tiny server
Simple web server for minecraft
📖About tiny server
Tiny Server
A lightweight Paper plugin that starts a built-in HTTP server directly from your Minecraft server. Perfect for custom dashboards, status pages, APIs, and simple resource hosting — all from inside your plugin folder!
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🔧 Features
📡 Built-in HTTP server with no external dependencies (no NGINX or Apache)
🌍 Configurable IP and port via config.yml
📁 Serves static files from
plugins/TinyServer/web/📄 Supports default
index.htmland custom file paths🛠 Lightweight and easy to use — perfect for monitoring, mini dashboards, simple APIs, and more
🔐 REST API protected by a unique secret key passed via HTTP header
X-API-Key🔑 When API is enabled, the plugin generates a 12-character secret key (Latin letters and digits) with the prefix
tiny_. The key is saved to a file named as per thesecretconfig value📊 API provides player online stats: current online and min/avg/max for 1, 6, 12, and 24 hours
🚀 Quick Start
Install the plugin on your Paper server.
Edit
plugins/TinyServer/config.ymlto enable API and set parameters:
ip: 0.0.0.0
port: 25984
language: en
api:
enabled: false
secret: secret.tserv
If api.enabled: true, the plugin will generate a secret key file (e.g., plugins/TinyServer/secret.tserv) on first run.
Place your static files (like index.html) into plugins/TinyServer/web/.
Start your server — HTTP is available at
http://your-server-ip:port.To access the API, send requests to
http://your-server-ip:port/apiwith header:
X-API-Key: tiny_XXXXXXXXXXXX
(where tiny_XXXXXXXXXXXX is your generated key from the file)
⚙️ Example config.yml
ip: 0.0.0.0
port: 25984
language: en
api:
enabled: true
secret: secret.tserv
💡 Use Cases
Live server status and statistics display
Hosting local resources (images, scripts, pages)
imple API for external dashboards and apps
Local web control panel for your server
🛠 Plugin Commands
/tinyserver reload— reload config and language files/tinyserver on— start the HTTP server/tinyserver off— stop the HTTP server
If you need help with setup or integration, feel free to ask!