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Basic Configuration

To configure a game server:

  1. On the Game Server management page, click the game server's name in the list of game servers.
  2. The Game Server Edit page appears. Switch to the Configuration tab. The settings that can be adjusted on this tab are listed in the table below. When done, click OK to submit the changes.
  3. The game server will be immediately restarted with new settings.

On this page you can adjust the following settings:

Setting

Description

Game server name

The name that you would like to call your server.

Configuration file

Select the configuration file that will be used for this game server. This drop-down list contains all configuration files available for this game mod. To edit the selected configuration file, click the Edit button on the right.

Operation mode

If your server is going to be restricted to LAN clients only, select the Server is running in LAN-Only mode option. If you are serving both LAN and Internet clients, select the Server is running in LAN & Internet mode option.

IP address

Specify the IP addresses at which the game server will be accessible

Game server port

The port number the game server will work on.
Default is 27015

Maximum number of players

The maximum number of players who can simultaneously connect to your game server

Game server auto update

Use this to automatically update the game server through the Internet upon each start.

Use WON authorization server

If you set up a game server in LAN without Internet access, and do not want your game server to connect to WON authorization server, leave this checkbox deselected

RCON password

Remote Console password is required if you wish to manage the game server remotely. The RCON password is also used by Plesk for restarting the game server

Game server entry password

If you wish to restrict access to your game server, specify the password that the authorized users will use for entering this game server

See the Advanced Configuration section about how to fine tune your game server.

See Also

Configuring Your Game Server

Advanced Configuration

Selecting Maps

Advanced Configuration

When a server runs, it uses settings from the basic configuration and those from a special configuration file that contains commands used to fine tune game servers and games. You can set several configuration files for each game server or use the same configuration file for all game servers. Advanced configuration means editing configuration files.

To access the Configuration File management page:

Click the Configuration Files button on the Game Server management page.

On this page you can do the following operations:

You can view a list of existing configuration files on the Configuration File management page. The list has the following columns:

Name - configuration file name

Mod title - game modification title

Description - optional description of the configuration file

Used - number of game servers that use this configuration file.

To create a new configuration file:

  1. On the Configuration File management page, click New Configuration.
  2. On the next page, enter the mod name, configuration name (not the file name!) in the Name field, and a description of this configuration file that will be displayed in the list of game servers.
  3. In the Commands text input area, enter a list of commands. To generate the list of commands, we recommend that you use the Configuration Editor Tool available at http://server.counter-strike.net. To use the Configuration Editor, open http://server.counter-strike.net/server.php?cmd=tools# in a new browser window and click the config editor link in the left navigation pane. A pop-up window will open. Specify required settings and click the Configure! at the bottom of the page. A list of commands will be generated and displayed in the Generated Server.cfg section of the page. Copy the generated commands to the clipboard, then return to your control panel and paste them into the Commands text input area.
  4. Click OK to submit your configuration.
  5. Click the name of the configuration file you want to edit.

To remove a configuration file:

  1. Select the corresponding checkbox and click Remove Selected.
  2. On the next page, confirm the removal and click OK.

Note: You cannot delete the default configuration file! You can only edit it.

To edit a configuration file that you created,

Click its name in the list and specify the same settings as you did when created this file.

Note: changes made to the configuration file will affect all game servers that run on a given configuration.