I'm sure my dumbass question has been asked before. And all the pro coders will lol at me. But don't be hatin.

I need help playing my server. I don't want it to be public. I wan't it to me MY server. That I can play and work on privately, without being sued by Jagex. Do I have to go through all the No-ip and Port Forwarding stuff just to be able to play my server by myself without having it public?

My next question, I downloaded 2 different sources: PhoneScape and TestScape. I downloaded JDK 1.0.18(The most recent update) and successfully compiled the servers using the following code I got from a moparscape server tutorial: After that, I click "runserver.bat", and Command Prompt pops up with the following message:

NOTHING HAPPENS. All the guides I've read don't tell me what to do now? They just fucking stop. The Command Prompt just stays there. No game loads, nothing, nothing at all happens. I tried this on both of the sources and they both fail. I just wanna start playing. WHAT DO I DO?

Maby you should start the client, and let the client connect to the server. Then you can play :P.

This just means that the server is online.

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hehe this made me chuckle inside Thankyou for that.

In order to keep your server private, just make sure no one knows your IP that would want to connect while you're on it or just close the port 43594 (or 5555 depending on what you choose, those are the most common ones) on your router

as for the command prompt, this run batch file is for your server. If you want to connect to your server you're going to need a client. For an old server like phonescape you can just use Moparscape.org's webclient

On the client, type a random name and pass, then put 127.0.0.1 as the server IP. Or you could put LocalHost but meeeehhh xD


Woosh you'll be playing your server in no time


Just remember, when you make a change to your server, most of the time it will need to be re-compiled and restarted in order to be come in effect.

Which just means that you need to run your compiler and re-run the run batch file to see changes If a change has been made that is messed up, the compiler will catch it and tell you that it can't compile because there is an error. Alot of the time, 100 errors can be fixed by adding a } in the correct spot so just remember, for every { you need a }


Hope this helped you Cheers, NiC