Installing eAthena on Debian 5.0 (Lenny), LINUX VPS

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An eAthena Linux Installation Guide - Debian

Open up terminal. For VPS/dedicated users, use Putty or something similar and SSH to your server as root.

Preparation step:

Skip this step if you have LAMP, phpmyadmin, GCC and SVN installed on your machine.

Input this on terminal*:

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aptitude install php5 phpmyadmin mysql-server mysql-client apache2 gcc svn libmysqlclient15-dev make zlib1g-dev libpcre3-dev

Making a user for eAthena: Do not run eAthena as root! This poses security risks!0

Input this on terminal:

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adduser ro

It will ask for a password and a confirmation so do those steps. It will ask for user information for 'ro'. Not filling in the information is fine. When it asks you if the information is correct, input Y. Before proceeding to the next step, make sure that you're in your ro folder by cd'ing to it. Your ro user's folder will be in /home/ so cd to that by doing the following:

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cd /home/ro

Installing your eAthena:

The next part will be installing your eAthena. If you want trunk, input this:

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svn co http://svn.eathena.ws/svn/ea/trunk/

For stable, input this:

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svn co http://svn.eathena.ws/svn/ea/branches/stable/

SQL or TXT?:

Before your eAthena can start, you must compile it according to your preference: SQL or TXT. For SQL, input this:

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./configure && make clean then

./configure && make sql

For TXT

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./configure && make clean then

./configure && make txt

The databases:

Point your browser to your phpmyadmin. This would most likely be your IP/phpmyadmin. (e.g. 69.71.113.12/phpmyadmin). Once you're there, create a new database named 'ragnarok'. Then, navigate to the database and point to privileges. Add a user 'ragnarok' with password 'ragnarok' that has all privileges to database 'ragnarok'. Import your main.sql, item_db.sql, item_db2.sql, mob_db.sql and mob_db2.sql. Make a new database called 'log' and import logs.sql. Give user 'ragnarok' all privileges to database 'log'. You can configure the user and password as you wish but make sure you edit inter_athena.conf inside your /conf/ folder for it to correspond with your user's credentials!

Starting & stopping eAthena:

To start:

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./athena-start start

To Stop:

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./athena-start start

To Restart:

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./athena-start restart

Original guide at Ragezone..

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