Hi again, as promised here is a very simple tutorial on how to set up fast download for your Counter Strike Gaming Server…
*IMPORTANT* ALWAYS BACK UP YOUR FILES BEFORE CHANGING THEM
ITEMS NEEDED:
- Your own Web space…this means you need to host your own Web site. Do not waste time trying to use a free Web host as they typically do not provide adequate storage and bandwidth for Fast Download
- A FTP client…this is how you will upload your files to the Web site to be accessible for Fast Download. I prefer aceFTPfree (its FREE, hence the name) it works really well.
- Minimal knowledge of editing a .cfg file
Step 1: You need to have web space firstly. We’ll use mine as an example, I have “http://www.gamegearreview.com”. You’ll need to create a folder on your web space called “cstrike” to mirror that on the server. So, now the URL I have to download from is “http://www.gamegearreview.com/cstrike”.
gamegearreview.com is my Website if you do not change this to your Website your Fast Download will try to access my Fast Download folders if I don’t have the files on my site you need Fast Download will not work for you.
*IMPORTANT* MAKE SURE YOU USE YOUR WEB SITE…THIS IS WHERE MOST PEOPLE MESS UP BY TRYING TO COPY AND PASTE
Step 2: Create the following folders in the “cstrike” folder you just recently created:
- maps
- sound
you may need to create other folders if you plan to add skins and mods for Fast Download just duplicate the folders you get in the skin or mod
Step 3: Upload the maps/sounds you want into the appropriate folder on your web space. If you need another folder, like materials, then create it. Some will have a “graphs” folder inside the maps one, create that too. So now your stuff should look like …
… /cstrike/maps/de_dust2.bsp
…/cstrike/maps/graphs/graph/fy_snow.ain
… /cstrike/sound/admin_plugin/wee.wav
Step 4: Open up your server.cfg and find the following lines, if they are not in there, add them:
sv_downloadurl “http://www.gamegearreview.com/cstrike” <—-REMEMBER CHANGE WEBSITE TO YOURS
sv_allowdownload 1
sv_allowupload 1
Step 5: Save, restart your server and it should be set. The best way to test it out is to download a map for yourself! I hope that helps!