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Hi Thor v2, You put 'true' for the "MailerSMTPUseTLS" setting, so your "MailerSMTPHosts" should be... tls://smtp.gmail.com

Hi dennis259, For future references; you can not host the Athena emulators on a cPanel webhost. It doesn't look like you have a VPS from the information you've posted.

Hi Pixar, I would recommend that you just starting using DIFF patches instead. Generate your own patches, grab a fresh updated SVN (during your update process) and then apply the DIFF patch onto your fresh SVN files. Some errors will pop up, so you should just manually correct it where ever it is necessary. http://docs.moodle.org/dev/How_to_create_a_patch#Creating_a_patch_using_WinMerge

Hi Ron, Almost all the time, that is related to client-lag due to poor client version or due to certain combination of DIFF options they choose for the client. With a budget of $200, go for a cloud server on RackSpace; you can't afford a dedicated with them.

Hi Ron, Softlayer is highly reputable now, and is one of the top dedicated server providers out there in the market. If I had to recommend a dedicated server company, it'd be RackSpace; though their servers are quite expensive. Harmony does not require a lot of CPU/RAM to run; it actually requires very little for the server side, so even a cloud or VPS service can handle an emulator w/ Harmony.

Hi furqanpanjwani, I believe that managed hosting is a waste of money; there's tons of other services which provide you support even when on an un-managed service. And there's really no need to have management for your hosting unless you absolutely have no idea what you are doing.

Hi thecandymachine, Don't believe you can use webhost000 for FluxCP hosting, they disallow external SQL connection; so you'll end up with a PDO Exception error when trying to install it. WAMP shouldn't have done anything to your SQL server, unless it overwrote your previous installation of MySQL. I would suggest you simply back up the database you need, re-install WAMP and then restore your database from those backups.

Hi AngelRO, Host your patch files on a webhost which provides you with a better deal on bandwidth. Keep your MySQL database on the same server as your emulator, it's much more efficient and cuts down on bandwidth. Why do you want to host your SQL database elsewhere anyway? Having a MySQL server away from your emulator's server, is not a good idea since large quantity of transactions may cause a delay during game play due to processing time.

Hi sanosan33, Did you add the custom maps to your mapcache.dat?

Hi Kido, There doesn't seem to be any problems with your login-server_sql. You can keep the processes running by using 'screen'. screen ./login-server_sql Or you could maintain a nohup.out log and run 3 servers at once with this command; nohup ./login-server_sql& nohup ./map-server_sql& nohup ./char-server_sql

Hi Kido, The compile had no issues, that is suppose to be the last line because it completed the compile. The /import folder is filled with empty files, so it has no effect; something you shouldn't worry about.

Hi archilles89, Try contacting your webhost provider, and request them to open your login/char/map ports for your webhost package to listen to your current server's IP. It may be blocked, that's why it's not able to detect the status properly.

Hi Kido, If you are starting up a new Athena emulator, you should not import the upgrade_svnXXXXXX.sql files. As for your current issue, please run 'login-server_sql' alone; it's experiencing an error causing your char server to be unable to connect to X.X.X.X:6900. To start the login server by itself, just use the following commands... cd /location/to/login-server_sql/folder ./login-server_sql

Hi CaioVictor, CSF is really easy to use; after installation, you just edit '/etc/csf/csf.conf' and change values to whatever you like. Everything is explained well in the csf.conf file.

Hi CaioVictor, What kind of service do you have? Dedicated Server? OpenVZ? KVM? XEN? Ping Flood only limits ping requests, it has no affect on your RO gameplay. Anti-Spoof is a kernel-related; it may eat up a bit more CPU & RAM; though it also has no affect on your RO gameplay (unless CPU & RAM becomes exhausted).

Hi pachupappy1234, It would be the same as if you were configuring an individual server. Just edit the /conf files within your 2nd set of emulator files to change the rates and such for your 2nd server.

Hi CaioVictor, Looks good to me.

Hi CaioVictor, I would not recommend fail2ban over CSF, CSF is definitely better. Also, I would recommend that you find out why your RO emulator is crashing; I still doubt that it is DDOS attacks.

Hi CaioVictor, But DDoS attacks do not shut off your map/char/login servers; they only affect your server's network... it shouldn't be closing your servers down.

Hi CaioVictor, ICMP/Ping Requests are limited in the firewall script... as you should have been able to see clearly. If your phpMyAdmin is hosted on your RO server, then I guess you should leave it alone and have the port 80/443 rules.

Hi CaioVictor, I would remove this from your code; # Web server (http, https) $IPT -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 80 -m state --state NEW,RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT $IPT -A OUTPUT -p tcp --sport 80 -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT $IPT -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 443 -m state --state NEW,RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT $IPT -A OUTPUT -p tcp --sport 443 -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT # Web Client $IPT -A INPUT -p tcp --sport 80 -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT $IPT -A OUTPUT -p tcp --dport 80 -m state --state NEW,RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT It should work fine; you do not need port 80 to be opened if you are not hosting your website on your server itself.

Hi CaioVictor, Can you copy & paste the message?

Hi CaioVictor, I would fix "$IPT -f OUTPUT" to have -F, and also to remove the last 2 lines since they are duplicates. This is only a quick glance, but it looks okay to me.

Hi BugsLIFE, Your MySQL has to be configured to run on port 3333, then restarted. But why would you change the port? You would have to do this for your emulator as well. FluxCP can't be set to query MySQL on port 3333 unless your MySQL server is actually listening to port 3333, by default; MySQL is set to use 3306.

Hi pachupappy1234, For your 2nd server, just run the char/map server and have them connect to your pre-existing login server with a new set of server communication user/pass. In your `login` table for your ragnarok SQL database, you need to add ID#2 with gender of 'S' to set up the server communication user/pass for your 2nd server. Also, change the default ports for the 2nd server's char/map to ones which you do not use; but still use the same login server port as the one in your 1st server.