Linux Server Setup

Extracting DBC, Maps, VMaps & MMaps

Go to your AzerothCore build directory (e.g. $HOME/build/bin/) and copy the following files to your World of Warcraft binaries directory.

• map_extractor
• mmaps_generator
• vmap4_assembler
• vmap4_extractor

DBC and Maps files

cd <your WoW client directory>
./map_extractor

Visual Maps (aka vmaps) Note: If you stop vmap4_extractor before finish you will need to delete the Buildings directory before start again.

You can also extract vmaps which will take quite a while depending on your machine (up to hours on ancient hardware).

cd <your WoW client directory>
./vmap4_extractor
mkdir vmaps;
./vmap4_assembler Buildings vmaps

When this is complete you will receive the following message which can be safely ignored.

Processing Map 724
[################################################################]
Extracting GameObject models...Extracting World\Wmo\Band\Final_Stage.wmo
No such file.
Couldn't open RootWmo!!!
Done!
  
Extract V4.00 2012_02. Work complete. No errors.

Movement Maps (aka mmaps - optional RECOMMENDED)

Extracting mmaps will take quite a while depending on your machine (up to hours).

cd <your WoW client directory>
mkdir mmaps;
./mmaps_generator

Now that everything is completed, you need to copy dbc, maps, vmaps and mmaps folders to your AzerothCore build directory (e.g. $HOME/build/data/).

Setting up the configuration files

First of all you need to find the two default config files (named worldserver.conf.dist and authserver.conf.dist) and copy them. Then rename the copies their namesakes without the .dist extension. You can find them within /build/configs/ (may vary).

Open the .conf files and scroll down to LoginDatabaseInfo, WorldDatabaseInfo, and CharacterDatabaseInfo and enter MySQL login information for the server to be able to access your database.

On a newly compiled configuration, you will have the following values by default

LoginDatabaseInfo     = "127.0.0.1;3306;acore;acore;acore_auth" worldserver.conf / authserver.conf
WorldDatabaseInfo     = "127.0.0.1;3306;acore;acore;acore_world" worldserver.conf
CharacterDatabaseInfo = "127.0.0.1;3306;acore;acore;acore_characters" worldserver.conf

They follow this structure:

Variablename = "MySQLIP;Port;Username;Password;database"  

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