RCon (which stands for Remote Connection) is a protocol that allows server administrators to remotely connect to their server and execute commands.
It's very easy to enable RCon on your server, the process is:
- Stop server.
- Click "Configuration Files"
- Select "Configuration Editor" next to server.properties
- Scroll down and find the "Enable RCon" tick box, then tick it.
- Enter your desired RCon password in the password field.
- Press save in the top left.
Connecting to your server via RCon is performed as follows, in this example we will be using mcrcon available here
- Go to the directory of mcrcon.
- Run the launch.bat file.
- Type in IP address and press enter.
- Type in RCon port and press enter.
- Type in RCon password and press enter.
- Type in the commands you want to run in the window.
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