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This site is to document my process through the GunboundWC server install as created by the LegacyGamers and distributed in the RAGEZONE forums. Hopefully this site will grow, but if not, enjoy what is here.

You will need the following in order to properly setup the server:

• A brain (preferably in working order)
• Ability to edit text files
• Administrator privileges on the server
• Familiarity with a webserver, (e.g. [Apache])
• Familiarity with a database server, (e.g. [mySQL])
  • Knowledge of SQL commands and statements
• TROUBLESHOOTING SKILLS

Getting Help

I can't emphasize the ability to know how to troubleshoot enough. If something isn't work, double-check your steps, start over, and verify configs before even heading to the forums.

How To Ask Questions The Smart Way

Before I go off on a rant, read this first: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

It's a great primer on how to ask questions and how to ask for help. If you got indignant and offended by me pointing you to that page, that page is DEFINITELY for you. It details little hints to get your question noticed and even responded to quicker.

A small excerpt if I may:

The first thing to understand is that hackers actually like hard problems and good, thought-provoking
questions about them. If we didn't, we wouldn't be here. If you give us an interesting question to
chew on we'll be grateful to you; good questions are a stimulus and a gift. Good questions help us
develop our understanding, and often reveal problems we might not have noticed or thought about
otherwise. Among hackers, “Good question!” is a strong and sincere compliment.

Despite this, hackers have a reputation for meeting simple questions with what looks like hostility or
arrogance. It sometimes looks like we're reflexively rude to newbies and the ignorant. But this isn't
really true.

What we are, unapologetically, is hostile to people who seem to be unwilling to think or to do their
own homework before asking questions. People like that are time sinks — they take without giving back,
and they waste time we could have spent on another question more interesting and another person more
worthy of an answer. We call people like this “losers” (and for historical reasons we sometimes spell
it “lusers”).

We're (largely) volunteers. We take time out of busy lives to answer questions, and at times we're
overwhelmed with them. So we filter ruthlessly. In particular, we throw away questions from people
who appear to be losers in order to spend our question-answering time more efficiently, on winners.

If you find this attitude obnoxious, condescending, or arrogant, check your assumptions. We're not
asking you to genuflect to us — in fact, most of us would love nothing more than to deal with you as
an equal and welcome you into our culture, if you put in the effort required to make that possible.
But it's simply not efficient for us to try to help people who are not willing to help themselves.
It's OK to be ignorant; it's not OK to play stupid.

tl;dr: We are not going to help you if you do not help yourself. If you do not understand that, feel free to use the Close button on your browser.