you still get errors try using localhost instead of 127.0.0.1

REM:--------------Start-----------------------
@echo off

if NOT exist spells_en.txt goto NOSPELL

start zone . 68.16.10.190
start zone . 68.16.10.190
start zone . 68.16.10.190
start zone . 68.16.10.190
start zone . 68.16.10.190
exit
cls

:NOSPELL
echo You did not copy the spells_en.txt from your everquest directory to this one. Please do so or zones will crash on startup.
PAUSE

REM:---------------END------------------------

i suppose the :NOSPELL was from you since i have mine...

db.ini looks like this..
# READ README.TXT!

[Database]
host=localhost
user=(not telling you!)
password=(no looking)
database=eq
compression=off


### --- This file tells world.exe what computer mySQL is on. Host should
### --- be left "localhost" unless mysql is on a differant computer than world.exe.


i replaced my username and pass so you peekers wouldnt get in >=P



miniloginaccounts with the yellow thing like you said looks like this

# Max 200 lines total (including comments and blank lines)
# Blank lines may mess up the line # reported in error messages

localhost (myusername and pass =P)


### --- This file tells world.exe what loginserver to connect to.
### --- Leave the account and password field BLANK.

### --- Public Login is un-supported as is LAN playing. We reccomend using the EQEmu.net Loginserver ALWAYS.

### --- NOTE: Starting 6-1-2002, you can no longer use the word "Server" in worldname.
### --- NOTE2: the word "Server" is added to each server automaticly.

# READ README.TXT

[LoginServer]
loginserver=localhost
loginport=5999
worldname=Test
worldaddress=68.16.10.190
locked=false
account=
password=

[WorldServer]
Defaultstatus=
Unavailzone=

[LoginConfig]
ServerMode=Standalone
ServerPort=5999
UplinkAddress=
UplinkPort=
UplinkAccount=
UplinkPassword=

thats what my loginserver.ini looks like...

when i load up world.exe it says stuff like









Error:failed to find database

Error:cannot find zones

i was lucky enough to somehow freeze it to find those things....

there are 4 folders inside of Eqemu folder,so i think i need to take the zones,the database etc out of those folders and just put them in the single folder Eqemu

the 4 folders automatically put themselves there when i extracted from ur zip file....

[Hardy]

start zone . 68.16.10.190
start zone . 68.16.10.190
start zone . 68.16.10.190
start zone . 68.16.10.190
start zone . 68.16.10.190
exit
cls

That is one problem, your missing your ports:

@echo off
start zone . YourIP 7995 YourIP
start zone . YourIP 7996 YourIP
start zone . YourIP 7997 YourIP
start zone . YourIP 7998 YourIP
start zone . YourIP 7999 YourIP
exit
cls

[Hardy]

the 4 folders automatically put themselves there when i extracted from ur zip file....

Because thats where they belong. They always come that way.

What do you mean the database though? The db.sql is in a seperate folder? That should not be right. It should be in the eqemu folder, one sec and let me download the file and check it out.

[MatthewF]

how do you go into dos-prompt mode

[MatthewF]

:P

[MatthewF]

nono theres a folder that has all the zones in it

theres folder that has 3 links on it

fiolder that has eqhostmanager in it

and a folder that has item database

thats what it was lookin for when it said that

db.sql is in the bin area in mysql folder

db.ini is in Eqemu folder

[Hardy]

The folders are right.

Anyway, to get to dos-promt: Go to Start -> Run - > Type in "cmd" without quotes ("command" if that don't work). Type cd.. until you reach the C:\ prompt. Get to the directory, example of what I would type if it was c:\eqemu: cd eqemu. Then type in "world.exe" without the quotes.

There is a faster way, I always forget how to do it that way, hehe. But this way works.