How to Enable and Manage Your Whitelist

The whitelist restricts your Minecraft server so only approved players can join. You can enable it through the Minecraft panel and manage the player list with in-game or console commands.

Enable the whitelist

1. Log into the Minecraft panel.
2. Stop your server.
3. Click Files on the left side, then click Config Files, then click Server Settings.
4. Find the Whitelisting option and set it to Enabled using the dropdown.
5. Click Save at the bottom of the page.
6. Start the server. The whitelist is now active.

You can also enable whitelisting directly in server.properties by setting white-list=true. See edit server properties for details.

Add a player to the whitelist

Run the following command in the server console or in-game as an operator:

/whitelist add <playername>

Example: /whitelist add Carl

Remove a player from the whitelist

/whitelist remove <playername>

Example: /whitelist remove Carl

Other whitelist commands