Simple question

ouchyfish · #1 11-14-2007, 02:44 PM

I am new here. I apologize profusely if I am going against any rule for asking here but...

Is there any chance at all for a complete idiots guide of step by step instructions, and I mean i-d-i-o-t-s guide, to setting up a simple little server.

basically all i want is for my wife and I to relive our old fun of playing together. I Just want to be able to play on a server, just she and i with preferably accelerated xp (300-400%). We are not looking for pvp or the griefers it brings, just a little simple server for us two to run around on.

I can't find any idiots guides out there anywhere. Anyone know of any? please?

we both already have the retail copies of the files so no, we aren't asking for those.

Thank you so very much if anyone can help me. I'm really lost here. I installed mysql, the eqemu folder, the perl walkthrough but I cant get anything working even remotely close.

Thanks all. Once again i sincerely apologize if this is wrong. =(

**GeorgeS** · #2 11-14-2007, 06:07 PM

Ok there's a guide from my site. I also have Techguy's excellent guide but I don't have his permission to host it. Look at my site for misc info..

Also run Cavedudes installer 3.6, and after it finishes running, refer to my site for the sql required for current schema 0.7.9xx

If you use Cavedudes installer, you must you the mysql 4.0.x from my site. Any new version won't install!
also, you start.bat file must be changed to
@echo off
start minilogin.exe
start world.exe
echo Waiting for World to finish before starting Zone...
sleep 20
start eqlaunch.exe zones

GeorgeS

Ryori · #3 11-16-2007, 10:41 AM

You know, several existing servers offer the experience you are looking for and with the dramatically lower population and increased GM oversight Griefers and PvPers do not last long in our worlds. It's pretty easy to play in a world built for 2,000 that only has 30-100 people in it and never run into the other people. When you do, you can be sure they don't want to do something that will get them /banned, and there's a greater sense of community so they are usually quite nice.

One note is that I'd make sure to pick an established server that will be around a while.

If you want an original EQ experience, join PEQ or Legacy of the Rathe. If you want to try something with GM Powers where you can be 70 in a day, try Krushers. If you want to loot your epic 60 seconds after you log in, try KMRA. If you want accelerated XP and Loot, try Jest3.

Those are the only ones I've played on that have always been around. I'm sure there are other stable servers out there as well, but before I started playing on those 5 I tried playing on 3-4 others that went *poof*, so I'd rather play on one of the ones I listed here

Good luck whatever you decide to do

ouchyfish · #4 11-18-2007, 04:29 PM

Thank you so much for all of the help. I think I might just have everything set up right. i tried to follow everything in the guide.

The only problem that I am running into right now is this:

I run boot5zones, world, then attempt to launch eq (patchme etc) and no matter what i try to login with, it stays at the login screen saying "Establishing connection with login server" but nothing ever happens. I am attempting to run my own server, etc.

here's some of my setup files:

eqemu_config:

<?xml version="1.0">
<server>
<world>
<shortname>For Dani</shortname>
<longname>Rhayneal</longname>






<loginserver>
<host>eqlogin1.eqemu.net</host>
<port>5999</port>
<account></account>
<password></password>
</loginserver>


<key>some long random string</key>


<http port="9080" enabled="true" mimefile="mime.types" />
</world>


<database>
<host>localhost</host>
<port>3306</port>
<username>root</username>
<password>999999</password>
<db>peq</db>
</database>
</server>

and

eqhost says

[Registration Servers]
{
"localhost:3306"
}
[Login Servers]
{
"localhost:3306"
}

Thanks for any and all help!!!!

ouchyfish · #5 11-18-2007, 04:38 PM

Oh--BTW--The "Establishing connection with login server" message happens even if I try to connect to a proven eqemu server using their setup. Am I SOL?

Sakrateri · #6 11-18-2007, 10:50 PM

This is set to connect to eqemulator server

Quote:

<loginserver>
<host>eqlogin1.eqemu.net</host>
<port>5999</port>
<account></account>
<password></password>
</loginserver>

While your host here

Quote:

eqhost says

[Registration Servers]
{
"localhost:3306"
}
[Login Servers]
{
"localhost:3306"
}

Is trying to connect to your computer.

Try this in your eqhost.txt

Quote:

[Registration Servers]
{
"127.0.0.1:5998"
}
[Login Servers]
{
"127.0.0.1:5998"
}

And this in your set up

Quote:

<loginserver>
<host>127.0.0.1</host>
<port>5998</port>
<account></account>
<password></password>
</loginserver>