Introduction

MultiCraft is a database-driven web interface for Minecraft servers MultiCraft is a web-based control panel that allows you to manage Minecraft servers. It provides a user-friendly interface to manage various aspects of your Minecraft server, such as installing and updating Minecraft versions, creating and managing game worlds, configuring server settings, and managing plugins.

This article will show you how to install MultiCraft on CentOS 7.

Prerequisites

A non-root user with sudo privileges.

Install MySQL

On the CentOS 7 server, MySQL is substituted by MariaDB. MariaDB uses the same commands and database queries with almost no difference from MySQL.

Update the software repository.
```
# sudo yum -y update
```
To install MariaDB, run the following command.
```
# sudo yum -y install mariadb-server
```

Next, enable and start the database server.

# sudo systemctl start mariadb
# sudo systemctl enable mariadb.service

Install Apache

Run the below command on the terminal to install Apache.
```
# sudo yum -y install httpd
```
Once the installation is complete, start the Apache server with the below command.
```
# sudo systemctl start httpd
# sudo systemctl enable httpd
```

Install PHP

Note: By default, CentOS 7 officially have a PHP 5.4 package that has reached the end of its life. for the latest version of PHP on the CentOS 7 System follow the below commands.

Install and enable EPEL and Remi repository on CentOS 7 system.

# sudo yum -y install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
# sudo yum -y install http://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/remi-release-7.rpm

Next, install yum-utils.
```
# sudo yum -y install yum-utils
```
Configure and enable the latest versions of PHP.
```
# yum-config-manager --enable remi-php72
```

Run the below command on the terminal to install PHP and its dependencies.

# yum -y install php php-mysql php-common php-gd php-mbstring php-ldap php-odbc php-pear php-xml php-xmlrpc php-bcmath php-mysql php-pdo java-1.8.0-openjdk

Restart the Apache web server to enable the PHP module.
```
# sudo systemctl restart httpd.service
```

Install MultiCraft

Install "wget" package using the yum command.
```
# sudo yum -y install wget
```

Download the MultiCraft installer.

# wget http://www.multicraft.org/download?arch=linux64 -O multicraft.tar.gz

Extract the installer using tar.
```
# tar xvzf multicraft.tar.gz
```
Move to the multicraft directory.
```
# cd multicraft/
```
Execute the setup.sh script using the following command.
```
# ./setup.sh
```
A script that prompts you to configure several options runs. If you’ve purchased a license for Multicraft, enter it when prompted. If you’re unsure of which options to choose, you can press enter to select the default option.
Give the permissions to frontend website files.
```
# chown -R apache.apache /var/www/html
```
Restart the Apache service.
```
# systemctl restart httpd
```
Open your browser and navigate to http://207.199.149.234/multicraft, replace 207.199.149.234with your IP addressClick on the Start Installation button then you will be prompted to initialize your panel and server databases to install multicraft onto your server.