So you've downloaded your modpack, played around for a bit and now want to set up a server for you and your friends to play on. This guide will help you get your server up and running and show you some of the options available on the server installer. It will not walk you through the process of getting your server actually on the internet, port forwarding, firewall configuration etc etc.
To start with you need to download the installer, you can do this in one of two ways. You can either download from the website, look for the modpack you'd like to install, then click the server files tab, circled in green. You then get the option to download the server installer for either Windows, Linux or Mac.
Select the version of the pack you are using and the operating system you are attempting to setup a server on.
On Windows, this file will have an exe extension, you can put the executable into an empty folder that you would like to install the server into. You can just double click the installer to start the install process, for the purposes of showing the options available I'll be using the command line.
On Linux and Mac, the file will not have an extension and you will need to grant execute permissions on it with the command chmod u+x serverinstall_25_174 the numbers at the end of the file will change depending on which pack and version you are trying to install. You can then execute the file with ./serverinstall_25_174. Note that there is a period and a forward slash in front of the filename.
The rest of the instructions are the same no matter which OS you are using to install the server. The first prompt you will get when you run the installer is to confirm the directory that you'd like to install into:
You can either press <Enter> to use the default and install into the current directory, or enter an alternative install directory to install into and then press enter.
This is now asking you if you are sure that you want to install into an already existing directory, press enter again to confirm.
Now it confirms the modpack and version that you are installing, if this is correct, press enter, if not type n and then enter to cancel.
The installer will then proceed to download all the relevant files:
Depending on the pack and your internet connection this could take a few minutes. Once it's finished you will see the final line of the console showing Installed! like you can see above.
The directory should then look something like this. Please note that all Modpacks are different and might have more or less files than the above below.
If you are on Mac or Linux you will have start.sh instead of start.bat.
You can now start the server by running that start script. If you would like to update the server to a new version at a later date, you can run installer again with the --latest switch to grab the latest
update.