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Starting a server from scratch

This guide assumes you know the basics of Docker and Docker-compose, and are familiar with the Linux command line.

  • You've already run the build script in README.md. This would have produced a 7z archive with your container. Upload said archive to the machine that will act as your TrinityCore host.

  • You need to Docker 19.03 or higher on your host machine, previous versions will not work as there's a DNS resolve bug when linking the MySQL and WorldServer containers.

  • Create a folder to host your TrinityCore solution in - this will contain your conf files, SQL data, everything your server needs, in one location. A typical folder would be at /opt/trinitycore

  • Unpack the TrinityCore archive to wherever you want and CD to the resulting unpack folder

    7z x <your archive name>.7z
cd <your archive name>

    This should contain a tar file and two conf files.

  • Load the docker image from the tar file

    docker load -i trinitycore.tar

  • Move worldserver.conf and authserver.conf to your TrinityCore solution folder.

  • You can delete your 7z file and the folder you unpacked from it, Docker will persist the docker image as long as you don't expicitly delete it.

  • CD to your TrinityCore solution folder, all subsequent work happens there

    cd /opt/trinitycore

  • Upload docker-compose.yml in this repo to your solution folder.

  • Edit worldserver.conf and authserver.conf as per your requirements - you use them to control server setup and behaviour. Check the official TrinityCore docs for info on configuring your server, but to get a basic setup running, and particularly with docker in mine, you should set the following

    In worldserver.conf set

    • connection strings to databases to

      LoginDatabaseInfo     = "db;3306;root;root;auth"
WorldDatabaseInfo     = "db;3306;root;root;world"
CharacterDatabaseInfo = "db;3306;root;root;characters"

      db is the MySQL container id, root and root are the Mysql username and password respectively, all three are defined in docker-compose.yml and can be changed there

    • change the source directory to

      SourceDirectory = "/opt/trinitycore"

    • change the data directory to

      DataDir = "../data"

    • enable remote access so you can administer your server via telnet

      Ra.Enable = 1

    In authserver.conf set

    • connection string

      LoginDatabaseInfo = "db;3306;root;root;auth"

      db, root and root are the same as those set in woldserver.conf.

  • Start your solution with docker-compose

    docker-compose up -d

    At this point the world and auth server containers will start, but they will not yet start TrinityCore, as their respective start commands are still commented out.

  • Run the following commands to initialize your database

    docker exec -it trinity-world bash -c "cp /opt/trinitycore/sql/create/create_mysql.sql /var/trinityscripts"
docker exec -it trinity-db bash -c "mysql -u root -proot  < /var/trinityscripts/create_mysql.sql"

    This creates the databases needed by Trinitycore.

  • Shell into your world server container

    docker exec -it trinity-world bash

    Now start the worldserver manually

    cd /opt/trinitycore/bin
./worldserver

    Give TrinityCore a minute to self-initialize its database. You'll eventually see a TC> prompt when it's ready. Create your GM account

    .account create YOURGMNAME YOURPASSWORD
.account set gmlevel YOURGMNAME 3

    You need a GM account to telnet into the server. While you're here you can create other user accounts or do general Trinity house keeping. Exit worldserver and container with

    CTRL+C
exit

  • Edit worldserver.conf again and disable console as you no longer need it

    Console.Enable = 0

    We do this so TrinityCore will run in "daemon" mode and stop flooding your logs with console input prompts.

  • Add your realm IP to the auth database. Figure out your Docker host machine IP and then run

    docker exec -it trinity-db bash -c "mysql -u root -proot -D auth -e \"UPDATE realmlist SET address='YOUR-IP-HERE' \" "

  • Uncomment the two command lines in docker-compose.yml, and restart your solution

    docker-compose up -d --force-recreate

  • Your TrinityCore server is ready to use. For further admin telnet in to @ your Docker host IP and port 3443, use your GM credentials. Your GM credentials also allow you to log in with your WoW client.