AvalonBright

Hmm. I don't have a packet.h... Is it packets.h in srcmap? Also when I edited the mmo.h the checkmark icon on the folder turned to a red "!" instead. Is that just because I edited something or is it saying there's a problem?

No, I didn't. I've never had to edit those files when I ran servers before. Nor did the setup guides mention it. Will I need to recompile after editing that?

I tried to just see if I could connect using the default "YourRO.exe" client and data folder from here, but it isn't letting me connect past character creation. Once I get a character created, it just says "Disconnected from server", and the map-server gives me the following error: I thought it was just the fact I used the default data folder so I changed the clientinfo.xml to my WAN IP, but then I couldn't connect to the server at ALL. I'm not sure what needs changed or why this client isn't letting me connect past the character server. Also I'm sure I can't have things set to 127.0.0.1 when actual players are trying to connect, but I don't know what to replace that with, if I need to. Like I said it's been awhile! I recall players having to have my WAN IP in their clientinfo, but I forget if I needed to as well or being the host I stuck with 127.0.0.1. Hopefully this connection to map server issue doesn't need some crazy amount of fixing to, well, fix.

That'd be the one I'm using. Same issue.

Problem after problem. I'm following the directions for diffing a client in this thread, but every time I try to run the Diff Patcher it says "cannot find any WeeDiffGen plugins. Please create a folder named 'WeeDiffGen' inside the same folder where the plugin is." I did that. I have folder hierarchy of DesktopRO setup for the Diff Patcher itself, then WeeDiffGen.dll and the separate folder named 'WeeDiffGen' inside DesktopRO Setupplugins.

Yeah, I did that. I have both set to "ragnarok" in char-server and map-server, and I changed the "S" account in SQL to ragnarok/ragnarok from s1/p1 just in case. Still getting the same errors. I don't know why it's even saying "account avalon" and a password, because I've set nothing to use my name except the GM account I made during setup. And even that is "GMAvalon", not "Avalon." >.< Edit: Wow. I am really, really dumb. REALLY dumb. I totally forgot to change the settings in the import conf files, not the main ones. Finally online, now just need to set a client up! Thanks for everyone's help so far!

I don't know why I didn't before, usually I'm better about that kind of thing. >_> I believe I figured out the inter-server.conf info for the SQL correctly as everything *seemed* to connect, but then this pops up when I try to run the server now.

Thank you again! I thiiink I figured everything out as far as SQL goes but I'm not sure. I followed the guide I mentioned after getting an old version of Workbench so I could follow along better, and I made SOME progress at least? The login server is at least saying it's ready, but I'm getting the same errors as before with map and char, specifically: "Access denied for user 'avalon@localhost' (using password: YES)". Again I'm assuming it has something to do with what I set for ids and passwords in inter-server.conf but I'm not sure where I went wrong there... Or how to actually figure out how to get help for it. @_@ The char-server says "Debug at ..srccharinter.c:915, but I've never dealt with the source directly before. The line reads "Sql_ShowDebug(sql_handle);" so I'm not sure how that's remotely helpful to the issue. And yes, I read what to put in inter-server here.

Sigh. Having some more trouble as far as compiling is concerned. It keeps telling me char-server and map-server are in use by another process even though they clearly aren't. Getting "2 succeeded, 2 failed"... Edit: Never mind. It didn't want to write them just because I had the solution expanded. Double edit! Setting the SQL databases up and I'm on the step. However, my version of Workbench doesn't have that. When I right-click I have the following options: Select Rows - Limit 1000 Copy to Clipboard > Send to SQL Editor > Create Table Create Table Like > Alter Table Table Maintenance Drop Table Truncate Table Search Table Data Refresh All I thought Alter Table or Table Maintenance or Send to Editor would work, but nothing seems to be doing the trick. Can someone help me out? I'm also getting "Access denied for user 'ragnarok@localhost' (using password: YES)" when I try to run the server now, and again, no idea why. x_x In inter-server.conf I changed sql.db-password and log_db_pw to the password I used in Workbench, and char_server_id/pw and map_server_id/pw to the ones I set in char and map server-confs. Incorrect? It probably also doesn't help from this guide I'm skipping the in-game account setup and jumping to this step: Except I can't figure out where, since again, My Workbench version doesn't HAVE anything like Manage Security or Server Administration. Hell, I don't even have a mysqldb@localhost, the two setups I have are "twilightro" (the server, ofc), and "Local Instance MySQL56". : This guide seems to be using versions that are very out of date and I'm clueless as to where I'm supposed to get this straightened out. :

Thanks again! Compiling is fine once I remembered it, though I'm more talking about the SQL setup, etc.

Thanks very much! Is there any information on a Windows install, though? I plan on checking it out and making sure I can get it running before I end up paying for a linux-based host.

Like the title says! I used to run an eAthena server from 2004-2010, but for various reasons we went on hiatus. With how much has been added to RO in the last four years though I'm getting the itch to get a server going again, which led me to Hercules vs rAthena. From what I can see Hercules seems to be the way to go, but with SO many changes since I last ran a server I'm feeling pretty overwhelmed! Renewal wasn't even a thing when I last ran a server, nor was Github, and third jobs weren't even fully implemented. So you can see I'm pretty behind the times. I'm hoping I can get some help here, and I'd super appreciate if anyone could answer my questions! 1. How do I get started! I'm probably going to pay for a cheap host (I run a roleplaying server, so I just need room for 20-30 people, most likely!), but I don't know how to get started in this new world of Github, etc. Can someone direct me to any potential setup instructions that would work with a remote host's setup? I know rathena had the Judas Bible but I don't know if there's anything like that now, plus I'm pretty sure even that's outdated anyway. 2. What happened to the databases, etc? Just skimming through github I couldn't find the itemdb, the mobdb, the skilldb, etc. Where did they go? 3. Just how updated IS Hercules, entirely? I did some looking through the update threads but when I looked at github I couldn't seem to find any updates. I basically couldn't seem to find anything that suggested 13.2 and onward was actually implemented besides Jobs, but I'm sure that can't be the case! This may just be my cluelessness at the new server file structure though @ being unable to find dbs as well, so I may just be looking in the wrong places. But for example I saw nothing related to warps/npcs for Brasilis in the npc folders, or Dewata or Malaya, and so on and so forth. Really this all boils down to question 1 I guess. I don't know how to get started even remotely, be it from server software to what I want to do on the client side of things either. Any very clear directions would be great!