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i have a very mysterious problem going on here... and nobody seems to have a fix.

basically, after updating the server to 1.7.9 it happened, right after the .json extension was introduced.
when a player joins they get the message "you are not white-listed on this server!"
and on my side of the server i see this in console


[User Authenticator #1/INFO]: UUID of player REDACTED is 000000000000000000000000000000
[22:42:44] [Server thread/INFO]: Disconnecting [email protected][id=00000000000000000000000000,name=REDACTED,properties={textures=[[email protected]]},legacy=false] (/definitely hidden): You are not white-listed on this server!

that's it, that's the problem. they are clearly white-listed and yet the server says they are not.

here is a snippet showing exactly how the witelist.json is set up

[
{
"uuid": "00000000000000000000000000",
"name": "player 1"
},
{
"uuid": "00000000000000000000000000",
"name": "player 19"
}
]

the server i am using is the .jar
it runs with no GUI

here is the server properties

#Minecraft server properties
#Sun May 11 22:41:41 EDT 2014
generator-settings=
op-permission-level=4
allow-nether=true
level-name=world
enable-query=false
allow-flight=false
announce-player-achievements=true
server-port=25565
level-type=DEFAULT
enable-rcon=false
force-gamemode=false
level-seed=
server-ip=192.168.1.108
max-build-height=256
spawn-npcs=true
white-list=true
spawn-animals=true
texture-pack=
snooper-enabled=true
hardcore=false
online-mode=false
resource-pack=
pvp=true
difficulty=2
enable-command-block=false
gamemode=0
player-idle-timeout=0
max-players=25
spawn-monsters=true
view-distance=10
generate-structures=true
spawn-protection=16
motd=blah blah blah

something to note... nothing occupies "\world\players", however in backups the folder has data in it. i didn't try anything with this.

here is things that i have tried in an attempt to rectify the problem

disable offline mode
re-whitelist someone
check fowarded ports
check what they have as my server address
check my ip address (both WAN and LAN)
rename whitelist.json to white-list.json (i was desperate)
add old whitelist format
swap old whitelist.text and remove whitelist.json (it generated a new whitelist.json)
keep whitelist.json and add whitelist.text
telling them to try and connect to the server when it was off (to see if there was an IP address conflict with another server... and there wasn't)

disabling the white-list works but i am not keeping it like that for obvious reasons

i am able to connect to the server with no problems (probably because server is hosted on my LAN)

my server has a decent amount of people that play on it, it has been down for more than a week because of this problem.


i don't know what else to do.
i am dumbfounded by this whole thing.posted in wrong place, whoops.well, i cant move it or delete it.