COMPLETE PUBLIC SERVER SETUP - Jan-2011

[Curzon7]

I combed through every post in here, and you guys are awesome. My resolve to figure it on my own has hit the wall, here 27 hours after I started this process.

I have a successful compile ( I guess). I initially had the wrong Perl installed (doh) and the wrong mysql (doh^2), so I didn't go in order, exactly. I uninstalled everything, deleted everything, and decided to just go through exactly as stated in the guide. Originally I wanted a private server, but whatever, I'll figure that out later.

When I run the batch file in the server directory, it .. .. .. and then craps out. The error is the same one that one guy was having (page 5 and 7 as my browser sorts it):

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[06.10. - 18:28:24] Starting Log: logs/eqemu_debug_3208.log
[06.10. - 18:28:24] [LAUNCHER__INIT] Loading server configuration..
[06.10. - 18:28:25] [NET__WORLD] WorldConnection connect: Connecting to the server localhost:9000 failed: TCPConnection::Connect(): connect() failed. Error: 10061
[06.10. - 18:28:25] [LAUNCHER__ERROR] worldserver.Connect() FAILED! Will retry.
[06.10. - 18:28:25] [LAUNCHER__INIT] Starting main loop...
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Going into the logs I find the following logs with the same timestamp:
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Starting Log: logs/eqemu_error_world_6136.log
[06.10. - 18:28:15] Failed to connect to database: Error: #1045: Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES)

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[06.10. - 18:28:15] Starting Log: logs/eqemu_debug_world_6136.log
[06.10. - 18:28:15] [WORLD__INIT] Loading server configuration..
[06.10. - 18:28:15] [WORLD__INIT] Log settings loaded from log.ini
[06.10. - 18:28:15] [WORLD__INIT] CURRENT_WORLD_VERSION:EQEmulator 0.8.0
[06.10. - 18:28:15] [WORLD__INIT] Added loginserver eqemulator.net:5998
[06.10. - 18:28:15] [WORLD__INIT] Connecting to MySQL...
[06.10. - 18:28:15] [WORLD__INIT_ERR] Cannot continue without a database connection.

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I checked my .xml config file and the password and database name are perfect. I manually logged into my database to make sure I had the right password. I'm thinking it has to do with the router forwarding maybe? I tried messing around with that, added the 7000-7100, but I can't seem to add another service to cover the other ranges. I'm in windows xp so the firewall exceptions thing doesn't work exactly the same either, I did find a place to open up a port, so I tried that too, but no effect.

What else do ya'all need to miracle my server into connectivity?