Minecraft is an amazing game. It is a fact that everyone knows. Some of us may have hosted servers for our friends using our home computers. This is great, however, you may eventually get tired of having your computer connected to the Internet. Renting a VPS can solve this problem. Virtual Private Servers are servers that you pay monthly and can be used 24/7. If you look around you can usually find some good deals. Check out LowEndBox.com - I just found a 2GB VPS, which is perfect for a small Minecraft server, for just about $2.50 a month!
So now that you have a VPS you could off course go right ahead and install java and run the Minecraft server java file. This is great, but not everyone likes the Linux terminal. A work around for avoiding the Linux terminal would be to use a powerful Minecraft server control panel. Today, we'll install McMyAdmin onto a Linux server with 2GB RAM. This will allow us to manage our server and preform tasks like reboots and backups all with a few clicks from a web browser! Let's get started!
For this article we will assume that you already have a VPS running a Linux 64 bit operating system and you know how to SSH into your server. If you don't know how to do any of those things, Google is your friend!
First, we are going to install the latest version of Java for Linux. Open the Java website and right-click the Linux 64 RPM download.MINECRAFT SERVERS Select "copy link." SSH into the server and type these commands. Replace LINK (the link you copied) with the following commands. Each line should be entered separately into your SSH client.
mkdir /usr/java cd /usr/java wget LINK
Now due to the Java website and the wget tool the file that we downloaded may look rather strange. The mv tool will allow us to rename the file. Replace FILENAME by the exact file name you downloaded. If you need to find the name of the file you can run ls at a terminal. Rename the file to include the first few words up to the question mark. The following example will help you.
mv jre-7u7-linux-x64.rpm?ssdflsdjkfhkjhnfsdkfhlsdkhflsk jre-7u7-linux-x64.rpm
Now, you will install Java RPM. The following syntax will be used to replace the file name with yours.
rpm ivh
rpm -ivh jre-7u7-linux-x64.rpm
Java should now have been installed on your Linux VPS. If you are having trouble installing Java, you can consult the Java RPM installation instructions.
We are now going to install McMyAdmin
First, create a directory to McMyAdmin.
mkdir/minecraft CD /minecraft
Now to download and install McMyAdmin. Remember to enter your password for McMyAdmin's web panel in the last line.
wget http://mcmyadmin.com/Downloads/MCMA2_glibc25.zip unzip MCMA2_glibc25.zip cd /usr/local wget http://mcmyadmin.com/Downloads/etc.zip unzip etc.zip cd /minecraft ./MCMA2_Linux_x86_64 -setpass ENTER-YOUR-NEW-PASSWORD-HERE
Now your server will start. Head over to a web browser and type the following address: http://Your-Server-IP:8080
Log in with admin username and password that you have previously set.
Here you can configure the server. After you have selected everything, click on the Start button to start the server. You should now have a working McMyAdmin Minecraft server running on your VPS!
Bonus
The server will shut down at the moment if you close the SSH client window. To fix this simply install screen if you do not already have it. Then run
screen./MCMA2_Linux_x86_64
to run your server. You can then close the SSH window, and the server will continue to run!
Have questions? Ask away in the comments!
