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Set up a Minecraft server
Authored by: aol on Aug 22, '13 08:17:38AM

First, the Minecraft wiki (http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Create_a_Mac_OS_X_startup_daemon) has a great article that is very similar, but walks you through creating a dedicated _minecraft user and group. I don't know if I see much of a benefit of running as _minecraft or as nobody.

But second, the version of the article I read had a lot of encoding, stuff like <lt; instead of <. So folks using this hint, be careful to translate <lt; and <gt; to < and >. Stuff like <lt;string<gt; should actually be <string> in the plist file. Just FYI.

Finally, setting up the minecraft server is one thing, enabling port forwarding in your router so folks outside your network can get to your server is another. The default minecraft server port is 25565; there are general instructions at http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Setting_up_a_server#Port_forwarding.



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Set up a Minecraft server
Authored by: SOX on Sep 11, '13 10:01:59AM

Hi, the tutorial you linked to is quite awful. The above method is significantly (massively) simpler, does not require a whole lot of ancillary scripts, actually gets the permissions right, explains how to control the daemon, and actually shows how to back it up. The formatting evidently got borked so I posted it in a reply below.



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