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In this tutorial I'll tell about how to create your TTFS server, containing your packages and maps. This tutorial will assume you installing the web server into a Windows system, for the first time (while no other instances of any web server running), FDS being in the same computer, and use the web server for only TTFS hosting. 1- Install XAMPP XAMPP is the most popular (as far as I know) hosting application. You can see a list of downloads at here. The main topic of this post is not how to install XAMPP, but I'll tell the steps briefly: - Download the latest version of XAMPP. - On "Select Components", we only need "Apache". You can untick everything else. But if you know what you're doing, you can choose other stuff. - You're done! You can control web server from "Apache" module in Control Panel. 2- Prepare your server Now, navigate to your XAMPP folder, then "htdocs" folder. You'll find some initial files there, you can delete them all. Open your notepad, and save that blank file at your "htdocs" folder as index.html, don't forget to choose All Files (*.*) from dropdown. This file will prevent others to see your web site root. 3- Create a symbolic link Symbolic links are shortcut-kind links which appears as folders or files. We'll use this to link our server's TTFS folder to web server. Open a Command Prompt, and navigate to your web server's "htdocs" folder with "cd" command. Then, type the following command: "mklink <Your server name here> /d <Your server's TTFS directory here>" <Your server name here>: Name of the link. <Your server's TTFS directory here>: The root folder of your TTFS. For example: "mklink MyServerTTFS /d "D:\MyServer\Renegade\FDS\ttfs" You're done! Now if you check your "htdocs" folder, you'll see a shortcut named <Your server name here>. And when you open it, it'll appear in your "htdocs" folder instead of taking you to actual place. 4- Configure tt.cfg We need to tell the server where your TTFS server is. First, you need to find out your public IP address. To do that, go to https://www.whatismyip.com/ and note down your IP address. Now, go to your server's tt.cfg and open it. Scroll down until you see "repositoryUrl". Type in "http://<Your IP address here>/<Your server name here>" <Your IP address here>: The IP address you noted down. <Your server name here>: The server name you entered in 3rd step. Now Renegade knows where your TTFS server is. 5- Final touches If you need to open ports, open the default port, which is 80, on TCP protocol. You made it! If you have any questions, problems or you think I missed something, let me know in comments.

New Game Servers Online Because we are always looking for new games to play, we've launched a couple of new servers for several games including: CounterStrike Global Offensive Everybody knows the game CSGO i think, so it doesn't need much clarification Our server is hosted in Germany and gathers player statistics automatically processing daily and global awards every day @ 24h over at http://hlx.multiplayerforums.com/hlstats.php?game=csgo Team Fortress 2 TF2 is a free game and can be downloaded from Steam @ http://store.steampowered.com/app/440/ and our server statistics can be found @ http://hlx.multiplayerforums.com/hlstats.php?game=tf Overwatch Overwatch is a brand new IP from Blizzard, It's an FPS Style game quite similar to Team Fortress 2 yet modern and alot more fun imo! -@Cronus A couple of our people are playing this regularly, feel free to join up in our Teamspeak 3 channels for it @ ts.multiplayerforums.com when looking for games. Come visit our channel on irc.cncirc.net in #overwatch to discuss the game and arrange things. Generals & Zero Hour We're also expanding our C&C adventure to include Generals Zero Hour. We found that a LOT of players are present on a thing called Game Ranger who play Generals & Zero Hour. @r3surr3Ktx is setting up the downloads for it and has written a few guides on how to play and set up the game. See the forum for details @ https://multiplayerforums.com/forum/464-cc-generals-zero-hour/ Unreal Tournament 3 UT3 short, is an excellent fast paced FPS game with a few game modes such as CTF, DM, and WAR(with tanks and things) we have 3 servers up for this game and it gathers statistics at http://ut3.multiplayerforums.com automatically updated every hour. The IRC channels are on irc.cncirc.net in #MPF-UT3-DM , #MPF-UT3-WAR and #MPF-UT3-CTF. Unreal Tournament 4 UT4 is a free game for that matter and can be downloaded from http://www.unrealtournament.com after you sign up for an account. We have currently 5 servers for this game in the Netherlands, Germany and the United States(central) both CTF and DM. Have fun Thanks for joining our community and playing on our servers!