New Dedicated server owner needs help

[DirtySnipe]

Im a complete nubin when it comes to linux and I thought id throw myself in at the deep end.

I have installed java onto the system and that seems to be running fine.

i only have ssh access to it and also access via the plesk panel for the website side.

My question are these:-

Where do I save my files to on this system ??? lots of folder like home /usr and so on...

Also is there a web based server manager script out there that I can publish to the webserver which is also installed on it?

I did try installing it into a restricted folder with the webserver but was running into permission problems when the plugins started creating there config folders. It would keep turning them into read only and stoped me from editing them.

My goal is to run a tekkit server and it auto start the mc server on a reboot.

I have also seen on tuts that it should not be run under root so i have created an account.

[Silent]

Log to the user and install the server to the users /home directory AS the user, or else it wont have permissions.

Use cron to start tekkit at boot, using something along the lines of

@reboot screen /home/start.sh

Note, something like that, I don't think that's 100% correct

[DirtySnipe]

i have saved the files under that users home folder.

ran chmod to allow the launch.sh file to be executed.

I tried to run it via that user but get the following error

-bash: ./launch.sh: /bin/sh^M: bad interpreter: No such file or directory

[DirtySnipe]

the launch.sh consists of the following

#!/bin/sh

java -Xmx3G -Xms2G -jar Tekkit.jar nogui

[Silent]

You should be launching it as such

First cd into the dir then

screen ./launch.sh

[DirtySnipe]

cannot launch screen ./launch.sh no such file

I was in the users home folder and in the directory where the files are.

I can see the launch file aswell

[DirtySnipe]

uploaded a new launch.sh file and ran again

now getting this error

minecraft@ns310343:~/server$ screen ./launch.sh

00:20:39 [sEVERE] ... 6 more

00:20:39 [sEVERE] Caused by: java.io.FileNotFoundException: /home/minecraft/server/config/mod_MinecraftForge.cfg (Permission denied)

00:20:39 [sEVERE] at java.io.FileOutputStream.open(Native Method)

00:20:39 [sEVERE] at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:212)

00:20:39 [sEVERE] at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:165)

00:20:39 [sEVERE] at java.io.FileWriter.<init>(FileWriter.java:90)

00:20:39 [sEVERE] at cpw.mods.fml.common.modloader.ModLoaderModContainer.configureMod(ModLoaderModContainer.java:263)

00:20:39 [sEVERE] ... 7 more

00:20:39 [sEVERE] Unexpected exception

cpw.mods.fml.common.LoaderException: cpw.mods.fml.common.LoaderException: java.io.FileNotFoundException: /home/minecraft/server/config/mod_MinecraftForge.cfg (Permission denied)

at cpw.mods.fml.common.modloader.ModLoaderModContainer.preInit(ModLoaderModContainer.java:114)

at cpw.mods.fml.common.Loader.preModInit(Loader.java:235)

at cpw.mods.fml.common.Loader.loadMods(Loader.java:607)

at cpw.mods.fml.server.FMLBukkitHandler.onPreLoad(FMLBukkitHandler.java:134)

at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.init(MinecraftServer.java:135)

at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.run(MinecraftServer.java:438)

at net.minecraft.server.ThreadServerApplication.run(SourceFile:492)

Caused by: cpw.mods.fml.common.LoaderException: java.io.FileNotFoundException: /home/minecraft/server/config/mod_MinecraftForge.cfg (Permission denied)

at cpw.mods.fml.common.modloader.ModLoaderModContainer.configureMod(ModLoaderModContainer.java:272)

at cpw.mods.fml.common.modloader.ModLoaderModContainer.preInit(ModLoaderModContainer.java:106)

... 6 more

Caused by: java.io.FileNotFoundException: /home/minecraft/server/config/mod_MinecraftForge.cfg (Permission denied)

at java.io.FileOutputStream.open(Native Method)

at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:212)

at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:165)

at java.io.FileWriter.<init>(FileWriter.java:90)

at cpw.mods.fml.common.modloader.ModLoaderModContainer.configureMod(ModLoaderModContainer.java:263)

... 7 more

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[DirtySnipe]

changed owner of files to user and reran screen.

Server now starting.

Next thing is how can i get it to autostart if server rebooted?

[Silent]

I covered that with my first post

[DirtySnipe]

Use cron to start tekkit at boot, using something along the lines of

@reboot screen /home/start.sh

Note, something like that, I don't think that's 100% correct

I could do with something that is 100% correct not a not sure.

[DirtySnipe]

does anyone know of any webbased server management script i could use for this tekkit server?

like php / mysql??

[Growster]

http://multicraft.org

[Silent]

McMyAdmin is a nice web management program.

And seriously do some googling yourself I'm not going to give you all of the answers.