server problems

[toxic_waster]

rcon has never worked. i have place in to server.cfg

rcon_password *****

then in console

rcon_password *****
rcon say hehe

and all that happens is an error. i have done everything from forwarding my ports to unblock the firewalls ports.is there anything else i can do

also i have use mani plugin and made a client.txt but it still says i am not authorised to use admin

mylast problem is getting the server from lan to on the internet list. it just wont go.

well thank you for your time and please reply with some help or tut

[SOC_Doom]

In your server.cfg you have:

rcon_password "whatever"

Then ingame you type:

rcon_password "whatever"
rcon
rcon <whatever>

[Spartanfrog]

you also need to do in console rcon_address "IP HERE"

[SOC_Doom]

I don't for mine ;D

[Spartanfrog]

Yeah some do, some dont. Prolly because you are on the same network.

[toxic_waster]

Spartanfrog Wrote:you also need to do in console rcon_address "IP HERE"

for this ip here what one do i do. my servers ip or my local ip or my external ip there are so many. also do i add rcon_address "IP HERE"
to servercfg? thank you for the tips

[blik]

Spartanfrog Wrote:you also need to do in console rcon_address "IP HERE"

You dont need to if you are currently connected to the server.

if rcon_password <password> doesnt give an error, then it worked.

[Spartanfrog]

blik Wrote:

Spartanfrog Wrote:you also need to do in console rcon_address "IP HERE"

You dont need to if you are currently connected to the server.

if rcon_password <password> doesnt give an error, then it worked.

For me it has to have rcon_address no matter what. Wierd.

[VonRC]

How do I make RCON work while I'm in the game? I host my game on a server located in a data center and I play from home so RCON would really help. I keep getting an error about unable to connect to server.

[Drocona]

RCon works on TCP 27015, that port needs to be forwarded if you want to use RCon on the external IP

Also sometimes RCon binds to the wrong IP on the server, setting rcon_address <ipaddresshere> in the server.cfg can help solve the problem.
RCon can also try to connect to the wrong IP on the client, type rcon_address <ipofserverhere> in the console to make sure it's correct. If your server is on your own network use the internal IP of the server, if it's in a datacenter use the external IP of the server.

[VonRC]

Drocona Wrote:RCon works on TCP 27015, that port needs to be forwarded if you want to use RCon on the external IP

I think your reply has pointed me in the correct direction. I think I only have UDP open to my server. I will have to make a firewall request to open up TCP. But just to clarify when I launch the dedi with the command line option -port 23007 for example that also affects the RCON listen port instead of using the default port number, correct?

[Drocona]

I think RCon stays on 27015, I also think there was a startup command to set a different port but I'm not sure on this actually since I never bothered changing it myself.

[VonRC]

Drocona Wrote:I think RCon stays on 27015, I also think there was a startup command to set a different port but I'm not sure on this actually since I never bothered changing it myself.

If this is true how would you RCON multiple game servers running on the same host?

[Drocona]

Same as the normal gameserver port, if you don't specify a static port like 27015 and 27020 on the second server, the server will choose the first port available, so if you have a server running at 27015, you start up a second server it will try to go on 27015, but that's taken so it goes to 27016.

I think that's how RCon works too, and I think RCon had a command just like -port but I'm not sure where I had seen that and if it still works.