is there a guide to setting up multiple servers?

[osmodeus]

i keep searching but is there some guide as to how you make more than one server on a local machine? i try launching a second batch with it's own config and seperate ports but it wont get a steam server UID

i'd like to run 4 servers, 3 public and 1 passworded.

any help would be appreciated

 

[Harryhy]

http://forums.tripwireinteractive.com/showthread.php?p=1381465#post1381465

Just use configsubdir, follow those steps (ignoring the "-new_console" part in the running steps), should work fine. If not, give a bit more information maybe, looking at netstat -anb etc.

 

[mach10]

I run 11 servers, but use separate folder for each server (whole build) if I want to play with things w/o it being global. I also bump the port number +1 per each instance.

 

[tfrengler]

Personally I have managed to make two servers run from just one set of ini files. I put the port, query port and webadmin port as launch parameters and it seems to work fine. One downside seems to be that both servers get the same name (is defined in the ini) as I am not certain you can define the name as a launch parameter.

Of course "have managed to" and this being a good idea is not necessarily the same thing. Perhaps what I am doing is bad form

 

[osmodeus]

well i'm back down to 0 servers, my setup wont get a steam UID for any of them now. that link did help me understand how to launch all the servers at once so thanks but i had sadly done all the rest of the changes.

i belive i may be fighting a motherboard on it's last legs. the usb ports keep shutting down and today i tried to install a lan driver and was informed i don't have a lan port? the motherboard was purchased when skyrim came out so maybe it's done.