I know the wiki page works pretty well for setting up for public, but it definitely doesn't encompass setting up for mini login. Someone with mini-login experience would probably be better to help with that issue. I am wondering why you are trying to run the server on Linux if you are only going to use it for private logins. For such a small community that you will have on a private server, there really is very little to no advantage for running on Linux instead of Windows. And Windows should be considerably easier to setup. Also, unless you are planning to play completely offline, there isn't really much reason to go with a private server anyway. But, if you really want to setup a private offline server for offline play, there is a full guide for setting that up somewhere around here. I believe the guide is for Windows though.
Have you verified that you can connect to public servers with your version of EQ? If it isn't the correct version and cannot connect to public servers, then it won't be able to connect to your private server either. Also, you might want to try moving your patch.conf file from your /utils directory into your server directory.
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