Set up a Minecraft Server on CentOS
Setting up a Minecraft server can be pretty difficult if you don't know what you're doing. This tutorial is to simplify running it on CentOS 5.
We'll need to following:
- Dedicated Server / Xen based VPS
- CentOS 5.x 32bit/64bit
- 1GB of RAM or more
- Latest Java JDK
- Minecraft Server
Let's start with getting a Xen VPS, grab one from PhotonVPS. You'll need a Xen one, so I'll recommend a WARP2 or higher.
Now, let's get started by installing Java-JDK:
yum install java-1.6.0-openjdk
Now, let's check if Java was installed:
which java
It should display the following if it was properly installed:
/usr/bin/java
We're done with that now, let's create a directory for Minecraft then install it:
1. Make sure we're in the root directory still:
cd
2. Now let's create the directory:
mkdir Minecraft
3. Enter the directory:
cd Minecraft
4. Time to get Minecraft:
wget http://minecraft.net/download/minecraft_server.jar
5. We'll need to make sure Minecraft as all the correct permissions:
chmod +x minecraft_server.jar
Minecraft is now installed!
From here we'll need to install "screen" to keep the Minecraft server running after we close the SSH session.
Install screen:
yum install screen
Now, we'll use the screen and run Minecraft from there.
screen
Starting up Minecraft now:
java -Xmx1024M -Xms1024M -jar minecraft_server.jar nogui
(*1024 value can be changed depending on how much RAM your VPS has)
Ex. 512MB VPS - java -Xmx512M -Xms512M -jar minecraft_server.jar nogui
Ex. 2048MB VPS - java -Xmx2048M -Xms2048M -jar minecraft_server.jar nogui
To get back to the normal screen now you'll have to do the following:
Control + a + d
To get back to the screen where Minecraft is running:
screen -r
That's it for getting Minecraft up and running on CentOS!
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