Note: The Bukkit server is intended as a complete replacement for the official Minecraft Server downloaded from and is not normally ran at the same time on a single computer. Do not worry as this is normal the server is generating files and folders needed to run as they do not exist yet. Note: When running a server for the first time, errors will show up. Note: Unless you have a multi-homed machine and know what this means/requires, server-ip= in server.properties MUST remain unchanged from default and be blank. The file name used in your start script must match the name of the file you download.
Preliminary notes Note: In this guide we refer to the server file as craftbukkit.jar but the file you download may be named differently.