To whomever it may concern,

I've loaded up a fresh vanilla server on my Mac using 10.8.7, java SE6, and tried both methods of adding Forge to my server. I re-compressed the folder, and then made it a .jar file, and ran it, (The Forge download zip. Mac auto-decompresses files upon download) and it would not launch. I tried from the Terminal as well, executing

java -jar Forge.jar

but got

Invalid or corrupt jar file Forge.jar

I also added the files directly to the server jar with no luck. Can anyone give me some ideas on how to proceed?

Thank you in advance.

Ahhh, you need to use a proper archiver to repack the forge zip.

Geez, why do macs have to do everything wrongly???

your supposed to zip the FILES INSIDE THE FOLDER not THE FOLDER ITSELF

Macs do not auto-extract zip files when you download them, you're doing something wrong. Either way this isn;t a issue on our end, download the file properly/use a proper archive tool and it'll work.

Ok, Thank you uyjulian. I did so and got it to work. I guess I didn't remember my old days of having to do that with Optifine.

 

 

LexManos, Macs do unzip files upon download if you are using Safari, which is likely true for many Mac users.

 

Thank you again.

Not unless you've enabled the feature by default safari does not.

Anyways, have fun. Glad you got it worked out.