{% hint style="warning" %}
Your hosting service must let you get additional ports for your server.
If your hosting service doesn't provide you additional ports you have to use one of the alternative hosting methods
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Difference is that with self-host you can download the pack directly from your server without having to upload it to a website each time you make a small change.
{% hint style="info" %}
self-host
is really useful when you are configuring the resourcepack on your test server on your PC.
You just have to use command /iazip
and you'll see changes applied in-game almost instantly.
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{% content-ref url="../fast-resourcepack-tips.md" %} fast-resourcepack-tips.md {% endcontent-ref %}
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- Check in your hosting service panel if you can get an additional port, if not please ask hosting service support to provide your one.
For example on Pterodactyl:
- after you obtained a new port you can open
config.yml
and set like this:
self-host:
enabled: true
server-ip: '127.0.0.1'
pack-port: 8163
- you have to replace
127.0.0.1
with your server IP - and replace
8163
with the new port you obtained.
For example if my ip is 123.456.789.0
and my additional port is 8163
I will set it like this:
self-host:
enabled: true
server-ip: '123.456.789.0'
pack-port: 8163
{% hint style="warning" %}
pack-port
is not the same as your server port (the one your users use to connect).
{% endhint %}
{% hint style="info" %}
127.0.0.1
means "this pc".
So if you are testing the plugin on your PC you can leave default config so plugin will look for the resourcepack zip directly in your PC.
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{% hint style="danger" %}
Do not forget to use /iazip
everytime you edit a texture, a 3D model, a sound... or you won't see any change obviously.
{% endhint %}
After you configured the config.yml
file you just have to run /iazip
command to refresh the zip file and start the hosting.
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{% hint style="warning" %} This guide won't protect your server IP as you are already exposing it via the SRV rule and Cloudflare free doesn't allow protecting traffic from non-standard ports. {% endhint %}
{% hint style="success" %} This guide might make your traffic lower due to how Cloudflare caches requests automatically, so resourcepack requests might be less heavy after applying this method. {% endhint %}
- type:
A
- name:
pack
(for example) - IPv4 address to your server IP, where the pack is hosted (ItemsAdder is running)
- Proxy status:
Proxied
- Click Save
Select "Change Port" and "Create a Rule".
Select "Custom filer expression" and complete as shown in the screenshot changing the values based on your setup.
- set
server-ip
to your new pack address - set
pack-port
to your resourcepack port - set
append-port
to false - try to access the
{% code title="config.yml" %}
self-host:
enabled: true
server-ip: 'https://pack.devs.beer'
pack-port: 25650
append-port: false
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