Installation help please

squirrel448 · Post by **squirrel448** » Sun Jan 08, 2006 8:36 pm

Sorry if I'm bothering anyone with this post, but... I'm quite lost with installing UnrealIRCd.

I'm running Windows XP Pro SP2 with Apache 2.0.55. I don't have a static IP address so that means no domain name... basically I'm just trying to get this set up on my own personal machine so in case I want to, I can just turn this box into a server. Anyway... I've downloaded the win32 exe and installed that, the service is running smoothly according to services.msc; I set the server in example.conf to 127.0.0.1, renamed example.conf to unrealirc.conf and put it in C:\Program Files\Unreal3.2\ (the main installation directory).
Then I tried connecting to 127.0.0.1:6667 in mIRC, no luck. Not trying to be n00bish or ask for people to yell at me, just wondering if someone can either 1) tell me what I missed or
2) point me to a good walkthrough.

Stealth · Post by **Stealth** » Sun Jan 08, 2006 8:38 pm

http://www.x-tab.org/~ircd/unreal_tutorial.htm

squirrel448 · Post by **squirrel448** » Sun Jan 08, 2006 8:44 pm

do I need to configure the windows firewall for any ports or anything? when I open wircd.exe nothing happens. is that normal?

and I just noticed that the service is installed, not running. when I try to start it it says "Could not start the UnrealIRCd service on Local Computer.
Error 1067: The process terminated unexpectedly."

tdw · Post by **tdw** » Sun Jan 08, 2006 8:50 pm

that depends on how you installed. As far as i can see, you installed as a service. Open up by clicking on the icon not by just opening wircd.exe.
Yes, you need to open the ports in your firewall and/or modem. Also try to search ircd.log for any errors, wich might prevent unreal from starting

squirrel448 · Post by **squirrel448** » Sun Jan 08, 2006 8:54 pm

thanks tdw, didn't know it had error logs ^_^

* Loading IRCd configuration ..
[warning] unrealircd.conf:253: listen with SSL flag enabled on a non SSL compile
[warning] unrealircd.conf:320: link hub.mynet.com with SSL option enabled on a non-SSL compile
[error] unrealircd.conf:524: tld::motd: ircd.motd.fr: No such file or directory
[error] unrealircd.conf:525: tld::rules: ircd.rules.fr: No such file or directory
[error] unrealircd.conf:704: set::cloak-keys: (key 2) Keys should be mixed a-zA-Z0-9, like "a2JO6fh3Q6w4oN3s7"
[error] unrealircd.conf:705: set::cloak-keys: (key 3) Keys should be mixed a-zA-Z0-9, like "a2JO6fh3Q6w4oN3s7"
[error] unrealircd.conf:702: set::cloak-keys: All your 3 keys should be RANDOM, they should not be equal
[error] unrealircd.conf:722: set::kline-address must be an e-mail or an URL
[error] 7 errors encountered
[error] IRCd configuration failed to pass testing

tdw · Post by **tdw** » Sun Jan 08, 2006 9:19 pm

go to your listenblock. There you will see something like:
listen 6697 {
options {blabla
delete that, till the last };

Go to your linkblock, delete the line were it says "ssl".

go to your Unreal directory, press the right mouse, new file, text file and rename it to ircd.motd.fr (do the same for ircd.rules.fr)

Go to your set block and find the cloak keys. every key must have at least one number (1-9), one normal letter (a-z) and one capital (A-Z)
find your kline adress and set it to [email protected]

that should fix it

squirrel448 · Post by **squirrel448** » Sun Jan 08, 2006 9:21 pm

got it

I just commented out the ssl stuff entirely, was that bad?
and it said something about hublink... commented that out too.

but I can connect to it properly now
216.109.205.208:6667 #test

tdw · Post by **tdw** » Sun Jan 08, 2006 9:37 pm

squirrel448 wrote:got it
I just commented out the ssl stuff entirely, was that bad?
and it said something about hublink... commented that out too.

thats absolutely no problem, you even might need it later.