NPC Dialog Suddenly Gone

[Sourdough35]

Not sure what I did. I've been running my own offline server with no problems once I'm logged in running around. I made some changes and suddenly, NPCs don't talk to me. I've tried even going into the tutorial level and hailing NPCs I know normally say stuff. I say hail and they don't respond.

Quests are all in the quests folder and plugins are in the plugins folder. Everything else seems to work fine. I've even tried completely setting up a new server, new DB sourced in, started from scratch with a new account. Nothing works.

Anyone know this problem?

[Noport]

after you installed Install activeperl Type in Run Command or dos prompt ppm install DBI, ppm install IO-stringy Reboot Computer

[Sourdough35]

I don't have active perl installed. I just have it in a portable folder, because I set up my server as a portable. Typing ppm install DBI doesn't do anything.

Nevermind. I figured out I could just change the path typing

Path = %Path%;c:\Games\Everquest\mysql\bin;c:\Games\Everq uest\perl\bin

into a command prompt and then typing the commands you suggested. Will see if that works.

[Sourdough35]

Still no NPC dialog. Not sure how I messed this up.

[Noport]

just asking did you copy libmySQL.dll to the server folder? on your pathing i just noticed the extra space was that just a Type O Path = %Path%;c:\Games\Everquest\mysql\bin;c:\Games\Everq uest\perl\bin

[Sourdough35]

I do have that dll installed. The path in my post is a typo. I typed it correctly on my end. It installed when i typed in the install line but it didn't help. Said no missing packages to install. What the hell did I do?

[Noport]

found your errors there are 2 of them. here is the correct way to do pathing. Path=%Path%;c:\Games\Everquest\;c:\mysql\bin;c:\Ga mes\Everquest\;c:\perl\bin Please ingnore the type o

[Sourdough35]

I don't think that's it either. Using the new path the commands don't register. Probably because I don't have a C:\mysql or a C:\Perl dir. They're both subdirs in my standalone server folder.

I think the old pathing worked, because the ppi install commands worked. They just came up with no uninstalled packages to install.

This is driving me nuts.

[Sourdough35]

I just tried reinstalling everything using the minilogin and still had the same issue. I'm going to try doing it without doing a standalone.

[Sourdough35]

update - installing the normal way - not using the standalone worked. The NPCs talk to me again.

I basically reinstalled MySQL and Perl instead of just setting paths to the programs' portable directories in the standalone folder. So that means, when I do the standalone install, something is missing. But I think I follow the directions in the FAQ perfectly.

So what am I missing? I want to set up a standalone so I can just transfer the folder as needed.

[Noport]

config.ini file look under General
Database]
host=localhost
user=root
password=xxxxxxxx
database=peq
compression=off

[General]
quests=C:\EQEmu\quests\

wordwrap=1

I didn't see plugins in the path