TheEvilMouse

That would be my issue, My computer wanted to open it as WinRar instead of a java file and I didn't know it was supposed to be java. Everything works fine for me now -thumbs up-

Okay so I obtain a fresh minecraft_server.java from the official website. I make sure it runs, and it does so smoothly, and then I install the recommended, i've also tried the latest, version of Forge as instructed. I just throw in the files from forge into the minecraft_server.jar. The server then crashes upon each start up. What is the problem here?