Importing an SQL file and MySQL answers with Access denied for user to database "essentialmode"?

Access denied for user to database "essentialmode"

Arma 3 can log this warning in the console and in the .rpt file:

Arma 3 Steam Query data overflow

Want to know which FiveM artifact version your server runs, for example before or after an update?

Check what version your FiveM server is running

Frameworks like ESX and QBCore, and most scripts that save anything, need a MySQL database connection.

Connect your server to a database

Whether players can fight each other is one of the first things you decide for your Minecraft server.

Enabling/Disabling PvP in a Minecraft Server on VibeGAMES Game Panel

Counter-Strike servers must log in to Steam with a Gameserver Login Token (GSLT), also called a Steam account token.

Enter a Steam account Token for CS:GO

Some identifier setups and resources require a Steam Web API key.

Enter a steam API key

Garry's Mod servers identify themselves to Steam with a Gameserver Login Token (GSLT), also called a Steam account token.

Enter a steam account token for GMOD

Your Palworld server has 87 settings, and the panel groups them so you never have to touch a configuration file.

Every Palworld Server Setting Explained

Rust is configured through its startup command rather than a settings file, and your panel exposes every part of it as a variable you can edit.

Every Rust Startup Variable Explained

Your console fills up with this line, and every script that touches the database fails:

FiveM error ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:3306

You installed a plugin, restarted, the console says it loaded, and in game nothing happens.

How Oxide and Carbon Permissions Work

Your ARK server has a built-in mod manager, so you do not need to edit any config files to install Steam Workshop mods.

How do I add mods to my ARK server?

ARK keeps most of its gameplay settings in two config files on your server:

How do I change my ARK settings?

Your ARK server can run any of the ARK: Survival Evolved maps.

How do I change the map of my ARK server?

To run admin commands on your ARK server you first set an admin password in the panel, then unlock the admin console in game with it.

How do I make myself admin on my ARK server?

There are two ways to reset an ARK server: wipe only the world so you keep your settings and mods, or reinstall the whole server for a completely clean start.

How do I reset my ARK server?

Tags tell the Rust server browser what kind of server you run: PvE, a weekly wipe cycle, duo only, your region.

How to Add Tags to Your Rust Server

Adding a second Windows account to your server is useful when several people manage the same machine, or when you want teammates…

How to Add an Extra Windows User on a Windows Server

Admins can use special commands on a Palworld server: kicking or banning players, broadcasting messages, saving the world and more.

How to Become an Admin on Your Palworld Server

Buying a FiveM server at VibeGAMES takes a few minutes.

How to Buy FiveM Hosting from VibeGames.com

At VibeGAMES there are no commitments: automatic payments are optional, and you can switch them off whenever you want.

How to Cancel Your Automatic Payments

Palworld at default rates is a slow game, and on a server people play a few evenings a week that can mean nobody ever reaches the interesting part.

How to Change EXP, Capture and Drop Rates

Gamemode decides whether players survive or build freely, and difficulty decides how hard the world hits back.

How to Change Gamemode and Difficulty

Everything a Bedrock server can be told to do lives in one file called server.properties.

How to Change Your Bedrock Server Settings

Bedrock updates itself through the app store, so your players' game can jump to a new version overnight while your server sits on the old one.

How to Change Your Bedrock Version or Server Software

The MOTD is the line of text under your server name in the Minecraft multiplayer list.

How to Change Your Server MOTD

The difficulty level of your ARK server controls the level of wild creatures and the quality of loot drops.

How to Change the Difficulty Level on Your Ark Server

Unlike a single-player world, a dedicated Palworld server has no difficulty slider inside the game: everything is decided by the server configuration.

How to Change the Difficulty of Your Palworld Server

Rust+ is Facepunch's companion app for iOS and Android.

How to Connect the Rust+ App to Your Server

Your Bedrock server is running and you need to get into it.

How to Connect to Your Bedrock Server

Your Minecraft server is running, and now you and your friends need to get into it.

How to Connect to Your Minecraft Server

Your Rust server is running and you need to get onto it.

How to Connect to Your Rust Server

RCON lets you run server commands from outside the game: a desktop tool like RustAdmin, a web console, or a Discord bot.

How to Connect to Your Rust Server with RCON

Every game server comes with MySQL database slots, and a FiveM framework such as ESX, QBCore or Qbox needs one.

How to Create a Database for Your Game Server

Backups let you roll your server back when an update or script change goes wrong.

How to Create a Manual Backup

Follow these steps to create and configure a Minecraft server on your Windows VPS.

How to Create a Minecraft Server on a Windows VPS

This guide walks you through setting up a Minecraft server on a Linux VPS.

How to Create a Minecraft Server on an Linux VPS

The world you built in single player can be your server's world, and your server's world can come back down to your device.

How to Import, Switch and Download Worlds

Add-ons are Bedrock's answer to mods. A behaviour pack changes how the game behaves, a resource pack changes how it looks and…

How to Install Add-ons on Your Bedrock Server

Palworld has no built in mod support on a dedicated server, so mods are installed by putting their files on the server yourself with the file manager.

How to Install Mods on Your Palworld Server

Plugins are what turn a vanilla Rust server into a 2x server with kits, teleports and shops.

How to Install Oxide or Carbon on Your Rust Server

Plugins add features to your server without anyone installing anything: land claims, homes, permissions, anti-cheat, voice chat.

How to Install Plugins on Your Minecraft Server

Plugins are what make a Rust server yours: kits, teleports, shops, raidable bases, anti-cheat.

How to Install Plugins on Your Rust Server

A modpack turns your server into a different game: Cobblemon, Pixelmon, Better MC, a horror pack, a tech pack.

How to Install a Modpack on Your Minecraft Server

Your Palworld server is running, and now you and your friends need to get into it.

How to Join Your Palworld Server

If you play Minecraft on Xbox, PlayStation or Switch, you have probably noticed there is no way to type in a server address.

How to Join on Xbox, PlayStation or Switch

A Palworld server that runs for days on end gets slower: memory use creeps up and players start to feel lag and stutter.

How to Keep Your Palworld Server Fast

Every game server is managed in the VibeGAMES game panel at game.vibegames.com.

How to Log In to the Game Panel

Admin on a Rust server lets you fly, spawn items, teleport, and kick or ban players.

How to Make Yourself Admin on Your Rust Server

An operator, or OP, can run commands in game: changing the gamemode, teleporting, setting the time, kicking players.

How to Make Yourself an Operator

The file manager is built into the game panel and covers almost everything you need day to day: browsing, uploading, editing, archiving and deleting files.

How to Manage Your Files Using the File Manager

The Players page is a live view of your server: who is on it, where they are standing, what they are typing, and every action you need to deal with them.

How to Moderate Your Rust Server

You started a world on your own machine, and now you want everyone to play in it.

How to Move Your Single Player World to Your Server

A Palworld server is public by default: anyone who finds it in the community browser can walk in.

How to Password-Protect Your Palworld Server

If you've lost your FTP password, you can reset it from the VibeGAMES dashboard in a few clicks.

How to Reset Your FTP Password

With a schedule the panel takes a backup of your server files automatically, so a bad update never costs you more than a day of work.

How to Set Up Automatic Backups

A Rust server that runs for days gets slower: memory creeps up, entity counts grow, and players start to feel it.

How to Set Up Automatic Restarts

Palworld can put Steam, Xbox, PlayStation 5 and Mac players on the same server, but only if the server allows those platforms.

How to Set Up Crossplay on Your Palworld Server

Turning on PvP in Palworld is not one switch.

How to Set Up PvP on Your Palworld Server

Admin rights in FiveM come in two layers: the built-in permission system (ACE) that controls console commands and many admin menus…

How to Set Yourself as a Superadmin in Your Server

Want to give a friend or developer access to your game server?

How to Share Access to Your Game Server (Subuser)

Starting your game server takes one click. Here is where to find it and what the other power buttons do.

How to Start Your Game Server

Sometimes a world has run its course: the area around spawn is stripped, everyone has everything, or you want to start again on a new seed.

How to Start a Fresh World on Your Minecraft Server

Sometimes a world has run its course: the map is stripped, everyone is max level, or you want to start again with different settings.

How to Start a Fresh World on Your Palworld Server

When Palworld patches, your server has to be on the same build as your players or nobody can join.

How to Update Your Palworld Server

Running out of RAM or CPU? You can upgrade your game server to a bigger plan straight from the billing dashboard, and in most…

How to Upgrade Your Game Server

The Players page answers three questions in one place: who plays here, who is allowed in, and who can use commands.

How to Use the Allowlist and Add Operators

Wiping is how a Rust server stays alive. A fresh map resets everyone to nothing, and a predictable wipe day is what brings players…

How to Wipe Your Rust Server

A resource is a plugin for your FiveM server.

How to add a resource

A server banner is the wide image shown on your server's detail page in the FiveM server list.

How to add a server banner for your FiveM server

A short guide to recording network traffic while joining a game, then saving it as a .pcap file.

How to capture packet and save as PCAP using Wireshark

Picked Vanilla when you ordered but want Paper for plugins, or Fabric for mods?

How to change my server type?

The slot count decides how many players can be on your server at the same time.

How to change the slot count

You manage a Linux server over SSH. You will need the server's IP address and the root password, which VibeGAMES emails you as…

How to connect to your Linux server

You manage a Windows server over Remote Desktop (RDP).

How to connect to your Windows server

A whitelist makes your server invite only: nobody can join unless you put their name on the list.

How to enable a whitelist on your Minecraft server

Every FiveM server needs a license key from Cfx.re.

How to enter the FiveM license code

Restoring a database dump or loading a framework's SQL files takes a few minutes with a free tool like HeidiSQL.

How to import an SQL file via HeidiSQL

Found a great custom map on a site like Planet Minecraft or CurseForge?

How to install a map on your Minecraft server

ARK servers are easiest to join through your Steam favorites.

How to join my ARK server?

txAdmin is the web panel bundled with FiveM for managing your server: restarts, scheduled tasks, player management, live console and more.

How to log in to txAdmin

SFTP is the fastest way to make big changes to your server, such as uploading complete resources or downloading everything at once.

How to manage your files via FTP using Filezilla

SFTP is the fastest way to move a lot of files to or from your server.

How to manage your files via FTP using WinSCP

ARK autosaves the world on a timer, and pressing Stop in the panel also saves before the server shuts down.

How to manually save the world of my ARK server?

Want to install a database on your Windows VPS or dedicated server?

How to set up a MariaDB on your Windows server

The server logo (icon) is the small square image next to your server name in the FiveM server list.

How to setup a FiveM server logo

The automatic backups add-on makes a daily incremental backup of your VPS or virtual dedicated server and keeps each backup for up to 14 days.

How to setup automatic backups for your server

A custom icon makes your server instantly recognizable in the multiplayer server list.

How to setup your server icon

If we were not able to identify connection issues from your traceroute results, we may ask you to run a WinMTR test.

How to submit an MTR

You never install ARK updates by hand. The server checks Steam for a new version while it boots, so updating is just a restart.

How to update my ARK server?

FiveM artifacts are the server builds released by Cfx.re.

How to update your FiveM artifacts?

By default a Minecraft server verifies every player against the official account servers, so offline or cracked launchers like TLauncher are refused.

How to use a cracked client like tlauncher?

Admin commands (cheats) let you spawn items, fly around, tame instantly and manage your world.

How to use cheats in your ARK server?

Access denied means MySQL received a username, password, host or database name that does not match.

I can't log in to my database (Access denied)

This guide installs a Farming Simulator 22 dedicated server on your VibeGAMES Windows server.

Installing a dedicated server for Farming Simulator 2022

Minecraft is two different games that share a name.

Java or Bedrock: Which Server Do You Need?

Your server starts and stops again straight away, or the console reports the process in a crashed state with an exit code.

My FiveM server does not start

Moving a server over from another host, or from your own PC, and now nothing starts?

My FiveM server does not start anymore after I uploaded my server files

Palworld dedicated servers come with a set of admin commands for managing players, broadcasting messages and controlling the server.

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