First, let me get some rage out. *ahem* Why in the Lord's name of everything holy must Bukkit be such a pain in the *BLEEP*. Okay, that's better. Now, how am I supposed to even set-up a server here? What I don't understand, is why the hell is there a Bukkit 1.0.1 Reccomended build, when Minecraft 1.0.1 isn't even out yet? Like, I'm so confused. I even tried forcing an update on Minecraft to see if perhaps mine just hadn't updated for some reason, but sure enough, it's 1.0 still. So, I was still very confused, and this entire process lacks any sort of walkthroughs. Thus, I went ahead anyways I downloaded the 1.0.1, and saved it to my desktop. Created a new folder called "1.0.1 Minecraft Bukkit Server" and I put the .jar in there. I double-click it, loads all the other stuff like white-list. Awesome! Now how am I supposed to run it? Oh, would you look at that, how convenient. There is no RUN.bat or START.bat to speak of. Anywhere. That's nice, you know. Pretty smooth. Anybody know what I'm doing wrong or what I am supposed to do? Because Bukkit has managed to turn something that is supposed to be a simple and uncomplex process, into a process that involves me sticking forks into my eyes and ripping out my hair. Signed, A very angry customer that would just like to have a nice night of playing with friends and running my own RPG server P.S. Sorry, if I sound a bit rude, sarcastic, and annoyed. I have the utmost respect for what the Bukkit developers do. But why can this not be so simple? Instead, it has to be overly problematic. Most people have problems getting people to connect to their server. I cannot even run it to begin with.
Sorry you're having so much trouble, but the process outlined on the bukkit wiki is fairly straightforward. That page is linked right off the bukkit homepage. There is even an automated installer linked there if you don't want to learn the intricacies of writing a 2-3 line batch file. If you're running out of patience this early in the process, just wait until you start setting up and troubleshooting plugins.
Well, I've been going at this for the past 9 hours, so... I think that is enough of excuse right there. I was going to do the automated installer, but that involved installing all this other stuff that didn't even apply to Minecraft, so I've already concluded I'm not going that route. What is funny is that I've done this before (I ran a server back in 1.7) but since then I've literally forgotten everything. I am already well aware and fully used to the pain plug-ins can be. Which is why I find this so frusterating, because I can't even attempt to get there if I can't run the server in the first place.
ok lets get a load of what ur specs/pervoius knowledge you have are then i can help ya 1. wats the server OS? 2. have you/do you know how to port forward? well that should do it for now if you really are all fed up i can jump on teamViewer and do it for you
For example, back in 1.7 when I started the server, I remember how much easier it was. All I had to do was download the build, put in folder, double-click, and boom. Done. From there it was just a matter of adding the plug-ins and setting up permissions. But now, it's like the Bukkit Restaurant got taken over by owners of another country. I just downloaded the 1.0.1 Built (AGAIN, I don't know why they call it 1.0.1 when Minecraft is still 1.0.0... -.-), and made a new folder on mah desktop. Dragged it in, double-clicked, all that other crap started appearing like usual, which is good (i.e. whitelist, plugins, bukkit.yml, etc. etc.). Where in God's name is the RUN.bat? So, I go on YouTube, and apparently I have to create the RUN.bat by myself? Since when did the Bukkit developers deem this necessary, when in the past it was automatically done for me? I figure, "Whatever, let's do it there way even though they are obviously overcomplicating things and adding in an entire part of the process that is totally uneeded." I create the RUN.txt, copy and paste the stuff in, and Save As RUN.bat like it asks. Delete the RUN.txt (don't need it anymore), double click the RUN.bat, and waaahhh-lah! Doesn't work! HAHAHA! I'm so happy. Yes, yes, a bit annoyed. xD My server OS? Not sure, but my computer's operating system is Windows Vista 64-bit. I've port forwarded in the past, and I just checked and everything is still up and operational (port-forwarding wise). EDIT by Moderator: merged posts, please use the edit button instead of double posting.
... If you can not figure out how to download a single file, and type Code: @ECHO OFF java -jar -server -Xmx1G -Xms1G craftbukkit.jar nogui PAUSE into a .bat file...then you need to look for something else to do. And the run.bat was never automatically created.
EDIT: dam it beat to it although i like the above explanation more...ive never heard of bukkit automaticaly generating a startup script... o this seems like a simple startup script issue they renamed the jar file so if you watched an older tutorial its probably innacurate. Can u plz post ur RUN.bat file in code tags?
Post the contents of run.bat for starters, and we'll sort this out. That batch file gives people more greif than anything else, next to port forwarding. The change to the JAR name for Minecraft 1.0 has been causing a bit of confusion around here. I'm not sure why they (bukkit) just didn't leave it alone. Edit: see all the help you're getting now
Ha, you crack me up, honest. That was one for the record-books. Now, let's be serious. Ever considered that is *exactly* what I did, but it decides not to work? Oh, and once again if you think I'm giving you attitude, my apologies. This whole process seems to have changed a little bit. EDIT: I'll copy and paste the contents of my RUN.bat in a moment.
@Echo OFF SET BINDIR=%~dp0 CD /D "%BINDIR%" "%ProgramFiles%\Java\jre6\bin\java.exe" -Xincgc -Xmx1G -jar craftbukkit-1.0.1-R1.jar PAUSE @Echo OFF SET BINDIR=%~dp0 CD /D "%BINDIR%" "%ProgramFiles%\Java\jre6\bin\java.exe" -Xincgc -Xmx1G -jar craftbukkit-1.0.1-R1.jar PAUSE Whatever you say, keyboard warrior. HAHA! That bird... *Sigh* Gets me everytime. EDIT by Moderator: merged posts, please use the edit button instead of double posting.
@uber141 ok and when u run that it just closes? well heres ur checklist 1. make sure the file craftbukkit-1.0.1-R1.jar actually exists in the same directory as teh script 2. make sure you are in fact running java 6 (HINT try using the command 'java -version') well i cant think of much else than that for now... @uber141 god dude u r hard to offend....way may need to bring in someone of a higher power... EDIT by Moderator: merged posts, please use the edit button instead of double posting.
Yes, yes, I try. Hmm... I tried both of the possible solutions, but neither fixed it. Although, now instead of the command prompt merely closing out like before, it says, "The system cannot find the path specified. Press any key to exit..."
ok well that means it probably cant find java.exe here %ProgramFiles%\Java\jre6\bin\. Try opening up a file manager and seeing if it is in fact not there. If it isnt try changing jre6 to jre7.
Yep, everything is there... Hmm... EDIT: OMG I FOUND THE PROBLEM. I basically decided to go all Sherlock Holmes on it, and traced the path it was trying to take. So I went to Program Files, and noticed that a folder named Java was not in there at all. I went to Program Files (x86) and low-and-behold, there it was. Kept following the path, and sure enough, ended at Java.exe . So, I just changed the path in the RUN.bat and everything is nice and dandy. Thank you for the helpz everyone! And once again, sorry for the attitude. Been having a terrible day, and working on something like this for around 4-5 hours doesn't help much. Patience patience patience...
so you were able to find java.exe at that EXACT location? well the next thing to check is that your craftbukkit.jar is named craftbukkit-1.0.1-R1.jar. Also make sure that ur running the script in the root of the server directory. glad to hear it EDIT by Moderator: merged posts, please use the edit button instead of double posting.
Referencing your first post, to consider yourself a customer and expect so much out of the free bukkit project that the devs have put countless hours into is really ignorant. All your questions could have been easily answered without the huge post of complaints.