Greetings, Secret here! Here’s my quick way to build a functional Ragnarok Online server on DigitalOcean cloud with the cost as low as $0.007/hour ($5/month).
First, we are going to sign up on DigitalOcean. By clicking my link, you will get free $10 credits. After that, you will have to pay $5 or $10 more initially for the first time only. At this point, there should be $15 or $20 in your credit balance. That’s enough for 3–4 months of running a small server!
After you have done the process of signing up, you can now create a new “droplet” to run your Ragnarok Online server on by clicking the green “New Droplet” button.
After choosing OS and spec for your droplet, you have to select a physical location for your droplet. Select one near your players for best connectivity.
Finally, name your droplet and click “Create”.
Wait for a few minutes for DigitalOcean to create your first droplet.
After it’s done, an email will be sent to your email address that you registered with DigitalOcean, it contains a sensitive information that is the root password. Do not leak that email to anyone!
After it’s done, an email will be sent to your email address that you registered with DigitalOcean, it contains a sensitive information that is the root password. Do not leak that email to anyone!
Next
To access your server, you need a SSH client , such as, PuTTY, or the ssh command included with many Linux distros. This example will use PuTTY.
Open up PuTTY and enter your server’s IP that is emailed to you and click Open. Click yes if the program asks you to store the server’s key.
Open up PuTTY and enter your server’s IP that is emailed to you and click Open. Click yes if the program asks you to store the server’s key.
Enter root in the `login as:` field then enter your password. Your password won’t be shown, not even as ***s. After you logged in, you will be forced to change the root password. Change the password to your liking.
We have finished preparing our droplet at this point. Steps after this will be installing rAthena, an open-source MMORPG server.
We have finished preparing our droplet at this point. Steps after this will be installing rAthena, an open-source MMORPG server.
We should update our apt sources. We can do that by running `apt-get update` command.
apt-get update
After the process is done. We will install dependencies required for rAthena to compile.
apt-get install -y git make gcc libmysqlclient-dev zlib1g-dev libpcre3-dev build-essential mysql-client
We need MySQL database to host any data saved by rAthena, so we will install it.
apt-get install mysql-server
Follow the prompt after executing the command above.
Now we are going to create and import neccessary database stuffs for our MySQL database.
Change YOURROOTPASSWORD to your MySQL root account password.
Change YOURNEWUSERNAME to your new MySQL account name we are going to create.
Change YOURSQLPASSWORD to your new password for a new database user.
Change YOURNEWUSERNAME to your new MySQL account name we are going to create.
Change YOURSQLPASSWORD to your new password for a new database user.
mysql -u root — password=YOURROOTPASSWORD -e “CREATE DATABASE ragnarok;” mysql -u root --password=YOURROOTPASSWORD -e "CREATE USER 'YOURNEWUSERNAME'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'YOURSQLPASSWORD';" mysql -u root --password=YOURROOTPASSWORD -e "GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON ragnarok.* TO 'YOURNEWUSERNAME'@'localhost';" mysql -u root --password=YOURROOTPASSWORD ragnarok < sql-files/main.sql mysql -u root --password=YOURROOTPASSWORD ragnarok < sql-files/logs.sql mysql -u root --password=YOURROOTPASSWORD ragnarok < sql-files/item_cash_db.sql mysql -u root --password=YOURROOTPASSWORD ragnarok < sql-files/item_cash_db2.sql mysql -u root --password=YOURROOTPASSWORD ragnarok < sql-files/item_db.sql mysql -u root --password=YOURROOTPASSWORD ragnarok < sql-files/item_db2.sql mysql -u root --password=YOURROOTPASSWORD ragnarok < sql-files/item_db_re.sql mysql -u root --password=YOURROOTPASSWORD ragnarok < sql-files/item_db2_re.sql mysql -u root --password=YOURROOTPASSWORD ragnarok < sql-files/mob_db.sql mysql -u root --password=YOURROOTPASSWORD ragnarok < sql-files/mob_db2.sql mysql -u root --password=YOURROOTPASSWORD ragnarok < sql-files/mob_db_re.sql mysql -u root --password=YOURROOTPASSWORD ragnarok < sql-files/mob_db2_re.sql mysql -u root --password=YOURROOTPASSWORD ragnarok < sql-files/mob_skill_db.sql mysql -u root --password=YOURROOTPASSWORD ragnarok < sql-files/mob_skill_db2.sql mysql -u root --password=YOURROOTPASSWORD ragnarok < sql-files/mob_skill_db_re.sql mysql -u root --password=YOURROOTPASSWORD ragnarok < sql-files/mob_skill_db2_re.sql mysql -u root --password=YOURROOTPASSWORD ragnarok < sql-files/roulette_default_data.sql
Now our database is ready. Don’t forget to take note of your new username and passwords.
It’s probably not a good idea to run your game server as the root user. So we are going to create a new user to run our game server. We will use rathena as our username.
useradd --create-home --shell /bin/bash rathena
And set the password for our new user.
passwd rathena
You can obtain the latest version of rAthena by running the following command.
git clone https://github.com/rathena/rathena.git ~/rAthena
We will change our working directory to directory of the rAthena source we just obtained.
cd ~/rAthena
Before compiling we hav to set our target packet version and generate neccessary files by running the configure script. The format for packetver is YYYYMMDD. We will use 2013–08–07 client in our example.
./configure --enable-packetver=20130807
To compile, just run make clean and make server command
make clean && make server
Remember the MySQL user we have created before? We want to make rAthena use that user to connect to MySQL. Type the following command in your shell.
nano conf/import/inter_conf.txt
Copy the following texts there and press Ctrl+X then type Y to save and exit.
sql.db_username: ragnarok sql.db_password: your password
login_server_id: ragnarok login_server_pw: your password
ipban_db_id: ragnarok ipban_db_pw: your password
char_server_id: ragnarok char_server_pw: your password
map_server_id: ragnarok map_server_pw: your password
log_db_pw: ragnarok log_db_db: your password
We are done. To run your server. Type the following command.
chmod a+x login-server && chmod a+x char-server && chmod a+x map-server && chmod a+x athena-start
and
./athena-start start
That’s all! Now you will need a client to connect to your server which will be explained in the next blog post.
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