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Posted by ahl
ahl
1,935 Points

Minecraft server control panel.

Hello.

This may be a bit odd request, and I think i'm the first who has asked about this on TTH.

I'm a frequent Minecraft player, and I have my own server. I would like to make a webbased control panel for my server. It should be like Multicraft (Multicraft.org) just alot more simple. I would just need the option to start, stop and restart the server. I'm not sure what language the code should be written in. Somehow the website should send a commandline to my server...As I said i'm not sure anybody on TTH knows how to create a thing like this. But if anybody could just point me in the right direction for creating something like this I would be happy.

I guess that PHP is the required language but i'm not sure.. :) Regards.

3 Answers

Richard Crawford-Wilson
Richard Crawford-Wilson
6,094 Points
Richard Crawford-Wilson
Richard Crawford-Wilson
6,094 Points

You can do this with any language, or even just a basic CGI script. If you want to use PHP check out: http://php.net/manual/en/book.exec.php

All you need to do is: start the server. and stop it. To stop it you should keep the process id in a file, or in a database so you don't have to find it.

Pedro Baumann
Pedro Baumann
12,815 Points

Exactly what Richard said. All programming languages have ways to send a direct command to the system You just have got to know the right commands. Depends on how your server is setup (mine was on my own Desktop PC (just a bunch of friends) so we actually just had a bash script to do what you just asked and would connect to it via SSH.

ahl
ahl
1,935 Points
ahl
ahl
1,935 Points

Hi.

Thanks for your answers.

Pedro, do you have time to maybe add me on skype, Facebook etc. and help me out a bit?

Thanks Adam

Pedro Baumann
Pedro Baumann
12,815 Points
Pedro Baumann
Pedro Baumann
12,815 Points

Hello Adam, right now I don't have a nearly good access to the internet, but I could help you somehow through my email maybe? ondoheer@gmail.com