[SOLUTION IN PROGRESS] Can't download forge profiles

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So, after using a forge 1.12.2 profile for a while, I checked in on my dashboard and decided to create a new server for building a city. I notice that my 1.12.2 profile is gone. I check the profile download page, and the forge profiles are gone. What should I do?

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I am having a similar problem. I reloaded a backup of my server and now I can’t run it because the Forge 1.12.2 profile isn’t there. There are no options for forge in the profile dropdown and refresh profiles doesn’t work either.

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There are no longer Forge profiles in the profiles list, the rest seem to be there, refreshed Profiles and still not there. They were available when I created the server a week or so ago.

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It is because Forge has chaged how their servers are made available. MineOS and the profile list generator tries to download forge from this list: https://files.minecraftforge.net/net/minecraftforge/forge/promotions.json

That page gives a 404 Not Found, which again means that MineOS can’t find any files to make profiles from, and drops forge.

The files are still available here: Downloads for Minecraft Forge for Minecraft 1.16.5

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So, what Forge has done is take all their links to the server files, and serve them from their Maven-repository through Adfoc.us. Since they probably have a quite high number of downloads this helps them get some monetary support for their job. Unfortunately this means that MineOS no longer has a clean and simple list of server files to parse and create server profiles for the different forge files any more.

I fear that getting a list of the files after Forge’s rework of their download page will be a huge amount of work. MineOS has a git-repository : GitHub - hexparrot/mineos-node: node.js implementation of mineos minecraft management. If anyone knows .JS coding and would like to try to create a parser take a look at the following file: mineos-node/profiles.js at master · hexparrot/mineos-node · GitHub

Other than that it is entirely up to @hexparrot if the rework needed is feasible and doable in the current version of MineOS.

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Thank you for the update. Looks like there is no apparent json-replacement for the autogenerated list of forge builds. I’ve made a new commit on a dev branch to allow immediate use of the most modern versions, while a better plan is enacted:

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@iMelsom
Just an idea but cant you use parts of the FF addon called Universal Bypass?

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No, unfortunately.

What you link is a browser plugin, while MineOS uses serverside scripting for its WebUI.

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I’ll preface this by saying that I have no idea about coding or the working of MineOS. That said, I have a similar problem where Forge downloads get blocked because of adFly. The solution is to remove the adFly part of the URL. Example, from “https://adfoc.us/serve/sitelinks/?id=271228&url=https://maven.minecraftforge.net/net/minecraftforge/forge/1.16.5-36.1.12/forge-1.16.5-36.1.12-installer.jar” I remove “https://adfoc.us/serve/sitelinks/?id=271228&url=”. Would something like that, work for MineOS?. NOT that I don’t want to support Forge, they have done an amazing job and it is THE reason why modded minecraft is such a big thing,

And on the same vein, what would be the workaround to use Forge?. I use mineOS on a docker container (hosted on unRaid if that’s relevant), should I point the Forge server installation to the vanilla installation path? for example “/mineos/games/servers/awesomecoolserver”. I did check this but it doesn’t seem to be relevant anymore, or I can’t see how to create custom profiles =(

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You guys are amazing, that actually worked! - I’ll leave the steps here in case it helps anyone, at least for me it was not straight forward how to make it work:

  1. Download a vanilla mc profile
  2. Create a new server and use the minecraft-server.jar to start it
  3. stop the server and navigate to the profiles folder for the vanilla profile you downloaded, something like: “/mineos/games/profiles/1.16.5”
  4. wget / copy the forge installer into it
  5. Go back to the UI and create a new server
  6. Select the forge installer (the file you just downloaded / copied) as your executable and start the server
  7. wait for the server to stop, it will take a while
  8. You can now select forge as your executable and there will be a mods folder created
  9. have fun!
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Fair enough, i linked it because its written in languages which can be used on server side too…

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Got a new commit out that fixes this. It actually made the list a bit cleaner, since it is reduced now to “-latest” and “-recommended” versions only–of each point release from 1.6 → 1.16.

Normal webui update should be sufficient

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I already have the forge jar in the profiles directory, it still doesn’t appear as an option from the Server Status screen

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has it been fixed? i can’t download any forge profile from the web-ui (already done an update)

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Any news? Just did a webui update, but logs states:

{"level":"error","message":"Unable to retrieve profile: forge. The definition for this profile may be improperly formed or is pointing to an invalid URI."," timestamp":"2022-01-15T17:19:45.021Z"}

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Mine has loaded the list in the UI.
What git commit version of webui are you running?
You could try refreshing your list if it’s not showing up at all - also an option in the menu in the top right corner.