Making Ascent Public- Non-hamchi Way

[satscholar]

First of all this tut was made by Jargs from ac-web.org and all credit goes to him, just thought i would share this great guide with you all:

oh before you start the links are:

DynDNS -- Dynamic DNS, E-Mail Delivery and Other Services
PortForward.com - Free Help Setting up Your Router or Firewall

Well the last tutorial was messy so i decided to make a new one. This tutorial will show you how to make your Ascent server public so that other people can play on it.

Step One

The first thing you need to do is make a DNS for your server. This will hide your server's IP address in a sub domain, for example, if my server's IP address was 32.453.65.56, I could make a DNS so that my server could be accessed through jargswow.exampledomain.com. You can skip this step if you want but it is not recommended, if you decide to skip it, your server will be located at your IP address.

Go to DynDNS and create an account. Then go here and choose a host name (this will be the address people use to get to your server) and click “Use auto detected IP address” in the IP address section, then click create host.

Step Two

In this step we will forward the ports that Ascent uses so that it can be accessed from outside your local network. This step is only necessary if you have a router, if you don’t have one, skip this step.

If you do not know how to forward ports, go to this page and find your router, it will tell you there.

You need to forward these ports:

8129
8093
3724
3727 (this is for voice chat, it is optional)
80 (this is for apache/your website)

On both TCP and UDP.

Step Three

In this step we will setup our hosts file and our realms configuration which is the final step needed to make our server public.

Go to Start --> Run and type put in C:/windows/system32/drivers/etc/hosts (if you use a differant drive to C just put that in instead) and open it with notepad. Add your IP address (you can find it here if you don't already know it) followed by the address you made in DynDNS earlier to the end of the file like so:

Code:

# Copyright (c) 1993-1999 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
#
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.
#
# For example:
#
# 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server
# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host

345.234.234.677 jargswow.exampledomain.com

Now to setup your realms configuration. Go to your Ascent folder and open realms.conf with notepad. Scroll down to the bottem, this is the important bit:

Code:

<Realm1 Name = "Jargs mega awsome wow server which is really good"
Address = "345.234.234.677:8129"
Icon = "Normal"
Colour = "1"
Population = "1.0"
TimeZone = "1">

Just put your IP in followed by :8129 like above in the address section.

Final Notes

Your server is now public, make sure your server is actually running so people can get on it! Also disable any firewalls you have on otherwise it will not work. For people to access the server they need to change their realmlists to your server address which you made at DynDNS. This is also the address that they need to use in order to get on the server website. If you're connecting locally your realmlist should be 127.0.0.1

[ryuhart]

how do you let friends make accounts?

[ryuhart]

how do i get to my router?

[Halftide]

Nice dude i like the guide if i can get someone to help me host and make a server i`ll use this

[satscholar]

@ ryuhart

friends make accounts through your hamachi IP

and to get to your router type in: 192.162.0.1

user: deafualt should be admin
pass: leave blank

[satscholar]

@halftide

looool

[dcarz]

Nice dude i like the guide if i can get someone to help me host and make a server i`ll use this

Look if you have a repack and you mean that you need a webserver, just download from google [wamp server 0.2] , then download a site of wow registration page, and put it to www directory in you wamp server, thats all if you did this guide with DynDNS.

And if you mean how to create a wow repack, surf the site youll find it.

Or the bes for you is to find your liked repack and just download thats all you need. lol.

If you meant you needa repack i can say youre dum...

Good luck i hope it helps... :wave: :wave:

[dingdapk]

+rep
2 reasons great guide and after finding i didn't have administrator rites i found out that i had 400 viruses (yes 400 its embarrassing but at least know i have avg Norton and spy bot so know i have none) thanks hopefully more people will connect to my server now it not hamachi