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It's a shame there isn't any way to setup our own torrent provider that can help us internally distribute these files. I'm trying to download right now and Pandaris is giving me a really hard time. Only one seed for it.

Thank you, Antz. I just wanted to let everyone know that I have taken the liberty of taking this inadvertent contribution a step further and made a wiki page for everyone on the Mangos github site.

Just found this:

• US/SEA - http://launcher.worldofwarcraft.com/alert
  LA - http://launcher.worldofwarcraft.com/es/alert
  EN - http://status.wow-europe.com/en/alert
  ES - http://status.wow-europe.com/es/alert
  FR - http://status.wow-europe.com/fr/alert
  DE - http://status.wow-europe.com/de/alert
  RU - http://status.wow-europe.com/ru/alert
  KR - ??? http://launcher.worldofwarcraft.co.kr/alert
  CN - ??? http://launcher.battlenet.com.cn/alert
  TW - ??? http://launcher.wowtaiwan.com.tw/alert
  

Hope it helps everyone who is interested in changing their news system.

Alright! I figured it out.

First off, the whole concept is very simple, and I could be wrong, but I believe that

status.wow-europe.com 

is in fact for the eu systems. For american systems we seem to use

launcher.worldofwarcraft.com

. Remember, my info here could be wrong, I hope it is not and in fact "cross-version" information, not just WotLK.

Either way, this is very simple. Most of us, I assume, use the wamp server. So, set it up for your database and your web. Then create a

alert

file in the www directory. Just alert, no file extensions. It's an extremely simple html file with no extension.

Next, we have to go to your hosts file, for windows users, google how to edit it, it's easy though. So's editing the linux hosts file. We need to redirect

launcher.worldofwarcraft.com

to whatever the ip address of your game server/database/web server is. You should also redirect the launcher ip address, I was having trouble there. It's

12.129.242.21

.

That should do it. You should now have a nice new news brief when you go to log in to your private server. And if you don't want to show any news, just rename

alert

on the server to something like

alert2

. That way you can just move alert2 back to alert and modify it instead of recreating alert from scratch.

Heh. I think I just figured out how it works, but need to figure out what the address is. Hrm. Packet sniffer time.

Thank you, Hikari. Let's say, though, that I redirect it to 192.168.0.3, which is where the rest of mangos is. How would I go about putting my own news out? I'm assuming that it connects to rss or something similar..?