The reverse proxy runs on a different host than the game server, so it cannot
alias the share directly — serving the pack needs an HTTP server on the game
server itself.
packwiz-http.py is a threaded static server over an allowlist: mods/, packs/,
and setup-*.html. Everything else 404s, since the same directory holds
server.properties, ops.json, whitelist.json, logs and the world. Threading
matters because installing a pack is one request per mod and a single-threaded
server serialises a whole lobby behind one download. pack.toml and index.toml
are sent no-cache so a proxy cannot serve a stale pack.
Installed as packwiz-http.service on port 18080 by default, configurable with
-H/-B, skippable with --no-http, and read-only via ReadOnlyPaths.
packwiz-setup.sh gains -S/--scheme, for when the pack is built against a mirror
reachable only over plain HTTP but clients must be handed the public HTTPS URL.
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Re-running previously died at step 2, because packwiz-setup.sh refused to
overwrite an existing pack.toml — so a run that failed partway, or any later
change to port or heap, could not be applied by simply running it again.
deploy.sh now snapshots the dataset, stops the server if it was running,
redeploys, and restarts it only if it had been up. packwiz-setup.sh gains
--force, which moves an existing pack to <pack>.bak.<timestamp> rather than
deleting it, since the directory may hold hand-edited .pw.toml files or git
history. deploy.sh passes --force unless --keep-pack is given.
World data and the server's mods directory are untouched throughout.
Also replaces the hardcoded sed line ranges in every usage() with an awk that
prints the leading comment block, so help text stops drifting out of sync when
the header changes.
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Deploys a self-hosted NeoForge server whose modpack clients pull automatically
on launch, with mods served from an HTTP mirror of the server's own mods dir
rather than Modrinth or CurseForge.
- mc-service-setup.sh: minecraft user, NeoForge install, systemd service paired
with a console FIFO socket so stops are graceful and the world saves
- packwiz-setup.sh: packwiz install, pack init, mod index built from the
mirror, and per-OS player setup guides generated with real URLs baked in
- mc-refresh-restart.sh: re-sync after mod changes, ZFS snapshot, restart
- deploy.sh: runs the above in order
- build.sh: release zip, refusing to package scripts that don't parse
Every entry point refuses to run when /minecraft is not a mountpoint, so an
unmounted dataset cannot silently fill the root filesystem.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Amir Alexander Abdelbaki