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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><em><br />The following guide will detail some basic configuration for your Minecraft server (Linux).<br /><br /><br /></em></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
<p>The first thing you need to do is to connect to your server through SSH. If you are on a mac, you can open up Terminal, or if you are on a PC, you can connect with [[href="https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-log-into-your-droplet-with-putty-for-windows-users|PuTTY]]
<pre>ssh <em>username</em>@<em>ipaddress</em></pre>
<p>Enter the password when prompted. Although you can set up the server on the root user, it is not as secure as setting it up under another username. You can check out [https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-add-and-delete-users-on-ubuntu-12-04-and-centos-6 this tutorial] to see how to add users.</p>
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<h2>Step One—Install the Requirements</h2>
<p>Before going further, we should run a quick update on apt-get, the program through which we will download all of the server requirements.</p>
<pre><strong>sudo apt-get update</strong></pre>
<p>After that, we need to be sure that Java is installed on our server. You can check by typing this command:</p>
<pre><strong> java -version</strong></pre>
<p>If you don’t have Java installed, you will get a message that says "java: command not found". You can, then, download java through apt-get:</p>
<pre><strong>sudo apt-get install default-jdk</strong></pre>
<p>You also need to supply your server with Screen which will keep your server running if you drop the connection:</p>
<pre><strong>sudo apt-get install screen</strong></pre>
<p>There is a complete guide on [https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-install-and-use-screen-on-an-ubuntu-cloud-server How to install and use screen] here.</p>
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<h2>Install the Minecraft Server</h2>
<p>Start off by creating a new directory where you will store the Minecraft files:</p>
<pre><strong>mkdir minecraft</strong></pre>
<p>Once the directory is created, switch into it:</p>
<pre><strong>cd minecraft</strong></pre>
<p>Within that directory, download the Minecraft server software:</p>
<pre>wget -O minecraft_server.jar https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/1.7.4/minecraft_server.1.7.4.jar</pre>
<p>Since we have installed screen, you can start it running (-S sets the sessions title):</p>
<pre><strong>screen -S "Minecraft server"</strong></pre>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><em>After the file downloads, you can run it with Java:</em></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
<pre><strong>java -Xmx1024M -Xms1024M -jar minecraft_server.jar nogui</strong></pre>
<p>The launching text should look something like this:</p>
<pre>2012-08-06 21:12:52 [INFO] Loading properties
2012-08-06 21:12:52 [WARNING] server.properties does not exist
2012-08-06 21:12:52 [INFO] Generating new properties file
2012-08-06 21:12:52 [INFO] Default game type: SURVIVAL
2012-08-06 21:12:52 [INFO] Generating keypair
2012-08-06 21:12:53 [INFO] Starting Minecraft server on *:25565
2012-08-06 21:12:53 [WARNING] Failed to load operators list: java.io.FileNotFoundException: ./ops.txt (No such file or directory)
2012-08-06 21:12:53 [WARNING] Failed to load white-list: java.io.FileNotFoundException: ./white-list.txt (No such file or directory)
2012-08-06 21:12:53 [INFO] Preparing level "world"
2012-08-06 21:12:53 [INFO] Preparing start region for level 0
2012-08-06 21:12:54 [INFO] Preparing spawn area: 4%
2012-08-06 21:12:55 [INFO] Preparing spawn area: 12%
2012-08-06 21:12:56 [INFO] Preparing spawn area: 20%
2012-08-06 21:12:57 [INFO] Preparing spawn area: 24%
2012-08-06 21:12:58 [INFO] Preparing spawn area: 32%
2012-08-06 21:12:59 [INFO] Preparing spawn area: 36%
2012-08-06 21:13:00 [INFO] Preparing spawn area: 44%
2012-08-06 21:13:01 [INFO] Preparing spawn area: 48%
2012-08-06 21:13:02 [INFO] Preparing spawn area: 52%
2012-08-06 21:13:03 [INFO] Preparing spawn area: 61%
2012-08-06 21:13:04 [INFO] Preparing spawn area: 69%
2012-08-06 21:13:05 [INFO] Preparing spawn area: 77%
2012-08-06 21:13:06 [INFO] Preparing spawn area: 85%
2012-08-06 21:13:07 [INFO] Preparing spawn area: 93%
2012-08-06 21:13:08 [INFO] Done (15.509s)! For help, type "help" or "?"</pre>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><em>Your Minecraft server is now all set up. You can exit out of screen by pressing</em></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
<pre><strong>ctl-a d</strong></pre>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><em>To reattach screen, type</em></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
<pre><strong>screen -R</strong></pre>
<p>You can change the settings of your server by opening up the server properties file:</p>
<pre><strong> nano ~/minecraft/server.properties</strong></pre>
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