World db.ini

What is it?

This configuration file communicates with your MySQL (or SQL) database. It contains the basic information used to authenticate your world server with the database.

Syntax

# - Comment
[Database] - Category within the configuration file
variable_name = variable_value

Understanding the variables

[Database] = The category within the file
host = The host name or IP address of your MySQL (or SQL) server (192.168.xxx.xxx or www.whatismyip.com)
user = The user name to be used in authenticated your world server with the MySQL (or SQL) database
password = The password to be used to authenticate your user
database = The database name where your EQ2-Emulator tables are stored in (default eq2)

Accepted Values

host = ANY IP address or DNS host name (www.whatismyip.com or www.dyndns.com)
user = ANY 255-Character Unicode name
password = ANY 255-character Unicode password
database = ANY 255-chararcter Unicode string

The DEFAULT world_db.ini file

# READ README.TXT! 

[Database]
host=ip address
user=username
password=password
database=eq2
 

### --- This file tells world.exe what computer mySQL is on. Host should
### --- be left "localhost" unless mysql is on a differant computer than world.exe.