A virtual machine with McServer program allows setting up your server in a matter of a few minutes. All details about the commands and programs are here: https://github.com/GameServerManagers/LinuxGSM/wiki.

To connect to the server, use login credentials from your personal account and select SSH connection. PUTTY is a perfect client program for establishing SSH connection (it can be uploaded here: https://www.putty.org/). To Install this, you need the following actions:

Open your personal account and find the necessary VPS service

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Open Putty and select IP

Type in your root login and password. Please, note that when you type your password, letters and symbols aren’t displayed: it’s standard SSH protection, just continue typing and press ENTER. Otherwise, you can copy and paste the password, make CLICK RIGHT on console display and press ENTER

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Input the following commands after successful authorization:

# su mcserver
# cd ~
# ./mcserver

To restart the server, use the following command:

 # ./mcserver restart

Then you can open Minecraft

Press Multiplayer, then DirectConnect (or AddServer) and input your server’s IP (for example, 185.186.244.152) and get connected

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If you see the error “Failed to login: Invalid session (Try restarting your game and the launcher)”

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Open the file using the following command:

# vim serverfiles/server.properties

Press INSERT button and proceed to the line with online-mode where you need to select false variables as shown in the picture

To quit the panel, press ESC and type :wq

Restart the server using the following command:

# ./mcserver restart