hosting wow realm

[zrtapon]

i've been trying the entire day to get a working wow server running only on my computer, no interest in hosting it online. however right now i'm just really annoyed because none of the repacks work for me.

i'm using vista 32, mysql 5.1, navicat 8.

mmopro repack worked up until the character creation process, when it immediately disconnected me.
i think part of the problem could be that mysql.bat isn't working at all. using it presents the following message (regardless of repack):

MySQL is starting with mysql\bin\my.cnf (console)
090208 3:14:30 [ERROR] Can't find messagefile '\XtreMe Pack Battleground\Server
\mysql\share\english\errmsg.sys'
090208 3:14:30 [ERROR] Aborting




MySQL could not be started

i'm very noob at all of this and that's pretty tough, but giving up now after spending several hours working on it and getting so close feels fail so that aint gonna happen.

could someone link me to a retard-friendly guide step by step (from absolute start til end) on how to host a realm, to see if i've done something fatally wrong.
alternatively, briefly explain it in this thread.