My friend can't join my Hexxit server.

[cornholio6]

I made a Hexxit server the other day, and it lets me join fine but when my friend tries to join, it says the server does not exist or something. I don't know how to let him join. Any help is appreciated. Thank you.

[weirleader]

is your friend on the same LAN? is your server local? do you have port forwarding set up?

[cornholio6]

how do you set up port forwarding? hes not on the same lan and how do you check if its local?

[weirleader]

is your server local means... are you running it from your own system on your own LAN or are you paying a hosting provider to use a server somewhere out there on the internet?

assuming it's local (somewhere on your LAN), you need to access your router and forward 25565 (assuming it's the Minecraft default) to whatever computer is hosting the server (on my setup it's 192.168.1.10, for example).

(port forwarding can vary quite a bit based on your router -- you might start here: http://www.wikihow.com/Set-Up-Port-Forwarding-on-a-Router)

once that's done, he should put in your external address (should also be listed in your router interface when you check on port forwarding) as the server to which he's trying to connect.