Repository for maintaining a Minecraft server as a Digitalocean droplet.
Steps 1 - 5 only needs to be done when a new server is set up, because we need a bigger server or an additional server etc.
Do this manually in the Digitalocean web UI (or whatever).
Note <ip-address> and get hold of the <private-key-file>.
ssh -i <private-key-file> root@<ip-address>
(This might as well be putty in Windows etc.)
git clone https://github.com/magnus-lycka/minecraft-digital-ocean.git
cd minecraft-digital-ocean
Next time you want use this repo, just run git pull -r to get the latest version.
./init.sh
exit
ssh -i <private-key-file> minecraft@<ip-address>
By running the minecraft server as the minecraft user, not `root we make it harder for hackers to mess up our server. We will now run screen to stop the programs we start from exiting when we logout.
Info about screen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3S3I9lT6eKE
If you already have a screen session running (run screen -ls to check) you can use
screen -r
to reattach to that session. Otherwise start a new session with
screen
When you are done with the stuff below, type Ctrl-A-D to detach from the screen session and leave minecraft running, and exit to logout from the server.
The minecraft user also wants this repo...
git clone https://github.com/magnus-lycka/minecraft-digital-ocean.git
cd minecraft-digital-ocean
Check install.sh, update what needs to be updated, and then run it.
nano install.sh
./install.sh
If minecraft doesn't complain and exit, and you want to exit, you can stop it with Ctrl-C.
nano eula.txt
Change the line eula=false to eula=true. Save and exit.
nano server.properties
See e.g. https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-create-a-minecraft-server-on-ubuntu-20-04
java -Xms1024M -Xmx4G -jar minecraft_server_1.15.2.jar nogui
Detach from screen with Ctrl-A-D as mentioned above, and logout from server with exit.