Last Updated: 27 May 2009
1. Go to the Player Registration Page found on the Portal main menu under For Players.
2. Complete the Login Account Registration and verify that your account was created successfully.
3. Go to the Server Account Registration Page and complete this form to register your game server with the public Login Server (You will need to provide the Login Account information from step 2 as well).
- 3.1 Login Account Name - This is your Login Account Name that you created in step 2.
3.2 Login Account Password - This is your Login Account Password that you created in step 2.
3.3 World Account Name - Account name that will be used by the server to login.
3.4 World Account Password - Password that will be used by the server to login.
3.5 Verify Password - Verify the password in 3.4 is correct - type it again
3.6 World Server Name - Name used to identify your server.
3.7 World Description - Brief description describing your world.
5. Once you have it downloaded, use a zip utility to extract all the files into a work directory of your choice.
6. Install MySQL 5.0.27 if possible, but any MySQL distribution after 5.0 should work fine. Visit mysql.com locations or for helping in installation/configuration. If you are experienced with mysql you may run the commands directly instead of following Step 7's GUI setup.
Otherwise:
7. Download and install HeidiSQL, SQLYog or any MySQL (official) GUI Tools.
Using HeidiSQL as an example tool (interpret this for your own GUI if you do not use HeidiSQL):
- 7.1 Once it is installed, login to your MySQL database using the root login that you created when you installed MySQL in step 6.
7.2 Create a database by clicking Tools, Create Database. Use eq2 as the database name.
7.3 Click on Tools, User-Manager and under credentials enter a username and password that you would like to use for your server. If you will be accessing the database from multiple computers then leave it %. Otherwise set it to either your computer's IP address or localhost.
7.3 Click on the "All Privileges" checkbox and in the "Allow access to:" box, click on the eq2 database.
7.4 Click create.
- 8.1 Edit the information in this file to match the user that you created in step 7. Host in the database server address. It will be localhost if it is being run from the same machine you are using.
- 9.1 Replace WORLD_NAME_HERE with the World Server Name you created in step 3.1.
9.2 Replace EXTERNAL_IP_HERE with either localhost if you want to only allow yourself to login, or replace it with your external ip address. You can get this by browsing to http://www.whatismyip.com
9.3 Update account and password with the information that you created in step 3.2 and 3.3 respectively.
9.4 Make sure the [UpdateServer] section of the ini file looks like this:
- [UpdateServer]
updateserveraddress=updates.eq2emulator.net
updateserverport=9103
- [UpdateServer]
You must restart it each time it downloads information to ensure that you are using the correct data!!!!
11. Edit the eq2_default.ini file in your EverQuest2 client directory and set the cl_ls_address to: - cl_ls_address eq2emulator.net
