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VIAaaS
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VIAaaS - ViaVersion ~~acetylsalicylic acid~~ as a Service - Standalone ViaVersion proxy
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Public instances: https://github.com/ViaVersion/VIAaaS/wiki/List-of-Public-Instances
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Discord: https://viaversion.com/discord
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Supported versions: https://viaversion.com/
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## How does it work?
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- [ViaVersion ](https://viaversion.com ), [ViaBackwards ](https://viaversion.com/backwards ) and [ViaRewind ](https://viaversion.com/rewind ) translates the connections to backend server.
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- VIAaaS auth page stores account credentials in the player's browser local storage. Check for XSS vulnerabilities on your domain.
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- Due to technical/security reasons, it requires a CORS Proxy for calling Mojang APIs, which may make Mojang see that
as suspicious and reset/block your account password if the IP address seems suspect.
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- Account credentials aren't sent to VIAaaS instance, though it's intermediated by CORS Proxy.
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- VIAaaS receives a the session hash from instance and then the browser validates it to Mojang.
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## Setting up server instance
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Download: [GitHub Actions ](https://github.com/ViaVersion/VIAaaS/actions ) (needs to be logged into GitHub) or [JitPack ](https://jitpack.io/com/github/viaversion/viaaas/master-SNAPSHOT/viaaas-master-SNAPSHOT-all.jar )
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How to start VIAaaS server:
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```sh
java -jar VIAaaS-all.jar
```
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- Requires Java 11
- Default Minecraft: ```viaaas.localhost``` with port 25565
- Default WS URL: ```wss://localhost:25543/ws```
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### How to create a public server
- You need a domain wildcarding to VIAaaS instance, like ``*.example.com -> 192.168.123.123``. You can use DuckDNS DDNS service.
- Open the Minecraft port (25565)
- The HTTPS page needs a certificate, you can use Apache Web Server (with Let's Encrypt certificate) as a proxy. See apache_copypasta.txt file.
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## CORS Proxy
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- For less chance of Mojang seeing the login as suspect, you (the player) should set up a CORS proxy on your machine.
- Note the ending slash in cors-anywhere address
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- You can use my public instance at https://crp123-cors.herokuapp.com/ ([source](https://github.com/creeper123123321/cors-anywhere/)) too,
but proxies have a bit more chance of being seen as suspect.
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Setting up [cors-anywhere ](https://www.npmjs.com/package/cors-anywhere ) on local machine:
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```sh
git clone https://github.com/Rob--W/cors-anywhere
cd cors-anywhere
npm install
node server.js
```
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- It will be available at ```http://localhost:8080/```
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## Usage for players
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Usage for offline mode:
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- Connect to ```mc.example.net.viaaas.localhost```
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Usage for online mode:
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- You can use two accounts (avoids Bad Login error), the same account for front-end and back-end connections, or use ```_of```
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(offline mode in frontend. May be useful if you have a client which is incompatible with online mode).
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- Go to [VIAaaS auth webpage ](https://localhost:25543/ )
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- Configure CORS proxy, see above in "CORS Proxy" section
- Listen to the username A you'll use to connect to the proxy.
- Add the account B to VIAaaS page which you'll use in ```_u(account B)``` parameter below.
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- Keep the page open
- Connect to ```mc.example.com._u(account B).viaaas.localhost``` (```_u``` can be removed if you are using the same username)
- Approve the login in the webpage
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- If you use the same online mode account, your client may show Bad Login. You can use a mod like
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[Auth Me ](https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/auth-me ) or [ReAuth ](https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/reauth ).
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### Address options
Example address:
- ```server.example.net._p25565._v1_12_2._of._uBACKUSERNAME.viaaas.example.com```
- ```server.example.net.v_1_8.viaaas.example.com```
- It's inspired by [Tor2web ](https://www.tor2web.org/ ) proxies.
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Address parts:
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- ```server.example.net```: backend server address
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- ```_p```: backend port
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- ```_v```: backend version ([protocol id](https://wiki.vg/Protocol_version_numbers) or name with underline instead of dots). ```AUTO``` is default and ``-1`` is fallback if it fails.
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- ```_o```: ```t``` to force online mode in frontend, ```f``` to disable online mode in frontend. If not set, it will be based on backend online mode.
- ```_u```: username to use in backend connection
- ```viaaas.example.com```: hostname suffix (defined in config)
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- You can use ``(option)_(value)`` too, like ``.p_25565.``.
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## WARNING
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- VIAaaS may trigger anti-cheats, due to block, item, movement and other differences between versions. USE AT OWN RISK
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- Take care of browser local storage. Check for XSS vulnerabilities on your domain.
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- Check the security of CORS proxy, it will intermediate Mojang API calls.
- Mojang may lock your account when API is called from a suspect IP address
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## FAQ
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### Accounts
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My Microsoft account < 18 years old is not able to log in , it ' s giving XSTS error:
- Add your account to a family (see https://wiki.vg/Microsoft_Authentication_Scheme#Authenticate_with_XSTS)
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Why a online webpage for online mode?:
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- It's easier to maintain in that way, because providing login via chat requires encoding and decoding more packets which change through versions.
- It allows your account password and token to be kept with you.
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### Connection
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How to use IPv6?:
- When listening to 0.0.0.0, it should listen on IPv6 too.
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- To use IPv6 in backend address, you need to use a instance with IPv6 connectivity. The hostname parser currently doesn't support
direct IPv6, but you can use a DNS name with https://sslip.io/
I'm getting a DNS error/"Unknown host" while connecting to (...).localhost
- Try configuring via-127-0-0-1.nip.io as hostname suffix
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How to use with Geyser?
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- Currently you need to set the parameters (at least the hostname) in Geyser's `address` field:
```yml
remote:
# The IP address of the remote (Java Edition) server
address: 2b2t.org._v1_12_2.viaaas.localhost
```
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- If you are using a public GeyserConnect instance: connect to a publicly available VIAaaS instance, like ```mc.example.com.viaaas.example.net``` as a Java Edition server.
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Can I use it to connect to .onion Minecraft hidden servers?
- You can use .onion addresses if the instance is proxying the backend connections to TOR.
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Note that VIAaaS may log your requests.
Can you support more versions?
- See [DirtMultiVersion ](https://github.com/DirtPowered/DirtMultiversion )