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Frequently Asked Questions around CMaNGOS

How to Install?

See our Installation Instructions

First time users

The server has an error when i try to start it

See the part about Howto Install

I cannot login onto my server

  • realmd started?
  • mangosd started?
  • realmd database, table realmlist set to match the values in your mangosd.conf?
  • realmlist set to your localhost? (set realmlist 127.0.0.1)
  • User account created? (See Installation Instructions again)
  • Don't use email as login
  • Delete or rename wow.mfil and wow.tfil files
  • use ONLY wow.exe to start up the client, never use launcher.exe (client versions 4.x and up require wow.exe to be patched prior aswell)

My client still connect to a different host/address

  • Add in your /WTF/config.wtf (SET realmlist "127.0.0.1") before (SET accountName "youraccount")

MaNGOSd or/and Realmd instantly closes when i start them!

  • Run mangos in command line instead, if you have git bash that's also fine. Then you will see the onscreen error output and be able to continue from there.
  • Make sure there are no other processes using the required ports (default 8085 & 3724).

I play TBC or WotLK and cannot access the Blood Elves, Draenei, Worgen or Goblins

I play WotLK/Cata and cannot access the Death Knight

  • You need to the expansion of your account to 2 or 3 (2 for TBC, 3 for Cata)
  • You need to level a character to level 50 OR
  • Change the config option "MinLevelForHeroicCharacterCreating" in your mangosd.conf OR
  • Set your account to be a GM Account (see next question)

How can i use GM commands?

Npcs directly evade when I try to attack

All Npcs are friendly or neutral

All Gameobjects around me sparkle

  • You need to turn GM mode off: .gm off
  • Maybe you have still invisibility on, try .gm visi on

How to Update?

Updating the source code

  • Open a Git Bash (see Installation Instructions) in your C:\Mangos or ~/mangos (or your base directory)
  • cd mangos (This assumes you followed the Installation Instructions, and the directory where your sources are is located in C:\Mangos\mangos or ~/Mangos/mangos
  • Invoke git pull to update
  • cd src/bindings/ScriptDev2 (This step and the next only if you also want to update SD2 and you had it installed)
  • Invoke git pull

Compiling and installing the update

Fetching new content from the database provider

  • This depends on your database provider, you might want to update your SVN or Git clone of the database

Updateing the database

  • Even if your Database provider did not ship new updates, you still might have to update your database content due to core changes.

  • In this case the easiest is to rerun an Installer Script of your DB-provider

  • If you don't want to reset the database to a clean state (for example because you added some custom things), then you might need to update manually.

  • To check if you need a manual update, just start the mangosd and check if a database error on start is printed.

  • If it is, read the error message carefully (you can read it more easily from the file Server.log)

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