Hosting Ragnorok Online Private Server using rAthena

OS: Linux (CentOS 6)

Installation date: 14/12/2012

SVN: 17020 ==>This SVN uses 2012-04-10aRagexeRE.exe (we will talk about it later)

Version of RO episode: 14.1

Server Side:

Please follow the tutorial here:

http://rathena.org/board/topic/59529-setting-up-a-centos-vps-w-rathena-vnc/

*Please note that the last line of importing sql

mysql -u root -p rathena_log < logs.sql

Should be 

mysql --user=root -p rathena_log < logs.sql

Then everything should go fine.

Type 

cd ~/trunk

./athena-start start

to start your server.

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Client Side:

It took me a while to find the original RO game programme.

You can download RO Ep 14.1 here:

http://www.playragnarok.com/downloads/clientdownload.aspx

or 

http://www.gameflier.com.my/index.php?select=download&game=MRagnarok

Install it.

On your testing client machine (Windows), install SVN by going

http://sourceforge.net/projects/win32svn/

download and install.

To download a patcher for generating the main RO exe file, use this ShinsDiffPatcher

open your command line in Windows, type

svn checkout https://subversion.assembla.com/svn/weetools/trunk/ShinsDiffPatcher/ <Replace here your path to download this>

You have to download a Renewal file, and patch it by ShinsDiffPatcher to generate main RO exe.

I tried this

http://supportmii.com/ro1/Clients/

--->2012-04-10aRagexeRE.exe

But later I encountered errors using this. There are many people online saying having errors on server as below, and cannot login:

clif_parse: Disconnecting session #7 with unknown packet version (p:0x464d,l:19).

So, I tried other versions. This works. I suggest from the beginning we use this.

http://supportmii.com/ro1/Clients/Bypass_Clients/

-->2012-04-10aRagexeRE_J.exe

Open ShinsDiffPatcher, Choose WeeDiffGenerator from bottom menu, 

"Source executable": "2012-04-10aRagexeRE_J.exe

Choose automatically select. Untick "Read data folder first"

Then "Patch it"-->generated a exe file.

Next we are gonna generate a data file for our "in-house made exe" to use. 

Use GRF builder

http://www.grfbuilder.com/#download

Download 

http://rathena.org/board/topic/66962-basic-complete-renewal-data-english-folder/

(Version 3.0)

Unzip, 

Edit data/clientinfo.xml, modify the address to your IP

<address>123.123.123.123</address>

Then follow the tutorial from this video on using grf builder (use "data" folder to generate, not including folders like "AI" etc)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtDRZki3Hpo

This generates a yourfilename.grf

In your official RO installation folder, find data.ini, add 0=yourfilename.grf so that it looks

[Data]
0=yourfilename.grf
2=data.grf

save.

Put the patched EXE and GRF file together to your RO folder. 

Start your server.

Start your EXE file. Bingo.

===========Materials with unknown use============
http://svn6.assembla.com/svn/ClientSide/Packets/Packet_db/

=====Debug======

Q1 # Can play in the LAN, not through the Internet
Reason 1) Did not forward the port if your server is inside the router
---> Forward the 3 ports 6121, 5121, 6900 to your server computer

Reason 2) Edit the Conf files
---> char_athena.conf


// Character Server IP
// The IP address which clients will use to connect.
// Set this to what your server's public IP address is.
char_ip: xx.xx.xx.xx <<your WAN IP

---> map_athena.conf


// Map Server IP
// The IP address which clients will use to connect.
// Set this to what your server's public IP address is.
map_ip: xx.xx.xx.xx<<your WAN IP

Reference to
http://rathena.org/board/topic/58572-probem-on-connection-to-server-with-wan-ip/