Left 4 Dead 2¶

Installation¶

To install this server, open SteamCMD, login anonymously and run the following commands:

force_install_dir /home/steam/l4d2
app_update 222860

Configuration¶

To configure the server you'll need to create a server.cfg file inside the left4dead2/cfg folder. You can add the minimum settings:

hostname "SERVER_NAME"
rcon_password "SECRET"
sv_allow_lobby_connect_only 0
mp_disable_autokick 1
sv_alltalk 1
sv_consistency 0
sv_voiceenable 1
sv_region 255
sv_logbans 1
sv_lan 0
sv_pure 0
sv_cheats 0
sv_steamgroup STEAM_GROUP_ID
sv_gametypes "coop,survival"
exec banned_user.cfg
exec banned_ip.cfg
writeid
writeip

sv_maxcmdrate 0
sv_maxupdaterate 0
sv_minrate 25000
sv_maxrate 50000

Sourcemod¶

Installation¶

In order to use plugins on your server you'll need Sourcemod and Metamod, to install these, head over to the Sourcemod and Metamod download sites and download the latest version inside the mod folder of the game server that you want to install it on (in this case /home/steam/l4d2/left4dead2).

cd /home/steam/l4d2/left4dead2
wget https://sm.alliedmods.net/smdrop/1.9/sourcemod-1.9.0-git6272-linux.tar.gz
wget https://mms.alliedmods.net/mmsdrop/1.10/mmsource-1.10.7-git968-linux.tar.gz

Untar the downloaded files and delete them.

tar -xvf sourcemod-1.9.0-git6272-linux.tar.gz
tar -xvf mmsource-1.10.7-git968-linux.tar.gz
rm mmsource-1.10.7-git968-linux.tar.gz sourcemod-1.9.0-git6272-linux.tar.gz

At this point, Sourcemod and Metamod are both installed, but before we head into the server, we'll set our account as admin. From the same directory, open the following file:

nano addons/sourcemod/configs/admins_simple.ini

At the bottom, you'll need to append your STEAMID32 ID, (which you can find here) with the following tag 99:z, your file should end with a line similar to the following:

STEAM_0:1:23456789  99:z

Adding Plugins¶

Running the Server¶

To run the server, simply launch srcds_run from the l4d2 folder with the required parameters.

./srcds_run -console -game left4dead2 -maxplayers 8 +sv_lan 0 +map c5m1_waterfront