Windows Server Installer :: Modular & Scripted

[dpjaf4t]

Just a couple of observations from the peanut gallery:

1a. Lines 113-114 in eqemu_install.bat you could just do

SET PATH=%path%;C:\Perl\site\bin;C:\Perl\bin

on one line instead of two, this is only esthetics though.

1b. Why not a line:

setx /M path "%path%;C:\Perl\site\bin;C:\Perl\bin

for the Perl install step as well as the MariaDB install step? I'm sure you have a reason, I just haven't had enough coffee this morning to get it myself.

2. You don't get any issues from installing 32-bit Perl and 64-bit everything else?? Doing my prerequisite setup on 64-bit Windows (back when, manually and the long way around), I had installed ActivePerl-5.16.3.1604-MSWin32-x64-298023.msi instead, because it never occurred to me NOT to install the 64-bit version. And then never gave it another thought until now ....

3. Why not do the Perl.rar as a self-extracting archive instead? Then you could completely skip the WinRAR install step.

[sculler]

Installed last night on Windows Server 2012 R2 and it worked like a charm.

Very smooth install.

Nice job, Akka.

[Akkadius]

Originally Posted by sculler

Installed last night on Windows Server 2012 R2 and it worked like a charm.

Very smooth install.

Nice job, Akka.

That's good!

[Maze_EQ]

2012 R2
2008 R2
Win10

All fine.

Good stuff.

[Akkadius]

Originally Posted by Maze_EQ

2012 R2
2008 R2
Win10

All fine.

Good stuff.

Very nice Maze! Thanks for testing!

[Akkadius]

The only thing I've been seeing with errors lately is anything related to the loginserver, which yes if you're looking to login from another PC on the network you will need to use the address that it resides on the network with and not 127.0.0.1 because that is only a locally significant address. With that there is some basic networking to be aware of.

Otherwise it looks like the new installer is ready to go from what I can see.

[redwind01]

Hey guys, i was downloading this. the download seems to have stopped.
the last 2 lines in cmd window read.

install fetching latest maps this could take a few minutes
copy folder doesn't exist, creating 'maps/'

if i shut down programs, and rerun eqemu_install.bat will it have to start the whole process over?

thank you

[Akkadius]

Originally Posted by dpjaf4t

Just a couple of observations from the peanut gallery:

1a. Lines 113-114 in eqemu_install.bat you could just do

SET PATH=%path%;C:\Perl\site\bin;C:\Perl\bin

on one line instead of two, this is only esthetics though.

For whatever reason it wasn't playing nice at the time so I decided to go with two separate statements at the time

1b. Why not a line:

setx /M path "%path%;C:\Perl\site\bin;C:\Perl\bin

for the Perl install step as well as the MariaDB install step? I'm sure you have a reason, I just haven't had enough coffee this morning to get it myself.

2. You don't get any issues from installing 32-bit Perl and 64-bit everything else?? Doing my prerequisite setup on 64-bit Windows (back when, manually and the long way around), I had installed ActivePerl-5.16.3.1604-MSWin32-x64-298023.msi instead, because it never occurred to me NOT to install the 64-bit version. And then never gave it another thought until now ....

You can use Perl x64 but I'm using a very proven recommended version that we've always used and it doesn't really matter if you use 32 vs 64. What matters here is that it works.

3. Why not do the Perl.rar as a self-extracting archive instead? Then you could completely skip the WinRAR install step.

I want WinRAR installed for folks because the db backup/compression relies upon it if people wanted the functionality. Plus who doesn't have WinRAR installed or want it installed.

Responded inline. You didn't even mention if it worked for you or not?

[dpjaf4t]

<facepalm> Yes, it worked (except the script did not delete the various installers for me even running it as administrator, but this is totally a trivial point). Sorry for not saying so up front.

Excellent work, it's definitely a boon for getting a server up and running, quickly and conveniently.

[Dremis]

Seems to work perfectly on Windows 10 also. No issues installing and no errors when running. Now if I could just figure out how to make my ROF client connect to it... lol.