Linux Servers Without A Screen

Linux servers without a screen

The easiest way: one command from your own computer installs Craft Conductor on the Linux computer and starts it at boot. See docs/headless.md (Windows, macOS and Linux steps). For containers, see docs/docker.md. The details below are for doing it by hand.

• Reaching the control panel from your own PC. The setup wizard asks whether to allow other devices on your network; on a machine with no desktop the suggested answer is yes. Craft Conductor then prints the address to open, such as http://192.168.1.50:8765/. If you'd rather keep it private to the server, answer no and use an SSH tunnel: ssh -L 8765:localhost:8765 you@server, then open http://localhost:8765 on your PC. Craft Conductor prints this command too. Through the tunnel you count as another device (SSH passes the connection on): sign in with the password (the one-time password it printed works), not a PIN, and if you forget it, run craft-conductor web-password --reset over SSH.

• Keeping it running after you log out, and after reboots:

  craft-conductor service install      # sets up a systemd service for this server and starts it
  craft-conductor service status
  journalctl --user -u craft-conductor-<folder> -f    # the server console (`craft-conductor service install` prints the exact command)
  craft-conductor service uninstall

  As a normal user this creates a user service and enables "lingering" so it runs without anyone logged in (if that needs admin rights, Craft Conductor prints the sudo loginctl enable-linger command). As root it creates a system service. A good setup is a dedicated minecraft user: sudo -u minecraft craft-conductor service install. examples/craft_conductor.service shows a hand-written unit if you prefer.

• Firewall: open the Minecraft port for players (sudo ufw allow 25565/tcp, or sudo firewall-cmd --add-port=25565/tcp --permanent && sudo firewall-cmd --reload), and port 8765 only if you use the control panel from other devices.

On a rented server (a VPS), see the rented server guide.

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