Self hosting

Recommanded.

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.

What is the difference between self-host and the other methods?

The 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.

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.

Configuration

• Check in your hosting service panel if you can get an additional port; if not, please ask your hosting service support to provide you with one.

For example on Pterodactyl:

• After you obtained a new port you can open config.yml and set it 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

pack-port is not the same as your server port (the one your users use to connect).

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.

Do not forget to use /iazip everytime you edit a texture, a 3D model, a sound or you won't see any change obviously.

Last step

After you configured the config.yml file you just have to run the /iazip command to refresh the zip file and start the hosting.

Continue installation if you need

https://github.com/LoneDev6/Wiki-ItemsAdder/blob/master/plugin-usage/plugin-configuration/first-install.md

(optional) Cloudflare configuration

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.

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.

Create a new DNS record

• 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

Create a new Origin rule

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.

Configure ItemsAdder

• set server-ip to your new pack address

• set pack-port to your resourcepack port

• set append-port to false

• try to access the

config.yml

self-host:
  enabled: true
  server-ip: 'https://pack.devs.beer'
  pack-port: 25650
  append-port: false