DigitalOceanCounterStrike16ServerSetup

Setup scripts to create and setup a Counter-Strike 1.6 dedicated server on a Digital Ocean Droplet VPS. The script automatically takes care of all of the following:

• Set up UFW Firewall rules
• Create a user account for running the steam server
• Configure software package managers for non-interactive setup and adding i386 architecture
• Install linux software updates
• Install required linux software packages and dependencies
• Uses steamcmd to install HLDS cstrike with the beta steam_legacy settings. (Runs multiple times to work around steamcmd bugs)
• Downloads and installs ReHLDS patch into the cstrike server.
• Downloads and installs Metamod-R.
• Downloads and installs AMX Mod X Base Package.
• Downloads and installs AMX Mod X Counter-Strike Package.
• Downloads and installs ReGameDLL_CS patch.
• Downloads and installs ReAPI.
• Create a convenience script run_cstrike_server.sh for the steam user to start running the server.
• Populate server.cfg settings
• Populate mapcycle.txt
• Populate motd.txt
• Create empty banlist files to silence some server error messages.

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Create a Linux DigitalOcean Droplet. (Tested with Ubuntu 24.04)
2. Edit the cstrike_server_setup.sh script for desired admin steam id, host name, port, server settings, etc.
3. Upload the cstrike_server_setup.sh script to the droplet.
4. Set the script as executable chmod 700 cstrike_server_setup.sh
5. Run the cstrike_server_setup.sh script as root. Only run it once.
6. Reboot the droplet.
7. Log into the droplet as the steam account.
8. As the steam account, run the run_cstrike_server.sh script. You may want to do this in a GNU screen or tmux session.

TODO:

• Update script to turn on unattended upgrades for Ubuntu.
• Create a systemd unit file for automatically running/re-starting the server as needed.
• For 3rd party packages that are downloaded separately, consider including them in this repo (if licences allow), so the script doesn't need to download them with curl/wget.
• Include and automatically install some additional map packages for commonly played maps.

CREATED BY: Ryan Antkowiak