Building a server

Ok, I certainly hope I'm posting this in the correct area. I've scanned through the forum and used the search feature but I can't find help for building a server from scratch. I would greatly appreciate any help that can be provided, just so everyone knows I am a complete noob to this but I'm looking forward to learning all I can. I admit it's possible I missed a post answering this very question so if I did please link me to it. Thanks

First thing what do you mean from scratch? If you mean building a computer to run the server it would depend on how many people are going to be on it at any given time i myself have a 3.2 p4 single core with 2g of ram holding 5 people with no problems but that is the limit for more i am build a quad core 2.8 with 6g of ram should hold a good bit of people. But if i am just spinning my tires and all you need is a start then i would use Galactic Cataclsym 4.1.0 repack & +4.0.6 repack

it seems to be the easiest one to set up and if you have anymore ? i would love to help as much as i can

I mean like compiling the core the core and getting the DBCs and stuff. I've been trying to follow the Wiki for Arcemu but I'm stuck at getting the DBCs and the maps extracted. I only wanna have 4 or 5 people at most at any given point. the computer I wanna use to run the server on has an Intel 2 core duo @ 2.26 2.27 with 4g of ram. So I guess my questions boil down to how do I get the thing started cause I'm totally confused atm. Also I'll need to ask how to make it public but that can happen at a later point after I get it running. And thanks much for the help. a random question is how do I do the +rep thing cause thats new to me as well.

i like reading this topic :D

tlowems is right, for what you need, any repack will do and have everything you need right out of the box - and from experience i can tell you that the machine you have will do the trick - you just might want to disable collision detection at the benefit of minimizing the risks of lag (no vmaps - just turn it off in your settings as this requires a lot more processing power - NOTE: enemies will be able to shoot you and run at you THROUGH walls without it though)

However... You are asking about compiling the core direct from source code, and getting the server online from there, am I right? Any particular reason why you want to go that route instead of using a pre-built repack?

Regardless, this is pretty straight forward: http://mmofuse.net/forums/f145/%5Bgu...r-scratch-263/ and has a specific section for the DBC issue you are having... It's simply a matter of downloading a proper DBC extractor, then using it in your wow install directory, and placing the resulting DBC folder in your arcemu folder; where you put your maps. You can grab a DBC Extractor right here: Hotfile.com: One click file hosting: dbc.rar (this will work for up to client version 4.0.1) - here is where I found that link: [REQUEST]: DBC Extractor! - AC Web

Finally, here is where you can get help making it all go public: http://mmofuse.net/forums/f145/%5Brelease%5D-guide-public-server-non-hamichi-100%25-working-3673/
this is an excellent guide that covers just about everything - now if you do decide to use a repack, you may need to go into the SQL Database and manually update the IP of the realm from there as a final step to going LIVE... but IF and when you come to that, we'll all be more than happy to help :D

(did i miss anything?)

Well, I don't think you missed anything and based on what you said I was looking at my set up and realized I've been trying to do this stuff to 4.2.0 which is very likely the reason I couldn't get it to work. To explain a bit I wanted to do everything from a blank slate like that just to try and learn about how it worked but I think I'll use a repack and try learning how to have the server before I try to learn about getting that in depth to it. You guys are awesome and thanks for the help and giving me all this information, so my current question is now how do I revert my WoW updates to version 4.0.1 and just to be sure that is cataclysm yes?

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Oh Also I was wondering if you could tell me about what blizzlike means. I tried a private server once way back when TBC released (haven't played the game since around that time) and I didnt much care for it cause everything almost always dropped rare drops and I hit level 30 in about 45 minutes on that one so is there anyway I can avoid that type of thing or change it if it's there in the repack I use?

here is what you need for downgrading and getting to the right version: http://mmofuse.net/forums/f30/manually-patching-3-3-5-a-4498/

also, Cataclysm "starts" at 4.0.6 but, The Sundering takes place in 4.0.1 (which where the world of cataclysm takes place >> the maps will be the same)
there are repacks already made for 4.0.6 and if you downgrade to any version prior to it, you can patch up to that and go from there using the above guide that i linked

Fun Server means tweaked crap - faster xp, drop rates, etc... used for goofing around - Blizzlike, means similar to retail (blizzard like ) wow so it should be something a bit more normal - regardless, you can tweak all that in the .conf files for the server using notepad, these files should be in the root directory of whatever repack you go with. You get even more control over everything using an SQL editor to manage the database tables in the server.

Myself, i like HeidiSQL - HeidiSQL - MySQL made easy - its free, small, fast and reliable, but whatever floats your boat!

And if you are up for customizing your game experience by making your own gear, loot, items, etc. check this out: http://wow-v.com/
its a very nice online tool that lets you create custom content for wow, export it into a script file, and then using an sqleditor add it into your game server - wicked stuff!

Let us know if we can be of any other assistance :D

Again you are the best, thanks for all the help and I'll be sure to give you rep cause you are awesome. thanks a lot I'll be working on getting it up and running today so my friends and I can play it. I may contact you at a later point to talk about how to edit things but I believe you've given me an awesome start point so thanks again

Alrighty, I've got WoW installed finally and I grabbed that Galactic repack so I thought I was ready to try and start this thing up. but as soon as I tried to start worldserver or authserver I get an error that the LIBEAY32.dll can't be found. I scanned through all the data in the server file and found the dll so I know it's there. any advice?

Typically, the repacks require the latest .net, visual and C libraries be installed - .net is easy, just update windows, for visual hit up microsoft: Free Developer Tools - Visual Studio 2010 Express | Microsoft Visual Studio - for the rest you can go here: ascent-windows-libraries.zip - wowmax - SVN del Server - Google Project Hosting just click on View Raw File to download the zip and everything you need should be right inside. Kudos to: Nika View Profile: Nika - MMOFuse - World of Warcraft Guides & Resources - MaNGOS, Trinity & Arcemu for that! The included readme in the zip file is really straight forward, just put the files where they belong based on the version of windows you are running (32bit or 64bit) - with that in place, you should be stylin!

and by all means, keep us up to date on your progress :D

Thanks for all the help, sadly all the friends I had wanted to get to play on this server with me seem to have backed out on me and now want to devote all their time to us playing League of Legends. A game I greatly enjoy of course but sadly my server building attempts have stalled for the moment though I have every intention of getting it up and running for the experience at the very least. Again I can't thank you guys enough and I hope to stick around and learn as much more as I possibly can.

Sorry for not replying sooner i have been having ISP and computer problems but xorrox is right i forgot to add .netframeworks in my reply earlier for that i am sorry if you install .net frameworks and restart and you still have the problem then the latest c++visual basics should do the trick and if it does not please fill free to email

Good luck :D