Hi. I have been having troubles starting the mincrafte forge server on my computer.
I used the windows .exe installer, then created this .bat file to start the server
java -Xmx1024M -jar forge.jar -o true
PAUSE
I renamed forge-1.8**** to forge, of course.
Here is the cmd errors I get:
I know you are going to say I need to show the logs, but there are none.
java -Xmx1024M -jar minecraft_server.jar -o true
A problem occurred running the Server launcher.java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
at net.minecraftforge.fml.relauncher.ServerLaunchWrapper.run(ServerLaunchWrapper.java:43)
at net.minecraftforge.fml.relauncher.ServerLaunchWrapper.main(ServerLaunchWrapper.java:12)
Caused by: java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
at org.apache.logging.log4j.util.PropertiesUtil.<init>(PropertiesUtil.java:71)
at org.apache.logging.log4j.util.PropertiesUtil.<clinit>(PropertiesUtil.java:31)
at org.apache.logging.log4j.status.StatusLogger.<clinit>(StatusLogger.java:48)
at org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager.<clinit>(LogManager.java:44)
at net.minecraft.launchwrapper.LogWrapper.configureLogging(LogWrapper.java:14)
at net.minecraft.launchwrapper.LogWrapper.log(LogWrapper.java:28)
at net.minecraft.launchwrapper.Launch.launch(Launch.java:94)
at net.minecraft.launchwrapper.Launch.main(Launch.java:28)
... 6 more
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.apache.logging.log4j.util.ProviderUtil.<clinit>(ProviderUtil.java:70)
... 14 more
Press any key to continue . . .
EDIT: Silly me, I had an ! in my server folder name All fixed!
Thanks for any helpful info! I'm sorry if I did anything wrong.