Community Board Server

In order to Setup the Community Board Server you must have a working Login/Game server.

=Downloading the Files=

In order to Setup the server, you must already downloaded the L2J Community Server. You can have it from eclipse.

Follow this link to get the files:

-To get eclipse:

=Setting up the Files=

1.) Make a Folder named L2J Server or whatever you may like, this will host all of your files for the server.

2.) Extract the entire contents from the community and datapack .zip files into the folder you just created. Open youre folder and you should have some sub-folders names community and gameserver, and some other files and folders.

=Installing the Database=

1.) You should have MySQL and Navicat installed. Open Navicat.

2.) Click on Connection, you will see a couple of text boxes, fill in your MySQL information and click OK.

The Defaults are:

Connection Name: localhost

Host Name/Ip Address: localhost

Port: 3306

User Name: root (change if you did not make root)

Password: none (fill in if you did make a password)

3.) You should now have connection named Localhost under the connections table. Double click it to open the connection.

4.) Right click on Localhost and click New Database. On Enter Database Name, put L2JCB. Click OK.

5.) Your database is now setup and ready for installing, and you may close Navicat.

Putting the Data into your Database

1.) Open your folder than contains your server files.

2.) Open the folder named "Tools" and open database_installer.bat or .sh (If you are doing this on Linux).

3.) Do a full install, enter your information.

4.) After its done press any key to close and the Data is in the Database.

=Registering a Gameserver=

1.) Open the folder "Gameserver" and the open the folder "config".

1.1) Edit your CommunityServerHexId/CommunityServerSqlDpId, in this file: gameserver\config\CommunityServer.properties

2.) You should have MySQL and Navicat installed. Open Navicat.

3.) Open the created L2JCB database.

3.1) Edit the registered_gameservers table. 'serverId' = 'CommunityServerSqlDpId', 'hex_id' = 'CommunityServerHexId'.

4.) Now, edit the community\data\top\servertopdir.xml file. Add your own GameServer(s) '' line, or change the file as your needs.

5.) You have now registered the gameserver with the communityserver.

Congratulations!

Everything is now setup and ready to run! All you have to do now is:

1.) Edit the config files as you did for the Game and Login servers.

1.1) Set to 'True' the EnableCommunityBoard, in this file: gameserver\config\CommunityServer.properties

2.) Go to your Main Directory, open folder "community" and open startCommunityServer.bat/.sh

3.) Go to your Main Directory, open folder "Gameserver" and open startGameServer.bat/.sh

Have fun Testing/Playing your new L2J Community Server with your L2J Server(s)!