How do you run two servers at once

Randymarsh9 · #1 06-14-2009, 03:52 PM

How can I run two servers at the same time?

**trevius** · #2 06-14-2009, 04:36 PM

Unless you are using VMWare, or you have multiple machines to run more than 1, you can't as far as I know. Though, even if you have more than 1 PC to run your servers, you can still only have 1 public server per IP. This is because your router will be forwarding port 9000 and that forwarding can only go to 1 of your IP addresses. Players need that port in order to connect, so your other servers with different IPs won't work.

It may be possible that you can run more than 1 server on the same IP/PC, but I haven't ever really tried that. Maybe it would work if you had 2 separate install directories for the servers and 2 separate databases for them to use.

Randymarsh9 · #3 06-14-2009, 04:41 PM

Yeah I am trying to use it with 2 different databases, but world.exe of the first one will just crash when you start the 2nd server

Randymarsh9 · #4 06-14-2009, 06:01 PM

Could I have one public and then one minilogin one for testing?

**trevius** · #5 06-14-2009, 06:09 PM

Yeah, that is what I do. I run my second test server in VMWare so it is the same as being run on a second PC.

leslamarch · #6 06-14-2009, 06:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Randymarsh9

Could I have one public and then one minilogin one for testing?

yeah but you will still need to do what Trev suggested using " VMWare" or second pc for the local one, I run 2 this way all the time no problems. I run 1 public and one private using 127.0.0.1

Randymarsh9 · #7 06-14-2009, 06:29 PM

what is vmware? and can you give me just a general overview of how I could convert my secondary server which is public right now into a minilogin one?