The Complete Idiots Guide to starting a EQemu server

[MceeD]

Hello,

I'm just a new face on the block here but I want to put in a little input. When I fisrt heard about EQemu and looked into it I shuttered at all the file transfers and seeminly sceachyness of it.

All Hail The Patcher. Thanks to everyone who was a part of that.

The biggest problem I had starting up a server was simply what files go where. My solution was files everywhere just in case. I'm sure my EQemu files total about a 20x more than they should be.

In the end I think I had problems with pretty much each of the programs. But I got a high school education... so /rude you. I was able to work around most problems and eventually got a server up. definatly the fun and excitment I was looking for but with a bit of frustration tossed in for good measure.

The Moral of my story (not that I have any right tossing out morals)

Would it be possible for someone to put together a complete How To build a EQemu server? More like a idiots guide to a EQemu server /w database. A list of all files needed and explicate instruction on where to put them.

I of course would offer to do this but in all honesty I am completly oblivious to half of what I did. Not even sure if the other half was really the right way ither. I would offer a Idiots Guide to being a EQemu Idiot, but let's face it we Idiots don;t need instructions.


THANKS TO ALL OF YOU. you know you rock

[Lurker_005]

What is wrong with these?

http://forums.eqemu.net/viewtopic.php?t=6904

http://forums.eqemu.net/viewtopic.php?t=5198

http://forums.eqemu.net/viewtopic.php?t=2937

All 3 stiky posts in the Tutorials and howtos forum

Also there is the Readme that comes with the emu http://eqemu.sourceforge.net/shawn31...ts/readme.html

All 4 of those walk you thru setting up a server. If you have trouble following any of them, write the author with what part was confusing and why. Perhaps your feedback will allow them to reword things so more people can understand the guides.

Remember, be polite. Thank them for the wonderful guides, and be specific about how and where you misunderstood the guide.

[MceeD]

probally because I never saw those. And in hours looking around I never found them. Maybe a update of the main instructions with links to those would be helpfull.

Also all of those mention Local Lan Servers. I can see that there is very little diference in that and a Web server in hind site.

Maybe those links will acomplish it anyways.

[ednecro]

I cant really see how you could not find what you are looking for in
this forum, in fact every time I come here it seems like they have
made it easier to set up. I setup a LOCAL server yesterday, took
me 10 minutes, and it went as follows:

load eq
load mysql
Patch eq from verant.(well, this took a bit longer)

Get the emu patcher:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/e...r.exe?download

Use patcher to update your eq directory.
You can also get 4.4dr1 from the CVS
Download and unzip the emu into a directory and edit the scripts:
db.ini
[Database]
host=localhost
user=YourMysqlUsername
password=YourMysqlPassword
database=eq
compression=off

loginserver.ini
[LoginServer]
loginserver=localhost
loginserver2=localhost
loginport=5999
loginport2=5999
worldname=MyBigFatGreekServer
worldaddress=localhost
locked=false
account=
password=

[WorldServer]
Defaultstatus=
Unavailzone=

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


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

if NOT exist spells_en.txt goto NOSPELL

start zone . localhost 7995 localhost
start zone . localhost 7996 localhost
start zone . localhost 7997 localhost
start zone . localhost 7998 localhost
start zone . localhost 7999 localhost
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------------------------


Next make sure mysql is running in your systray
then launch mysql.exe

use eq;
source Working_Database.sql (or whatever one you are using)

INSERT INTO account SET name='eqemu', password='eqemu', status=200;

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* to '%'@localhost IDENTIFIED BY '%';


Then close mysql.exe

Lastly modify your eqhosts.txt
[Registration Servers]
{
"localhost:5999"
}
[Login Servers]
{
"localhost:5999"
"localhost:5999"
}


Then login and test it.

BOBS YOUR UNCLE!!!!
your done.

Took me less then 15 minutes to round up all i needed from this
site, and I only posted once to find out about being on the right
patch level. I have to agree with lurker that some folks have gone out of there way to give detailed instructions for this, but it does
no good if people dont dig and find them, and YES YOU HAVE TO
DIG. (well... actually not so much, look at the stiky posts.) Remember they are emulating the world here, Im suprised it is as easy as this to begin with.

-cheers

P.S. this is not a flame, hopefully what i have written, or the other links that lurker gave you will help you and other folks too.