It wouldn't be a host issue, seeing as there are thousands of other people downloading it right now. Perhaps windows 8 handles them wrongly, or maybe they really are jarfiles and you think they are rar, but regardless of the fact if you have it working then there's not much more to profound upon here, no?

Try using Google Chrome or Opera then. Are you sure they aren't just jarfiles that have winRar icons?

I use FireFox, turns out in Windows 8, WinRar makes everything show up as a .rar D:

If it is downloading as a rar or zip file, then ditch internet explorer, as it handles jarfiles very wrongly.

As for the code itself, I still recommend it. It will not work if you have it as a rar file however, but otherwise it will be the simplest one to manage.

^I just followed every step precisely and it tells me it can't find the .jar, also the ".jar" downloads as a .rar..

EDIT*: Problem sorted, had to use this code instead

@ECHO OFF
IF /I "%PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE:~-2%"=="64" "%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Java\jre6\bin\java.exe" -Xincgc -Xmx1024M -jar "%~dp0craftbukkit.jar"
IF /I "%PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE:~-2%"=="86" java -Xincgc -Xmx1024M -jar "%~dp0craftbukkit-0.0.1-snapshot.jar"
PAUSE

An all-around guide for you to make a basic bukkit server:

Rogue
Go to http://dl.bukkit.org/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; and download the latest build.

Once downloaded, rename it to craftbukkit.jar (just craftbukkit if you don't see .jar at the end already). Delete your old craftbukkit.jar file, and replace it with this one.

If you have an online host, then you're done with this part. If you homehost, read on:


For the sake of startup scripts, I'm going to do this now. The ones that I personally recommend you use are here:
For windows:
@ECHO OFF
SET BINDIR=%~dp0
CD /D "%BINDIR%"
java -Xincgc -Xmx1G -server -jar craftbukkit.jar
PAUSE
For linux:
#!/bin/sh
screen -dmS mc java -server -Xms2000M -Xmx2000M -XX:+DisableExplicitGC -jar craftbukkit.jar
(assuming linux users understand the JVM a bit more, I added a GC flag)

You copy this into a text editting program (Like window's notepad or linux's Vim), and save them as either a .bat file or a .sh file, respectively.

Always have your server named craftbukkit.jar when using this, and within the same folder, and it will always work.

Other tips:
You can change the "-Xmx1G" to whatever you need for space. For instance, two gigabytes would be "-Xmx2G", and 512megabytes would be "-Xmx512M".
To access your server console via linux command line with this script, use "screen -r".

I'm sorry,but I can't help you.
The last time I saw the name "Emmy" It was in percy jackson... Medusa...

Go to youtube and search up "how to make a 1.2.5 bukkit minecraft server". I think that'll do.

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