Customizing Your Server

This will guide you through some of the options for customizing your server. While it is not exhaustive, it does have the basics that you’ll want to start with.

Server Settings

Message of the Day

The Message of the Day, or MOTD, is the message that people see on the team select window when they first join the server. The MOTD is stored in gesource/motd.txt

You can put your own (simple) HTML in here, or link to an external webpage. For more details, see this page.

Server-Wide Config

In your gesource server folder, open the file cfg/server.cfg using a text editor.

This is the server-wide config file. It is executed each time a level is loaded.

There will be a lot of items in this config file, and as you build your server, you may even add some of your own! These are the most pertinent ones to look our for:

  • sv_region: Set to one of the integers as specified here
  • hostname: This is the name of your server as it appears in the server browser and in-game
  • sv_password: If set, players will be prompted for a password to join your server.
  • rcon_password: If set, you can control the server remotely using this password. Don’t set this if you aren’t using it. If you are using it, make sure it’s a very good password!

Gameplay-Specific Config

You may notice some default config files like ltk.cfg or arsenal.cfg. These are config files that are executed when the game mode loads (after server.cfg).

You can use these config files to make gameplay-specific changes to your server. A common one is to enable ge_paintball on LTK. Just make sure to add a line in server.cfg to revert these changes on the next map!

Learn more about config files [here](/server/config/reference.

Next Steps

You’ve made some light customizations to your server. Now, learn about:

Basic Server Commands