Newbie Help: Modern Setup Guide?

[prickle]

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:

		<address>YOUR-LAN-IP</address>
		<localaddress>YOUR-LAN-IP</localaddress>

		<loginserver>
			<host>YOUR-LAN-IP</host>
			<port>5998</port>
			<account>YOURINFO</account>
			<password>YOURINFO</password>
		</loginserver>

The first two lines in the above code block kicked my ass, because I forgot to UNcomment them (remove <!-- and --> from those particular lines).

[arggonuts]

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

Unable to load 'eqemu_config.xml" : Failed to open file

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.