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Please see Setting up a server on the Luanti Developer Wiki.

For setting up a Luanti server according to Debian, see this page on the Debian Wiki.

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-These instructions have been tested in Debian Jessie (“Testing” as of January 2015) which includes a <code>minetest-server</code> package.
+Please see [https://dev.luanti.org/setting-up-a-server/ Setting up a server] on the Luanti Developer Wiki.
-A simple Minetest [[server]] can be started in any Debian (Ubuntu, Linux Mint or derivative distribution) that has the <code>minetest</code> package by going to its “Server” tab, however such a game only remains available for the duration of the host's playing session.
+For setting up a Luanti server according to Debian, see [https://wiki.debian.org/Games/Minetest#Setting_up_a_server this page on the Debian Wiki].
-This guide is aimed at providing a more permanent, minimal server environment setup without a graphical desktop environment.
-== Installation and initial preparation ==
-''Commands prefixed with '''$''' are to be run with limited privileges, whereas commands prefixed with '''#''' should be used with administrator privileges (usually using <code>sudo</code>).''
-=== Preparing a Debian 7 virtual machine (optional) ===
-If you wish to install Minetest in its own dedicated environment, it's an interesting option to do so on a KVM host, as a dedicated virtual machine.
-This requires previous installation and configuration of KVM and the '''virtinst''' package on your host system. You can also configure a network bridge so your LAN will have direct access to the server on the same subnet.
-The following command will prepare a virtual machine named "dungeon" in an existing KVM host:
- sudo virt-install -n dungeon -r 1024 --disk path=/var/lib/libvirt/images/dungeon.img,bus=virtio,size=10 -l http://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian/dists/wheezy/main/installer-i386/ --accelerate -b br0,model=virtio --connect=qemu:///system --vnc --noautoconsole -v
-Once installed, you can access the console via VNC.
-== Installing the Minetest server program ==
-Install the <code>minetest-server</code> package:
- # apt-get install minetest-server
-The current Debian package in Jessie does not automatically setup the Minetest server to start as a service. It can run under the <code>root</code> user but it may be preferrable to create a user to run it:
- # adduser minetest
-Since version 0.4.10+repack-3 a manual configuration of Debian's minetest-server package is no longer required. Please check out the section about systemd and sysV-init below.
-Before setting up automatic startup at boot, consider manually running the server to determine the best command line arguments.
-== Manually starting the server ==
-The server can be started manually by invoking its command:
- $ minetestserver --info
-The last few lines of terminal output should be similar to this:
-:33:25: INFO[main]: Server: Loading environment metadata
-:33:25: INFO[main]: Server: Loading players
-:33:25: INFO[main]: Starting server on port 30000...
-:33:25: ACTION[main]:         .__               __                   __
-:33:25: ACTION[main]:   _____ |__| ____   _____/  |_  ____   _______/  |_
-:33:25: ACTION[main]:  /     \|  |/    \_/ __ \   __\/ __ \ /  ___/\   __\
-:33:25: ACTION[main]: |  Y Y  \  |   |  \  ___/|  | \  ___/ \___ \  |  |
-:33:25: ACTION[main]: |__|_|  /__|___|  /\___  >__|  \___  >____  > |__|
-:33:25: ACTION[main]:       \/        \/     \/          \/     \/
-:33:25: ACTION[main]: World at [/home/minetest/.minetest/worlds/world]
-:33:25: ACTION[main]: Server for gameid="minetest" listening on port 30000.
-:33:25: INFO[ServerThread]: Server creating detached inventory "creative"
-:33:28: INFO[ServerThread]: ServerMap: SQLite3 database opened
-== Manually stopping the server ==
-To stop the server, press <kbd>Ctrl + C</kbd>. '''Avoid killing it''' unless necessary, since that may cause world corruption.
-The last few lines of terminal output should be similar to this:
-:34:52: INFO: sigint_handler(): Ctrl-C pressed, shutting down.
-:34:52: INFO[main]: Dedicated server quitting
-:34:52: INFO[main]: Server destructing
-:34:52: INFO[main]: Server: Saving players
-:34:52: INFO[main]: Server: Saving environment metadata
-:34:52: INFO[main]: Server: Stopping and waiting threads
-:34:52: INFO[main]: Server: Threads stopped
-:34:52: INFO[main]: ServerMap: Saved map to /home/minetest/.minetest/worlds/world
-:34:52: INFO[main]: RollbackManager::~RollbackManager()
-:34:52: INFO[main]: RollbackManager::flush()
-:34:52: INFO[main]: BanManager: saving to /home/minetest/.minetest/worlds/world/ipban.txt
-:34:52: INFO[main]: Server: Deinitializing scripting
-== Setup automatic startup at boot ==
-=== With a boot-time scheduled command (only needed for version 0.4.10+repack-3 and below) ===
-IMPORTANT: this manual setup of automatic minetest server at boot is not necessary since 0.4.10+repack-3. This improvement is available when installing the package from Debian experimental repositories at the time of this writing.
-Once you're satisfied with command line arguments and having tested the server works, you can setup automatic startup at boot:
-# Login as the user previously created. This can be a non-privileged user.
-# Add the <code>minetestserver</code> command as determined after testing with manual server startup to <code>crontab</code>
-## Invoke the <code>crontab</code> editor: <pre>$ crontab -e</pre>
-## Add your command to be executed at reboot to the very end of the file, for example: <pre>@reboot /usr/games/minetestserver --info --worldname MyWorld</pre>
-# Save the file (Ctrl-X if using the <code>nano</code> editor)
-== Running the Minetest server as a systemd service or sysV-init daemon ==
-Since version 0.4.10+repack-3 the Debian minetest-server package automatically creates a system-wide, unprivileged user called '''Debian-minetest'''. The home directory of this user is ''/var/games/minetest-server''. You can do all the configuration in ''/etc/minetest/minetest.conf''. All log files are written to ''/var/log/minetest''.
-=== systemd ===
-Start the server with
- # systemctl start minetest-server
-Stop the server with
- # systemctl stop minetest-server
-You can disable the server on boot with
- # systemctl disable minetest-server
-You can start multiple servers with different configurations by using systemd's template unit feature.
- # systemctl start minetest-server@pvp.service
-Provided that you also saved the configuration file for this server in <code>/etc/minetest/pvp.conf</code>, the server will now use this second configuration and log everything to <code>/var/log/minetest/pvp.log</code>.
-Simply replace <code>pvp</code> after @ with your desired name.
-=== sysV-init ===
-If systemd is not your default init system and you still prefer to use the old sysV-init style configuration, you can use the service command to start or stop your server.
- # service minetest-server start
-or:
- #service minetest-server stop
-=== Further information ===
-* For a detailed explanation of the server configuration file, see the [http://github.com/minetest/minetest/blob/master/minetest.conf.example minetest.conf] page.
-* Use a different [[Database backends|database backend]] for your world.
-* [http://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3837 One-line script for installing/compiling Minetest Git, for Debian / Ubuntu / Mint]
-* [http://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=9588 Guide to create fast minetest server on Debian]
-* [[Server commands]] page for a list of useful commands.
-* [[Itemstrings|Item strings]] for the itemstrings for use with the <code>/give</code> and <code>/giveme</code> commands.
-* See the [[Privileges]] page for detailed information on the privilege system.
-== A few tips ==
-* The <code>.minetest</code> directory contains game data (<code>worlds, config, debug.txt</code>).
-* File structure with the folders Minetest adds after some usage as client and server, as well as the positions (…) that costum made content goes could look like this.
- minetest/
- ├── bin/
- ├── builtin/
- ├── cache/
- │   ├── media/
- │   └── tmp/
- ├── client/
- │   ├── serverlist/
- │   └── shaders/
- │       ├── …
- ├── doc/
- ├── fonts/
- ├── games/
- │   ├── minetest_game/
- │   ├── minimal/
- │   └── … (installed extra games)
- ├── locale/ (lots of language folders)
- ├── mods/
- │   └── … (installed extra mods and modpacks)
- ├── textures/
- │   ├── base/
- │   │   └── pack/
- │   └── … (installed extra texturepacks)
- └── worlds/
-     └── … (saved worlds. Some with exclusive world mods)
-[[Category:Server]]
-[[Category:Tutorials]]

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