Make a minecraft server!!! bukkit | windows

A lot of people have been wondering how to make a minecraft server, so today i am going to show you.

The most popular minecraft servers are bukkit or vanilla. Bukkit servers are good if you want lots of plugins or mods, and vanilla servers are nice if you just want an easy-to-setup server.

Then there is hamachi and non-hamachi. You dont need to portforward for hamachi servers but you need to portforward for nonhamachi servers. Dont know what portforwarding is? Well portforwarding is basically telling your router to direct all the trafic coming from a specific port to a specific internal ip address you set. Now theres 2 kinds of ip addresses, internal and external. Now is a confusing part, The external ip address is the ip address players use to connect to your server. The internal ip address is the ip used for your computer to communicate to your router.
In the real world your internal ip address is like a cable connecting your computer and your router together. The external ip address is the ip that connects your router to the internet.

Ok download bukkit here:
wiki.bukkit.org/Setting_up_a_server
Then read part 1.

1). Setting up a bukkit server:

A). Windows OS: Ok so you want to scroll down the bukkit page and download craftbukkit reccomended build for windows. Then on your desktop(Any location is fine) you want to make a folder and call it "Bukkit" or "Craftbukkit", those are the most common names but you can call the folder anything you want. Next you want to rename your download to craftbukkit.jar. Now next drag the craftbukkit.jar file into the folder. Then you want to open up notepad and type this code:

@ECHO OFF
SET BINDIR=%~dp0
CD /D "%BINDIR%"
java -Xmx1024M -Xms1024M -jar craftbukkit.jar
PAUSE

Ok you are almost done!!! Next you want to save the file into your folder that contains craftbukkit.jar Now in the save screen make sure you save it as "All Files" and not "txt file". Ok now name the file "RUN.bat" make sure it has the extension "bat" or it will NOT work! OK thats all for setting the server up! Now doubleclick RUN.bat and your server should start running! After everything is done loading, in the console you want to type "stop". Your server should stop running now. Next in the server folder you should see a lot of files that were generated during the process of starting your server. Now all you need to do is find the file named "server.properties". double click the file to open it up. Now open up command prompt. If you dont know how to open it just type "cmd" in run or google it!
In command prompt type "ipconfig" Now all these lines of text come up. This may look hard but find the line that says "ipv4" on the same line should be a number like 192.168.0.250. Now you want to remember that number! Dont forget it!

Open up server.properties again if you closed it and find the line "server-ip=" Now on that line put in the number you copied eg: "server-ip=192.168.0.250". Save and close the file.

Now since there are soo many routers in the world i cannot possibly teach you how to portforward each and every router. So go to this site: www.portforward.com

After going there and portforarding, Your minecraft server is ready to go!!!