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[Last procedure check : 2020-07-13 ] Hi everyone, I re-write the procedure since there are many questions about linux install procedure. Many of them are no more applicable today and the getmangos.sh script needs rework as I write this article. PREREQUISITES I am assuming you are running your server on a Linux Operating system with Ubuntu Server 18.04 flavor. Your OS should be up to date. If not, log in as root and run : apt update && apt upgrade PART 1 : Configuring the environment This tuto will use the MaNGOS zero repo URL but it is replicable with all of our cores repos. Just change the git repo URL and you will be fine. > Creating system user Be sure you have created a Linux user for your server, since it is not a good idea to run it as root for obvious security reasons. We will then assume you have created a mangos linux user using the command : adduser mangos To be more handy you can add this user to the sudoers in order to be able to run administrative commands. usermod -aG sudo mangos After this point, be sure to be logged-in as mangos Linux user. We do not need root account anymore (or perhaps once or twice.. but..never mind ! do not use root when not needed) > Installing useful programs MaNGOS requires some libraries to be built and to run properly. We also need some programs to run further commands or simply to handle some scripts which are in the repo (e.g : python scripts O_o) apt install git make cmake libssl-dev libbz2-dev build-essential default-libmysqlclient-dev libace-6.4.5 libace-dev python > Preparing your system folders A good practice is to separate locations for the needs : sources, db sql files and build folder under the mangos system user : /home/mangos/ binaries, confs, logs, gamedata in /opt/ Thus you can create the folders when logged-in as mangos system user : mkdir /home/mangos/sources mkdir /home/mangos/build mkdir /home/mangos/db Then the /opt/ folder is only accessible to root so you need to use sudo and impersonate root to make things there. The aim to to create a fodler using the root account then giving the good rights to be able to use it with the mangos system user. The opt folder will a have a wow subfolder in which the mangos folder will be. It would let you install other cores if you want to (Trinitycore, Cmangos etc..) all should be installed in /opt. sudo su cd /opt/ mkdir wow chown -R mangos:root wow chmod g+s wow exit Now you will have a wow folder in /opt/ that will be writable by the mangos system user. Create all necessary useful folders to handle future files using mangos system user : cd /opt mkdir wow/install && mkdir wow/install/mangos && mkdir wow/install/mangos/bin && mkdir wow/install/mangos/bin/logs && mkdir wow/install/mangos/conf cd /opt/wow && mkdir gamedata && mkdir gamedata/1.12 && mkdir gamedata/1.12/mangos > Getting Game data Since MaNGOS is an educationnal project we will not redistribute exctracted game data. In order to be able to run your server, you will need to extract these data from your game folder using the extractor programs that are built when you build the project. To run the server the best way, you will have to extract : dbc maps vmaps (takes a long time) mmaps (takes a long time) Please remind to put all extracted data on the folders you pre-created on previous steps. If you work with a VM you can use Linux extractors against a shared game folder betwwen your PC and the Linux VM, or if you have the Game folder on your server, you will have to use extractors in this folder. More information on this topic : PART 2 : Getting the sources & Compiling the core Note that we always use the mangos system user. Get into your source folder : cd /home/mangos/sources Retrieve the sources (WARNING do not forget to get them recusrsively !!) : git clone https://github.com/mangoszero/server.git . --recursive --depth=1 Well, that good now we are going to build the solution. /!\ WARNING ABOUT ACE DEPENDENCIES /!\ It is possible that the build fails due to he ACE linked sources in the "dep" folder. It is related to a bug between Linux build and Windows build. The main "server" repository is set to refer to a speficif commit that allows by default a correct build on Windows. If you are on Linux you will probably have to manuall pull & checkout the "dep" folder (wich is a git submodule) : cd /home/mangos/sources/dep git pull git checkout master Keep in mind that this example show a default build. You can tweak teh buidl option in cmake to build or not some parts of the software. cd /home/mangos/build cmake ../sources/ -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/opt/wow/install/mangos -DCONF_INSTALL_DIR=/opt/wow/install/mangos/conf When it's finished, depending on the number of your cores you will adapt the following make command : make -j<NbCores> (e.g : for an intel i7 octocore you can tupe 'make -j8') The build process should begin, and when it's finished, you will have to install the built binaries : make install After that, all binaries and default conf files woudl have been copied to their destination folders which you have set in the previous cmake command. PART 3 : Installing MySQL First things first : you have to install MySQL server. With Ubuntu Server 18.04 the reference MySQL version is 5.7.30 (this statement is valid at the date when this guide is written, it can evolve in the future). To install mysql-server : sudo apt install mysql-server After installation, you may wonder : "Why the program did not ask me for a root password ?". Well, on new MySQL versions, the default auth protocol is set to "auth_socket" but all our software will use a password to connect to the database. Don(t worry, we are going to create a user that would be able to authenticate with standard credentials : sudo su mysql Now you are logged-in to mysql command prompt with the root account. you will notice no password was asked to you because roto user uses auth_socket protocol to authenticate. Now you are going to create the MySQL mangos user : CREATE USER 'mangos'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'mangos'; GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'mangos'@'localhost' WITH GRANT OPTION; The "WITH GRANT OPTION" is not mandatory but can be useful for future use if you want to administer other users with this mangos account. Then leave MySQL command prompt and root shell : exit; exit PART 4 : Database Setup > Main databases (auth, characters, world) You first have to clone the database repo in the db folder : cd /home/mangos/db/ git clone https://github.com/mangoszero/database.git . --recursive --depth=1 ./InstallDatabases.sh You will be prooted a screen with several questions : You will also be prompted to determine your dabases names. A good practice is to set the realm db name to : mangos_auth, and also to suffix all others db names with the core versions you are running (e.g characters db for mangos zero : mangos_characters0 , world db : mangos_world0 ) Note : you need only 1 realm database if you run several cores (mangos zero, mangos one etc..) on teh same server, BUt you will need 2 db (characters and world) for each core you run. > Apply database updates On a fresh install, World updates should also be applied. In order to see if it is Ok, check on the World db (the process is the same for other databases) : connect to mysql using mangos user : mysql -u mangos -pmangos mangos_world0 SELECT * FROM db_version ORDER BY VERSION DESC, structure DESC, content DESC LIMIT 0,1; exit; If the return show you the same version that the most recent file in the World/Updates/Rel21 folder. You are OK. The version number alwas increase so it will be easy to determien if your version/structure/content is ok or not. If not, then go to the World update folder (World/Updates/Rel21) and apply missing updates to the databases. mysql -u mangos -pmangos mangos_world0 < nameOfUpdateSQlFile.sql > Translations In case you run a non english speaking server, you can apply translation fiels to the world database. You will find the correct sql files to apply in the Translations folder : cd /home/mangos/overload/db/Translations Since I cannot ensure the Linux scripts are working, here is how to do manually : Apply the 3 first .sql files in teh folder : mysql -u mangos -pmangos mangos_world0 < 1_LocaleTablePrepare.sql mysql -u mangos -pmangos mangos_world0 < 2_Add_NewLocalisationFields.sql mysql -u mangos -pmangos mangos_world0 < 3_InitialSaveEnglish.sql Of course you will have to replace the db name "mangos_world0" with your db name etc... if you have changed default db names and user and password You will need to go to the translation folder of the desired language (e.g for French language ) : cd /home/mangos/db/Translations/Translations/French The more easy solution would be to compile all files in one and import it cat *.sql > full.sql mysql -u mangos -pmangos mangos_world0 < full.sql rm full.sql There, your translations should be applied. PART 5 : Configuring *.conf files for executables Go to the conf folder an create a copy of each .dist file : cd /opt/wow/install/mangos/conf/ cp realmd.conf.dist realmd.conf && cp mangosd.conf.dist mangosd.conf Change database connection information in each file in order to allow your binaries to connect to the database. Update your game data path in mangosd.conf too. Update the logs folder to "logs" value (relative to binary) A lot of behaviours can be configured in these files. Please consider studying it carefully. PART 6 : Auto-restarting When operating a game server it is nice to use an auto-restarter. Otherwise, you will have to keep up 2 terminals for realmd and mangosd. ./opt/wow/install/mangos/bin/realmd and ./opt/wow/install/mangos/bin/mangosd That can be really annoying because daemons would be killed after terminal exit. Read this article to know how to use a restarter on Linux operating systems : PART 7 : Final comments > Nice to have When your system is running, you could perhaps check : Do you have a DB backup system ? You can easily put one in place with a CRON job Do you have a backup system for your conf files ? Do you have a flushing system for the server log files if you keep them timestamped ? > About errors at core start-up You can have some DB errors at startup like this one : It means you have applied DB updates beyond core expectation but since it is only content related, it is not a big issue. The core would not start id the version or structure is different, but the core can start with a content mismatch. > How to first connect whith default accounts ? If you have any questions - please ak on the forum on on Discord when anybody is connected Cheers !

With LXD you can easy take snapshots and move your server to another physical machine. Guide is fully tested on MaNGOS Zero with bots module enabled. Check the video with installation process: https://asciinema.org/a/299001 If you do not want to use LXD, simple pass LXD instruction and go further. Let's start LXD installation & configuration: sudo apt install lxd && reboot Reboot is needed for reloading groups that will be assigned to your account. sudo lxd init with above command anserw defaults to all questions. Create container for our server: lxc launch ubuntu:bionic mangos-zero check if your container is running: lxc list +-------------+---------+-----------------------+-----------------------------------------------+------------+-----------+ | NAME | STATE | IPV4 | IPV6 | TYPE | SNAPSHOTS | +-------------+---------+-----------------------+-----------------------------------------------+------------+-----------+ | mangos-zero | RUNNING | *.*.*.* (eth1) | | PERSISTENT | 3 | +-------------+---------+-----------------------+-----------------------------------------------+------------+-----------+ now we will connect to our container: lxc exec mangos-zero bash Please verify that you are on your contierner, you should have promt like this [email protected]:~# if not you must try again with previous command providing your container name. MaNGOS server installation Install necessary packages: apt install git make cmake libssl-dev libbz2-dev build-essential default-libmysqlclient-dev libace-6.4.5 libace-dev mysql-server We need also install additional mysql package. I've attached file in this post so you don't need to search it. Download this file and send to your container. Open another terminal window and type: lxc file push /DOWNLOADED_DIRECTORY/mysql-apt-config_0.8.14-1_all.deb mangos-zero/root/ Go back to first terminal where you are logged to your container and type: dpkg -i /root/mysql-apt-config_0.8.14-1_all.deb on installation window check mysql 5.7 is selected and hit Enter, when window will close type: apt update && apt full-upgrade -y When all packages are installed, secure your mysql installation. Please type and anserw to few questions to secure your mysql server. mysql_secure_installation Create new username and password to access our mysql server: mysql GRANT ALL ON *.* to 'mangos'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'set_database_password'; Getting MaNGOS source code, compile and configuration. We will create new folder for sources: mkdir /opt/mangos && cd /opt/mangos Now we will download server and database sources to created folder. MaNGOS zero source (if you want different mangos version please change mangoszero to different repo name): git clone https://github.com/mangoszero/server.git --recursive --depth 1 Database files: git clone https://github.com/mangoszero/database.git --recursive --depth 1 Compiling MaNGOS (if your CPU have less than 4cores change -j4 to -j2 for two core CPU): cd server && mkdir build && cd build && cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local/bin/mangos && make -j4 && make install above command will create build folder, compile and install compiled server. Database installation: cd /opt/mangos/database && chmod -R +x *.sh && ./InstallDatabases.sh above command will fix script permissions and install your database. GameData files extraction: This can me done inside or outside the container, choice is yours how you do it. Remember that extraction take some time, so go take a cup of tea/coffe and cookie and wait. (ETA 1-2h) We need proper files for exctraction, go to your mangos installation and copy those files to yor game client: cd /usr/local/bin/mangos/bin/ && chmod -R +x *.sh && cp -av tools/* ExtractResources.sh MoveMapGen.sh mmap_excluded.txt offmesh.txt /GAME_CLIENT_DESTINATION now go to your game client and run: ./ExtractResources.sh Server configuration: First we have to fix path to MaNGOS configruation. We can do this in config files or simply creating a symlink. In this tutorial we will create symlink to keep defaults. cd /usr/local/bin/mangos/ && ln -s ../etc Now we have to copy config files: cd etc/ && cp -av mangosd.conf.dist mangosd.conf && cp -av realmd.conf.dist realmd.conf In realmd.conf find "LoginDatabaseInfo" and change database username and password to credentials we created before. In mangosd.conf find "LoginDatabaseInfo", "WorldDatabaseInfo", "CharacterDatabaseInfo" and change database username and password to credentials we created before. Systemd configuration: Create systemd configuration to autostart your realmd and mangosd. In LXD I recommend to run mangosd in screen, we prepare such a configuration in this tutorial. Realmd service: cat > /etc/systemd/system/realmd.service <<EOF [Unit] Description=MangosZ server After=network.target mysql.service [Service] Type=simple User=root ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/mangos/bin/realmd -c /usr/local/bin/mangos/etc/realmd.conf WorkingDirectory=/usr/local/bin/mangos/bin/ Restart=on-abort [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target EOF Mangosd service: cat > /etc/systemd/system/mangosd.service <<EOF [Unit] Description=MangosZ server After=network.target mysql.service [Service] Type=simple User=root #ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/mangos/bin/mangosd -c /usr/local/bin/mangos/etc/mangosd.conf ExecStart=/usr/bin/screen -mdS mangosd /usr/local/bin/mangos/bin/mangosd -c /usr/local/bin/mangos/etc/mangosd.conf WorkingDirectory=/usr/local/bin/mangos/bin/ PIDFile=/usr/local/bin/mangos/etc/mzero.pid RemainAfterExit=true Restart=on-abort [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target EOF Reload systemd with: systemctl daemon-reload Enable services for autostart: systemctl enable realmd systemctl enable mangosd Start services: systemctl start realmd systemctl start mangosd Checking status of running services: systemctl status realmd systemctl status mangosd If you want to attach to mangosd console, simply type: screen -r mangosd to detach mangosd screen press keyboard combination: CTRL+A+D Update IP address in database, so you can connect to your server: mysql realmd -h localhost -u mangos -p check your values in realmlist table select address,localAddress from realmlist; +---------------+---------------+ | address | localAddress | +---------------+---------------+ | 192.168.1.180 | 192.168.1.180 | +---------------+---------------+ then update address and localAddress values with two query (replace IP_ADDRESS with yours) update realmlist set address='IP_ADDRESS'; update realmlist set localAddress='IP_ADDRESS'; Last thing is to restart both services and try to connect. At the end I wan't to share with you LXD container image, I made this tutorial based on it. Container do not include GameData so you have to extract it by yourself. MaNGOS-Zero LXD container based on Ubuntu 18.04 How to use it? Download the file and type in terminal (you must have LXD) lxc image import mangoszero-serv.tar.gz --alias mangosz-img lxc launch mangosz-img mangos-zero mysql-apt-config_0.8.16-1_all.deb

I tested this on Debian 9.6 however this guide should work on any recent Debian distribution such as Ubuntu. Required Packages First we need to install all of the required programs and library's. Open up a root terminal. If your not root, enter this to become root sudo su Install the following packages apt install git make cmake libssl-dev libbz2-dev build-essential default-libmysqlclient-dev We need to grab the mysql stuff from here. Follow the instructions there. Also, choose mysql 5.7. A script needed later requires this so don't install mysql 8. Install the server with apt install mysql-server You also need to grab and compile libace. You can get it from here. Extract it and read the instructions.They're pretty straight-forward. It should be named 'ACE-INSTALL.html' or something similar. When thats done, enter this command. I highly recommend doing this even if your just keeping the server to yourself mysql_secure_installation I suggest these options: Don't use the password plugin Change the root password Remove the anonymous user Disable remote access for root Remove the test database Reload privileges Restart your system with init 6 Getting the Mangos source code Now we need the source code for mangos. Open up a terminal as root and go to the home directory: cd ~ Lets create a root directory for all of the mangos files mkdir mangos Now we clone the source code. Mangos servers above two are unstable or incomplete. Don't be surprised if something doesn't work or is missing. git clone https://github.com/mangoszero/server.git --recursive --depth 1 For the database git clone https://github.com/mangoszero/database.git --recursive --depth 1 If you want a different server(say mangos one), simply change the url. For example git clone https://github.com/mangosone/server.git --recursive --depth 1 For the mangos one server. If you want mangos two, simply do the same. Do the same with the database. Wait for the repos to be cloned (the server is about 200-250mb-ish) Compilaton The good part. Enter the mangos source directory cd server Make a new directory for the build files. mkdir build Go into it cd build Now run this to configure the makefiles cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local/bin/mangos If cmake doesn't complain about anything, your good to go with compiling it. To speed up compilation, you need to know how many cores your cpu has. Most cpus have 2 or 4 cores. Search it up if your not sure. Now to compile it, simply enter this make -j2 Change -j2 to how cores you have. If you have 4 cores, change it to make -j4 If you only have one core, don't bother with the -j flag, just type in 'make' and hit enter. This will take a while depending on how fast your cpu is. Just be paitent. After a bit, mangos will be compiled(yay)and you will need to separate the needed files from the source code. To install it into your install prefix(default is /usr/local/bin/mangos), do this make install Database Setup: The Sequel Now for another database setup (i know, its crazy). This time, we will be loading some stuff into it. Enter the database folder you cloned earlier and execute InstallDatabases.sh ./InstallDatabases.sh If it says something similar to 'bash: ./InstallDatabases.sh: Permission denied', the script isn't marked as executable. Mark everything needed as executable by running this chmod -R +x *.sh Now have a go at running the script again. When execute it, you'll be brought to a menu. The defaults are fine for a new server so just press 'n' and hit enter You will have to give it your mysql details. This needs to be your server hostname(ip address), username, password and server port. The only things you need to change are the username and password. Keep in mind all of this must be done as the ROOT user. Game Data Now this is the longest part if decide to get mmaps. To run the server, you MUST extract the .dbc and .map files. To do this, copy everything in the tools folder to where your wow client is. Keep in mind the version of the client as it must be a specific version for this(mangoszero is a bit more lenient then others). You need 1.12.x (x can be any number) for mangoszero, 2.3.4 for mangosone, 3.3.5 for mangostwo(favourite), 4.3.4 for mangosthree and 5.4.1 for mangosfour. To extract the dbc and map files, execute this when in your wow client folder ./mapextractor This can take around 5 minutes to complete. Once thats done, copy over the folders "dbc" and "maps" to where you installed mangos. I recommend getting all of the data though so to get the vmaps, make sure the maps folder is still in your wow folder and exectute this ./vmaps4extractor Once thats done, type this in your terminal ./vmaps4assembler Just copy over the "vmaps" folder to where mangos is. Now for movemaps. This can take anywhere from an hour to a whole day depending on your computer and what client data you're extracting. Make sure the vmaps and maps folders are still in your wow folder and type this out ./MoveMapGen.sh 2 Now, you might want to know how many cores your computer has. Most computers have 2 so if you don't know, just leave the command as is. If you got 4 or 8 cores, replace the 2 with a 4 or a 8. More threads the better but your computer will be a lot slower if you use all of your cpu. Press enter and prepare to wait a while. Once its finished extracting, copy over the folder "mmaps" to where mangos is. You can delete the maps, dbc, vmaps, buildings and mmaps from your client folder now if you want. Server Configuration Now to configure the server. Go to the mangos configuration folder cd /usr/local/bin/mangos/etc Copy the files to their proper name. DON'T delete them. They're a backup in case your .conf files get corrupted or you mess up some settings cp mangosd.conf.dist mangosd.conf cp realmd.conf.dist realmd.conf Edit realmd.conf and find the line 'LoginDatabaseInfo', change the information to suit your database. For example if my database hostname is localhost or 127.0.0.1, the port is 3306, username is root, the password is mangos and my realm database is realmd, it would look like this LoginDatabaseInfo = "127.0.0.1;3306;root;mangos;realmd" Save the file and edit mangosd.conf. Look for lines, LoginDatabaseInfo, WorldDatabaseInfo and CharacterDatabaseInfo. Do the same to those lines as you did to the one in realmd.conf. You may wish to fully read mangosd.conf to fine-tune your server if you wish. Save the file. Starting the Server Now to see if your hard work has paid off. Go to where you installed the server and start realmd ./realmd Now start mangosd ./mangosd If theres a error mangosd or realmd can't fix, it'll tell you problem then exit. It will be up to fix it however. The most common problem is that the password or username is wrong or that the database isn't running. Try editing mangosd.conf or realmd.conf if thats the case and making sure the db is running If it started and gives you a prompt, the server is loaded and awaiting a connection from a client. Starting the server with systemd This allows you to startup your computer and have mangosd and realmd load with it. Very useful on a dedicated server. We need to make 2 .service files to do this. touch /etc/systemd/system/mangosd.service touch /etc/systemd/system/realmd.service Edit mangosd.service with your preferred text editor. Don't type 'edit /etc/systemd/system/mangosd.service' unless you know how to quit vi. [Unit] Description=WoW server After=network.target mysql.service [Service] Type=simple User=root ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/mangos/bin/mangosd -c /usr/local/bin/mangos/etc/mangosd.conf Restart=on-abort [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target Do the same with realmd.service [Unit] Description=WoW server After=network.target mysql.service [Service] Type=simple User=root ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/mangos/bin/realmd -c /usr/local/bin/mangos/etc/realmd.conf Restart=on-abort [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target Let systemd reload. systemctl daemon-reload Start realmd via systemd to see if the .service file is valid systemctl start realmd Do the same with mangosd systemctl start mangosd Check the status of both services with systemctl status realmd systemctl status mangosd If it's working, you should see something like a green OK on both daemons (fun fact: daemons and services are the same thing) then you should be good to enable them at startup. Do this for realmd systemctl enable realmd systemctl enable mangosd Restart your system init 6 Check that they started as root systemctl status realmd Do the same with mangosd If its good then mangosd and realmd will always start with your system until you disable them. Letting WoW clients connect to your server This is the 2nd last thing you need to do. This will allow WoW clients to connect to your server. We need to edit a table in the database. If you know what your doing with mysql, follow along but do the equivalent on the terminal. If you prefer doing things with a gui(graphical user interface, your using one right now!), lets install a gui mysql client. We'll use 'mysql-workbench' apt install mysql-workbench After its installed, check your start menu in 'Programming'. Start mysql workbench and click on your server. Enter your password and look on the lower left. Click on the little arrow next to realmd and scroll down to realmlist. Right click on it and click on 'Alter Table'. Go down to localAddress and double click on the '127.0.0.1'. Change this to your lan ip. You can find out your lan ip by opening a terminal and typing in ifconfig You will see about 4-5 interfaces. If your connection is a wired one, you should look at a interface named 'enp' followed by letters and numbers. For example, 'enp14s0'. Then look at the 'inet' part. This is your lan ip. Do the same if your connection is wireless or wi-fi. Wireless connections will be named like 'wlp' with some letters and numbers. 'wlp20s0' is a example. Once you have changed localAddress to your lan ip, you need to change address to your external ip. Go here to find out your ip. Now we need to let realmd know that the database has changed. Stop it with systemctl stop realmd Now start it again with systemctl start realmd Connecting a WoW client to your server Nearly there! Go to where your wow client is and look for a file named realmlist.wtf. Delete everything in this file and put the following stuff in it set realmlist 10.1.1.1 set patchlist 10.1.1.1 Change 10.1.1.1 to your server ip. It can be the lan ip if its on the same network as the server. Now for the moment of truth. Open up WoW.exe(not the launcher)and wait for it to load. Skip the cinematic if want by pressing escape(esc). Now login into the server by using administrator as the email and no password. Choose the only realm and create your character. You now have a functioning WoW server for you and your friends to play on! Also, since you logged in using the admin account, you can use game master commands. Type in the chat '.gm help' for a list of commands currently in mangos. Have fun with it!

Hello everyone ! After setting-up your server on a Linux-based distro, you may wonder : how to let the realmd & mangosd deamons run on your server with all consoles closed ? how to automatically restart theses daemons if they crash ? how to restart theses dameons ? how to get access to the daemons consoles after having closed all your terminals ? Well, you are at the right place ! PREREQUISITE The "screen" app must be installed and also "gdb" in order to correctly dump chrash data : sudo apt install screen gdb PART 1 : Localize your bin folder Go to a folder where you would like to install the script. By default mangso should be installed in : /opt/wow/install/mangos/bin PART 2 : Creating the file Create a file called wowadmin.sh. touch wowadmin.sh Make it executable : chmod +x wowadmin.sh Paste the code below in the file and change the variables "/path/to/your/realmd" and "/path/to/your/mangosd" as your real paths to realmd and mangosd : PART 3 : How to use ? You can use the script with its options like : ./wowadmin.sh start Available options are : start : Starts realmd and mangosd - in a screened process. stop : Stops realmd and mangosd - in a screened process. restart : Retarts realmd and mangosd - in a screened process. wstart : Starts only mangosd - in a screened process. wdstart : Starts only mangosd in DEBUG mode - in a screened process. wrestart : Restarts only mangosd - in a screened process wstop : Stops mangosd - screened process. wmonitor : Brings back the mangosd console from the screened process (press "Ctrl+A+D" to re-detach it). astart : Starts only realmd - in a screened process. arestart : Restarts only realmd - in a screened process. astop : Stops only realmd - in a screened process. amonitor : Brings back the realmd console (press "Ctrl+A+D" to re-detach it). Moreover, when there is a crash, the daemons will auto-restart dans there will be a crashlog dumped in "crashes" directory next to your deamons executable binaries. For your information, you can see the screened processes by typing : screen -ls You can use multiple wowadmin.sh files if you manage multiple realms but the more simple would be to add specific options in the same script for your differents mangosd dameons as there could be only 1 realmd daemon running and many mangosd daemons running. Source : adapted from Lillecarl Gist

Building MaNGOS on Linux requires ACE libraries. I could not find information on installing those here, so I will make a short HOWTO (copied from ACE documentation) 1. Make a folder for ACE in your preferred location ( I use /opt) mkdir /opt/ace && cd /opt/ace 2. Download and unpack ACE wget http://download.dre.vanderbilt.edu/previous_versions/ACE-6.4.7.tar.gz tar -xvf ACE-6.4.7.tar.gz 3. Add needed environment variables cat >> /etc/profile <<EOF export ACE_ROOT=/opt/ace/ACE_wrappers EOF source /etc/profile 4. Add the desired headers cat > /opt/ace/ACE_wrappers/ace/config.h <<EOF #include "ace/config-linux.h" EOF cat > /opt/ace/ACE_wrappers/include/makeinclude/platform_macros.GNU <<EOF INSTALL_PREFIX = /usr/local include $(ACE_ROOT)/include/makeinclude/platform_linux.GNU EOF 5. Build ACE cd /opt/ace/ACE_wrappers make make install 6. Add the library to the public path cat > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/ace.conf <<EOF /opt/ace/ACE_wrappers/lib EOF ldconfig -v

Hello! I'm trying to update my Mangos Two server from some 21.11.xx (~mid November 2020) to release v.22.01.9, and I can't built the new version, because of error on build. Here is a report about it from build log:

In order to allow connections to your server under linux you need to add ports 3724/tcp and 8085/tcp to your firewall firewall-cmd --zone=public --permanent --add-port=3724/tcp firewall-cmd --zone=public --permanent --add-port=8085/tcp firewall-cmd --reload Please, anyone with permissions to write to closed topics, add this to the linux setup topic if possible. Thank you.

Hello, in this tutorial, I will explain a step-by-step approach to configure, install and run Mangos on a Linux Mint 18 system. To fully execute the installation, you need an original copy of the game client version you want to run. This guide has been fully tested on an empty Linux Mint 18 system with minimal installation. Let's go.. Setup the database: Linux Mint is supporting MySQL by default. This part of the guide will help you to setup your instance of MySQL. Launch a terminal, and if it's not already the case, you need to become the 'root' user: sudo su - root Then, install MySQL, enter your root password when you will be prompted for: aptitude -y install mysql-server Once MySQLis installed, start it: systemctl start mysql I do advise you to add MySQL service at startup to execute it automatically: systemctl enable mysql Let's secure your MySQL installation, execute the following command: mysql_secure_installation I advise you to setup the following parameters: Do not enforce the use of the password plugin Do not change the root password Remove anonymous access Disable remote access for the root user Remove the test database Reload the privileges Now that the setup of the database is done, we need to add the prerequisites for the mangos database configuration. We need to start by creating an user for mangos, login to the database using: mysql -u root -p Create the user you wish, the example given is creating an user 'mangos' who can connect from the 'localhost' and has the password 'password' (do not forget the ';') at the end: CREATE USER 'mangos'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password'; We then need to grant privileges to that user that we can use it later to setup the Mangos schemas (again, do not forget the ';' symbol): GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'mangos'@'localhost'; Exit the terminal: quit Congratulations, you have setup the pre-requisites for the database on Linux Mint ! Install Mangos: We are now at the interesting part, how do we install Mangos on Linux Mint ? Well, assuming you are logged in as 'root', go to the home directory: cd ~ Now, we can download our installer: wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mangoszero/server/master/linux/getmangos.sh Set the permissions to be allowed to execute it: chmod 700 getmangos.sh And execute it: ./getmangos.sh Before we go further, some explanations on the available activities: Install Prerequisites will install all the necessary dependencies for you to build & run mangos. Toggled by default. Set Download And Install Paths will allow you to specify where the sources must be downloaded and where the binaries must be installed. Toggled by default. Clone Source repositories will help you cloning the Mangos sources. Toggled by default. Build MaNGOS will assist you in the building process of MaNGOS. Toggled by default. Install MaNGOS will help you installing MaNGOS. Toggled by default. Install Databases will assist you in the database schemas creation. Toggled by default. Extract Resources will help you to extract the DBC, maps, mmaps and vmaps from the game client. Toggled by default. Create Code::Blocks Project File will create a project for the Code::Blocks editor. Do not toggle this option if you don't plan to edit the MaNGOS sources. Now that you know everything, let the default options selected and select 'Ok' thanks to the Tab key. The script is now installing the necessary dependencies on your Linux Mint. You will be prompted to provide your agreement to install the build dependencies. Select 'Yes' two times. User selection: Mangos provides you the opportunity to run it under another user than the 'root' one. This is a good practice to isolate softwares and limit the security impact in case of an exploited vulnerability. The default proposed run user is 'mangos' but you can change if you wish. Select 'Ok' to continue. If you have already performed this step, the installer will ask you whether you want to keep that user. I advise you to reply 'Yes' except if you know what you are doing. Choose WoW Release: The next screen is requesting you to choose the WoW release you are willing to install. Select the one you that fits your wish and select 'Ok'. Source-Code Path: The next screen is asking you to provide the source path. By default, the proposed format is /home/<run user>/<wow version>/src. For instance, for a run user 'mangos' and a wow version 'Vanilla', the proposed path will be: /home/mangos/zero/src Reply 'Yes' to create the directory if it does not exist. If it does exist and contains sources, the installer will ask you whether you want to delete the content or not. Installation Path: The next screen is asking you to provide the installation path. This is the location from where you will execute the Mangos processes. By default, the proposed format is /home/<run user>/<wow version>. For instance, for a run user 'mangos' and a wow version 'Vanilla', the proposed path will be: /home/mangos/zero If it does exist and contains compiled sources, the installer will ask you whether you want to delete the content or not. Clone or update MaNGOS: The next step of the script is asking you whether you want to clone, update or use an existing copy of the MaNGOS sources. For a fresh installation, select the option '0 Clone a fresh copy of MaNGOS'. The installer will now connect to Github and check the available development branch, currently, the last stable release is the Rel21 and is hosted in the 'master' branch. The installer is now cloning the server and database repositories. Build Options: You are now at the build step. Some explanations over this screen: Enable Debug will setup debug flags and more tracing on Mangos. Use this build option only if you're requested to to fix a bug. Building a software in debug mode significantly reduces its performances. Use Standard Malloc, toggle this option to use the standard memory allocation. Untoggle this option only if you know what you are doing. Use External ACE libraries. Allows you to use the ACE libraries coming from your system. Untoggle this option only if you know what you are doing. Use PostgreSQL insteald of MySQL/MariaDB. Allows you to use another database provider than the default one. This option has not been tested and, if you have followed the tutorial so far, you should have setup MySQL 😉 Build Client Tools will build the extractors necessary to get dbc, maps, mmaps and vmaps out of the game client. Unselect this option only if you already have these resources extracted. Use SD3 will allow you to build the ScriptDev3 Engine provided with MaNGOS. We advise you to keep this option toggled except if you don't like living world based on C++ scripts. Use Eluna will allow you to build the Eluna Engine provided with MaNGOS. We advise you to keep this option toggled except if you don't like living world based on LUA scripts. Select 'Ok' to proceed with the build process and confirm that would want to build MaNGOS. The installer is now building MaNGOS. Depending on the speed of your system, you have the time to drink a glass of water or a cup of coffee. 🙂 Installation: You will now be prompted to install Mangos. Select 'Yes' to install it. Database Operations: Wait.. another database setup ?! Yes, but this time, we are populating the database with the mangos data. You have three options here: Install clean databases to setup a fresh database Update existing databases to update your old version of the database Skip database work... but it wouldn't make sense 🙂 Select the first option if you are performing a fresh installation. You will be prompted to select your type of database. If you followed the guide so far, you should select "MySQL". The installer will then request your database information, if you followed the guide, you need to provide the following input: Hostname: localhost Port: 3306 User: mangos Password: password You can now choose into several options: ReInstall the realm database, containing all the realms information and the accounts ReInstall the world database, containing all the world configuration ReInstall the characters database, containing all the characters information Update the realmlist to setup an initial game server By default, all options must be toggled. The installer will now perform the database import. Extract Game Data: This step will copy the extractors to the wow game location, extract dbc, maps, mmaps and vmaps and copy these extracted data to your installation directory. The installer will automatically look for a suitable WoW client into your /home directory. If it doesn't find anything, you will have to provide your game location path. If the provided path doesn't contain any game data, the installer will exit. The extractor steps allows you to select the artifacts you want to extract: DBC and Maps, which are the minimum set of data you need to extract Mmaps which are the movement maps, based on vectoriel calculation, required for an efficient pathfinding Vmaps which are the virtual maps, used for collision detection and LoS detection The Mmaps extraction is taking several hours, you will have the time to sleep or drink several coffees. 🙂 Congratulations ! You almost did it ! Still few steps to perform before you can play on your preferred game. First of all, you need to switch to your run user. If you used mangos, the command will look like: su - mangos You need then to go to the configuration directory of your installation, if you installed Vanilla, it will look like the following command: cd /home/mangos/zero/etc Copy the realmd.conf.dist and mangosd.conf.dist files to their expected name: cp realmd.conf.dist realmd.conf cp mangosd.conf.dist mangosd.conf Edit the realmd.conf and find the line LoginDatabaseInfo. Provide your database information, according to this guide and if you have installed Vanilla, it should look like: LoginDatabaseInfo = "127.0.0.1;3306;mangos;password;zero_realm" Save your file and edit the file mangosd.conf. You need to provide the database information for the three database we have configured with our installer: LoginDatabaseInfo = "127.0.0.1;3306;mangos;password;zero_realm" WorldDatabaseInfo = "127.0.0.1;3306;mangos;password;zero_world" CharacterDatabaseInfo = "127.0.0.1;3306;mangos;password;zero_characters" Save your file and go back to the 'root' user: exit Make sure it keeps running ! What could be cooler than having the MaNGOS server starting automatically with your server ? Not much... so let's configure systemd to do so ! First of all, we need to tell it that we have two new services. Declare them by creating the corresponding files: touch /etc/systemd/system/realmd.service touch /etc/systemd/system/mangosd.service # Or give it a better name like zero.service if it's a vanilla gaming server for instance. Now, edit the /etc/systemd/system/realmd.service file and add the following content (Replace the installation path and the run user by the settings you have provided during the installation): [Unit] Description=Realmd service After=network.target mysql.service [Service] Type=simple User=mangos ExecStart=/home/mangos/zero/bin/realmd -c /home/mangos/zero/etc/realmd.conf Restart=on-abort [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target Save this file and edit the /etc/systemd/system/mangosd.service file (or the better name you gave to it) with the following content (same remark than above the installation path and the run user): [Unit] Description=WoW Vanilla service After=network.target mysql.service [email protected] [Service] Type=simple User=mangos ExecStart=/home/mangos/zero/bin/mangosd -c /home/mangos/zero/etc/mangosd.conf WorkingDirectory=/home/mangos/zero/bin StandardInput=tty TTYPath=/dev/tty3 TTYReset=yes TTYVHangup=yes Restart=on-abort [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target We are almost there ! You now need to tell systemd to reload its configuration: systemctl daemon-reload And let's start our processes to verify that they work: systemctl start realmd systemctl start mangosd To verify that it worked, execute the following command: systemctl status realmd systemctl status mangosd If it's working properly, you should have an output indicating you the success status for both service. The last step is to tell systemd to execute them at startup, for this, execute the following commands: systemctl enable realmd systemctl enable mangosd Congratulations ! You are now done with the MaNGOS setup on Linux Mint 18 :-) You can now reboot your computer to verify that everything is indeed started: reboot

MUCH OF THE INFORMATION FOUND WITHIN IS NO LONGER VALID AND OUT OF DATE Hello, in this tutorial, I will explain a step-by-step approach to configure, install and run Mangos on a Ubuntu 16.04 LTS system. To fully execute the installation, you need an original copy of the game client version you want to run. This guide has been fully tested on an empty Ubuntu 16.04 LTS system with minimal installation. Let's go.. Setup the database: Ubuntu is supporting MySQL by default. This part of the guide will help you to setup your instance of MySQL. Launch a terminal, and if it's not already the case, you need to become the 'root' user: sudo su - root Then, install MySQL, enter your root password when you will be prompted for: apt-get -y install mysql-server Once MySQLis installed, start it: systemctl start mysql I do advise you to add Mysql service at startup to execute it automatically: systemctl enable mysql Let's secure your mysql installation, execute the following command: mysql_secure_installation I advise you to setup the following parameters: Do not enforce the use of the password plugin Do not change the root password Remove anonymous access Disable remote access for the root user Remove the test database Reload the privileges Now that the setup of the database is done, we need to add the prerequisites for the mangos database configuration. We need to start by creating an user for mangos, login to the database using: mysql -u root -p Create the user you wish, the example given is creating an user 'mangos' who can connect from the 'localhost' and has the password 'password' (do not forget the ';') at the end: CREATE USER 'mangos'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password'; We then need to grant privileges to that user that we can use it later to setup the Mangos schemas (again, do not forget the ';' symbol): GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'mangos'@'localhost'; Exit the terminal: quit Congratulations, you have setup the pre-requisites for the database on Ubuntu ! Install Mangos: We are now at the interesting part, how do we install Mangos on Ubuntu ? Well, assuming you are logged in as 'root', go to the home directory: cd ~ Now, we can download our installer: wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mangoszero/server/master/linux/getmangos.sh Set the permissions to be allowed to execute it: chmod 700 getmangos.sh And execute it: ./getmangos.sh Before we go further, some explanations on the available activities: Install Prerequisites will install all the necessary dependencies for you to build & run mangos. Toggled by default. Set Download And Install Paths will allow you to specify where the sources must be downloaded and where the binaries must be installed. Toggled by default. Clone Source repositories will help you cloning the Mangos sources. Toggled by default. Build MaNGOS will assist you in the building process of MaNGOS. Toggled by default. Install MaNGOS will help you installing MaNGOS. Toggled by default. Install Databases will assist you in the database schemas creation. Toggled by default. Extract Resources will help you to extract the DBC, maps, mmaps and vmaps from the game client. Toggled by default. Create Code::Blocks Project File will create a project for the Code::Blocks editor. Do not toggle this option if you don't plan to edit the MaNGOS sources. Now that you know everything, let the default options selected and select 'Ok' thanks to the Tab key. The script is now installing the necessary dependencies on your Ubuntu. You will be prompted to provide your agreement to install the build dependencies. Select 'Yes' two times. User selection: Mangos provides you the opportunity to run it under another user than the 'root' one. This is a good practice to isolate softwares and limit the security impact in case of an exploited vulnerability. The default proposed run user is 'mangos' but you can change if you wish. Select 'Ok' to continue. If you have already performed this step, the installer will ask you whether you want to keep that user. I advise you to reply 'Yes' except if you know what you are doing. Choose WoW Release: The next screen is requesting you to choose the WoW release you are willing to install. Select the one you that fits your wish and select 'Ok'. Source-Code Path: The next screen is asking you to provide the source path. By default, the proposed format is /home/<run user>/<wow version>/src. For instance, for a run user 'mangos' and a wow version 'Vanilla', the proposed path will be: /home/mangos/zero/src Reply 'Yes' to create the directory if it does not exist. If it does exist and contains sources, the installer will ask you whether you want to delete the content or not. Installation Path: The next screen is asking you to provide the installation path. This is the location from where you will execute the Mangos processes. By default, the proposed format is /home/<run user>/<wow version>. For instance, for a run user 'mangos' and a wow version 'Vanilla', the proposed path will be: /home/mangos/zero If it does exist and contains compiled sources, the installer will ask you whether you want to delete the content or not. Clone or update MaNGOS: The next step of the script is asking you whether you want to clone, update or use an existing copy of the MaNGOS sources. For a fresh installation, select the option '0 Clone a fresh copy of MaNGOS'. The installer will now connect to Github and check the available development branch, currently, the last stable release is the Rel21 and is hosted in the 'master' branch. The installer is now cloning the server and database repositories. Build Options: You are now at the build step. Some explanations over this screen: Enable Debug will setup debug flags and more tracing on Mangos. Use this build option only if you're requested to to fix a bug. Building a software in debug mode significantly reduces its performances. Use Standard Malloc, toggle this option to use the standard memory allocation. Untoggle this option only if you know what you are doing. Use External ACE libraries. Allows you to use the ACE libraries coming from your system. Untoggle this option only if you know what you are doing. Use PostgreSQL insteald of MySQL/MariaDB. Allows you to use another database provider than the default one. This option has not been tested and, if you have followed the tutorial so far, you should have setup MySQL 😉 Build Client Tools will build the extractors necessary to get dbc, maps, mmaps and vmaps out of the game client. Unselect this option only if you already have these resources extracted. Use SD3 will allow you to build the ScriptDev3 Engine provided with MaNGOS. We advise you to keep this option toggled except if you don't like living world based on C++ scripts. Use Eluna will allow you to build the Eluna Engine provided with MaNGOS. We advise you to keep this option toggled except if you don't like living world based on LUA scripts. Select 'Ok' to proceed with the build process and confirm that would want to build MaNGOS. The installer is now building MaNGOS. Depending on the speed of your system, you have the time to drink a glass of water or a cup of coffee. 🙂 Installation: You will now be prompted to install Mangos. Select 'Yes' to install it. Database Operations: Wait.. another database setup ?! Yes, but this time, we are populating the database with the mangos data. You have three options here: Install clean databases to setup a fresh database Update existing databases to update your old version of the database Skip database work... but it wouldn't make sense 🙂 Select the first option if you are performing a fresh installation. You will be prompted to select your type of database. If you followed the guide so far, you should select "MySQL". The installer will then request your database information, if you followed the guide, you need to provide the following input: Hostname: localhost Port: 3306 User: mangos Password: password You can now choose into several options: ReInstall the realm database, containing all the realms information and the accounts ReInstall the world database, containing all the world configuration ReInstall the characters database, containing all the characters information Update the realmlist to setup an initial game server By default, all options must be toggled. The installer will now perform the database import. Extract Game Data: This step will copy the extractors to the wow game location, extract dbc, maps, mmaps and vmaps and copy these extracted data to your installation directory. The installer will automatically look for a suitable WoW client into your /home directory. If it doesn't find anything, you will have to provide your game location path. If the provided path doesn't contain any game data, the installer will exit. The extractor steps allows you to select the artifacts you want to extract: DBC and Maps, which are the minimum set of data you need to extract Mmaps which are the movement maps, based on vectoriel calculation, required for an efficient pathfinding Vmaps which are the virtual maps, used for collision detection and LoS detection The Mmaps extraction is taking several hours, you will have the time to sleep or drink several coffees. 🙂 Congratulations ! You almost did it ! Still few steps to perform before you can play on your preferred game. First of all, you need to switch to your run user. If you used mangos, the command will look like: su - mangos You need then to go to the configuration directory of your installation, if you installed Vanilla, it will look like the following command: cd /home/mangos/zero/etc Copy the realmd.conf.dist and mangosd.conf.dist files to their expected name: cp realmd.conf.dist realmd.conf cp mangosd.conf.dist mangosd.conf Edit the realmd.conf and find the line LoginDatabaseInfo. Provide your database information, according to this guide and if you have installed Vanilla, it should look like: LoginDatabaseInfo = "127.0.0.1;3306;mangos;password;zero_realm" Save your file and edit the file mangosd.conf. You need to provide the database information for the three database we have configured with our installer: LoginDatabaseInfo = "127.0.0.1;3306;mangos;password;zero_realm" WorldDatabaseInfo = "127.0.0.1;3306;mangos;password;zero_world" CharacterDatabaseInfo = "127.0.0.1;3306;mangos;password;zero_characters" Save your file and go back to the 'root' user: exit Make sure it keeps running ! What could be cooler than having the MaNGOS server starting automatically with your server ? Not much... so let's configure systemd to do so ! First of all, we need to tell it that we have two new services. Declare them by creating the corresponding files: touch /etc/systemd/system/realmd.service touch /etc/systemd/system/mangosd.service # Or give it a better name like zero.service if it's a vanilla gaming server for instance. Now, edit the /etc/systemd/system/realmd.service file and add the following content (Replace the installation path and the run user by the settings you have provided during the installation): [Unit] Description=Realmd service After=network.target mysql.service [Service] Type=simple User=mangos ExecStart=/home/mangos/zero/bin/realmd -c /home/mangos/zero/etc/realmd.conf Restart=on-abort [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target Save this file and edit the /etc/systemd/system/mangosd.service file (or the better name you gave to it) with the following content (same remark than above the installation path and the run user): [Unit] Description=WoW Vanilla service After=network.target mysql.service [email protected] [Service] Type=simple User=mangos ExecStart=/home/mangos/zero/bin/mangosd -c /home/mangos/zero/etc/mangosd.conf WorkingDirectory=/home/mangos/zero/bin StandardInput=tty TTYPath=/dev/tty3 TTYReset=yes TTYVHangup=yes Restart=on-abort [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target We are almost there ! You now need to tell systemd to reload its configuration: systemctl daemon-reload And let's start our processes to verify that they work: systemctl start realmd systemctl start mangosd To verify that it worked, execute the following command: systemctl status realmd systemctl status mangosd If it's working properly, you should have an output indicating you the success status for both service. The last step is to tell systemd to execute them at startup, for this, execute the following commands: systemctl enable realmd systemctl enable mangosd Congratulations ! You are now done with the MaNGOS setup on Ubuntu 16.04 :-) You can now reboot your computer to verify that everything is indeed started: reboot

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Hello, in this tutorial, I will explain a step-by-step approach to configure, install and run Mangos on a CentOS 7 Linux system. To fully execute the installation, you need an original copy of the game client version you want to run. This guide has been fully tested on an empty CentOS 7 system with minimal installation. Let's go.. Setup the database: CentOS is supporting MariaDB instead of MySQL by default. This part of the guide will help you to setup your instance of MariaDB. Launch a terminal, and if it's not already the case, you need to become the 'root' user: sudo su - root Then, install MariaDB: yum -y install mariadb-server Once MariaDB is installed, start it: systemctl start mariadb I do advise you to add mariadb service at startup to execute it automatically: systemctl enable mariadb Let's secure your mariadb installation, execute the following command: mysql_secure_installation I advise you to setup the following parameters: Setup a Root password Remove anonymous access Disable remote access for the root user Remove the test database Reload the privileges Verify that you database configuration is working properly, you will need to provide the root password you have just defined: mysqladmin -u root -p version If everything is ok, you should have an output like the follow one: Server version 5.5.52-MariaDB Protocol version 10 Connection Localhost via UNIX socket UNIX socket /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock Uptime x sec Now that the setup of the database is done, we need to add the prerequisites for the mangos database configuration. We need to start by creating an user for mangos, login to the database using: mysql -u root -p Create the user you wish, the example given is creating an user 'mangos' who can connect from the 'localhost' and has the password 'password' (do not forget the ';') at the end: CREATE USER 'mangos'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password'; We then need to grant privileges to that user that we can use it later to setup the Mangos schemas (again, do not forget the ';' symbol): GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'mangos'@'localhost'; Exit the terminal: quit Congratulations, you have setup the pre-requisites for the database on CentOS ! Install Mangos: We are now at the interesting part, how do we install Mangos on CentOS ? Well, assuming you are logged in as 'root', go to the home directory: cd ~ And let's install a required dependency first, wget is a small utility that will allow you to download the installer script: yum -y install wget Now, we can download our installer: wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mangoszero/server/master/linux/getmangos.sh Set the permissions to be allowed to execute it: chmod 700 getmangos.sh And execute it: ./getmangos.sh Before we go further, some explanations on the available activities: Install Prerequisites will install all the necessary dependencies for you to build & run mangos. Toggled by default. Set Download And Install Paths will allow you to specify where the sources must be downloaded and where the binaries must be installed. Toggled by default. Clone Source repositories will help you cloning the Mangos sources. Toggled by default. Build MaNGOS will assist you in the building process of MaNGOS. Toggled by default. Install MaNGOS will help you installing MaNGOS. Toggled by default. Install Databases will assist you in the database schemas creation. Toggled by default. Extract Resources will help you to extract the DBC, maps, mmaps and vmaps from the game client. Toggled by default. Create Code::Blocks Project File will create a project for the Code::Blocks editor. Do not toggle this option if you don't plan to edit the MaNGOS sources. Now that you know everything, let the default options selected and select 'Ok' thanks to the Tab key. The script is now installing the necessary dependencies on your CentOS. You will be prompted to provide your agreement to install the build dependencies. Select 'Yes' two times. User selection: Mangos provides you the opportunity to run it under another user than the 'root' one. This is a good practice to isolate softwares and limit the security impact in case of an exploited vulnerability. The default proposed run user is 'mangos' but you can change if you wish. Select 'Ok' to continue. If you have already performed this step, the installer will ask you whether you want to keep that user. I advise you to reply 'Yes' except if you know what you are doing. Choose WoW Release: The next screen is requesting you to choose the WoW release you are willing to install. Select the one you that fits your wish and select 'Ok'. Source-Code Path: The next screen is asking you to provide the source path. By default, the proposed format is /home/<run user>/<wow version>/src. For instance, for a run user 'mangos' and a wow version 'Vanilla', the proposed path will be: /home/mangos/zero/src Reply 'Yes' to create the directory if it does not exist. If it does exist and contains sources, the installer will ask you whether you want to delete the content or not. Installation Path: The next screen is asking you to provide the installation path. This is the location from where you will execute the Mangos processes. By default, the proposed format is /home/<run user>/<wow version>. For instance, for a run user 'mangos' and a wow version 'Vanilla', the proposed path will be: /home/mangos/zero If it does exist and contains compiled sources, the installer will ask you whether you want to delete the content or not. Clone or update MaNGOS: The next step of the script is asking you whether you want to clone, update or use an existing copy of the MaNGOS sources. For a fresh installation, select the option '0 Clone a fresh copy of MaNGOS'. The installer will now connect to Github and check the available development branch, currently, the last stable release is the Rel21 and is hosted in the 'master' branch. The installer is now cloning the server and database repositories. Build Options: You are now at the build step. Some explanations over this screen: Enable Debug will setup debug flags and more tracing on Mangos. Use this build option only if you're requested to to fix a bug. Building a software in debug mode significantly reduces its performances. Use Standard Malloc, toggle this option to use the standard memory allocation. Untoggle this option only if you know what you are doing. Use External ACE libraries. Allows you to use the ACE libraries coming from your system. There are very few cases when this option works, and also it will be removed in the future, so leave it untoggled (MaNGOS has an "internal" ACE anyway). Use PostgreSQL insteald of MySQL/MariaDB. Allows you to use another database provider than the default one. This option has not been tested and, if you have followed the tutorial so far, you should have setup MariaDB 😉 Build Client Tools will build the extractors necessary to get dbc, maps, mmaps and vmaps out of the game client. Unselect this option only if you already have these resources extracted. Use SD3 will allow you to build the ScriptDev3 Engine provided with MaNGOS. We advise you to keep this option toggled except if you don't like living world based on C++ scripts. Use Eluna will allow you to build the Eluna Engine provided with MaNGOS. We advise you to keep this option toggled except if you don't like living world based on LUA scripts. Select 'Ok' to proceed with the build process and confirm that would want to build MaNGOS. The installer is now building MaNGOS. Depending on the speed of your system, you have the time to drink a glass of water or a cup of coffee. 🙂 Installation: You will now be prompted to install Mangos. Select 'Yes' to install it. Database Operations: Wait.. another database setup ?! Yes, but this time, we are populating the database with the mangos data. You have three options here: Install clean databases to setup a fresh database Update existing databases to update your old version of the database Skip database work... but it wouldn't make sense 🙂 Select the first option if you are performing a fresh installation. You will be prompted to select your type of database. If you followed the guide so far, you should select "MariaDB". The installer will then request your database information, if you followed the guide, you need to provide the following input: Hostname: localhost Port: 3306 User: mangos Password: password You can now choose into several options: ReInstall the realm database, containing all the realms information and the accounts ReInstall the world database, containing all the world configuration ReInstall the characters database, containing all the characters information Update the realmlist to setup an initial game server By default, all options must be toggled. The installer will now perform the database import. Extract Game Data: This step will copy the extractors to the wow game location, extract dbc, maps, mmaps and vmaps and copy these extracted data to your installation directory. The installer will automatically look for a suitable WoW client into your /home directory. If it doesn't find anything, you will have to provide your game location path. If the provided path doesn't contain any game data, the installer will exit. The extractor steps allows you to select the artifacts you want to extract: DBC and Maps, which are the minimum set of data you need to extract Mmaps which are the movement maps, based on vectoriel calculation, required for an efficient pathfinding Vmaps which are the virtual maps, used for collision detection and LoS detection The Mmaps extraction is taking several hours, you will have the time to sleep or drink several coffees. 🙂 Congratulations ! You almost did it ! Still few steps to perform before you can play on your preferred game. First of all, you need to switch to your run user. If you used mangos, the command will look like: su - mangos You need then to go to the configuration directory of your installation, if you installed Vanilla, it will look like the following command: cd /home/mangos/zero/etc Copy the realmd.conf.dist and mangosd.conf.dist files to their expected name: cp realmd.conf.dist realmd.conf cp mangosd.conf.dist mangosd.conf Edit the realmd.conf and find the line LoginDatabaseInfo. Provide your database information, according to this guide and if you have installed Vanilla, it should look like: LoginDatabaseInfo = "127.0.0.1;3306;mangos;password;zero_realm" Save your file and edit the file mangosd.conf. You need to provide the database information for the three database we have configured with our installer: LoginDatabaseInfo = "127.0.0.1;3306;mangos;password;zero_realm" WorldDatabaseInfo = "127.0.0.1;3306;mangos;password;zero_world" CharacterDatabaseInfo = "127.0.0.1;3306;mangos;password;zero_characters" Save your file and go back to the 'root' user: exit Make sure it keeps running ! What could be cooler than having the MaNGOS server starting automatically with your server ? Not much... so let's configure systemd to do so ! First of all, we need to tell it that we have two new services. Declare them by creating the corresponding files: touch /etc/systemd/system/realmd.service touch /etc/systemd/system/mangosd.service # Or give it a better name like zero.service if it's a vanilla gaming server for instance. Now, edit the /etc/systemd/system/realmd.service file and add the following content (Replace the installation path and the run user by the settings you have provided during the installation): [Unit] Description=Realmd service After=network.target mariadb.service [Service] Type=simple User=mangos ExecStart=/home/mangos/zero/bin/realmd -c /home/mangos/zero/etc/realmd.conf Restart=on-abort [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target Save this file and edit the /etc/systemd/system/mangosd.service file (or the better name you gave to it) with the following content (same remark than above the installation path and the run user): [Unit] Description=WoW Vanilla service After=network.target mariadb.service [email protected] [Service] Type=simple User=mangos ExecStart=/home/mangos/zero/bin/mangosd -c /home/mangos/zero/etc/mangosd.conf WorkingDirectory=/home/mangos/zero/bin StandardInput=tty TTYPath=/dev/tty3 TTYReset=yes TTYVHangup=yes Restart=on-abort [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target Mangos-Daemon as a Systemd service using screen (Added by @madmax May 2018) - If not using the above Mangosd. [Unit] Description=MaNGOS world server daemon After=mariadb.service [Service] Type=oneshot ExecStart=/usr/bin/screen -mdS mangosd /home/mangos/zero/bin/mangosd -c /home/mangos/zero/etc/mangosd.conf PIDFile=/home/mangos/zero/var/cosmic.pid RemainAfterExit=true # Give a reasonable amount of time for the server to start up/shut down #TimeoutSec=60 [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target We are almost there ! You now need to tell systemd to reload its configuration: systemctl daemon-reload And let's start our processes to verify that they work: systemctl start realmd systemctl start mangosd To verify that it worked, execute the following command: systemctl status realmd systemctl status mangosd If it's working properly, you should have an output indicating you the success status for both service. The last step is to tell systemd to execute them at startup, for this, execute the following commands: systemctl enable realmd systemctl enable mangosd Congratulations ! You are now done with the MaNGOS setup on CentOS 7 🙂 You can now reboot your computer to verify that everything is indeed started: reboot

i use aarch64 debian8 gcc4.9.2 g++4.9.2 when i build mangoszero [ 43%] Building CXX object dep/g3dlite/CMakeFiles/g3dlite.dir/G3D/AABox.cpp.oIn file included from /root/zero/server/dep/g3dlite/G3D/debugPrintf.h:19:0, from /root/zero/server/dep/g3dlite/G3D/debug.h:21, from /root/zero/server/dep/g3dlite/G3D/g3dmath.h:56, from /root/zero/server/dep/g3dlite/G3D/Vector3.h:18, from /root/zero/server/dep/g3dlite/G3D/AABox.h:19, from /root/zero/server/dep/g3dlite/G3D/AABox.cpp:11: /root/zero/server/dep/g3dlite/G3D/format.h:30:23: error: expected initializer before ‘format’ std::string __cdecl format( ^ In file included from /root/zero/server/dep/g3dlite/G3D/debug.h:21:0, from /root/zero/server/dep/g3dlite/G3D/g3dmath.h:56, from /root/zero/server/dep/g3dlite/G3D/Vector3.h:18, from /root/zero/server/dep/g3dlite/G3D/AABox.h:19, from /root/zero/server/dep/g3dlite/G3D/AABox.cpp:11: /root/zero/server/dep/g3dlite/G3D/debugPrintf.h:44:21: error: expected initializer before ‘consolePrintf’ std::string __cdecl consolePrintf(const char* fmt ...) G3D_CHECK_PRINTF_ARGS; ^ /root/zero/server/dep/g3dlite/G3D/debugPrintf.h:56:21: error: expected initializer before ‘debugPrintf’ std::string __cdecl debugPrintf(const char* fmt ...) G3D_CHECK_PRINTF_ARGS; ^ In file included from /root/zero/server/dep/g3dlite/G3D/Table.h:20:0, from /root/zero/server/dep/g3dlite/G3D/Vector2.h:22, from /root/zero/server/dep/g3dlite/G3D/Vector3.h:20, from /root/zero/server/dep/g3dlite/G3D/AABox.h:19, from /root/zero/server/dep/g3dlite/G3D/AABox.cpp:11: /root/zero/server/dep/g3dlite/G3D/Array.h:135:17: error: expected ‘;’ at end of member declaration static bool __cdecl compareGT(const T& a, const T& b) { ^ /root/zero/server/dep/g3dlite/G3D/Array.h:135:57: error: ISO C++ forbids declaration of ‘compareGT’ with no type [-fpermissive] static bool __cdecl compareGT(const T& a, const T& b) { ^ /root/zero/server/dep/g3dlite/G3D/Array.h:986:67: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘*’ token void sortSubArray(int beginIndex, int endIndex, bool (__cdecl *lessThan)(const T& elem1, const T& elem2)) { ^ /root/zero/server/dep/g3dlite/G3D/Array.h:986:67: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘*’ token /root/zero/server/dep/g3dlite/G3D/Array.h:986:59: error: expected ‘;’ at end of member declaration void sortSubArray(int beginIndex, int endIndex, bool (__cdecl *lessThan)(const T& elem1, const T& elem2)) { ^ /root/zero/server/dep/g3dlite/G3D/Array.h:986:68: error: ISO C++ forbids declaration of ‘lessThan’ with no type [-fpermissive] void sortSubArray(int beginIndex, int endIndex, bool (__cdecl *lessThan)(const T& elem1, const T& elem2)) { ^ /root/zero/server/dep/g3dlite/G3D/Array.h:986:68: error: expected ‘;’ at end of member declaration /root/zero/server/dep/g3dlite/G3D/Array.h:986:76: error: expected unqualified-id before ‘)’ token void sortSubArray(int beginIndex, int endIndex, bool (__cdecl *lessThan)(const T& elem1, const T& elem2)) { ^dep/g3dlite/CMakeFiles/g3dlite.dir/build.make:54: recipe for target 'dep/g3dlite/CMakeFiles/g3dlite.dir/G3D/AABox.cpp.o' failed make[2]: *** [dep/g3dlite/CMakeFiles/g3dlite.dir/G3D/AABox.cpp.o] Error 1 CMakeFiles/Makefile2:440: recipe for target 'dep/g3dlite/CMakeFiles/g3dlite.dir/all' failed make[1]: *** [dep/g3dlite/CMakeFiles/g3dlite.dir/all] Error 2 Makefile:117: recipe for target 'all' failed make: *** [all] Error 2

Hello, in this tutorial, I will explain a step-by-step approach to configure, install and run Mangos on a Debian 8 system. To fully execute the installation, you need an original copy of the game client version you want to run. This guide has been fully tested on an empty Debian 8 system with minimal installation. Let's go.. Setup the database: Debian is supporting MySQL by default. This part of the guide will help you to setup your instance of MySQL. Launch a terminal, and if it's not already the case, you need to become the 'root' user: sudo su - root Then, install MySQL, enter your root password when you will be prompted for: aptitude -y install mysql-server Once MySQLis installed, start it: systemctl start mysql I do advise you to add MySQL service at startup to execute it automatically: systemctl enable mysql Let's secure your MySQL installation, execute the following command: mysql_secure_installation I advise you to setup the following parameters: Do not change the root password Remove anonymous access Disable remote access for the root user Remove the test database Reload the privileges Now that the setup of the database is done, we need to add the prerequisites for the mangos database configuration. We need to start by creating an user for mangos, login to the database using: mysql -u root -p Create the user you wish, the example given is creating an user 'mangos' who can connect from the 'localhost' and has the password 'password' (do not forget the ';') at the end: CREATE USER 'mangos'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password'; We then need to grant privileges to that user that we can use it later to setup the Mangos schemas (again, do not forget the ';' symbol): GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'mangos'@'localhost'; Exit the terminal: quit Congratulations, you have setup the pre-requisites for the database on Debian ! Install Mangos: We are now at the interesting part, how do we install Mangos on Debian ? Well, assuming you are logged in as 'root', go to the home directory: cd ~ Now, we can download our installer: wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mangoszero/server/master/linux/getmangos.sh Set the permissions to be allowed to execute it: chmod 700 getmangos.sh And execute it: ./getmangos.sh Before we go further, some explanations on the available activities: Install Prerequisites will install all the necessary dependencies for you to build & run mangos. Toggled by default. Set Download And Install Paths will allow you to specify where the sources must be downloaded and where the binaries must be installed. Toggled by default. Clone Source repositories will help you cloning the Mangos sources. Toggled by default. Build MaNGOS will assist you in the building process of MaNGOS. Toggled by default. Install MaNGOS will help you installing MaNGOS. Toggled by default. Install Databases will assist you in the database schemas creation. Toggled by default. Extract Resources will help you to extract the DBC, maps, mmaps and vmaps from the game client. Toggled by default. Create Code::Blocks Project File will create a project for the Code::Blocks editor. Do not toggle this option if you don't plan to edit the MaNGOS sources. Now that you know everything, let the default options selected and select 'Ok' thanks to the Tab key. The script is now installing the necessary dependencies on your Debian. You will be prompted to provide your agreement to install the build dependencies. Select 'Yes' two times. User selection: Mangos provides you the opportunity to run it under another user than the 'root' one. This is a good practice to isolate softwares and limit the security impact in case of an exploited vulnerability. The default proposed run user is 'mangos' but you can change if you wish. Select 'Ok' to continue. If you have already performed this step, the installer will ask you whether you want to keep that user. I advise you to reply 'Yes' except if you know what you are doing. Choose WoW Release: The next screen is requesting you to choose the WoW release you are willing to install. Select the one you that fits your wish and select 'Ok'. Source-Code Path: The next screen is asking you to provide the source path. By default, the proposed format is /home/<run user>/<wow version>/src. For instance, for a run user 'mangos' and a wow version 'Vanilla', the proposed path will be: /home/mangos/zero/src Reply 'Yes' to create the directory if it does not exist. If it does exist and contains sources, the installer will ask you whether you want to delete the content or not. Installation Path: The next screen is asking you to provide the installation path. This is the location from where you will execute the Mangos processes. By default, the proposed format is /home/<run user>/<wow version>. For instance, for a run user 'mangos' and a wow version 'Vanilla', the proposed path will be: /home/mangos/zero If it does exist and contains compiled sources, the installer will ask you whether you want to delete the content or not. Clone or update MaNGOS: The next step of the script is asking you whether you want to clone, update or use an existing copy of the MaNGOS sources. For a fresh installation, select the option '0 Clone a fresh copy of MaNGOS'. The installer will now connect to Github and check the available development branch, currently, the last stable release is the Rel21 and is hosted in the 'master' branch. The installer is now cloning the server and database repositories. Build Options: You are now at the build step. Some explanations over this screen: Enable Debug will setup debug flags and more tracing on Mangos. Use this build option only if you're requested to to fix a bug. Building a software in debug mode significantly reduces its performances. Use Standard Malloc, toggle this option to use the standard memory allocation. Untoggle this option only if you know what you are doing. Use External ACE libraries. Allows you to use the ACE libraries coming from your system. Untoggle this option only if you know what you are doing. Use PostgreSQL insteald of MySQL/MariaDB. Allows you to use another database provider than the default one. This option has not been tested and, if you have followed the tutorial so far, you should have setup MySQL ;-) Build Client Tools will build the extractors necessary to get dbc, maps, mmaps and vmaps out of the game client. Unselect this option only if you already have these resources extracted. Use SD3 will allow you to build the ScriptDev3 Engine provided with MaNGOS. We advise you to keep this option toggled except if you don't like living world based on C++ scripts. Use Eluna will allow you to build the Eluna Engine provided with MaNGOS. We advise you to keep this option toggled except if you don't like living world based on LUA scripts. Select 'Ok' to proceed with the build process and confirm that would want to build MaNGOS. The installer is now building MaNGOS. Depending on the speed of your system, you have the time to drink a glass of water or a cup of coffee. :-) Installation: You will now be prompted to install Mangos. Select 'Yes' to install it. Database Operations: Wait.. another database setup ?! Yes, but this time, we are populating the database with the mangos data. You have three options here: Install clean databases to setup a fresh database Update existing databases to update your old version of the database Skip database work... but it wouldn't make sense :-) Select the first option if you are performing a fresh installation. You will be prompted to select your type of database. If you followed the guide so far, you should select "MariaDB" because Debian is providing an old version of MySQL. The installer will then request your database information, if you followed the guide, you need to provide the following input: Hostname: localhost Port: 3306 User: mangos Password: password You can now choose into several options: ReInstall the realm database, containing all the realms information and the accounts ReInstall the world database, containing all the world configuration ReInstall the characters database, containing all the characters information Update the realmlist to setup an initial game server By default, all options must be toggled. The installer will now perform the database import. Extract Game Data: This step will copy the extractors to the wow game location, extract dbc, maps, mmaps and vmaps and copy these extracted data to your installation directory. The installer will automatically look for a suitable WoW client into your /home directory. If it doesn't find anything, you will have to provide your game location path. If the provided path doesn't contain any game data, the installer will exit. The extractor steps allows you to select the artifacts you want to extract: DBC and Maps, which are the minimum set of data you need to extract Mmaps which are the movement maps, based on vectoriel calculation, required for an efficient pathfinding Vmaps which are the virtual maps, used for collision detection and LoS detection The Mmaps extraction is taking several hours, you will have the time to sleep or drink several coffees. :-) Congratulations ! You almost did it ! Still few steps to perform before you can play on your preferred game. First of all, you need to switch to your run user. If you used mangos, the command will look like: su - mangos You need then to go to the configuration directory of your installation, if you installed Vanilla, it will look like the following command: cd /home/mangos/zero/etc Copy the realmd.conf.dist and mangosd.conf.dist files to their expected name: cp realmd.conf.dist realmd.conf cp mangosd.conf.dist mangosd.conf Edit the realmd.conf and find the line LoginDatabaseInfo. Provide your database information, according to this guide and if you have installed Vanilla, it should look like: LoginDatabaseInfo = "127.0.0.1;3306;mangos;password;zero_realm" Save your file and edit the file mangosd.conf. You need to provide the database information for the three database we have configured with our installer: LoginDatabaseInfo = "127.0.0.1;3306;mangos;password;zero_realm" WorldDatabaseInfo = "127.0.0.1;3306;mangos;password;zero_world" CharacterDatabaseInfo = "127.0.0.1;3306;mangos;password;zero_characters" Save your file and go back to the 'root' user: exit Make sure it keeps running ! What could be cooler than having the MaNGOS server starting automatically with your server ? Not much... so let's configure systemd to do so ! First of all, we need to tell it that we have two new services. Declare them by creating the corresponding files: touch /etc/systemd/system/realmd.service touch /etc/systemd/system/mangosd.service # Or give it a better name like zero.service if it's a vanilla gaming server for instance. Now, edit the /etc/systemd/system/realmd.service file and add the following content (Replace the installation path and the run user by the settings you have provided during the installation): [Unit] Description=Realmd service After=network.target mysql.service [Service] Type=simple User=mangos ExecStart=/home/mangos/zero/bin/realmd -c /home/mangos/zero/etc/realmd.conf Restart=on-abort [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target Save this file and edit the /etc/systemd/system/mangosd.service file (or the better name you gave to it) with the following content (same remark than above the installation path and the run user): [Unit] Description=WoW Vanilla service After=network.target mysql.service [email protected] [Service] Type=simple User=mangos ExecStart=/home/mangos/zero/bin/mangosd -c /home/mangos/zero/etc/mangosd.conf WorkingDirectory=/home/mangos/zero/bin StandardInput=tty TTYPath=/dev/tty3 TTYReset=yes TTYVHangup=yes Restart=on-abort [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target We are almost there ! You now need to tell systemd to reload its configuration: systemctl daemon-reload And let's start our processes to verify that they work: systemctl start realmd systemctl start mangosd To verify that it worked, execute the following command: systemctl status realmd systemctl status mangosd If it's working properly, you should have an output indicating you the success status for both service. The last step is to tell systemd to execute them at startup, for this, execute the following commands: systemctl enable realmd systemctl enable mangosd Congratulations ! You are now done with the MaNGOS setup on Debian 8 :-) You can now reboot your computer to verify that everything is indeed started: reboot

Hello, in this tutorial, I will explain a step-by-step approach to configure, install and run Mangos on a Fedora 25 Linux system. To fully execute the installation, you need an original copy of the game client version you want to run. This guide has been fully tested on an empty Fedora 25 system with minimal installation. Let's go.. Setup the database: Fedora is supporting MariaDB instead of MySQL by default. This part of the guide will help you to setup your instance of MariaDB. Launch a terminal, and if it's not already the case, you need to become the 'root' user: sudo su - root Then, install MariaDB: yum -y install mariadb-server Once MariaDB is installed, start it: systemctl start mariadb I do advise you to add mariadb service at startup to execute it automatically: systemctl enable mariadb Let's secure your mariadb installation, execute the following command: mysql_secure_installation I advise you to setup the following parameters: Setup a Root password Remove anonymous access Disable remote access for the root user Remove the test database Reload the privileges Verify that you database configuration is working properly. systemctl status mariadb Now that the setup of the database is done, we need to add the prerequisites for the mangos database configuration. We need to start by creating an user for mangos, login to the database using: mysql -u root -p Create the user you wish, the example given is creating an user 'mangos' who can connect from the 'localhost' and has the password 'password' (do not forget the ';') at the end: CREATE USER 'mangos'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password'; We then need to grant privileges to that user that we can use it later to setup the Mangos schemas (again, do not forget the ';' symbol): GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'mangos'@'localhost'; Exit the terminal: quit Congratulations, you have setup the pre-requisites for the database on Fedora ! Install Mangos: We are now at the interesting part, how do we install Mangos on Fedora ? Well, assuming you are logged in as 'root', go to the home directory: cd ~ Now, we can download our installer: wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mangoszero/server/master/linux/getmangos.sh Set the permissions to be allowed to execute it: chmod 700 getmangos.sh And execute it: ./getmangos.sh Before we go further, some explanations on the available activities: Install Prerequisites will install all the necessary dependencies for you to build & run mangos. Toggled by default. Set Download And Install Paths will allow you to specify where the sources must be downloaded and where the binaries must be installed. Toggled by default. Clone Source repositories will help you cloning the Mangos sources. Toggled by default. Build MaNGOS will assist you in the building process of MaNGOS. Toggled by default. Install MaNGOS will help you installing MaNGOS. Toggled by default. Install Databases will assist you in the database schemas creation. Toggled by default. Extract Resources will help you to extract the DBC, maps, mmaps and vmaps from the game client. Toggled by default. Create Code::Blocks Project File will create a project for the Code::Blocks editor. Do not toggle this option if you don't plan to edit the MaNGOS sources. Now that you know everything, let the default options selected and select 'Ok' thanks to the Tab key. The script is now installing the necessary dependencies on your Fedora. You will be prompted to provide your agreement to install the build dependencies. Select 'Yes' two times. On Fedora, ACE will also be downloaded and built, at this moment, it is the version 6.4.2 which is built by the installer. User selection: Mangos provides you the opportunity to run it under another user than the 'root' one. This is a good practice to isolate softwares and limit the security impact in case of an exploited vulnerability. The default proposed run user is 'mangos' but you can change if you wish. Select 'Ok' to continue. If you have already performed this step, the installer will ask you whether you want to keep that user. I advise you to reply 'Yes' except if you know what you are doing. Choose WoW Release: The next screen is requesting you to choose the WoW release you are willing to install. Select the one you that fits your wish and select 'Ok'. Source-Code Path: The next screen is asking you to provide the source path. By default, the proposed format is /home/<run user>/<wow version>/src. For instance, for a run user 'mangos' and a wow version 'Vanilla', the proposed path will be: /home/mangos/zero/src Reply 'Yes' to create the directory if it does not exist. If it does exist and contains sources, the installer will ask you whether you want to delete the content or not. Installation Path: The next screen is asking you to provide the installation path. This is the location from where you will execute the Mangos processes. By default, the proposed format is /home/<run user>/<wow version>. For instance, for a run user 'mangos' and a wow version 'Vanilla', the proposed path will be: /home/mangos/zero If it does exist and contains compiled sources, the installer will ask you whether you want to delete the content or not. Clone or update MaNGOS: The next step of the script is asking you whether you want to clone, update or use an existing copy of the MaNGOS sources. For a fresh installation, select the option '0 Clone a fresh copy of MaNGOS'. The installer will now connect to Github and check the available development branch, currently, the last stable release is the Rel21 and is hosted in the 'master' branch. The installer is now cloning the server and database repositories. Build Options: You are now at the build step. Some explanations over this screen: Enable Debug will setup debug flags and more tracing on Mangos. Use this build option only if you're requested to to fix a bug. Building a software in debug mode significantly reduces its performances. Use Standard Malloc, toggle this option to use the standard memory allocation. Untoggle this option only if you know what you are doing. Use External ACE libraries. Allows you to use the ACE libraries coming from your system. Untoggle this option only if you know what you are doing. Use PostgreSQL insteald of MySQL/MariaDB. Allows you to use another database provider than the default one. This option has not been tested and, if you have followed the tutorial so far, you should have setup MariaDB ;-) Build Client Tools will build the extractors necessary to get dbc, maps, mmaps and vmaps out of the game client. Unselect this option only if you already have these resources extracted. Use SD3 will allow you to build the ScriptDev3 Engine provided with MaNGOS. We advise you to keep this option toggled except if you don't like living world based on C++ scripts. Use Eluna will allow you to build the Eluna Engine provided with MaNGOS. We advise you to keep this option toggled except if you don't like living world based on LUA scripts. Select 'Ok' to proceed with the build process and confirm that would want to build MaNGOS. The installer is now building MaNGOS. Depending on the speed of your system, you have the time to drink a glass of water or a cup of coffee. :-) Installation: You will now be prompted to install Mangos. Select 'Yes' to install it. Database Operations: Wait.. another database setup ?! Yes, but this time, we are populating the database with the mangos data. You have three options here: Install clean databases to setup a fresh database Update existing databases to update your old version of the database Skip database work... but it wouldn't make sense :-) Select the first option if you are performing a fresh installation. You will be prompted to select your type of database. If you followed the guide so far, you should select "MariaDB". The installer will then request your database information, if you followed the guide, you need to provide the following input: Hostname: localhost Port: 3306 User: mangos Password: password You can now choose into several options: ReInstall the realm database, containing all the realms information and the accounts ReInstall the world database, containing all the world configuration ReInstall the characters database, containing all the characters information Update the realmlist to setup an initial game server By default, all options must be toggled. The installer will now perform the database import. Extract Game Data: This step will copy the extractors to the wow game location, extract dbc, maps, mmaps and vmaps and copy these extracted data to your installation directory. The installer will automatically look for a suitable WoW client into your /home directory. If it doesn't find anything, you will have to provide your game location path. If the provided path doesn't contain any game data, the installer will exit. The extractor steps allows you to select the artifacts you want to extract: DBC and Maps, which are the minimum set of data you need to extract Mmaps which are the movement maps, based on vectoriel calculation, required for an efficient pathfinding Vmaps which are the virtual maps, used for collision detection and LoS detection The Mmaps extraction is taking several hours, you will have the time to sleep or drink several coffees. :-) Congratulations ! You almost did it ! Still few steps to perform before you can play on your preferred game. First of all, you need to switch to your run user. If you used mangos, the command will look like: su - mangos You need then to go to the configuration directory of your installation, if you installed Vanilla, it will look like the following command: cd /home/mangos/zero/etc Copy the realmd.conf.dist and mangosd.conf.dist files to their expected name: cp realmd.conf.dist realmd.conf cp mangosd.conf.dist mangosd.conf Edit the realmd.conf and find the line LoginDatabaseInfo. Provide your database information, according to this guide and if you have installed Vanilla, it should look like: LoginDatabaseInfo = "127.0.0.1;3306;mangos;password;zero_realm" Save your file and edit the file mangosd.conf. You need to provide the database information for the three database we have configured with our installer: LoginDatabaseInfo = "127.0.0.1;3306;mangos;password;zero_realm" WorldDatabaseInfo = "127.0.0.1;3306;mangos;password;zero_world" CharacterDatabaseInfo = "127.0.0.1;3306;mangos;password;zero_characters" Save your file and go back to the 'root' user: exit Make sure it keeps running ! What could be cooler than having the MaNGOS server starting automatically with your server ? Not much... so let's configure systemd to do so ! First of all, we need to tell it that we have two new services. Declare them by creating the corresponding files: touch /etc/systemd/system/realmd.service touch /etc/systemd/system/mangosd.service # Or give it a better name like zero.service if it's a vanilla gaming server for instance. Now, edit the /etc/systemd/system/realmd.service file and add the following content (Replace the installation path and the run user by the settings you have provided during the installation): [Unit] Description=Realmd service After=network.target mariadb.service [Service] Type=simple User=mangos Environment=LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH ExecStart=/home/mangos/zero/bin/realmd -c /home/mangos/zero/etc/realmd.conf Restart=on-abort [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target Save this file and edit the /etc/systemd/system/mangosd.service file (or the better name you gave to it) with the following content (same remark than above the installation path and the run user): [Unit] Description=WoW Vanilla service After=network.target mariadb.service [email protected] [Service] Type=simple User=mangos ExecStart=/home/mangos/zero/bin/mangosd -c /home/mangos/zero/etc/mangosd.conf WorkingDirectory=/home/mangos/zero/bin StandardInput=tty TTYPath=/dev/tty3 TTYReset=yes TTYVHangup=yes Restart=on-abort [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target We are almost there ! You now need to tell systemd to reload its configuration: systemctl daemon-reload And let's start our processes to verify that they work: systemctl start realmd systemctl start mangosd To verify that it worked, execute the following command: systemctl status realmd systemctl status mangosd If it's working properly, you should have an output indicating you the success status for both service. The last step is to tell systemd to execute them at startup, for this, execute the following commands: systemctl enable realmd systemctl enable mangosd Congratulations ! You are now done with the MaNGOS setup on Fedora 25 :-) WARNING! If you have installed mangos into your home directory, the SELinux will block your execution. To disable this check, you can: Install Mangos elsewhere Update the SELinux parameters To update it, you need to edit the file /etc/selinux/config and change the following line: SELINUX=PERMISSIVE You can now reboot your computer to verify that everything is indeed started: reboot