[Tutorial] WoW News

**Syrup** · 09-12-2008

[Tutorial: WoW News]

This tutorial will show you how to create your own news which appears at the login page of any WoW server.

First add this line your hosts file, need to redirect a url.
replace the loopback with whatever ip you want.

Code:

127.0.0.1 launcher.worldofwarcraft.com

if you have a webserver setup create a /alert/ dir

create a text file with SERVERALERT: at the top, like...

Code:

SERVERALERT: August 25th, 2008 7:32PM PDT The Dev realm will be offline for scheduled maintenance. * Date: August 26th, 2008 * Time: 3:00am - 11:00am PDT For more information, please check our realm status forum. Thank you, Some Server.

toss it in your /alert/ dir and name it index.html
next time you start the client it will look like this:

it will mess with the launcher because the launcher uses the url
but now you can use the launcher to display whatever html you want

Post here if u have any problems with it

Credits: Gaijin (ArcEmu)