Overview: This tutorial will walk you through setting up an EQ2Emulator server.

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.

4. Download the latest Stable Win32 binary from one of the links on our SVN Links page.

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. Open world_db.ini in the work directory that you created in step 5.

• 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. Open LoginServer.ini in the work directory that you created in step 5.

• 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
  Note: As of the 0.6.5 release, the packaged LoginServer.ini is incorrect and requires this manual adjustment. This will be fixed in the 0.7.0 release.

10. Start World.exe. If everything starts correctly you will get a ton of information as it populates your database. After it stops downloading, close it and reopen it a few more times. Once it stops downloading information it is ready to go.
11. Edit the eq2_default.ini file in your EverQuest2 client directory and set the cl_ls_address to:

• cl_ls_address eq2emulator.net

12. If everything was setup correctly, you should be able to run the EQ2 client and connect to your world. NOTE: Be sure to run EverQuest2.exe!!! If you run EQ2.exe, it will patch all your files including eq2_default.ini.

If you are having problems with zlib please use this version of the dll (put this in the eq2emu directory with your world.exe):
www.eq2emulator.net/files/zlib.dll
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Also updated this server installation guide. Should migrate these docs to the Wiki eventually.