Does anyone know how to start a gameserver (Counter-Strike) in a website ?
Step by step explanation pls , am trying for days now, and can't get it to work

Os = Linux RH 7.3

I really dont know how... but try searching in this forum and google in general... im sure there are loads of info..

btw, isn't there enough game servers around.... too much games is not good :P

Peace,

I've been searching and trying for 2 days :blush:

It is actually quite tricky becuase most scripting languages cant execute shell commands. And if you do execute a shell script to run the server, it gets executed as the web server user and not the user the files are installed under.

Problem? You will have game servers running as "nobody" or "apache".

If you have full access to the server you can install a suPHP module and run add a php script that will execute a shell script and it works fine.

You need shell access to do it, do you have that?

shell access .. login and type in "./server"

to disply server commands

or type in "cd hdls_l"

thats all iknow :)
take care

Originally posted by benplanet
shell access .. login and type in "./server"

to disply server commands

or type in "cd hdls_l"

thats all iknow :)
take care
I think that is specific to your host. Most default hlds installs dont have that feature.

yes , i have shell access.

As FrozenWire said, server launching is fairly host-specific. If they don't provide a web interface for starting & stopping, it's not something you will be able to bolt on yourself. I suppose you could setup your own little web server and run the needed cgi/php to launch the server, but that will likely piss off your host.

It's my own server (hardware) , so i can do whatever i want .