nothing happens, it does indeed pull extract it but nothing after that. no server gets created. thanks for the help, this is an amazingly small OS only using 87MB before running the MC Server really great. 
hope this does get some take off
I’m not really sure why it wouldn’t just work. My test cases work and I guess your spigot server archive is an exception. I can look at it personally if you like, if you have a means to get the file to me.
Otherwise, other options people try is creating a server in the webui, then manually extracting the server files atop the newly created (and empty) server.
Also, ensure you’re logging into the webui as somebody that is not root.