World.exe

[Ligghtning]

After following the turorial on the setup of a server for 5.x I attempted to open world.exe. To my ultimate dismay, a command prompt flashed open and closed itself. Any ideas on what it could be?

[Scorpious2k]

You can open a dos window and start world.exe that way. When it stops, the window will stay open and you can read the message.

My guess would be that it failed to open the DB or something critical like that. Get the message and it should be easy to figure out.

[Lurker_005]

First, open a dos window, and change the directory to where world.exe is. Then type world.exe The window will stay open, and you can read what it says.

[Ligghtning]

ok i tried what ye suggested and came up with this:

[Database] block not found in DB.INI.


my db.ini is currently as follows...

# READ README.TXT!
[Database]
host=localhost
user=******
password=******
database=eq
compression=off


user and password are censored.

[Synch]

You need a database=nameofyourdatabase field so EQEmu knows what db to load into memory. Mine looks like this.

# READ README.TXT!

[Database]
host=localhost
user=######
password=#####
database=tcs
compression=off


### --- This file tells world.exe what computer mySQL is on. Host should
### --- be left "localhost" unless mysql is on a differant computer than world.exe.

The database line specifies the name of the database you created in mysql. I use tcs's db right now, so I gave a CREATE DATABASE tcs; command. Thus it's name is tcs.

[Ligghtning]

Ok...got me kind of confused there...my db? is it cvs? anyway to find out what me db is?

[Scorpious2k]

Try checking to see if there is a space after [Database]. If there is, get rid of it.