A tool to install modpack servers, almost without having to do anything at all?
I mean, why not?
I've been sitting in the CurseForge Discord for a while, and one thing that I've seen from time to time, is that people have troubles of setting up a server for the modpack they want to run (or they simple don't want to pay a server host, to solve that issue).
So, I had the stupid idea of building a tool, that could potentially solve big parts of the problems with installing servers for modpacks, as it require at least a little bit of technical knowhow.
I started building this tool, tested it a bit with my own personal modpack (really small, simple and unconfigured), got it to work, but I still felt that it wasn't enough, since it required you to know a lot of things in beforehand.
Example on how you would install my modpack from command line, when I first started out
C:\minecraft-server\> cf-mc-server 477455 3295539 "c:\minecraft-server"
Simple, right? So let me explain what happens here..
477455 is the project ID for my modpack (Too Many Projects), and 3295539 is the file ID, for the latest (only) version of my modpack.
.. and I hope you can figure out what "c:\minecraft-server" would do..
Now, I felt that, not everyone will be able to figure out how to get these IDs by themselves, so I wanted to make it easier to install things.
So I made an interactive installer as well, where you can search modpacks and select what version you want to install.
Here's an old video on how the installer looked while I was developing it
Yeah, I know. It ain't that pretty, but it sure as hell makes installing a server easier.
Things to consider
This won't work 100% without hitches, since I don't filter away any mods from the modpacks, so if there are badly written client-only mods, they might break the server.