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The Minecraft@Home server is a set of Docker containers which together create a BOINC environment to allow the public to volunteer compute resources for use with Minecraft research projects.

Using a few commands, anyone can check out this code and run a local version of the Minecraft@Home server (identical to the live deployment excluding user data and secret material).

The requirements for running the server are:

• docker
• docker-compose

To download, build, and start the server:

Change config.xml 'dbuser' property to your MySQL/MariaDB default user (usually root). Change docker-compose.yml and .env to use your domain and certificate.

git clone --recursive https://github.com/minecrafthome/minecrafthome.git
cd minecrafthome
docker-compose up -d

At this point, you should be able to visit localhost from your browser to see the server webpage. You may also connect BOINC client to this local server using the same URL.