How to Whitelist Players on Your Minecraft Server

A whitelist means only the players you approve can join. Everyone else is blocked, even if they have your server address.

Method 1: Player Manager

1. Open Player Manager from the left sidebar.
2. Click the Whitelisted tab.
3. Click Enable at the top. This turns the whitelist on, if it's already off nobody gets blocked no matter who you add.
4. Click + Add to Whitelist, type the player's exact in-game username, and confirm.
5. Restart the server.

Method 2: Console command

1. Open Console.
2. Type whitelist add <username> and press Enter.
3. No restart needed, this one applies right away.

Removing a player

Open Player Manager, find them under Whitelist, and remove them. Or run whitelist remove <username> in Console. Restart if you used Player Manager.

Still stuck?

Anyone can join even though you added a whitelist: the whitelist toggle itself is probably still off. Open Player Manager, click Whitelisted, and check that it says Disable, not Enable, that means it's currently on.

Player can't join even though they're whitelisted: the username almost always has a typo, check spelling and capitalization exactly. Minecraft usernames are case-sensitive here.

Whitelist stopped working after several edits: open a support ticket and ask staff to rebuild the whitelist file, this fixes it when the file itself gets corrupted.

A Bedrock player's own username won't connect: some Bedrock usernames contain spaces, which the whitelist command can't handle. Open a support ticket, staff can add them a different way.