Settings and connection to Counter- Strike Condition Zero Server on RHEL 9

Start your VM

For the VM to work correctly, you need to open UDP port 27015 in the instance Security group.

To connect to the server, you should know the VM’s IP address. 

Get Token

1. To display the server in the browser list inside the game, you should add a GSLT Token to the config file. To create a token, go to the next page under your Steam account: Steam Game Server Account Management.

2. Enter 90 in the app ID field, enter the text to identify the token in the Memo field, then click “Create”.

Copy the received token.

Configure the server

To manage the server manually, you should connect to a VM. 

1. To get the password, you should connect to the VM. To do that, generate a “Private Key” in advance. This can be done using the following instructions: Guide – How To – Create and use Key Pair to connect to a VM. You need to use the .pem file from step 4 of the guide.

2. Run PowerShell

3. Enter the command ssh -i “path to .pem file” ec2-user@VM_IP, where: 

– “path to .pem file” is the path to the file from subparagraph a) of this paragraph

VM_IP is the IP address of your virtual machine.

4. Confirm connection

5. Enter the following commands:

> sudo su (1)

> su csczserver (2)

> cd /home/csczserver (3)

> ./csczserver stop (4)

6. Open configuration file

> vi /home/csczserver/lgsm/config-lgsm/csczserver/csczserver.cfg

7. Press i on the keyboard to edit. Add parameter to the end of the file gslt=” Token” and paste the generated token from section 2 in quotes. To go to the desired line, use the arrows on the keyboard. To paste the copied text, use the right mouse button.

Press:wq and Enter on the keyboard to exit the file.

8. Now you should start the server using the following commands:

> ./csczserver start

To manage the server, you can use the commands described in the primary usage tab on the page Counter-Strike: Condition Zero Linux Game Server – LinuxGSM. 

Connect to your server.

To connect to the server, launch the “Counter-Strike: Condition Zero” game on your PC, open the console by pressing “`”, type “connect VM’s IP”, and click Submit

Let’s go! Hold your positions.