OK,
What do we need to do to install this development environment for this beast ?
Well we have to install and configure three major pieces

The database server

The world server

The client

The Database Server
The database server runs under a PostgreSQL database, version 7.0 or greater.
The first step would be to install the PostgreSQL and get it running according
to its documentation. Then we would customize it as follows:
1) Create a database called worldii.
2) Create a user called worldii, who can create other users, and databases.
3) Modify ph_hba.conf to allow the worldii server machine to contact it.

The second step is to install the worldii server
1) Create a worldii user
2) Create a home directory for the worldii user
3) In the home directory create a bin directory
4) In the bin directory create a logs directory
5) Copy the worldii and wiicon executables to the bin directory
6) Make them owned by worldii, and executable
7) Make it so that the host name worldii refers to the worldii database server

The third step is to install the client
1) Copy the client to a Win98 or Win2000 (maybe even WinXP (untested)) machine with DX8 or better.
2) Ensure that worldii.viagloria.com resolves either via dns (prefered)
or hosts file.
3) Copy contents of object-defs directory to the same directory where clietn was installed.
4) Modify client.ini to point to that home directory.


Known bugs:
1) The machine names for the database machine and the server
machine and the console machine need to be generalized.
2) Log directories need to be generalized so that the wiicon
console app can be in the same directory as the server exe.