MCControl

MCControl is a web application for controlling a Minecraft server. It is written in Rust and has basic HTTP auth.

Development/Building

Requirements

• Rust

Running:

cargo run

Compiling:

cargo build --release

Usage

You need to have a start.sh in the working directory of MCControl, which starts the server and uses the standard output. If you don't have one use this generator by PaperMC.

The password is read from the PASSWORD environment variable. You can start the server with, for example systemd with this service (/etc/systemd/system/mccontrol.service):

[Unit]
Description=Minecraft Control Service
After=network.target

[Service]
WorkingDirectory=/home/mcserver/mccontrol
ExecStart=/home/mcserver/mccontrol/MCControl --workdir /home/mcserver/mcserver
User=mcserver
Group=mcserver
Restart=on-failure
Environment=PASSWORD=<a secure password>

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

By default, Rocket doesn't expose itself to the public, so use a reverse proxy. I like Caddy for it's simplicity, you can use this Caddyfile:

:80 {
  reverse_proxy localhost:8000
}