This image will allow you to run your own complete dockerized WoW private server, using the Trinity Core open source MMO framework.

Before running your private realm, you need to set up your data files, and initialize your database.

First, you need to build data files using your latest WoW client. Store this in a data volume or host location. Your data will be stored in /data, and the client will be pulled from /wowclient. You only need to do this once. Note that due to the nature of the data pulling files, there will be temporary data written to the WoW client directory so it cannot be mounted as read-only.

docker run -it --rm -v <WOW CLIENT VOLUME>:/wowclient -v <DATA VOLUME>:/data fdrake/trinitycore --builddata

Next, you need to initialize your database with the create script which will create the necessary databases, and the non-root user that will be used in the application. This is also executed only once. There following environment variables are used:

• MYSQL_PORT: The port for your database (defaults to 3306)
• MYSQL_HOST: The MySQL hostname (defaults to host.docker.internal)
• MYSQL_USER: The username of the non-root user to be used (defaults to trinity)
• MYSQL_PASSWORD: the password of the non-root user to be used (defaults to trinity)
• MYSQL_USER_HOST: The host mask to be allowed for the non-root user (defaults to % which is any host)

Example:

docker run --rm -e MYSQL_PORT=3306 -e MYSQL_HOST=mysql -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=wow --network trinitycore_default fdrake/trinitycore --dbinit

Note, that if you are running MySQL 5.7 that you should disable strict mode in your database:

mysql -u root -p -e "SET GLOBAL sql_mode = 'NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION';" 

Create a config volume which will store your worldserver.conf and bnetserver.conf files. You can copy the distribution's versions from /server/etc. A few quick commands that will accomplish this:

docker run -it --rm -v <CONFIG VOLUME>:/config fdrake/trinitycore cp /server/etc/worldserver.conf.dist /config/worldserver.conf
docker run -it --rm -v <CONFIG VOLUME>:/config fdrake/trinitycore cp /server/etc/bnetserver.conf.dist /config/bnetserver.conf

The mandatory configurations are as follows:

• In both worldserver.conf and bnetserver.conf, change all database references to your MySQL database.
• In worldserver.conf, change the DataDir variable to /data.

Optionally, you can create your own logs volume. Set the LogsDir variable to /logs in both worldserver.conf and bnetserver.conf files.

Finally, update the realmlist MySQL table in the auth to set the external and internal IP addresses of your realm by setting both to your docker host address.

Run your realm by kicking off two containers, one for the world server and the other for the bnet server. Use the command line options --worldserver and --bnetserver, respectively. Note that for the world server you must enable STDIN and TTY (e.g. docker run -it) and for the auth server you must enable TTY.

A complete example Docker Compose file which encapsulates everything (but with persistent volumes that are created externally of the compose file):

version: '2'

services:
  mysql:
    restart: always
    image: mysql:5.7
    environment:
      - MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=wow
    volumes:
      - mysql_data:/var/lib/mysql
  worldserver:
    image: fdrake/trinitycore
    command: --worldserver
    tty: true
    stdin_open: true
    ports:
      - '8085:8085'
    volumes:
      - trinitycore_data:/data
      - trinitycore_config:/config
      - trinitycore_logs:/logs 
  bnetserver:
    image: fdrake/trinitycore
    command: --bnetserver
    tty: true
    ports:
      - '3724:3724'
    volumes:
      - trinitycore_config:/config
      - trinitycore_logs:/logs
volumes:
  mysql_data:
    external: true
  trinitycore_data:
    external: true
  trinitycore_config:
    external: true
  trinitycore_logs:
    external: true

Use docker attach to attach into your world server instance, and use the following command to create an account:

account create <username> <password>

Optionally, you can elevate the user to have GM powers:

account set gmlevel <username> 3 -1

Modify your Config.wtf file inside your WTF directory to the following:

set portal <DOCKER HOST IP ADDRESS>

You will need a custom launcher such as Arctium to launch WoW into your custom server. Once launched, log in using the username and password that you used when creating your account.

The goal of the docker image was to streamline as much of the setup as possible within reason, but it was not designed to be a complete keyturn solution. Please refer to the wiki for step by step details if you run into issues.