Defelala

hosting a server on my PC for my friends and I, the server keeps starting as a vanilla server, no matter what I do. Attached screenshots of the files and the server

I have mods in my mods folder for my server and I also have mods installed on my client, but whenever I (or another player) attempt to place down a modded item it does not place. Also, when one player is holding a modded item other players cannot see it in their hand. We all have all the mods installed on our PCs. However, mods like the player models mod work and we can see each other's updated models.

I forgot to say, but it's a 1.12.2 server

Hello! I'm trying to make a minecraft roleplay server for a series my friends and I are creating. I've looked at quite a few tutorials for how to set it up, but every time I double click the forge universal .jar file it never creates the "mods" folder. I am clicking it before I first open the actual server .jar, so the only things inside my file where I store the server are the libraries folder, the universal jar, and the server jar. Thanks!