Setting up a remote NINJAM dedicated server

[cipp0]

Hello everybody,
I state that I am a novice about servers.
with my music association we have a domain with linux hosting with good bandwidth.

I managed to create my private server on my MAC and use a DNS from our domain to redirect it but, obviously, not having a static public ip, I have to manually change it every time and therefore it is not very efficient.

So,my goal is to create a server accessible through the domain that we have without hosting it on my computer (like the public servers that we all see).

I uploaded the linux server folder to my sub-domain, I connected via ssh, I started the "make" command from the terminal, and finally I started the server with "./ninjamsrv config.cfg

The server starts but the phrase "listening on port 2049" does not appear and I cannot connect to the address "sub.mydomain.com:2049".

I don't understand what I have to do at this point, I have searched how to do port forwarding in the cpanel but without success.

can someone help me? I can't find a specific guide on how to remotely host the ninjam server

[akademie]

If I remember correctly, on linux, there is no other message displayed other than "Server starting up..."

Can you try to connect to the hosted server directly using numbered IP address?

Also, try to use different port (2050, 2051, 2052), edit your config file and then restart ninjam server by "killall -HUP ninjamsrv" to take effect.

EDIT: I've had problems with 2049 port on my Windows machine at work, different port (2050) was OK.
You can share the correct IP or host name to let us try from different places.

[pljones]

This is a common issue for anyone setting up a server - not related to NINJAM or Linux specifically.

Using "sub.mydomain.com" from inside your LAN goes out to an internet name server and get the address that you WAN router is exposing to the world. You then try to establish a network route to that address and your WAN router gets "confused" trying to talk to itself and says "No, that's dumb, won't do it".

Inside your LAN, you need to use the LAN address for the server.

[cipp0]

Originally Posted by akademie

Can you try to connect to the hosted server directly using numbered IP address?
Also, try to use different port (2050, 2051, 2052), edit your config file and then restart ninjam server by "killall -HUP ninjamsrv" to take effect.

I tried it but now I made some mistakes with the DNS and my website go down ahah here's what happens to do noob things. I try different ports and kill the server many times but nothing. I think that the problem is that I can't open the ports via Cpanel of my hosting in Linux. The ip is 185.2.5.77

Originally Posted by pljones

This is a common issue for anyone setting up a server - not related to NINJAM or Linux specifically.

Using "sub.mydomain.com" from inside your LAN goes out to an internet name server and get the address that you WAN router is exposing to the world. You then try to establish a network route to that address and your WAN router gets "confused" trying to talk to itself and says "No, that's dumb, won't do it".

Inside your LAN, you need to use the LAN address for the server.

It's not a server hosted locally! when I run my server on MAC everything works great with my public IP and also with a DNS that resolve in it. The problem is my remote Linux Hosting, I run the server via SSH terminal but I can't reach it!

[pljones]

Ah right.

So you need to ask your hosting provider how to open a port that they usually don't have open for you.