So basically .nyud.net is a domain name used by CoralCDN (a free Content Delivery Network) that allows you (as a website owner) to utilize their CDN Service to serve your content directly from their servers. And in most case, usually CoralCDN is used by many site owners when their website that is hosted on small server / shared hosting got linked from many popular website such as Digg, Slashdot, Reddit, etc. to help them survive the effect (Check this wikipedia page for more info) … although it can be used for any other purpose as well … like for example if you host your site from your own computer that doesn’t have enough bandwidth to supply all your site visitors, or just simply want to reduce the load on your server, or perhaps just to save bandwidth :D

And so without further ado, here’s on how to use CoralCDN as your personal site saver :)

Note: This is tested on Apache Web Server 2.2, and also make sure to enable mod_rewrite and mod_headers before continuing with this process

As for on how to enable mod_headers and mod_rewrite, just open your httpd.conf that is located in your Apache installation directory and locate this lines:

#LoadModule headers_module modules/mod_headers.so
#LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

And remove the # character to enable them so it’ll looks like this

LoadModule headers_module modules/mod_headers.so
LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

Now the process begin:

Using CoralCDN to serve your static files such as images, javascript, etc

1. Locate the directory / folder where you placed all of your images and create (or edit if exists) the .htaccess file inside that directory (may be multiple depending on where you stored all of your static files)
2. Determine how you can access all of your static files using your browser. For example if you put all of your images under your Apache Document root/images/photo.jpg, that mean it can be accessed by typing http://www.example.com/images/photo.jpg on your browser
3. Insert these lines into your .htaccess file to redirect all the requests made to that images directory (based from the above example) to be served by CoralCDN and if you have reached your limit on CoralCDN, all the request will be reverted back to your site/server:

Header append X-Coral-Control "redirect-home"
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !^CoralWebPrx
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !(^|&)coral-no-serve$
RewriteRule ^images/(.*)$ http://www.example.com.nyud.net/images/$1 [R,L]

Alternatively, if you prefer to make all requests made by your self to not get redirected to CoralCDN (so that mean all of your site visitors will be served by CoralCDN but not you), you can use these instead:

Header append X-Coral-Control "redirect-home"
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !^CoralWebPrx
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} !^123\.456\.789\.0
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !(^|&)coral-no-serve$
RewriteRule ^images/(.*)$ http://www.example.com.nyud.net/images/$1 [R,L]

And replace !^123\.456\.789\.0 with your IP Address

That’s it … and you’re done … now you can save your server resources and bandwidth by offloading all static images to CoralCDN, unless of course you want to completely offload your site to CoralCDN, which is described below

Using CoralCDN to serve all requests made to your site

1. Locate the Document Root of your site
2. Create (or edit) .htaccess file on your document root
3. Insert these lines

Header append X-Coral-Control "redirect-home"
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !^CoralWebPrx
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !(^|&)coral-no-serve$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com.nyud.net/$1 [R,L]

And just like before if you want to exclude your self from being redirected to CoralCDN you can always add

RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} !^123\.456\.789\.0

Before RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !(^|&)coral-no-serve$

But what if you get 500 Internal Server Error message after placing the above code? that means you haven’t enabled mod_headers and or mod_rewrite yet, or you mistype something … somewhere

p.s. Although it’s possible to use Conditional Check to make sure that even if you forget to enable mod_rewrite and mod_headers to not throw error message, but for this purpose i think it’s better not to use conditional check so you’ll know whether the redirection to CoralCDN is working or not … and if it’s not working because mod_headers and mod_rewrite not enabled, you’ll get a beautiful 500 Internal Server Error Message

p.p.s Be warned, there is a limit on CoralCDN (i’m not sure on how big/small the limits are) so whenever you’ve reached your limit you’ll get the amazing 403 Forbidden Error, but with the mod_headers placed when Coral return 403 error, all the requests will be reverted back to your site

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Description:

• Name: Command name
• Security: Minimum GM Level Required to execute the command
• Help: Command description

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First  Things first!!! Pay attention to the instuctions directly do not vear off and think you know what your doing because you wouldnt be reading this if you knew what you was doing…jking but still stay to the instructions.

1. Install wow 2.4.3 and make sure you have the correct version I repeat 2.4.3. ok now off to the good stuff.

2. Download and install MYSQL follow the instructions that are provided for you on the page. Even if you have installed mysql before reread the instuctions and follow to a T.

3. After you have finished installing mysql download and install .net framework 3.5 SP1. This is also provided for you on the web page. If you have previous installations of MYSQL uninstall it and delete any sql folders left over and then reinstall.

4. Now download the Trinity Core 595 SD2 809 (Trinity/UDB ONLY) FULL | 18.0 MB | Rapidshare (or from any mirror you choose) and then extract it. I usually extract it to the desktop. you can extract it by double clicking on the file.

5.After you get the mysql loaded and configured there are some changes that you have to make. go to your desktop folder called Reaper-X Trinity Rev 1 and then open it. then open the folder labeled install database.Now right click on the Install Reaper-X Trinity.bat file and edit it in notepad. you must add qotes as seen below.. Also you must make sure that the correct path is typed for where the bin file is located.What you see below is my path make sure you type your path.After your done editing this file save and close it.

REM ####################################################
  REM # MySQL HOST PATH - MySQL Server Path
  REM # EXAMPLE: C:\Program Files\MySQL Community 5.0\bin
  REM ####################################################
  set mysqlpath="c:\Program Files\mysql\MySQLServer5.0\bin" <--notice the qoutes in the path.

6. Now open the Reaper-X Trinity Rev 1 folder that is located on your desktop. Hang in there were getting to the good parts.

7. You should see a bunch of files and 4 folders when you open it up.

8. The first thing we want to do when we get this folder open is fill the folder that says data with the correct stuff. If you open the data folder up you will see three folders. DBC ,maps and Vmaps. DBC is already filled with the correct stuff, dont touch, delete or anything right now. If you open maps and Vmaps the folders are empty and that is ok. We are going to fill them with the correct data.

9. Close out of the Data windows that you have open so that you are back at your desktop and reopen the Reaper-X Trinity Rev 1 folder.Now open the extractors folder. You should see a folder and a file. Folder named vmap extractor and assembler. and a file named map and DBC extractor.exe.

10. Open the vmap extractor and assembler folder and you should see 4 files in there. Copy all 4 files and then paste them into your c:\program files\world of warcraft\data\enus directory and then run the RUN ME FOR VMAPS!.bat file. This will create the VMAPS folder. this may take a while so just wait till it tells you it is done.

11. Ok after Vmaps are created copy the folder name vmaps that has now been created, into the Reaper-X Trinity Rev 1 folder under the data folder. This is where the three folders are that I talked about earlier (maps,vmaps,dbc). copy all the contents from vmaps into the folder named vmaps in there. So now you should have a filled dbc folder and a filled vmaps folder in there. the maps folder is empty still but we are going to add data in a minute in there also.

12. Ok now we need to put data into the map folder so the way to do that is go to Reaper-X Trinity Rev 1 (on your dekstop) folder again and go to extractors. copy the map and dbc extractor.exe file to the c:\program files\world of warcraft folder and paste it there. now run the maps and dbc extractor.exe file. This will start to install the maps to a folder called maps. see how easy that is. Once it is done you now need to open the maps folder it created and copy the contents or data, and then paste it into the folder called maps located in the Reaper-X Trinity Rev 1\data\maps folder (you know the folder on your dekstop). now the DBC, VMAPS and MAPS folder all have data in them. YAY!!!

13. Now you need to move those folders to the correct location. Go to your c:\drive and make a folder there on the root called WOW. now open the wow folder you just created and make another folder in there called DATA. Now open the DATA folder you just created. Now go to your desktop and inside your Reaper-X Trinity Rev 1 folder open the data folder. You should see the three folders in there (maps,vmaps and DBC) copy all three folders into the DATA folder we just created previously. so when done you should have 3 folders in you c:\wow\data path. maps,vmaps and DBC should be in there.

14. Now you need to run the Install Reaper-X Trinity.bat file(located in the Reaper-X Trinity Rev 1 folder on your desktop under the install database folder. Run this file and it will take a while for this too run.

15. once it is done it should close on its own if not hit any key and it should close.

16. Now you need to download Navicat program. this will allow you to edit the sql files. after downloading Navicat make a new connection and name it whatever you want.username should be root or whatever you made it when you set SQl up. Put your password in whatever you made the password.Click test and it should be sucessful. Now open the realmd tables and then go to realmlist. once you open realmlist you will see a table probably empty and this is where you need to add your realm name. Put your realm name where it says realm name and then put your IP address where it says ip address(127.0.0.1). The ID should be 1. close Navicat out.

17. Now go back to your desktop and open the trinityrealm.exe file and you should see your realm listed in there.

18. Now open click on the trinitycore.exe file and it should start scripting, let it run.

19. Once it is finished you now need to create an account so you can play. Hit enter to get a command prompt. Type account create (login name anything you want) (your password). Hit enter it should say account created.

20. Now if you want Gm power in which im sure you do type account set gm (username) 3 and hit enter. should have a GM account now.

21. Now you need to create the TBC (The burning  Crusade) addon so you can play in the Burning Crusade area. Type account set addon (Your username) 1.

22. Navigate to c:\program files\world of warcraft. Look for the realmlist.wtf file. right click on it and click on edit. Should open a notepad. Now take everything out of there and type “set realmlist 127.0.0.1″ without the quotes. Save and close.

22. You can now open Wow and type your username and Password and login to your realm and play as a GM.

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And to make things short, let’s get straight to the point ;)

1. First you’ll need to grab Bind from the ISC homepage (grab the Windows version of course), and at the time i wrote this, the latest Bind / Named version is 9.5.0–P1

2. When you’ve finished downloading BIND, now just you need to extract it somewhere on your harddrive and then followed by running BINDInstall.exe to install BIND. But first as a note, in this example i choose to Install BIND into C:\BIND

3. After the installation process finished, you’ll need to set up an environment variable path first to make it easier for you to call various BIND tools from any directory inside the command prompt. To do this you just need to go into Control Panel -> System -> Advanced -> Environment Variable. And then add / edit PATH to your BIND\bin directory … and based from this example the BIND\bin directory would be C:\BIND\bin

4. Now you need to create two folders / directories inside your BIND directory, let’s called it log (the end result would be C:\BIND\log) and zone (C:\BIND\zone)

5. Now to set up caching nameserver on windows using bind (so you can start the BIND service), you need to create a filename inside the etc directory under BIND directory called named.conf and then write these lines into the named.conf


options {
directory "c:\bind\zone";
allow-query { localhost; };
forwarders { XXXXXX; XXXXXX; };
forward only; query-source address * port 53;
};
logging {
channel queries_log {
file "c:\bind\log\queries.log";
print-severity yes;
print-time yes;
};
category queries { queries_log ; };
};
zone "localhost." IN {
type master;
file "localhost.zone";
allow-update { none; };
};
zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa." IN {
type master;
file "localhost.rev";
allow-update { none; };
};
include "c:\bind\etc\rndc.key";


Note: Change XXXX into your ISP DNS Server, and also i put a logging for every request made but you can always turned off the logging feature if you want

6. Now you need to create two files inside the zone directory (C:\Bind\Zone) called localhost.zone, and localhost.rev and then write these lines:

localhost.zone


$TTL 86400
@ IN SOA @ root (
42 ; serial
3H ; refresh
15M ; retry
1W ; expiry
1D ) ; minimum
IN NS @
IN A 127.0.0.1
IN AAAA ::1


localhost.rev


$TTL 86400
@ IN SOA localhost. root.localhost. (
1997022700 ; Serial
28800 ; Refresh
14400 ; Retry
3600000 ; Expire
86400 ) ; Minimum
IN NS localhost.
1 IN PTR localhost.


7. Now you need to open the command prompt and type:


cd C:\BIND\bin
rndc-confgen -a


8. Now go into windows directory -> system32 -> drivers -> etc … and create a filename called resolv.conf and write this line into resolv.conf

nameserver 127.0.0.1

9. Now we need to start the BIND service first. To do this you just need to type services.msc from the RUN Command or you can also get into Windows services from Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Services … and then start the ISC BIND service

10. Since everything has been configured, the last step would be testing it of course, to do this you just need to go into the command prompt and type:

dig reaper-x.com

At the first time you’ll see something like this (note: result may vary)

Query time: 453 msec

Now type (again)

dig reaper-x.com

and if you get (or at least the query time gets reduced)

Query time: 0 msec

11. Finally you just need to change the preferred DNS Server in your connection into 127.0.0.1 and you’re done

That means you’ve configured your caching nameserver using BIND on windows to cache dns request, congrats :)

But wait, what if you want to flush your dns cache? .. in order to flush your dns cache, all you have to do is just execute this command in the command prompt

rndc flush

Well basically that’s all about it :)

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As a side note, actually this guide has been requested since a loooong time ago, but since i already have Microsoft Visual Studio Professional Edition already installed and downloading Microsoft Visual Studio Express is going to take a while for my slow connection, i decided to postpone it. Also as another note, this guide was made on a fresh installation of Windows XP SP3 without any other programs installed other than visual studio express and tortoise svn, which means that if it works on a freshly installed machine without any additional runtime installed, then on a live computer it should work too (unless your windows system files got corrupted of course)

And so here are the steps ..

Getting the Subversion (SVN) Client for Windows

You have two choice here, the first one is you can get a command line svn client (i’m using this) or if you prefer to have graphical based svn client you can also use it, but no matter which svn client you choose (cli or gui), i’ll write the steps below. So feel free to choose which svn client you prefer :)

Using Command Line SVN Client

1. First you need to grab the Subversion Command Line SVN Client from

http://subversion.tigris.org/files/documents/15/41686/svn-1.4.6-setup.exe

(actually there’s a more recent version of subversion but since you need to register in order to download the file i’m choose the above link instead)

2. Now all you have to do is just install it into the location of your choice

3. In order to test whether the SVN has been installed properly and you can run it anywhere from the command line, now you need to open command line and then type svn. And if you get the same message as shown below, that means subversion have been installed properly on your system

Using Tortoise SVN GUI Client

1. First you need to download the client from (don’t forget to choose the correct release for your system)

http://tortoisesvn.net/downloads

2. Install it and when prompted to restart your computer choose yes to restart your computer (or no if you plan on manually restarting your computer at later time)

3. Now if you can see below image when you right click anywhere that means TortoiseSVN has been installed properly

Getting Microsoft Visual C++ Express 2008

Because we have finished setting up the subversion client on our computer, all we have to do next is download the C++ Compiler itself in order to compile mangos and scriptdev2. And you can choose to download the ISO file or the Web installation setup file, but since the ISO file is just too big for me to download, i choose to use the Web Install method and only install the C++ Compiler only without anything else

1. Download Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Express from

http://www.microsoft.com/express/download/

Note: The iso filesize is around 800MB (if i recall correctly) while the Visual C++ Web Install is just around 87MB only

2. And then install it, and don’t worry it’ll take a while for the install process to finish

Download Mangos Source code and Scripdev2 Source code from their SVN Repository

After finished setting up the tools we need to compile mangos and scriptdev2, now we need to grab the mangos and scriptdev2 source code itself of course. Follow the steps below to download mangos sourcecode and scriptdev2 sourcecode

Using Commandline Subversion Client

1. Go to the command prompt and change the directory into something else where you want to place your downloaded mangos source code, and in this example the source code would be placed under C:\SVN … see below image for an example on how to do this

What the above command does is, first it change the directory into the root directory of your drive and then create the svn directory and then go directly inside it … but just in case you can’t see the above image because you block the referer here’s the command

cd \ && md SVN && cd svn

2. Now you need to checkout the mangos source code first, and to do this you just need to type below command from the command prompt

svn co http://mangos.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/mangos/trunk mangos

Note: the above command means it’ll checkout the source code to a mangos directory (automatically created), but if you want different directory name you can change mangos at the end of the command into something else, and you need to do this only once (unless you want to redownload the mangos source code again after you’ve downloaded it before)

2.1 Now if you want to update your mangos source code in the future, all you have to do is just type below command from your SVN Directory

cd c:\SVN
svn up mangos

or if you want to update it from anywhere in the command prompt

svn up C:\SVN\mangos

Note: If you change the mangos directory before, you need to change the above value into your mangos source code directory too

3. Now after finished downloading mangos source code, you need to download the scriptdev2 source code too, and you can do this by typing

cd C:\SVN
svn co http://scriptdev2.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/scriptdev2 scriptdev2

3.1 And to update the scriptdev2 in the future you just need to use the same command like updating mangos source

cd c:\SVN
svn up scriptdev2

Additional Note: You can always create a batch file to make updating your mangos / scriptdev source code easy by simply executing that batch file instead of typing the above command whenever you want to update mangos, but just make sure to use the full path if you want to use a batch file

Using TortoiseSVN GUI

1. The first thing you need of course it checkout the mangos source code from it’s svn repository and to do this you just need to right click on a folder of your choice and choose checkout to grab the source code, see below image for example

2. And another window will pop out, and all you have to do is just insert the mangos svn address and scriptdev2 svn address as shown below

3. And to update it in the future … you just need to go into the SVN directory (in this example C:\SVN) and then right click on each folder (mangos and or scriptdev2) and then choose svn update

Compiling Mangos

After finished with all the preparation above, now we need to compile mangos and this can be done simply by going into where you placed your mangos source code, and go inside win directory and open the mangosdVC90.sln file. In this example because i put the mangos source code in C:\SVN\mangos the full path is C:\SVN\mangos\win\mangosdVC90.sln … but to make things easier to read here’s a detailed process on how it’s done

1. Go to Win directory under your mangos source code folder and then open mangosdVC90.sln and Visual Studio Express will open automatically

2. Now all you have to do is just change the Build Output from Debug to Release and then choose Build from the toolbar and then choose Clean Solution and finally choose Rebuild Solution and wait until it’s done … see below image for example

Compiling Scriptdev2

After finished compiling mangos now we need to compile scriptdev2 to enhance mangos … here’s a detailed explanation on how to do it

1. Copy the entire scriptdev2 directory into your mangos bindings directory, and in this example the full path of mangos bindings directory would be C:\SVN\mangos\src\bindings and the final results would be C:\SVN\mangos\src\bindings\scriptdev2 and get into that directory

2. Now you just need to open scriptVC90.sln and Visual Studio will be launched automatically

3. Do the same process like mangos and that is … change the Build Output into Release -> Clean Solution -> Rebuild Solution and … done

Final Output

You can see the final output of your mangos build in your mangos source code directory under bin\win32_release … in this example the full path would be C:\SVN\mangos\bin\win32_release … and finally don’t forget to copy the mangosd.conf.in and realmd.conf.in and scriptdev2.conf from mangos directory (just use your windows search function) into the same directory as your mangos release directory and remove .in extension (so it’ll result in mangosd.conf, realmd.conf, and scriptdev2.conf)

As a side note, you can always change compiler option as you like it

Miscellaneous Information

Using Custom Patches

So we are done with compiling mangos, but what if you found a great patch somewhere and want to include it into your mangos source code? … well there are two ways to do this … and of course the first way of doing this is via command line (i’m using this), while the second way to do this is via Tortoise SVN Graphical User Interface (GUI)

And in this example the patch is called reaper-test.patch (but you can use a file with .diff extension too)

Using The Command Line Client to Apply Patch

1. Grab the unix patch tools that is already ported for Windows system from below link (download the complete package without sources unless you know what you’re doing) and then install it

http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/patch.htm

2. After finished with the installation process now you need to setup an environment variable path so you can run the patch command from anywhere in the command prompt, to do this you need to open Control Panel -> System -> Advanced Tab -> Environment Variable -> Edit the system PATH as shown below

Note: If you use another directory to install the patch command, make sure to adjust that to your installation path

3. Put the patch file into the root of your mangos source directory (in this example it would be C:\svn\mangos)

4. After finished setting up everything now we can test patching file manually from the command line using this command

patch -p0 patch-filename

but please note depending on how the patch file created you need to adjust the directory level by changing the -p0 into -pnumber … depending on the directory level itself but in most case you just need to put the patch into the root of mangos source code and then use the above command :)

5. Now you just need to recompile mangos in order for the patch to be applied to the mangos code

Using TortoiseSVN GUI to Apply Patch

1. Put the patch file into your mangos source code directory

2. Right click on the patch filename and choose to Apply Patch, and when another window displayed you just need to right click on the filename listed at the left window and choose Patch All

3. Now you need to recompile mangos in order for the patch to be applied

Finally …

That’s all for compiling mangos on windows system, and hopefully now you can compile your own mangos release without problem. And i do hope that you can understand this guide. But please keep this in mind, this is a guide on how to compile mangos and scriptdev2 manually, you still need to configure mangos in order for it to work. And as a final note, back then actually i already wrote a guide on how to configure mangos manually just in case you want to see it too (btw since that guide is created before i created my own repack so perhaps that is a little bit outdated although not too outdated, and ooh i can always rewrite it again if anyone wants me to do it)

and hopefully i didn’t forget / miss anything ..

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The first way of doing this is using a proxy to bypass megaupload limitation, and of course i’ve used it in the past although it’s been quite a while before i switched to another method

The second way and probably the easiest way to bypass megaupload slot limit of course is by installing Megaupload Toolbar into your browser, and it is legal of course unless you’re just like me and don’t like their toolbar after testing it on a virtual machine, and that means you need to get another trick up your sleeve in order to bypass megaupload

The third way of doing this (and currently i’m using this trick too) is simply by using a greasemonkey script that makes your browser pretends to have megaupload toolbar installed (megaupload , but since that script can only be used on Firefox and Opera based browser, i don’t know on how to do this if you are using Internet Explorer as your browser (or if you really want to use the greasemonkey script all you have to do is just download opera and or firefox and only use it to download files from megaupload) .. and of course this is the method that i’m going to explain instead of the above two ;)

Step on how to do it:

If you are using Firefox:

1. Install the Greasemonkey extension for your firefox browser and then restart your browser – Link
2. Download the Megaupload Cookie Injection Script – Link (the filename is megaupload-ck-inject.user.js)
3. When you see this message just choose to install it … or you can also take a look at the script source if you want … and done

If you are using Opera:

1. Download the Megaupload Cookie Injection Script – Link (the filename is megaupload-ck-inject.user.js)
2. Make a directory somewhere for script so Opera can load it as userjs and move that file into the newly created directory (for example C:\OperaUserJS)
3. Now go to Tools -> Preferences -> Advanced Tab -> Content -> Javascript Options … and then adjust the Opera userjs directory accordingly as shown at below image for an example and your done :)

Now you can bypass the megaupload slot limitation for your country, so why do you need to use a megaupload proxy if you use this? (well perhaps this method will become obsolete in the future when there are too many users using this method but at least for now i can still use this method to bypass megaupload) :P

But as a side note, if you’re using UserJS and / or greasemonkey script i’d suggest you to take a look into the script source first because if you’re installing a script from some unknown source you’ll be in trouble later

And finally to those who are wondering how the script looks like here’s the code (note: i didn’t create this script, so full credits goes to WinterMute for creating this)

// Megaupload Cookie
// (c) Wintermute 2007
//
// --------------------------------------------------------------------
//
// This is a Greasemonkey user script.
//
// To install, you need Greasemonkey: http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/
// Then restart Firefox and revisit this script.
// Under Tools, there will be a new menu item to "Install User Script".
// Accept the default configuration and install.
//
// To uninstall, go to Tools/Manage User Scripts,
// select "Megaupload Cookie Inject", and click Uninstall.
//
// --------------------------------------------------------------------
//
// ==UserScript==
// @name Megaupload slot limit hack
// @namespace http://www.ms.mff.cuni.cz/~hosel4am
// @description allows you to bypass megaupload slot limit without installing their toolbar
// @include *megaupload*
// ==/UserScript==
function createCookie(name,value,days) {
if (days) {
var date = new Date();
date.setTime(date.getTime()+(days*24*60*60*1000));
var expires = "; expires="+date.toGMTString();
}
else var expires = "";
document.cookie = name+"="+value+expires+"; path=/";
}
createCookie('megauploadtoolbar_visibility', 'yes', 7);
createCookie('megauploadtoolbar_id', '197A9F07D8724E438DEBE1C11EBBE405', 7);

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So here goes the guide :

Requirements :

1. Know how to set up port forwarding (very important if you’re behind router or no one will be able to access your wow server no matter what you do) … but since every router has their own configuration page, i’d suggest you to read your router manual on how to configure it

btw i’m using Linksys AG241V2 and Aztech DSL600EU as seen on above image

2. Know how to configure firewall to allow connection on specific port, as a note Windows XP built-in Firewall is enabled by default (Windows Firewall) … btw if it’s for me i’m using Ghostwall as my personal firewall

3. DNS Name for your WoW server to make things easier and you can get it for free from Dyndns.com, no-ip.com, etc

4. Your friend to test whether it works or not :P

Let’s start the guide :

PART 1. Find your public IP Address

1. First you’ll need to go into whatismyip.com to get your public ip address (public ip address is ip address that is broadcasted while you were browsing / doing any internet activity)

PART 2. Get a DNS Name

2. Now you’ll need to pay a visit to various dynamic dns service to get your free name, but since it’ll be very long if i write the detailed process here, so i’ll leave that to you to decide what your dns name going to be, and in this example i’m going to call the wow server, mycoolwowserver.com

PART 3. Using Reaper Mangos to configure realmd

3. For the third steps you just need to run the reaper-x-mangos inside the reaper-eazy-mangos directory and choose option 5 like below for an example

Now you can just simply ignore the message that is basically saying that you need to write your LAN IP Address (well … creating public server is against mangos terms of use) :P … and write your wowserver dns name that you get from Dynamic DNS Service (in this example i’m using mycoolwowserver.com which is a fake name of course) and followed by writing your desired Realm Name

(click the image to see the full size)

Now we’re done with the Mangos part but don’t start mangosd.exe and realmd.exe process yet, because we need to configure your router first

PART 4. Find your LAN IP Address and your Router IP Address

4. Now for this step, you’ll need to find what is your router ip address and your LAN IP Address that is connected to your router, this can be done by :

1. Double clicking on your active connection status on Windows System Tray (the area near clock) or
2. from Control Panel » Network Connection » and double clicking on your Ethernet Card listed there or
3. Browse to any website and lookup your active connection status by typing netstat -n via the command prompt and look at the local address followed by typing netstat -rn

See example image below :

Now based from the above image, you can get your router ip address and your lan ip address that is connected to your router. And in this case the router ip address is 192.168.1.1 while the ethernet ip address is 192.168.1.2

PART 5. Set up Port Forwarding

5. After getting your router ip address now we need to open it’s configuration page by simply typing 192.168.1.1 at your address bar of your internet browser

Note: Screenshot were taken from my Linksys AG241V2 router (click the image to see full size)

The default port used by Realmd is 3724 while the default port for World is 8085, now … since we have that information … we can set up port forwarding by writing that value into your router configuration page at port forwarding section … and we’re done configuring our router … but wait …

Since every router have their own configuration page, i’d suggest you to look at your router manual on how to set up port forwarding on your router or you can also visit portforward.com if you need help on setting up port forwarding

PART 6. Configuring Windows Firewall

Although i’m not using Windows Firewall as stated before at the requirements section, i’ve decided to write a guide on how to configure your windows firewall to allow connection to your computer for your World of Warcraft server purpose … because … most people seems to not have installed 3rd party firewall and i’m thinking probably they still use Windows Firewall … but let’s get back to the topic shall we ? :)

Note: This is based from Windows XP SP2, and i can’t remember if there’s configuration like below on Windows XP SP1 or below because of the same reason i stated before

6. Now you need to go into Control Panel » Windows Firewall and make sure that Don’t allow exceptions is unchecked

Then you’ll need to open the Exceptions tab, and then click on Add Port and add value as shown below and click OK

and then click on Add Port again and this time write below value

And then Click OK and then Click OK again to leave the Windows Firewall Configuration Window, and we’re done configuring Windows Firewall :)

If you’re using other Firewall, then you’ll need to configure it as shown above

PART 7. Port Scanning

Now we need to use online port scanner to test whether the port is accessible from the internet or not, and we can do this by using uTorrent Port Scanner (simple but useful) and the steps to do these are :

1. Start Realmd.exe and Mangosd.exe process (do not run WoW.exe yet, or in other words don’t run world of warcraft yet)

2. Go to below url to scan your pc :

http://www.utorrent.com/testport.php?port=3724

http://www.utorrent.com/testport.php?port=8085

3. See if you get message that is saying your port is open or not (you’ll get two results)

4. If you get the above message that means you’ve finished creating your own wow server to be accessible from the internet … Congrats! … but wait there’s still one more step for you to do ;)

PART 8. Editing Windows HOSTS File

Now you need to edit your Windows HOSTS file located at C:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts and add below line after everything else (do not replace any value there)

192.168.1.2 mycoolwowserver.com

or in this format :

lanipaddress dnsname

and that’s it you’re finished (seriously) :D

I’m still having problem even after doing all of the above steps!

Usually if you still having problem probably that’s because :

1. You didn’t set up port forwarding properly
2. You didn’t configure your firewall properly
3. The default realmd port (3724) conflict with Blizzard Updater (Blizzard Updater use P2P to transfer update data by default unless you disable it to let it only update from HTTP Protocol on Blizzard server) or conflict with other program

For most people it seems number 3 is the source of their problem, so try doing these :

1. Open Realmd.conf and search for 3724 and then replace it with another value (above 10000 to be safe) and then continue setting up port forwarding, etc (from Step number 5 in this guide until finish) for the new port value

2. Then open realmlist.wtf file on your World of Warcraft Directory and change the realmlist to use the new port (if you’re not using default port then you’ll need to write the port used by your realmd process too or else your friend or you won’t be able to connect to your own server)

here’s an example of what the realmlist.wtf file should look like if you changed your realmd port from it’s default value :

set realmlist mycoolwowserver:9999

at the above example the realmd port is set to 9999, if you use another value then make sure to use that value instead

That’s it hopefully this new guide can help you on setting up your own World of Warcraft Server for … erm LAN Party :P and i didn’t miss anything

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Once again, if you’re going to upgrade your Reaper Mangos installation, make sure you’re using 1 version below the current release or you’ll lose all of your character data (unless you’ve created a backup before) and other customization made by yourself. So without further ado here goes the guide

Requirements :

1. MySQL Community Edition (Free) … as for the installation guide, you can read my previous post on how to install MySQL on Windows

Important: Grab the version 5.0 setup.exe version instead of 5.1 or 6.0 because the 5.1 series is still in Release Candidate stage while the 6.0 version is still at early alpha stage and not recommended for production use

2. World of Warcraft Client (supported version changed on each release)

3. Reaper Mangos itself

p.s the image itself might be outdated but the process is still the same :)

Fresh Installation :

Once again, please Note : Fresh installation will overwrite your database which means everything will be from fresh

1. First you’ll need to install MySQL

2. And the next step would be extracting Maps, DBC and VMaps from your World of Warcraft installation … (Maps and DBC are required in order for mangos to run, while VMaps are optional)

3. Run the reaper-x-mangos.exe inside the reaper-eazy-mangos folder, and you’ll get something like below image for an example, and then you just need to write the full path to your mysql installation directory (where mysql.exe and mysqldump.exe can be found) ;)

If you’re didn’t write the correct path, you can be sure that you’ll get an error message at the next step

4. Now you just need to choose option number 1 to install the database as shown below, and when prompted for your mysql root password, don’t forget to write the correct password … :)

And one more thing, when you see something like in The Matrix movie (well … that’s how people called it) :) , you just need to wait until it finished and don’t interrupt the process

5. After finished with the database installation, now you need to choose option number 4 (required, unless you know how to edit the mangosd.conf manually) to adjust the datadir and adjust the exp rate, and drop rate (although the most important thing is your datadir path

6. After finished with all of the above process, all you have to do now is just open the realmlist.wtf file in your World of Warcraft installation directory (the default location can be found at C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft) using Notepad, Wordpad, or your favorite text editor and then …

Replace :

set realmlist us.logon.worldofwarcraft.com
set patchlist us.version.worldofwarcraft.com

With :

set realmlist 127.0.0.1

and then save it and close realmlist.wtf file

7. Now you just need to run mangosd.exe and realmd.exe from your mangos directory and then the next step would be creating your own username with your desired password for your own WoW server account as shown on below image followed by typing setgm to give yourself a GM level account

Btw if you can’t see what you should type inside the mangosd window from the above image, actually you just need to type :

create username password

to create the account, and then to allow your account to access The Burning Crusade Expansion pack (like BloodElf) you need to type :

setbc username 1

and finally :

setgm username (1–3)
for example setgm myusername 3

to give yourself GM Access at certain level (3 is the highest level and should only be used on your account while normal player is 0)

Optional :
If you want to change the server name into something else, you can use the reaper-x-mangos.exe to adjust it :)

Upgrading Reaper Mangos :

Make sure to backup your Characters data before upgrading

Upgrading Reaper Mangos can be done by simply running the reaper-x-upgrade.bat in Upgrade folder in reaper-eazy-mangos directory

But please note, that if you’re still using 2 version below the current release, the upgrade process is not going to be completed successfully (i’ve been trying to make sure that the upgrade process can be used by any version but it’s seems that there’s no easy way to accomplish this, but if you got a suggestion on how to process this, just let me know about it)

Note : You don’t need to worry about your custom stuff being overwritten by the upgrade process, because unlike before this time it’s only upgrade the necessary stuff only and not going to overwrite your custom stuff (but i assume that you’re using high id numbers for your custom stuff)

Finally i’d suggest you to check out the GM Commands List because there are some changes made at the GM Commands especially at the lookup command (and of course i’ll always update the GM Commands List whenever there are new command available for you to use, or there are previous command that is being replaced with new commands)

Related Links :

Complete Mangos GM Commands
Creating Public WOW Server
Creating 2 different World using Mangos
Apache Web server Installation Guide

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This guide’s purpose is solely for those who went through the latest tutorial for the latest ReaperMangos (normal) build and found problems with the installation.

Some steps explained in this f.a.q seem to be unnecessary to advanced users but are only there to make sure that nothing can go wrong, so the end result is always the same for every reader.

Reaper-X also has provided a modification (mod) version of ReaperMangos which includes handy tools/extra’s to the emulator that are not fully tested and supported by the community, using this in terms of installing will not guarantee a working emulator and may give bugs not found in the original, also I will not provide support for the mod version in this f.a.q, since it is for advanced users only.

Q: What is ReaperMangos?
A: ReaperMangos is a compiled build created by Reaper-X and Jared (Oatman) consisting of always the latest version of mangos and scriptdevelopment2 with a database to your liking. At the moment they are: The Unified Database (UDB) and The Project Silvermoon database.

Q: What are the differences between UDB and Silvermoon?
A: UDB is a clean database that tries to come closer to the real WoW game while Silvermoon is a bit more adventure like and adds custom in game related items like vendors who sell powerful weapons.

Q: How do I install ReaperMangos?
A: I suggest using Reaper-X latest guide on ( http://www.reaper-x.com/ ) since it will always have the most up to date information on how to install. Always check in the “Recently Posted” section on the right area of the site for the latest posts, guides and FAQs.

Q: Does mangos change my WoW installation?
A: No, Mangos is standalone, the only alteration made is the realmlist.wtf in the root of WoW.

Q: What does the realmlist.wtf do?
A: It tells WoW what address the server is at, naturally you need to change it, since it’s going to be connected to your server.

Info and tips related to the realmlist.wtf:
Before you make any changes to the list make sure you make an archived copy of it, so you can change back to the original for whatever reason. Download winrar here: http://www.rarlab.com/download.htm

Q: How do I install WoW for this?
A: Just install it like you always do, but keep in mind to first install The Burning Crusade expansion (If you have it, off course) and then patch it up to the version necessary, and then extract the DBC/maps/vmaps. Before you go into the extraction process make sure (double check) that you have the right (patch) version of WoW that is compatible with ReaperMangos and that it is properly installed.

Info and tips related to taking precautions before extracting:
Go into the WoW main menu, and you can see the version number on the bottom left, furthermore try to log in ( with any name and password you can think of ) and if you have a corrupt or badly installed WoW, it will begin to check and re-patch.

Q: I don’t have The Burning Crusade expansion pack, is this going to be a problem?
A: Not in itself, keep in mind though; that before you start mangos you need to change the mangosd.conf file (with your notepad). You will see the line: Expansion = 1, you must turn 1 into 0 and save.

Info and tips related to saving in notepad:
Sometimes when you try to save your mangosd.conf (or realmlist.wtf), windows won’t allow you, to get around that; just change the file in to your documents folder and then move it back into the original folder.

Q: I have a European version of WoW?
A: Pay attention before extracting the DBC files, open up extract.bat with notepad and change the files like in this example: locale-enUS.MPQ into locale-enGB.MPQ

Q: I have Vista, is this going to be a problem?
A: That depends on how much total physical memory you have, when you have less than 1024 mb then mangos is going to have trouble keeping up and feeding the database info so you will experience things like NPC’s in the game disappearing and probably a crash after that. This problem will occur especially with project Silvermoon since it has more so called memory leaks.

Q: I have more than 1024 MB of memory (in Vista) but it still crashes?
A: Do try to keep in mind the incredible complexity and the monikers work that goes into making this all work, there are loads of bugs that are still present; and the only thing you can do (as an beginner) at the moment is wait for a newer version.

Info and tips related to vista, server and in game bugs:
Try using different databases, at the moment of writing this f.a.q there are two; (UDB) (Project Silvermoon).

Q: mangos crashed when I started it, and it worked an hour ago?
A: Try restarting your pc, maybe your router\modem\internet connection got disconnected which can mean that MySQL isn’t working anymore, you can check that by going to your command prompt and type: MySQL -u root -p When it asks you for a password you know it still works, but do a restart anyway.

Info and tips related to command prompt (how to in XP and Vista):
Click Start » Accessories » Command Prompt, or go to start/run and type: cmd.

Q: Mangosd.exe is giving an error message stating that it is missing some files or maps?
A: If you don’t have The Burning Crusade; then change the mangosd.conf file (with your notepad). You will see the line: Expansion = 1, you must turn 1 into 0 and save. If the error still occurs than double check the map path you’ve given when you had to specify which directory the maps are in.

Info and tips related to data maps:
You can put the three maps (DBC MAPS VMAPS) in every directory you like but keep in mind that the longer the directory structure is, the more mistakes you can make, so it is wise to make the structure small, for example: c:\maps

Q: Could you please upload the vmaps for me?
A: It is not possible for Reaper-X to upload the vmaps, because it’s really huge, about 1.76 GB. Also from a downloading perspective this is a little too much for comfort.

Q: Rapid share or Megaupload sucks, could you put ReaperMangos on a different site?
A: They don’t suck, your cookie handling, system configuration sucks. Yes it’s true that once you downloaded a file; you will have to wait, but hey it’s for free.

Info and tips related to cookies, to get a working Rapidshare:
There are a lot of ways to get to your cookies settings, I, m sure you can get there trough the tools\options menu in your web browser, the bottom line is that you must enable all the cookies for the site; otherwise downloading might fail to work. Also cleaning up your system might work. Also read for information on Google what is essential (to install) for having a working Rapidshare.

Q: “Reading” but I’m lazy?
A: I know.

Q: I can’t extract the vmaps, because DBC extractor crashes or does not function correctly?
A: On older systems then XP with service pack two; you might need .NET Runtime 2.

Info and tips related to .NET Runtime 2.
You can find information on what .NET Runtime 2. And how to download it at the following
link:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=0856eacb-4362-4b0d-8edd-aab15c5e04f5&displaylang=en

Q: I installed .NET Runtime 2 and still can’t extract the vmaps?
A: If DBC extractor still isn’t extracting the vmaps; the only option that remains is to disable the vmaps function for Mangos by changing the following:

Open the mangosd.conf with your notepad and change the lines:
vmap.enableLOS = 1
vmap.enableHeight = 1

Into:

vmap.enableLOS = 0
vmap.enableHeight = 0

Q: When I try to install the database; Mangos opens up in a new window and stands idle?
A: You must have administrator rights and/or user account control in XP/Vista.

Info and tips related to administrator rights and/or user account control:

Vista: Go to start/search and type: Accounts then go to user accounts and Turn User Account Control off. Leave the user accounts window open and check on the right if the word administrator is in your account box. If it isn’t then log in to your Administrator account which is the one you created during the initial startup of Vista you must have one because Vista won’t allow you to have only user rights accounts.

XP: This information will be provided next update. (But it is in a way similar to Vista)

Q: Every installation step was successful; I want to play, but how?
A: Click mangosd.exe and let it finish, then click realmd.exe and let it finish; leave them open.
In the mangosd.exe window type the following: create monkey bush
now start up WoW and login to your account with Name: monkey, Password: bush

Info and tips related to GM (Game/Server Master) rights:
This is for advanced users, but some info on this seems necessary, only use the GM option when you want to create a dedicated server, if GM is on as a player then certain and or more instances/creatures won’t work properly. (Confirmed on UDB forum)

Q: I tried a database and I want to try a different one, do I need to re-install MySQL?
A: You don’t have to re-install MySQL, just make sure to backup your character data if you want to keep your characters, and you can just replace the new database trough the reaper-x-mangos.bat, it will replace the data in MySQL with the new data.

Info related to losing character data:
Regretful as it is, sometimes people make mistakes, and therefore it is not guaranteed that your character data is always 100 percent save when you’re installing a new version of ReaperMangos. Remember that all of this (the emulator and the Reaper-X build) is an experiment and still in the so-called alpha stage.

Q: What is your mangos/world database name?
A: That depends on what value you provide during the installation (if you’re using Reaper Mangos), but for reference the default value for mangos database is named mangos while the realmd database is realmd

Q: What are some gm commands in wow?
A: If you’re running Reaper Mangos, you can always get an updated list for each release from this page

Q: How to host wow server?
A: Well actually you have two choices for this, the first one is you can always rent a dedicated server to run your wow server process while the other one is from your own computer. The downside of running from your own computer of course, your internet speed won’t be capable of holding too many users at once unless because your internet connection speed won’t be as fast as connection speed that is used by Datacenter, but since that is the cheapest way to do it most people prefer to run the server from their home instead

Q: How to make wow server public?
A: In order to create a public server you need to setup port forwarding first, and then you need to setup an apache web server with php to be able to server http request for the registration page

Q: What port does mangos use?
A: Mangos by default use port 3724 for the realmd server (login server) and 8085 for the world server (inside game). Also as a side note, if you change the default realmd port into another value, then you’ll need to tell your client to use that port (by default wow client connect to port 3724 for the realmd selection)

Q: What kind of servers are WoW run on?
A: The answer is depend, some people run it on their own computer or you can called it as home server, while others choose to rent a dedicated server (that is not going to be cheap) from various dedicated server provider

Q: How to add a game master to wow private server?
A: You can add game master by simply issuing setgm username (1/2/3) while 1 is the lowest level and 3 is the administrator from inside the mangosd window (prompt)

Q: How to be a GM on WoW?
A: If you’re asking to be a real game master on Blizzard Official server, then i’d suggest you to look at their jobs offering page (if there’s any). But if you want to be a gm on your own server then you can simply use the above command (if you use mangos). If you want to be a gm on your friend server, just ask them directly :P

Q: How to compile Mangos and Scriptdev2?
A: You can read my post on a detailed guide to compile mangos and scriptdev2

Q: I found a bug or a certain quest doesn’t work?
A: Check the following info and tips.

Info and tips related to bug reporting and working features implemented in the mangos emulator:
When you have a bug regarding the installation of Reaper mangos you can do that on http://www.reaper-x.com , for in game bugs there are different forums, but keep in mind that in order to do that, you must have knowledge about how everything works and to follow the rules of conduct assembled by the community.

These are the main forums where to go to for further information regarding fixes or bug reporting:

www.scriptdev2.com
www.mangosproject.org
www.udbforums.org
http://projectsilvermoon.net/

Q: I don’t know what “rules of conduct assembled” means?
A: Than I suggest staying away from the forums!

Q: I have an error message with ReaperMangos that’s not in this f.a.q?
A: I will try to update this f.a.q on a regular basis, also (if you didn’t do it already) try to read this complete f.a.q from top to bottom and try anything that might relate to your problem.

Q: There is a new (patch) version of WoW, when will mangos support it?
A: That is difficult to say, that depends on the update and if the mangos and scriptdev2 team decide if this patch is something that must be dealt with immediately, Waiting is the only thing to do here.
A: I, m not happy with the service provided for the emulator and/or this build!
A: Remember, It is a privilege to download and use ReaperMangos not a right!

SiegeLink signing out,

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And if you’re just like me and want to get a good free flv converter for Windows, i’d suggest you to use FFMPEG. It’s fast, free … although it doesn’t have a nice graphical interface included by default but i think if you just want the fast and the easiest way to convert flv files, this program might come in handy ;)

Okay but how to do it ?

1. First you’ll need to get the FFMPEG Binary for Windows of course, and this can be done by visiting this page

2. Now when you’ve downloaded it into your harddrive, of course the next step would be extracting it somewhere, but if you just want the easiest way, i’d suggest you to extract the FFMPEG.exe into your Windows directory (for example C:\Windows) so you can type it anywhere you want, or you can also add the FFMPEG location into your System Environment Variable path if you know how to do it

3. The third step would be … getting the FLV files from Youtube using the hard way, or you can use various online Youtube Downloader if you prefer to do it that way

4. Now when the FLV file already downloaded to your harddrive, all you have to do is just open the command prompt (Start Menu -> Programs -> Accessories -> Command Prompt) or by simply typing CMD in the Run command

5. Now for the last step, you just need to type this :

ffmpeg -i flv-source.flv flv-output.mp4 (i usually choose to convert it into MP4 directly but you can always change it into whatever you want, like wmv, avi, mpg, for example because ffmpeg will adjust it automatically)

Note : on the above example i choose to use 350kb bitrate for the output video file

6. And done … now you can watch the converted video file freely

As a side note, you can always adjust what options are used when converting the video files, and if you need to look at all the FFMPEG commands, you just need to type ffmpeg

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