My server shows up. yet I cannot connect

[bazz701]

SOmething I never really thought of is... do I need a copy of EQ T Edition installed on the host computer(server)... or just the other files... it never occured to me that I may have forgotten that vital step.

[trevius]

You don't need Titanium on the server PC. But, you DO need to copy the spells files to the eqemu directory as stated in the server setup guide wiki.

It looks like you are running a current version of the databases that include the newer rules, but you don't have the correct eqemu code version to use the newer rules. You might want to try using emu version 1108 which is the most recent listed on the downloads page.

Also, make sure you sourced all of the database files needed. If you are running PEQ database, you need to have both load_player.sql and the peqdb_XXXXx.sql sourced in. It is all there in the wiki here:

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

Oh, and the zone table doesn't need anything filled in on the filename column. That is probably the old way it used to lookup zone .map files, but I think it just does them by shortname now.

[bazz701]

Trev,
I am currently running 1108 on my server machine, with the spells_**.txt files both imported form a working Titanium Edition.

I followed the guide to the letter, but must have mieed something...

would restarting the guide from scratch(i.e. restarting the server, not including perl and such) be my only other option??

Also, I am using Angelox DB, and sourced it in correctly as the guide told me.. so otherwise im unsure of what to do now.

[bazz701]

The Zone_Flags tables only show 2 things.... first column has charID with 241 only row, and zoneID with 89..... thats it, is that my issue?

[bazz701]

One other thing I might add,

the cmd Prompt window that displays "sleeping" displays a "0:sleeping" not 7005 sleeping as the guide says... might this be part of the issue?

[trevius]

The 0 just means that you have no clients connected. When you get a person logged in, that will show the zone name and number of players in that zone. Each time another person loads in, it will change to the zone they are loading into and the total number of chars in that zone.

Are you able to connect to any other server and get past the char select screen? I would try that first to confirm that your Titanium install is working properly and that you don't have a dual core CPU issue causing your problem.

The only problem I can see is that your spell rules aren't being recognized, which either means your eqemu code is corrupted somehow, or if you compiled the source yourself, it had errors and didn't completely properly maybe.

Some things that I would try 1 at a time to see what happens:

1. Make sure you can connect to another server and get all of the way into it without problems.
2. Download the win32 1108 code of the emu again and install it overwriting all of your files accept for your config file.
3. Download the PEQ DB and follow the directions in the wiki to setup your db to use PEQ. You can still keep your AX_Classic db there so that you can easily switch back just by editing your config file. Test and see if the PEQ db works for you.
4. Post your config file again without the password information.
5. Check ALL log files in your eqemu/logs directory and post any here that look important or show errors.
6. Check which version of perl and mysql you are running and post them here. I believe there are issues with some of the newest versions.
7. Post the Operating System you are running and any other system information you might think is important.

That should be enough to keep you busy for a while. Let us know what happens.

[bazz701]

Ok, so now comes the outcome to the steps... tho I only made it to setp 3 when I got a server running and I could create and play on.


It seems that all my coding and sourcing were correct, but something didnt fit right with angelox DB on my computer.

So, I guess for now, I will be remaining with PEQ, tho I am curious if I can disable the PoK books for the time being... I want to make my server as close to old school EQ as I can, I.e. Pre PoP, so that the porting by means of wizard and druid become more meaningful.

Thanks for all the time everyone has put into to helping me.

Also, by no means am I saying that Angelox DB is bugged or errored, but I just couldnt get it to work on my machine, through some form of error on my own.

Trev, thanks, I now have a server up and running and have something to delve hours and hours into, for the programming aspect, as well as creation of my own quests and an entire DB once I get the hang of the setup as of current.

and everyone else, thanks for the help!!!!!!

(PEQ DB running smooth as of now, King's Bastion 2, will be experimenting with all kinds of changes as I understand what I can do)