[Guide] The Complete Guide On Setting Up Your Own AC-Web Server! [Simple Guide]

[Absolute Zero]

NOTE: If you download my guide, you get GM Commands with it.
Go to http://www.mmowned.com/forums/ascent-guides/57533-the-complete-guide-on-setting-up-your-own-ac-web-server-guide-downloads.html for download links.
How To Set Up A World Of Warcraft Private Server. Written by Absolute Zero. (Simple Guide)

Contents:
Intro
Setting Up Your Server
Editing Your Database and Server
Making Your Server Public
Website Stuff
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1. Introduction

Hi all. Please dont copy my guide because ive spent alot of time writing all
of it. Also dont copy my videos either for the same reason.
Why did I make this guide? Because lots of people want a private server
and I want to help. This is my SIMPLE guide, if you want to use the
advanced guide, go to http://www.mmowned.com/forums/ascent...tml#post381807
(Whats The Difference?: My simple guide just tells you what to do, the
advanced guide will tell you what your doing and why so you know
more about each step.

Good Luck Guys! Absolute Zero

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2. Setting Up Your Server

>Download a AC Web Ultimate Repack at AC Web
>You need to create an account
>Go to downloads -> repacks
>Download the top one.
>Once installed to your C:\ ... if the repack doesnt come in the AC Web Ultimate
Repack folder, you need to create the folder and put the repack items in there.
>There should be a Control Panel, Ascent Folder, Server Folder, 2 Rar Files and
a ReadMe. (Use the ReadMe if you want)
>Now extract one of the two rar files. Depending where you are from. Either Europe
or United States. Extract the file using WinRAR (search the download on google)
Extract the files to your Desktop
>Move the files to C:\Program Files\World Of Warcraft
>Run the program you extracted called Ad
>Leave it running. It will close on its own. It will take a while
>Once it is finished, put the maps folder you extracted into your
C:\AC Web Ultimate Repack\Ascent
>You can delete the 2 Rar Files now if you want
>To access your server, first you need to go to C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft
then open up a file called Realmlist.wtf with notepad and change it to:
Set realmlist 127.0.0.1
>Save that and exit
>Now go to C:\AC Web Ultimate Repack\Ascent and edit Logonserver.conf with notepad.
>Look for something that looks like this:
<Client MinBuild = "1"
MaxBuild = "9999">
>Make sure it looks like that!
>Save and exit that
>Now go to C:\AC Web Ultimate Repack and start the Control Panel
>Click Start Server
>It Will run 4 Programs
>Wait about 3 minutes or until the programs stop producing text
>When it does stop, you can log onto your server
>You can log in with Username: Admin Password: Admin

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3. Editing Your Database and Server

>NOTE: When you edit your Database or Server, you have to restart the programs
using the Control Panel for the changes to work
>Download Navicat/HeidiSQL at Navicat.com/HeidiSQl.com
>Navicat is not free, its a trial verson - download the cracked version at
www.MMOwned.com (Sign Up) and search Navicat Cracked
>Start up MySQL from the Control Panel
>Open Navicat/HeidiSQL
>Create a new connection
>Database: Name it whatever Hostname: 127.0.0.1 Username: root Password: ascent
Leave anything else blank.
>Connect
>To change usernames and passwords, open your Logon database
>Open the Accounts table
>There will be the Admin account. Click on whatever you want to edit and type in
what you want.
>To save on HeidiSQL, click the little tick button.
>To make a account a GM account, put az under gm. If not, put 0
>To add a new account, press the + button on HeidiSQL
>Under acct put a unique number, it can be the same as any other account
>Put in the Username, Password, and GM
>Put 0 under banned, lastlogin, lastip and email.
>If they arnt using Burning Crusade, put 0 under flags. If they are, then put 8.
>Then save

>If you want to create an item, sign up at WoW Vendetta - Wage Your War
>Go to Tools and whichever creator you want
>Where it says Display ID, this is what the item and its icon looks like
You can find a Display ID in your Ascent database in the items table
Just go across the columns until you find Display ID
And you have to find the item you want your item to look like
>When you put in the entry code, it has to be unique, not the same as any other
items ID. But make sure you can remember it
>And where it says Item Level... leave that one blank
>Once you have made your item, click create at the bottom of the page
>Then copy the SQL Log in the box
>For HeidiSQL users, go to your ascent database, then click import and click
Load SQL File
>It will come up with a browser, close it and then under SQl Query, paste in
the SQL Log and once pasted, press F9
>Navicat users, paste the SQL Log into notepad and save it on your Desktop
as whatever.SQL
>Then on navicat, right click your ascent database and click Execute Batch File
>Browse for the SQL file you saved and hit Execute
>To add an item ingame, type .add ItemID

If you want to create a vendor, sign up at WoW Vendetta - Wage Your War
>Go to Tools and click vendor creator
>Where it says Display ID, this is what your vendor will look like
To find a vendor display ID go to your ascent database in the
creature_names table, look for the vendor you want yours to look like
and go along to the 10th column
>If you vendor is male, look in the male_displayID column, if its female,
look in the female_displayID column
>For Vendor ID, you need to put in a unique ID that no other vendor has but
make one you will remember
>Leave mount display
>You can add items to your vendor, just put in the vendors ID (not display ID)
and the item ID found in the items table, and the quantity.
>Leave quantity blank for infinite
>Then press create at the bottom of the page
>Copy the SQL Log
>Go to your ascent database on heidiSQL, click Imporant and go on Load SQL File
>It will open a browser, close it
>Under SQL Query, paste your SQL Log then press F9
>Navicat Users, paste your SQL Log onto Notepad, save it as whatever.SQL
>Go to navicat, right click the ascent database and go to execute batch file
>Browse for your SQL file and click execute
>To add the vendor when you log on type .npc spawn vendorID
>To add a item to a vendor, target the vendor and type .npc vendoradditem itemID
>To remove an item from a vendor, target the vendor and type .npc vendorremove item itemID
>NOTE: If you spawn your vendor and it is a blue and white checkered box, you have typed
an incorrect DisplayID, if you have put in a correct one, go to
C:\Program Files\World Of Warcraft\Cache\WDB\enGB (or enUS) and delete the npccache.
>To edit server rates go to C:\AC Web Ultimate Repack and go to ascent.conf or realms.conf
>Go to the bottom of realms.conf to change your server name
>Go down in your ascent.conf to where you can change the MOTD and level cap and if you
go a bit further down you can change drop rates and xp rates
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4. Making Your Server Public

This step can be complicated for some people so pay attention...
If you dont understand this step, use the advanced guide.

>Go to DynDNS.com
>Create an account, login and go to Services. Click on Dynamic DNS
>Click on Get Started
>Your Hostname can be whatever you want, tick Create Wildcard
>On the IP Address part, just click the IP Address link
>Leave everything else and click Create New Host
>You need to remember your Hostname
>Go to C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\Etc and open hosts.file with notepad
>At the end, paste this in:

127.0.0.1 (Dynamic DNS Hostname)
(Internal IP) (Dynamic DNS Hostname)
(External IP) (Dynamic DNS Hostname)

>You can find your Internal IP by going onto Start, Run and type CMD. It will open
a Command Prompt. Type in Ipconfig and press enter. Now next to IP Address, it will
tell you your IP Address. It will start with 192
>You can find your External IP by going to WhatIsMyIP.com

>Your Hosts file should look something like this:

# 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

127.0.0.1 (dynamicdns.host.name)
xxx.xxx.x.xxx) (dynamicdns.host.name)
(xx.xxx.xxx.xxx) (dynamicdns.host.name)

>Ive hidden my DynDNS and Ip Address for security reasons, you need to type yours in.
>Go to C:\AC Web Ultimate Repack\Ascent and open your Realms.conf
>Look for:

RealmCount ="1">

>Change it to:

RealmCount ="2">

>Look for:

<Realm1 Name = "YOUR REALM NAME"
Address = "127.0.0.1:8129"
Icon = "PVP"
Colour = "1"
Population = "1.0"
TimeZone = "1">

>Change it to:

<Realm1 Name = "YOUR REALM NAME"
Address = "YOUR EXTERNAL IP:8129"
Icon = "PVP"
Colour = "1"
Population = "1.0"
TimeZone = "1">

<Realm2 Name = "YOUR REALM NAME - Local"
Address = "YOUR INTERNAL IP:8129"
Icon = "PVP"
Colour = "1"
Population = "1.0"
TimeZone = "1">

>Save and Exit
>You might not want 2 realms, but only you can see the second realm.
Its there to stop realm loop which stops your realmlist from connecting
to WoW
>If you using a Modem, go to AC Web and search Public Server with Hamachi
and look for a thread by Thorz. Its the only way to do it with a Modem but I dont
want to explain doing it with hamachi
>Im not sure how to do this step with wireless so people using wireless might have to
use Hamachi to, otherwise you can try looking up port forwarding with wireless on
google
>Router users go to PortForward.com - Free Help Setting up Your Router or Firewall
>Find your router
>Then on the new page, go down until you find World Of Warcraft
>Then on the World Of Warcraft page, go down until you see some text saying:

Open a web browser like internet explorer or Netscape. Enter the ip address of your
router in the address bar of your browser. In the picture above the address bar has
Google in it. Just replace all of that with the ip address of your
router. By default the ip address should be set to xxx.xxx.x.x

>There will be an IP Address where I put the xxx.xxx.x.x
>Copy the IP Address and paste it in your web browser
>When it comes up with log in, username: Admin Password: Admin
>Find a page where you can enable DynDNS to connect to your router/
a page where you can type in your DynDNS hostname, username and
password
>If that page asks you to pick a service, choose DynDNS.com
>Then save those settings
>Now go to a page named Application & Gaming or something similar
or look for a page where you can port forward
>If you find a page where you can port forward... (im putting in my Linksys info)
>Leave application blank
>Open these ports:

3036
3724
6881-6999
8129
2093
6112
8050
8245
3306
80


>Under Protocol, put Both and under IP Address, put yours in
>You need to tick Enabled
>Here is what mine looks like:


Application Start End Protocol IP Address Enabled
3036 3036 Both xxx.xxx.x.xxx (tick)
3724 3724 Both xxx.xxx.x.xxx (tick)
6881 6999 Both xxx.xxx.x.xxx (tick)
8129 8129 Both xxx.xxx.x.xxx (tick)
2093 2093 Both xxx.xxx.x.xxx (tick)
6112 6112 Both xxx.xxx.x.xxx (tick)
8050 8050 Both xxx.xxx.x.xxx (tick)
8245 8245 Both xxx.xxx.x.xxx (tick)
3306 3306 Both xxx.xxx.x.xxx (tick)
80 80 Both xxx.xxx.x.xxx (tick)


>Then save the settings
>To get a friend to connect, get them to go to C:\Program Files\World Of Warcraft
>Get them to change it to Set realmlist yourDNShostname
>Ex. set realmlist myhostname.kicks-ass.net
>Then they need to save it and exit that

>Remember: You need the programs running from the Control Panel for your server to work
>Note: Ide advise you to create a notepad document containing your DynDNS
realmlist and your WoW realmlist just incase you want to switch back and you
dont know the other realmlist. Tell your friend to do this too.

>If you did everything right, you should have a public server =)

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5. Website Stuff

>To get a website for people to make accounts on for you server...
>You will need to make it public
>Go to http://www.ac-web.org/forum/showthre...ebsite+install
and download the website you like most
>I would advise you not to download BLIZZLIKE FRONT END because it uses up alot of memory
and will take ages to load when somebody goes on it.
>Extract the Rar file you downloaded to your Desktop
>Copy the things in the folder you extracted and paste them into C:\AC Web Ultimate Repack\Server\htdocs
>If it says it overwriting files, click Yes To All
>Now go to C:\AC Web Ultimate Repack\Server\htdocs and open either index.php or config.php
with notepad depending on which you got in your download
>Look for something like this:

<?php

$config['mysql_host'] = '127.0.0.1'; //MySQL Host
$config['mysql_user'] = 'root'; //MySQL Username
$config['mysql_pass'] = 'ascent'; //MySQL Password
$config['mysql_dbname'] = 'ascent'; //Database Name

?>

>Make sure it looks like that
>Go to C:\AC Web Ultimate Repack\Server\Apache\conf and open httpd.conf with notepad
>Look for something like:

#Listen 12.34.56.78:80
Listen 8245

>Make sure it looks like that
>Go to No-IP - Dynamic DNS, Static DNS for Your Dynamic IP
>Sign Up
>Once signed in, go to Add Host. Pick any hostname you want but it has to be a No-IP Free Domain
>Host Type: Port 80 Redirect IP Address: YourExternalIP Port: 8245
>Then go down and click on Create Port Redirect
>Now your done

>For your website to work, you need Apache running from the Control Panel and if you want people
to be able to make accounts on your website, you need to run MySQl
>The address for your website will be http://no-iphostname
For ex. Not Found: myhostname.servegame.com

[HumanAlien]

thx man !

[Hazshadow]

It says The server at my ip is taking too long to respond. HELP

[a4ever]

do this repack work in wow version 2.2.x ???

[Absolute Zero]

yes it will work aslong as you make your minbuild = 1 and maxbuild = 9999
(in logonserver.conf)

[merlinguy21]

dose this work with 2.2.3? and when i try logging in it just stays at the window that says connected

[Absolute Zero]

press enter

[trygon11]

theres a problem btw.

it wont connect to MySQL

[Absolute Zero]

have u got mysql.exe running?

[Prague]

Good guide, will +rep when I can

[merlinguy21]

Thanks man i love u lol this is best guide ever after doing this i can makeing one from my head

[stefonalfaro]

I open the 4 programs then 2 of them close. One says something about about cannot connect to local host@??? with Password YES, then ut closes.

[13ThAlchemist]

Ohmigosh, I LOVE YOU!!! Thank you! You are an eternal benefit to mankind!

[Absolute Zero]

I open the 4 programs then 2 of them close. One says something about about cannot connect to local host@??? with Password YES, then ut closes.

dude it would help if you told me which, and the whole error

[Varlak]

I'm getting this..



It seems i'm having problems with MySQL. If i install the 4.1 version it works on the second try, the 5th one doesn't work..and if i unistall them and try "Launch Server" with my Firewall disabled and port 3306 opened it just won't work, saying that it can't connect to the localhost.

I've unistalled my Private Servers 5 days ago and they worked, now the SQL doesn't work..can u help me plz?