minus-square8osm3rka@lemmy.worldtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•How does hypixel have their website and minecraft server on their root domain? (I would like to do something similar)linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26·3 days agoMinecraft can read a special DNS record type called SRV records. You can create a record like that to point Minecraft to a port that the server is running on. It doesn’t even have to have the same ip as the webserver. This is for Namecheap, but the general principle applies everywhere: https://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx/9765/2208/how-can-i-link-my-domain-name-to-a-minecraft-server/ linkfedilink
minus-square8osm3rka@lemmy.worldtolinuxmemes@lemmy.world•I did the classic blunder todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up2·22 days agoAt least you finally cleaned up that Downloads directory linkfedilink
Minecraft can read a special DNS record type called SRV records. You can create a record like that to point Minecraft to a port that the server is running on. It doesn’t even have to have the same ip as the webserver.
This is for Namecheap, but the general principle applies everywhere: https://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx/9765/2208/how-can-i-link-my-domain-name-to-a-minecraft-server/