Forwarding ports in your router

Note

If you’re running Axolotl-PM on a VPS (Virtual Private Server), you don’t need to do this.

Forwarding ports is needed when your server is behind a router (e.g. on a home WiFi or LAN), and you want to allow people who aren’t on your network to connect from outside using your public IP address.

Using UPnP

Axolotl-PM can use UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) to forward ports for you, but it’s disabled by default.

UPnP can save you a lot of hassle manually portforwarding, so it’s worth giving it a shot before messing with your router settings.

You can try it by opening your pocketmine.yml and setting upnp-forwarding to true. Save the file and restart the server. On startup, the server should tell you in the logs whether it succeeded or not.

Forwarding manually

Unfortunately, every router has a different interface, so we can’t give a common set of instructions for portforwarding here.

Check portforward.com or use Google to find the instructions. Use the brand and type of your router as keywords.

Note

By default, Axolotl-PM listens on port 19132 for IPv4 connections, and 19133 for IPv6 connections.

These are the ports you’ll need to forward (unless you customised them in server.properties).