HOWTO: Make Your Own Private RO Server!

Subject: HOWTO: Make Your Own Private RO Server! Sat Jun 02, 2007 3:24 pm

NOTE: This is straight quote from Trap17 Forums!

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first you have to have minimum requirements :

----Software :----

i think any windows should work, but i recommend Win Xp
i think you have already an Winrar
*- Korean Ragnarok client
*- Sakray client and/or patch

(*i recommend the last release )
[Note]you may not intend to use the Ragnarok client on the same computer as you are installing the software to, the eAthena software will need to read the compressed GRF files in order to load the maps .

----Hardware :----

PII 733Mhz
RAM : 512M
any 3D accelerated graphics processor
a good video card

[Note] These are just minimum requirements you can make yur sever better by adding more RAM and better processor ....etc

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let's go :

step 1 :
download and install the Ragnarok client software on the same machine
as you will be placing the eAthena server software on (and make sure
it's a recent version of the client too).

Step 2 : Next is Cygwin , download the two DLLs here.
When you get to the next part where you are unpacking and setting up
the eAthena software, just unpack and copy these DLLs into the same
directory that the eAthena executables are located in. No software
install will be required.

Step 3 : we need to download
the open source eAthena (English Athena) server software, but before
you hve to know that the software comes in to flavors: text file based
and SQL based. The exact version describes how the configuration
information and game information is stored: in text files, or in a SQL
database. The SQL based version is nt covered here in this Tut, but is
the more powerful of the two flavors and requires a SQL server to
connect to . Needing to install a SQL server increases the minimum
hardware requirements, but allows “live” updates without bringing
restarting the Athena server software to read the updated data files.
This is the flavor of eAthena you would run if you wanted a large
private server. Since this is not what we want to do, we will use the
much more manageable text file based version. For the purposes of this
FAQ, download the latest version of the text based eAthena software
from the link below. The file name format is “eAthena-SVN-****-TXT.rar”
with “****” being the version number (highest number is the most
recent).
http://www.ngamexp.com/ftp.php?path=/eathena

BitTorrent links to almost every version of the KRO client
http://sakuraheaven.com/mirrors/

Step 4 : how to conf the server software :

after
downloading the eAthena ZIP file ,extract it , after installing it , we
need to set up the server software to allow the creation of accounts
from the client login screen. To do this, we just need to make a simple
edit to the “char_athena.conf” file located in the “conf” folder of
your eAthena directory.
[for example suppose we have extract it in ( C:proj) so the file is in (C:projeAthena-SVN-****-TXTconfchar_athena.conf)]

so you have to open it up in any text editor and scroll down to the part where it looks like this:

Code:: // Enable or disable creation of new characters.
// Now it is actually supported [Kevin]
char_new: 1

// Display (New) in the server list.
char_new_display: 0

// Maximum users able to connect to the server. Set to 0 for unlimited.
max_connect_user: 0

you have just to change the “char_new” from 0 to 1 . Leave
“char_new_display” and the other values alone for now – you can play
with those later. Save and then close the file, we are done with it.

[important]For
those of you that may not have the Korean version of the Ragnarok
client installed or if you have installed your client to another
location orther than the default “C:Program FilesGravityRO” folder,
there is one more thing that you will need to do and this is to set the
location of where the map files can be found.
By default eAthena
assumes this to be the GRF files within the “C:Program
FilesGravityRO” folder. If this is not where you have your Ragnarok
client installed, then you must edit the “grf-files.txt” file located
in the “conf” folder of your eAthena
directory(C:projeAthena-SVN-****-TXTconfgrf-files.txt).

So open up this file in notepad or any other text editor and verify that
the path to your “data.grf” and “sdata.grf” files matches what eAthena
is expecting:

Code:: //-----------------------------------------
// GRF List
//-----------------------------------------

grf: C:Program FilesGravityROdata.grf
grf: C:Program FilesGravityROsdata.grf

// You may add more in this format
// grf:

[Note]If they do not match, alter the paths to match where these files exist on your computer.

Step 5 : how conf the client software

so now we have to connect the client to ower new private server . For this part you have just to download this file that my friend he has made it
recently (02-Jan-2006) sakray hexed. Save and extract the executable in the the attachement and and place it
in your “C:Program FilesGravityRO” folder. To make things easier,
make a shortcut to the patched Sakray executable and place it somewhere
on your desktop.

Since all in-game objects are just IDs on both
the client and the server, at some point you need to translate this ID
number to an object name and description for the player to be able to
make sense of it. This information is store in a series of text files,
so updating the object ID text files with English langauge names and
descriptions changes most of the game from being Korean to English (or
any other langauge you want to use). Granted, the process is a bit more
complicated than that, but you get the idea. To change all the required
client side graphics and text at one time we will use this RAR file
to do the patching work for us. Just download, and unpack the archive
into your your “c:program filesGarvityRO” folder. If you already
have a data folder in this location, you may want to rename it before
extracting the archive.

hhuuufff.... We are almost done, but we
still need to do a few more things before we try to run the server
software. Since the client software needs to be made aware the new
private server, a few changes need to be made to the Sclientinfo.xml
file located in the “C:Program FilesGravityROdata” folder. I could
have done this for you when I made the data folder RAR file, but I
prefer you make the edit yourself so that you know where to look for
this configuration setting. In the Sclientinfo.xml file you have now
from the RAR file, I have included the connection information to
another project I'm working on, RO Central, as an example of what a
working configuration will look like. In addition, this example will
also show you how to add more than one connection to a Sclientinfo.xml
file to allow you to play on more than one private server.

Ok, if you already play Ragnarok on another server (let's pretend you play
on RO Central), you will have a Sclientinfo.xml file will have other
configuration information in it that we don’t want to change, so
replacing the whole file with one that points to your new server would
not be a good idea if you wanted to keep playing Ragnarok on the server
you are on now. To get around this problem, you need to add a new
server entry that will give you a connection choice when you run the
hexed Sakray program you downloaded earlier. Before you begin, first
make a copy of this file so that if things go really wrong, you can
overwrite the edited file with the original one. Next, open up the XML
file in notepad and locate the beginning and ending “connection” tags.
All the information for a connection exists between that set of tags.
What you are going to do next is copy and paste the connection
information below above the first set of “connection” tags:

Code:: Local RO
Local network

127.0.0.1

6900
0
0

Don’t worry about having extra lines above and below the text in the
XML file, just make sure you only copy and paste the text between (and
including) the “connection” tags. Feel free to edit the text between
the “display” and “desc” tags once you have it pasted. Be creative, but
keep it short and to one line for each entry. Leave the text in the
“address” tag alone for now – that tells the client software to point
back to yourself. Save and close the file – we are done with it.

[Note]: I know that 127.0.0.1 is NOT your current IP address. 127.0.0.1 is what is called a “loopback address”
and is special IP address that tells your computer to send any network
information back to itself. By using this special address we don't need
to know your computers current IP address to test the eAthena server.
Just trust me on this, it almost allways works.

Step 5 : Are you Ready ??

At this point we are done. If everything is configured correctly, you
should be creating an acount on your very own private Ragnarok server
very shortly.

Run the server :
Close all unneeded applications , open the Athena folder and locate the three executables:
char-server.exe, login-server.exe, map-server.exe , All of these are
basically DOS command line applications, so when you run them you will
only see a window with text open up and stay open for as long as each
of the three server programs is running.

- 1st run map-server.exe , and if Cygwin is installed correctly you should see a command line window open up and a list of maps scroll past as the program reads them. It may take a while to finish.

- 2nd run char-server.exe , (This one should only take a few seconds to run)
- 3th run login-server.exe.

Your first login :
Run the patched Sakray shortcut from your desktop, click OK at the first
dialog box and select the “Local RO” option (or whatever it is that you
called it). To create an account on your server, simply connect to the
server as if you had an account and enter the name you want to give the
account and add “_M” or “F” at the end of the account name and use
whatever password you want to use. For example if we wanted to create a male account called “Xakiru” we would log in the first time using
“Xakiru_M”. Putting “_M” or “F” at the end of the account name tells
the eAthena server that the account info you are using is new and it
will make a blank account for you and only needs to be done the first
time you log in. The next time you log in without the “_M” or “F” and
log in normally just using "Xakiru".

At this point you are done.
Pick and empty slot and create a novice char and enter the server as
you normally would. Go forth, kill porings, and enjoy your new toy.

Step 6 : in the end
Now while you were busy congratulating yourself for following this
tutorial, you may not have noticed that I indicated that you were done
with the initial server setup. Confused? Allow me to explain: right now
the client is configured to your loopback IP address of 127.0.0.1. That
means that you are the only person able to enjoy your very private,
private server. In order for a few of your friends to join you on your
new server you need to make a few more changes in addition to creating
a few more accounts. Never mind making sure your friends get the
correct configuration settings and patched Sakray to connect to your
new private server.

In addition, you will need to make sure that the client data files match what the server thinks the client has or else the client will crash when, for example, a player buys or creates an item that the server is aware of but that the Ragnarok client is not. All this will be covered another time, but for now, enjoy your own personal world.

Here’s a few links that may be worth following if you want to further configure your private server.
eAthena server forum - everything you need is here it just takes a while to find it
pirate-server.com forums - info on all kinds of private servers
RagMods forums - customize the graphics on your server

I made time to make this tutorial in this way , i hope it help , please fill free to post or to PM me if you have any problem or if some links broke !! i don't way i can't attach rar file but it ok i uploaded in archive-host.
special thanks to Gradien ; Regik ; coldfusion .

[note]Quite a lot of content matched from www.neatocool.com/Projects/Ragnarok/server_setup.html Kindly refrain from copying material from external sources. [/note]

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