Minecraft server automaticly moves to home folder

Question

Me and my friends are having a Minecraft server on our Dropbox folder and whenever i start the sever it starts a new server and moves it into my home folder. If i already have a server in my home folder, it starts that one.

How can i run the server in directly from the dropbox folder? like Windows users can

I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 64bit

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Followed these instructions [SOLVED] HOW DO I CHANGE LINUX MINECRAFT SERVER DIRECTORY?

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Answer 1

As this is an old question i'm just gonna write myself what i did :P

You need to cd to the folder within the terminal so if the minecraft_server.jar is in the folder /home/username/Dropbox/minecraft_server/ you'll first need to cd to the folder and then open it, like this

cd /home/username/Dropbox/minecraft_server
java -jar minecraft_server.jar

Then it will load all the files that are in that folder and if there aren't any it will create them in there.

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UPDATE:

Instead of writing this every time you want to turn on the server, you can do this:

Step 1:

make a folder in /opt called minecraft_server and a file called run.sh

sudo mkdir /opt/minecraft_server
touch /opt/minecraft_server/run.sh

Step 2: (Optional)

Download a image that you want to be shown in the launcher and dash.

cd /opt/minecraft_server/
wget http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/50254717/mineserver.png

Step 3:

edit the run.sh

sudo gedit /opt/minecraft_server/run.sh

and put this code in:

#!/bin/bash

## destination of the minecraft server file
cd /home/USERNAME/Dropbox/test/; 

## name of the minecraft server file
java -jar minecraft_server.jar;

Step 4:

create the .desktop file

sudo gedit /usr/share/applications/minecraft_server.desktop

and put this code in:

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Categories=Game
Exec=sh /opt/minecraft_server/run.sh
Name=Minecraft Server
Icon=/opt/minecraft/mineserver.png
#Icon taken from http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/1328888-free-minecraft-server-icon/

Now you should be able to open the server within the server itself :)

Answer 2

Check the ownership of the files in the dropbox folder with those that have been created in your home folder, compare the 2 different sets of ownership & permissions and make sure they are the same on both that you try and run.

You can find full permissions by using the ll command, i.e.:

    ll /root/to/folder

And if you find the ownership needs changing use:

    chown -R username:username /path/to//folder

If the permissions are incorrect:

    chmod -r <flags e.g. 775> /path/to/folder