NWNX:EE on WSL1, a brief guide

Installing WSL1 is not covered in this guide, you can follow the steps in this article. Only do the Installing WSL. and Getting Started with your Linux subsystem. steps. Be sure to install the Ubuntu 18.04 LTS distro. You can try the Ubuntu distro which is Ubuntu version 20.04, but I haven't tested it myself.

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This guide will only support SQLite and MySQL for NWNX_SQL.

While NWNX_SQL will be compiled with MySQL support, setting up the actual MySQL database is not covered in this guide.

Advanced plugins like the Profiler, Lua, Ruby and DotNET plugins are not covered.

Initial Setup

1) Start Ubuntu

2) Updating Ubuntu

• sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y

3) Installing dependencies

• sudo apt install -y git unzip zip cmake build-essential libsqlite3-dev libssl-dev libmysqlclient-dev

4) Getting NWNX:EE

• git clone https://github.com/nwnxee/unified.git

5) Compiling NWNX:EE

• cd ~/unified
• ./Scripts/buildnwnx.sh -j 4

6) Getting the dedicated server package

Check the NWNX Repo for the NWN Build NWNX is targetting and replace the XXXX.YY-ZZ below with the right NWN Build. Note: the NWNX and NWN server binary version must match.

• cd ~/
• mkdir server
• cd server
• wget https://nwn.beamdog.net/downloads/nwnee-dedicated-XXXX.YY-ZZ.zip
• unzip nwnee-dedicated-XXXX.YY-ZZ.zip
• rm nwnee-dedicated-XXXX.YY-ZZ.zip
• cd bin/linux-x86
• ./nwserver-linux
• exit
• cd

7) Setting up aliases

If your Windows NWN Userdirectory is C:\Users\<Username>\Documents\Neverwinter Nights\ it can be accessed in WSL through /mnt/c/Users/<Username>/Documents/Neverwinter Nights/

• nano ~/.local/share/Neverwinter\ Nights/nwn.ini

  Change the MODULES, HAK and TLK aliases to your windows nwn userdirectory:

  MODULES=/mnt/c/Users/<Username>/Documents/Neverwinter Nights/modules

  HAK=/mnt/c/Users/<Username>/Documents/Neverwinter Nights/hak

  TLK=/mnt/c/Users/<Username>/Documents/Neverwinter Nights/tlk

  Press Ctrl+x to exit and y to save

8) Setting up run-server.sh

• cd ~/

• wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Daztek/NWNX-WSL/master/run-server.sh

• chmod +x run-server.sh

• nano run-server.sh

  Edit the file to your liking, by default all plugins but ServerLogRedirector are disabled. Don't forget to set MODNAME to your module filename, without .mod.

  Press Ctrl+x to exit and y to save.

9) Running the server

• ./run-server.sh

  It'll automatically load your module from the windows side and start the server, by default it's only accessible through LAN.

  To stop the server, just type exit in the console.

Maintenance

Updating NWNX:EE

If you want to update NWNX:EE at some point you can do the following:

• cd ~/unified
• git pull
• ./Scripts/buildnwnx.sh -j 4
• cd

Updating NWServer (when needed)

When Beamdog releases a patch you'll need to update nwserver-linux, this is how:

Replace XXXX.YY-ZZ with the needed version, for example 8193.35-37

• cd ~/server
• rm -r bin/ data/ lang/
• wget https://nwn.beamdog.net/downloads/nwnee-dedicated-XXXX.YY-ZZ.zip
• unzip nwnee-dedicated-XXXX.YY-ZZ.zip
• rm nwnee-dedicated-XXXX.YY-ZZ.zip
• cd

Editing server settings

If you want to edit settings like "Sticky Player Names", "Show DM Joined Messages" etc you can do the following:

• nano ~/.local/share/Neverwinter\ Nights/settings.tml

Change the settings you want and press Ctrl+x to exit and y to save.

Extra

Setting up Redis

If you want Redis support, you can do the following:

• sudo apt install -y redis-server

• sudo nano /etc/redis/redis.conf

  Find the supervised no line and change it to supervised systemd

  Press Ctrl+x to exit and y to save.

• sudo service redis-server start

  This starts the redis server and has to be done every time your PC is restarted.