How to upload WorldEdit and different files to your Minecraft server using the Command Line
In this lesson, we're going to teach you some basic terminal commands by putting WorldEdit and an arena schematic on your server!
This is advanced information about your server! We'll be color coding these for future reference. The only important information is your SFTP port which will be green and your IP address which will be color coded as red
In this case, since I'm on Windows, I'm using git bash! On Mac/Linux, it's literally the terminal.
SSH means secure shell! This allows us to access the server from our computer.
Type in the command:
ssh -p YOURSFTPPORT usr@YOURSERVERIP
-p is a flag or option for the ssh command. The only necessary argument for ssh is the ip you want to access!
If it's your first time accessing this server, you'll see something like this. Just type in yes.
Yeah you guessed it, the password is mvcodeclub
For the next few steps we're going to be walking through 2 commands cd and ls.
We'll be using them to find the correct path to place worldEdit.
ls is the command to list files in a folder/directory! Here we use it to see the contents of each folder we access.
cd is the command to change directories. Here we use cd to mistakenly access scripts and then to exit out of it.
.. means to access the "parent" folder of scripts. You can think of it as going "up" once.
... will allow us to access it's "grandparent" folder and more dots will do the same so on so forth.
cd data and then ls will show you....
This is what the insides of a Minecraft server look like!
Try to find this! Use your newly found powers of cd and ls.
Remember cd will only work on folders and directories!
In the next few steps, we'll be learning about a new command line tool called sftp! We'll be using it to upload worldedit and the arena schematic to our server
Download worldedit.jar Download arena-ctf.schematictype in
sftp -oPort=YOURPORT usr@YOURIP
and the password after.
sftp allows us to transfer files between our computer and the server!
Type in put Downloads/arena-ctf.schematic data/plugins/schematics
and put Downloads/worldedit.jar data/plugins
data/plugins was the path for the folder we were hunting for!
The first argument for the put command is the location of whatever we want to transfer over to the server.
The second argument is where we want to put it!
Downloads/arena-ctf.schematic and Downloads/worldedit.jar are called relative paths! They'll only work if we sftp from the home directory and have both of those files in our downloads! The Downloads folder is located in the home directory.
See if worldedit works the next time your start your server!
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