Newbie Help: Modern Setup Guide?
 

I'm sure you get quite a few threads about this, so I apologize, but I haven't been able to figure this out. As stated, I'm a newbie to Linux and to EQEmu. I tried setting it up on my Windows 7 file server but as expected it would not successfully run. I'd get hung up on launching the new loginserver, but that's for an entirely other thread.

All said and done, I'm running Linux Mint on my server box for the explicit purpose of running an EQEmu server over my LAN. I've been bouncing between the setup guides for both Windows and Linux and I'm just not able to get it to work. By no means am I a computer newbie and I'm very easily trainable, but I just can't find a guide that utilizes the latest sources.

Anyways, I'm breaking down and I'm going to try to use the AX Classic just to get it to work, bit I'd really like to be able to build it on the Linux end from scratch. Thanks in advance for any help you all can provide.

I use Ubuntu for my Linux box, so I predominently used this Wiki when I setup my EQEmu server:
http://www.eqemulator.net/wiki/wikka...ianLinuxServer

I did a ~brief~ read up on Mint and it is based on Debian. So, Mint uses a similar package manager (GUI wise) (it uses the exact same package manager tool via command line ... "apt-get") to Debian and Ubuntu. So, the above Debian guide should give you a decent base to work with. You'll need to figure out which parts of the guide do and don't apply to your setup, but the Debian guide covers everything you need to get an EQEmu server up and running...

Once the prerequisits are taken care of the following is used to make updates:

1) Grab the SVN Source (consult your distro's documentation on installing SVN if it isn't already installed)
2) Patch the makefiles, if your Linux box isn't Intel hardware (I use AMD):
3) Make clean:
4) Make:
5) Copy your current server to make a new server directory for the new build (I use revision numbers to identify builds):
6) Copy new binaries into the new server directory:
hope this helps

Thanks for the reply. This looks like it will help. I will let you know!

I'm getting the same error that I had been getting with the sources I'd downloaded without SVN.

My box is an Intel BOXD945GCLF2D Intel Atom processor 330 Intel 945GC Mini ITX Motherboard/CPU Combo so I don't believe step 2 applied to me.

I tried using Ubuntu, but it gave me quite a few graphics driver problems so I tried Mint instead.

Anyways, this is about as far as I've been able to get compiling myself. I get rather lost if I just try to use the pre-compiled "EQEmu-Rev1052-Bots.zip".

I never got too into cpp so I wouldn't be able to see an error in the Mime.cpp file anyways.

Again, thanks for any help you can provide.

EDIT: I just found the thread the same or similar error. I'll post back after trying that.

Alright, Everything is good, though I'm not sure how to proceed after what you've given me. The other guides from here on aren't really helping me much. I know what I need to do, but not really how to do it in Linux with updated links and such. So if anyone else can help me out with the building the database, and all the rest of that jazz.

I'll keep working on it. Thanks for any help.

for database stuff it's fairly straight forward. If you do not have the phpMyAdmin package installed on Mint then you can always use command line.

With command line you'll do something like:
after the above you will be greeted with a mysql prompt ( mysql> ). You'll want to log in as the admin user for your MySQL installation (usually 'root' on typical Linux installs) during the above steps.

Next you will want to run the following commands:
With the above it's a little bit easier if you 'cd' to the directory with your database files (sql files) first. That way you can just use "source <filename>" to import the SQL file. Repeat for all the other SQL files you need to import.

Optionally, if you have phpMyAdmin installed you can do the following:
.point your web browser to your servers phpMyAdmin (on my box it's http://localhost/phpmyadmin/)
.log in as the MySQL admin/root user
.in the "MySQL localhost" section of the first page after logging in, type in a database name you want to use for this
.click create
.Click the databases tab
.Click the database you just created
.click the Import tab
.Click browse
.locate your sql files
.Select ONE of them
.Click open
.Click Go
.Repeat for however many files you need to import

hope this helps

It did. I sort of figured that out on my own though, but you clarified that I did it correctly. Now I'm hung up the startup script and getting a login server.

I'll be in a unique situation with no internet access and serving to a LAN, so I believe minilogin server is the only way for me, but I'm confused as to how to make it work in Linux. Works perfectly fine under windows, which is lovely that something actually does. I got all the tables entered into the database, but now I'm confused if minilogin server will be running client-side or server-side. Because of that, I'm confused about ip addresses and such in the configs.

The only thing now though is I'm constantly wondering if I left something out due to the differences in all the guides and my own knowledge. Oh well, only one way to find out once I get the server started and a login set up.

My server ~only~ serves my LAN. So, I use the "privatelogin" server found on the following .... errrr... forgot external links not allowed... Google for "eqemu privatelogin" it comes up as the first one (devnoob site).

The login server runs server side.

Also, Make sure you UNcomment out the following lines in your eqemu_config.xml file:The first two lines in the above code block kicked my ass, because I forgot to UNcomment them (remove <!-- and --> from those particular lines).

I swear you're standing right behind me. I'm messing with the eqemu_config.xml right now.

Thanks for the info on the private loginserver. I'll be checking that out. Things are slowly but surely coming together. Couple things though:

My eqemu_config.xml doesn't exist in my server directory. Not sure if I was supposed to create it from scratch or what not. I'll be nabbing one from the 1052 build, copying it over and editing it as needed. I think that's right.

The start/stop scripts. I've been following the "Advanced EqEmu Linux Setup" in the wiki as much as I can, and that's just not working at all for me. I was messing around with "./world" and I get the error That's basically where I'm at now. No idea how to work the start/stop scripts and about to start messing with the eqemu_config.xml.

Anyways, thanks. Hopefully we can create a decent newbie guide out of this thread when we're done.

This line from the tutorial I linked (the Debian tutorial) sets up the default files:
ln -s ../source/EQEmu-0.7.0-1118/utils/defaults/* .

I personally perfer to copy the files so I use:
That will copy the default eqemu_config.xml file to your server dir. However, it will be named "eqemu_config.xml.full". Change the name of that file to "eqemu_config.xml" with the following commands:
Then edit the file to suit your needs.

The start up scripts that work are also found in the tutorial that I linked earlier:

"start" script:
"stop" script:
"persist_world" script:
Once you create those files you need to make them "executable". You can do that with the following command:

Awesome, Thanks for the scripts. I'll let you know how they go when I get to them. Right now I'm troubleshooting ./world.
That's where I'm at right now. A lot of it looks like stuff I can figure out pretty easily. I've hung up on the bots issues right now though. I'd like to get everything working flawlessly because after Friday I won't have a stable internet connection for about 2 months.

EDIT: Yep, figured out everything but the bots issues. When I (re)source the load_bots.sql it says duplicate entries, but I can't find the entries at all in MySQL admin. Not sure how familiar you are with bots.

you need to source in the bots.sql file. This file can be found in the <build dir>/utils/sql/svn/ directory.

You also need to do the following:
It also looks like your login server isn't configured properly. You'll need to fix that config file as well.

Alright. Looks like I'll be set. I'll let you know how it goes.

I knew I'd have to mess with the login stuff. I'm just now working on the login server you suggested. Thanks again!

Here's where I'm at now. Loginserver:
Here's my .ini(s) for privatelogin:
It LOOKS like everything else is working. When I run the start script, it doesn't give me any errors and just returns to the prompt when finished loading. I think that's right? However, when I run ./world on its own I still get:I'm going to guess that the login server problems are related to each other, e.g. I need to have the privatelogin running before I launch world. I did what you said about the bots.sql, but I'm still coming up with the error. I can't find the tables that it should supposedly enter.

Getting close enough to taste sucess. Thanks so much for your help so far.

to get private login working properly you'll need to nab a couple of extra libraries.

There's a script called "getlibs" on the Ubuntu forums that will help. Google "ubuntu getlibs" the first search result will be a link to a forum post with a direct link to download it. To make grab the libraries for privatelogin you'll do the following:
.save the getlibs script to your privatelogin server directory (mine is in <eq server dir>/private )
.make the script executable with:
.run the script with:
Since Mint is a Debian derivative, I assume the default installation does not allow you to log in as the root user, and you need to sudo or su to perform root functions. The script needs to be run as root because it will download and install the appropriate library packages to make privatelogin work for you.

When you run the start script, it sets the world and zone servers to run in background, and then sends their output to log files in the <server dir>/logs/ directory. To see your server output when you use the start script you can do:
That's the log file I watch when I start my server.

The rules errors that I'm seeing in your world output indicates to me that you've compiled with -DBOTS. Is this correct?

If so, you still need to source in the bots.sql file to make those particular errors go away.

The last error in the output is telling you that it cannot connect to the login server. Once you've gotten the login server that last error will go away.

Still have the bots error stuff and my inability to figure out how to connect to myself. I haven't read much on this because I didn't expect to make it this far.

So yes, when running the start script, I see: This kind of confuses me. I was under the assumption that the account I created during all this would be the one I use to login from the launchpad. Anyways, if you feel like posting about this last bit, I'd greatly appreciate it, but until then I'll be diving into wikis and google to figure it out.

when you setup the privatelogin server, the game server needs to authenticate with it. So, when you get that particular message, it indicates that your EQEMu server has successfully connected to the login server.

Now all you need to do is create player accounts. :)

Alrighty. I'm there, but since I made everything ken/mypassword I'm not sure exactly which "ken" is that is connecting world to the login server. I am right on board with you though. Now I just have to find how/where to create user accounts and what privilege level to grant.

EDIT: I'm all logged in, hopping around (made a frog to test with). Everything looked good. I still have the bot error. When I initially sourced, it was peqdb_rev1052.sql, load_player.sql and load_bots.sql. Then after you told me, I loaded bots.sql and it says everything sourced correctly. I even tried to input the "missing" lines manually and it said duplicates, etc, but when I ./world, it's still giving me errors. I don't have any clue how to use bots anyways. That'll be my next task as soon as I can. Unfortunately I'll be stuck at work all day tomorrow (the reason for wanting a server since I'll be there 2 months straight come friday) and can't try anything you suggest. Regardless, thanks so much for your help.

I just had another look at your errors, and it seems you're missing several rows from the rule_values table. Something didn't click right when you initially setup the database. The PEQ database has a file called "rule_values.sql" that is sourced in when you create a new database. This is definitely the source of your bot errors in the ./world output.

Well, I tried that, which didn't help. I opened up mysql query browser and naviagated to the rules_values table. The "missing" rules are definitely there. They're all the way at the bottom of the table, high doubt that's the issue, but they do exist.

One thing I think could be that to test these, I've just been doing ./world instead of ./start. I also highly doubt that's the issue, but I'm ignorant about some of this, so I'll check the logs from running the script (if I can get the login server to go back up)

EDIT: Nope, still getting the errors even when running from the script. Didn't think that would do anything anyways. Not sure what's missing. Let me know if you need to see anything specifically.

Also now I'm realizing that every account I create has GM status and I have no idea why. Can't find anything to really help on that since the private login server thing doesn't comment anything on it.

EDIT: To be more clear, after messing around with it a bit. I have access to some level 10 commands but nothing above it. Apparently this issue is the reason I can't auto-attack. Basically the only things I can do are taunt and kick and die to cave rats.

Not sure why the GM commands aren't working, but the taunt/kick thing sounds like missing map files (or in the wrong folder).

I redownloaded the maps for server/maps/ which I believe is the right directory. I tried maps from sourceforge and from the SVN; both have issues. Anyone able to steer me in the right direction on this one?

I got the maps thing figured out. Things can be pretty touchy. My folder was "maps" where it needed to be "Maps". Derp on me. EDIT: Oh the other thing I figured out was I had nothing in the plugins folder. Somewhere along the lines, I didn't copy them from the quests directory. That probably fixed the GM things.

Anyways, I STILL have the bot issue, I'm not sure what's going on with that. I'm going to try to resource, but I doubt that will solve anything. Really don't know what's going on with it. Everything seems to be in order, but perhaps I should check my punctuation. Regardless, thanks for all your help. I'll be leaving tomorrow, so downloads will be out of the question, but I will still be able to access the forums.

yeah.... Linux is Case Sensitive about everything ... the only time it "isn't" is when an application has been developed to ignore casing of characters; almost no one does that though ;)