Server Setup Issues

[knight1080]

First off, I just tried emailing this to Techguy84, but is inbox was full, so it got rejected.

Hey, I've followed both installation guides (on-line and the pdf file) two or three times, now, and every time I get down to where you 'start' the server, all I have got every time is the start.bat file opens, but the world loader flashed open, then slammed closed. Then, if/when I do press enter, eqlaunch.exe does not do anything at all.

For what it's worth, I doubt it's a program issue--I downloaded all of the appropriate software (versions listed in both guides).

I cannot find any detailed explanation that works through the forums so...any help directly from you would be awesome.

[Aramid]

Did you use CaveDude's program to setup your server? If not, then try it and see if you can get it running with that. It's probably a Database issue but try this first. Then start experimenting.

Here is the link to his Setup Program:

http://www.eqemulator.net/forums/showthread.php?t=24611

[trevius]

Another thing that helps alot is to run your world.exe from the command prompt instead of using the batch file. So, you go to start button then click run and type "CMD" and click ok. That pops up the command prompt. Then, "cd \eqemu "(or whereever you have it installed) and then just "world.exe" and report what you see. I am sure it is getting errors, and it is probably an error connecting to your mysql database. Which means either you didn't configure your eqemu configuration file with your correct login and database info, or you didn't set up a user with the proper grants to your database, or maybe you just didn't setup mysql properly. Let us know.

[knight1080]

I really hate to sound like an idiot, but damn it anyway. I'm going to try and reinstall everything, again. Regarding Cavedude's setup program, what exactly would that take the place of in the guide?

And for running the world.exe file from the prompt...
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[05.11. - 16:12:25] Starting Log: logs/eqemu_error_world_3044.log
[05.11. - 16:12:25] Failed to connect to database: Error: #1045: Access denied for user 'eq'@'localhost' (using password: YES)

[trevius]

I think eq is the default username in the config file. You either have to make sure you setup a mysql account for the user named "eq" or you have to use one that you do have setup. You can always try your root login to make sure it is working. Here is the section you need to look at in your config file in the eqemu directory. Make sure you are not editing the file that ends with xml.fulll the file that the program is using has to end with just .xml and no .full on the end.

Make sure you setup this section of the config file:

	<!-- Database configuration, replaces db.ini. -->
	<database>
	    <host>localhost</host>
	    <port>3306</port>
	    <username>root</username>
	    <password>rootpassword</password>
	    <db>peq</db>
	</database>

You only have to set the 3 parts in red there. Make sure to replace the database name with whatever database you are using. If you are using PEQ, then it will need to be set to "peq", and if you are using the AX database, you need to set it to "ax" there. The wiki setup guide explains that perfectly.

Make sure you are using this guide when trying to get this setup. If you follow it exactly, you can't fail!

http://www.eqemulator.net/wiki/wikka...ka=ws992mysql5

[knight1080]

-Sighs- Apparently I fail, so I'm just going to start over a seventh time and see what the crap it is I'm doing wrong. As I've earlier said, I've followed both guides two-three times, and I'm still getting the same failures.

Here we go...