Frequently Asked Questions around CMaNGOS

Generic things to do in case of a problem

• Read created output. Read it carefully!
• For compile problems: Look into the log, on *nix you can create a log with make > compile.log 2>&1
• For problems with the server: Look into the file Server.log

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 "How to Install" above

I cannot login to my server

• realmd started?
• mangosd started?
• realmd database, table realmlist set to match the values in your mangosd.conf?
• realmlist in your game folder set to localhost? (set realmlist 127.0.0.1)
• User account created? (See Installation Instructions again)
• Don't use email addresses as a login
• Delete or rename wow.mfil and wow.tfil files
• ONLY use 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 connects 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 on-screen 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

• You need to set the expansion of your account to 1/2/3 (for TBC/WotLK/Cata). See Installation Instructions

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 55 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?

• You need to set your GM-Level. See Installation Instructions

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 still have 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

• You need to compile core and SD2 just like you did before in your first setup (See Installation Instructions )

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

Updating 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 process is to rerun the installer script from 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)