Installing BungeeCord for Minecraft on CentOS 6/7

BungeeCord is a free, easy, and reliable way to connect multiple Minecraft servers together. If you would like to string multiple game modes together on your server, BungeeCord is the right solution for you. Learn more about it on the official site.

Requirements

• CentOS 6/7 x86/x64

• Minimum 512MB of RAM

• Java 7+

• Screen (optional)

Installation

First of all, you will need to login to your server.

Download the latest version from their website.

mkdir BungeeCord

cd BungeeCord

wget http://ci.md-5.net/job/BungeeCord/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/bootstrap/target/BungeeCord.jar

Start BungeeCoord with Java:

cd ~

cd BungeeCord

java -Xms512M -Xmx512M -jar BungeeCord.jar

... or with Screen:

cd ~

cd BungeeCord

screen -S BungeeCord

screen -r BungeeCord

[user@ ~screen]$ java -Xms512M -Xmx512M -jar BungeeCord.jar

BungeeCord is setup at this point. You can use the init script below to have it run on boot and perform service commands against it.

(Optional) Init script

Create an init.d script.

nano /etc/init.d/BungeeCord

Copy and paste the init script below. Edit the MCPATH='/root/BungeeCord' to the proper install path.

#!/bin/bash

 # /etc/init.d/BungeeCord

 # version 0.3.9 2012-08-13 (YYYY-MM-DD)



 ### BEGIN INIT INFO

 # Provides:   BungeeCord

 # Required-Start: $local_fs $remote_fs

 # Required-Stop:  $local_fs $remote_fs

 # Should-Start:   $network

 # Should-Stop:    $network

 # Default-Start:  2 3 4 5

 # Default-Stop:   0 1 6

 # Short-Description:    BungeeCord

 # Description:    BungeeCord

 ### END INIT INFO



 #Settings

 SERVICE='BungeeCord.jar'

 USERNAME='root'

 MCPATH='/root/BungeeCord'

 INVOCATION="java -server -Xmx512M -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -jar $SERVICE"



 ME=`whoami`

 as_user() {

   if [ $ME = $USERNAME ] ; then

     bash -c "$1"

   else

     su - $USERNAME -c "$1"

   fi

 }



 mc_start() {

   if  pgrep -u $USERNAME -f $SERVICE > /dev/null

   then

     echo "$SERVICE is already running!"

   else

     echo "Starting $SERVICE..."

     cd $MCPATH

     as_user "cd $MCPATH && screen -dmS BungeeCord $INVOCATION"

     sleep 7

     if pgrep -u $USERNAME -f $SERVICE > /dev/null

     then

       echo "$SERVICE is now running."

     else

       echo "Error! Could not start $SERVICE!"

     fi

   fi

 }





 mc_stop() {

   if pgrep -u $USERNAME -f $SERVICE > /dev/null

   then

     echo "Stopping $SERVICE"

     as_user "screen -p 0 -S BungeeCord -X eval 'stuff \"alert PROXY STOP IN 10 SECONDS.\"\015'"

     sleep 10

     as_user "screen -p 0 -S BungeeCord -X eval 'stuff \"end\"\015'"

     sleep 7

   else

     echo "$SERVICE was not running."

   fi

   if pgrep -u $USERNAME -f $SERVICE > /dev/null

   then

     echo "Error! $SERVICE could not be stopped."

   else

     echo "$SERVICE is stopped."

   fi

 }



 mc_update() {

      if pgrep -u $USERNAME -f $SERVICE > /dev/null

   then

     echo "Stopping $SERVICE"

     as_user "screen -p 0 -S BungeeCord -X eval 'stuff \"say Proxy SERVER GO TO UPDATE.. RESTARTING IN 10 SECONDS.... \"\015'"

     sleep 10

     as_user "screen -p 0 -S BungeeCord -X eval 'stuff \"stop\"\015'"

     sleep 10

     as_user "cd $MCPATH && rm -rf BungeeCord.jar"

         sleep 6

     as_user "cd $MCPATH && wget http://ci.md-5.net/job/BungeeCord/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/bootstrap/target/BungeeCord.jar"

   else

     echo "$SERVICE was not running."

   fi

   if pgrep -u $USERNAME -f $SERVICE > /dev/null

   then

     echo "Error! $SERVICE could not be UPDATED."

   else

     echo "$SERVICE is update."

   fi

 }

 #Start-Stop here

 case "$1" in

   start)

     mc_fupdate

     mc_start

     ;;

   stop)

     mc_stop

     ;;

   restart)

     mc_stop

     mc_fupdate

     mc_start

     ;;

   update)

     mc_update

     mc_start

     ;;

   status)

     if pgrep -u $USERNAME -f $SERVICE > /dev/null

     then

       echo "$SERVICE is running."

     else

       echo "$SERVICE is not running."

     fi

     ;;



   *)

   echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|update|status|restart}"

   exit 1

   ;;

 esac



 exit 0

Register the service.

chmod a+x /etc/init.d/BungeeCord

chkconfig --add BungeeCord

You're all set, you can use the following commands to control the service.

service BungeeCord start

service BungeeCord stop

service BungeeCord restart

service BungeeCord update

service BungeeCord status