Is anybody else having trouble getting fastdl to work?

[HeadInjuryGames]

My friend has been trying to set up a test server for a gamemode of mine, and since Garry decided to break addon updating I decided to host the content on Dropbox and hook up FastDL. When Dropbox wouldn't work, I tried 000webhost. So far, not a single setting we've tried has worked.

The Dropbox URL: [url]http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/78124677/FastDL/garrysmod[/url]
The 000webhost URL: [url]http://fastdl.headinjury.netai.net/garrysmod[/url]

We have tried jiggling around with sv_allowupload and sv_allowdownload and nothing has worked so far.

[Samg381]

Since the update, I believe FastDL has remained either broken or incomplete.
This is all I know due to the fact that I have my own fileserver for my servers' data.

[Gkiller]

i have a fastdl and it works fine would you like me to post the cfg i have pal

[editline]3rd August 2013[/editline]

and if you have teamspeak jump on and i can run you though it

the IP is: 192.223.27.175

[HeadInjuryGames]

[QUOTE=Gkiller;41692819]i have a fastdl and it works fine would you like me to post the cfg i have pal
[/QUOTE]

Please do.

[Gkiller]

// server name
hostname "[Blue Sky Gaming] - [FastDL]"

// rcon passsword
rcon_password "yourpassword"

// server cvars
sv_defaultgamemode gmstranded
sv_alltalk 1
sv_pausable 0
sv_cheats 0
sv_consistency 1
sv_allowupload 1
sv_allowdownload 1
sv_voiceenable 1
sv_timeout 65

// bandwidth rates/settings
sv_minrate 0
sv_maxrate 20000
decalfrequency 10
//Do not change these settings
sv_maxupdaterate 75
sv_minupdaterate 10

// server logging
log off
sv_logbans 1
sv_logecho 1
sv_logfile 1
sv_log_onefile 0

// operation
sv_lan 0
sv_region 255

// execute ban files
exec banned_user.cfg
exec banned_ip.cfg

//Downloading
sv_downloadurl "URL"
sv_allowdownload 1
sv_allowupload 1
net_maxfilesize 100 //Holy shit, a command no one ever uses

heartbeat

sv_voiceenable 1 // Enable Voice
sv_alltalk 1 // Allow all the teams to talk to each other

hostport 27015 //Port used for the Server

[HeadInjuryGames]

It still doesn't bear any differences from what we have set up, right down to net_maxfilesize (albeit he uses 64 which is plenty, as the total content only reaches about 10-ish MB).

Also, fastdl doesn't have any limits anyways, so net_maxfilesize usually does jack shit.

What's your fastdl URL look like?

[Gkiller]

i know that but that for me lol

u can have that set to 64 an it works fine for me

[HeadInjuryGames]

Dude, unless I have your FTP password I can't do shit with your FastDL folder. You shouldn't have Lua files in your FastDL anyways. Gimme.

At least tell me what host you are using and what files are downloading for you.

[The-Spy]

I'm having trouble getting mine working as-well! It was working fine before the steampipe update, but now I don't know what is wrong!

[Svenskunganka]

Can everyone that has issues with this post their FastDL link so I can see the structure of it. Most people doesn't seem to understand how a FastDL should work.

[The-Spy]

Sure:

[URL="http://www.hosted5.nfoservers.com/public/gmodttt2"]http://www.hosted5.nfoservers.com/public/gmodttt[/URL]
[URL]http://www.hosted5.nfoservers.com/public/gmodold[/URL] (original working one before steampipe)
or [URL]http://dieasone.site.nfoservers.com/gmodttt/[/URL] if they don't work directly.

These have worked in the past, I'm not too sure how it was set up in the past as I'm just helping a community with it as they don't have someone reasonable to do this stuff properly.

Our download url use to be linked to the hosted5/gmodttt one, but I'm not sure what caused it to stop working after the Steampipe update.

[Svenskunganka]

This one is correctly set-up: [URL="http://dieasone.site.nfoservers.com/gmodttt/"]http://dieasone.site.nfoservers.com/gmodttt/[/URL]

Have you created a resource.AddFile lua file for the contents? Sometimes it's not required as some modelers add that in themselves but most of them doesn't. I also heard something about a resource.AddWorkshop function, you should look into that and see if that works better.

[The-Spy]

Yes, I have and I have placed it in Lua/Autorun:

Here is what it looks like: [I]"Download.lua"[/I]

-- THIS IS THE LUA FILE FOR ADDING NEW CONTENT!
if (server) then
--WORKSHOP STUFF
--resource.AddWorkshop( "" ) **COPY/PASTE ID INTO "" AREA THEN COPY/PASTE BELOW!
resource.AddWorkshop( "104647026" ) ---67THWAY_v3
resource.AddWorkshop( "105195237" ) ---67THWAY_v4
resource.AddWorkshop( "158435820" ) ---MARIO
resource.AddWorkshop( "159321088" ) ---Minecraftb5
resource.AddWorkshop( "133911194" ) ---TheShip
resource.AddWorkshop( "141103402" ) --teenroom
resource.AddWorkshop( "104518391" ) -- Amsterville
resource.AddWorkshop( "106527577" ) -- Lost Temple
resource.AddWorkshop( "114042471" ) -- School/Office
resource.AddWorkshop( "140410125" ) -- 67th_v7

-- WEAPON ICONS
resource.AddFile( "materials/daoicons/icon_dao_aug.png" )
resource.AddFile( "materials/daoicons/icon_dao_ak47.png" )
resource.AddFile( "materials/daoicons/icon_dao_awp.png" )
resource.AddFile( "materials/daoicons/icon_dao_riot.png" )
resource.AddFile( "materials/daoicons/magnum_icon_dark.png" )
resource.AddFile( "garrysmod/materials/tripmine/icon_tripwire.png" )
---Materials/models
resource.AddFile( "garrysmod/models/arleitiss/riotshield/shield.mdl" )
resource.AddFile( "garrysmod/models/arleitiss/riotshield/shield.dx80.vtx" )
resource.AddFile( "garrysmod/models/arleitiss/riotshield/shield.dx90.vtx" )
resource.AddFile( "garrysmod/models/arleitiss/riotshield/shield.phy" )
resource.AddFile( "garrysmod/models/arleitiss/riotshield/shield.sw.vtx" )
resource.AddFile( "garrysmod/models/arleitiss/riotshield/shield.vvd" )
resource.AddFile( "garrysmod/materials/daoicons/icon_dao_riot.png" )
resource.AddFile( "garrysmod/materials/arleitiss/riotshield/riot_metal.vmt" )
resource.AddFile( "garrysmod/materials/arleitiss/riotshield/riot_metal_bump.vtf" )
resource.AddFile( "garrysmod/materials/arleitiss/riotshield/shield_cloth.vmt" )
resource.AddFile( "garrysmod/materials/arleitiss/riotshield/shield_edges.vmt" )
resource.AddFile( "garrysmod/materials/arleitiss/riotshield/shield_glass.vmt" )
resource.AddFile( "garrysmod/materials/arleitiss/riotshield/shield_grip.vmt" )
resource.AddFile( "garrysmod/materials/arleitiss/riotshield/shield_gripbump.vtf" )
end

The workshop stuff of course works, but the AddFile stuff does not; people do not download them when joining the server and in return, have missing models, sounds and materials. The items in the fastdl location are also compressed to bz2.

[Svenskunganka]

Remove garrysmod/ from the code.

[The-Spy]

Okay, I did that and it still doesn't work; I actually just added that before to see if that was the problem, and it wasn't.

[Svenskunganka]

Hmm then remove if (SERVER) and end at the end. I doubt it will work but it's worth a shot. Otherwise forcedownloads are broken.

[The-Spy]

Alright, it still does not work sadly. I messaged a friend of mine as he got his working, but I don't know if he will respond.

[Svenskunganka]

Hmm... Then do some last debugging by playing around with the url for the sv_downloadurl cvar. Remove [url]http://,[/url] add www. to the URL, remove http:// and www. completely. Try removing or adding a / at the end of the URL.

Make sure sv_allowdownload is set to 0. I've experienced that this cvar sometimes has to be set to 0 when I had my servers back in the days.

[The-Spy]

That did not work either, sadly. I don't know if there is anything else really we can do. I'm still waiting for my friend to message me about how he fixed his, if he ever will. I can also see if someone else on my community will deal with it instead; maybe there is something else stopping it from working.

[NiandraLades]

Have you tried compressing the files? I can't remember the exact file format off the top of my head, but Winrar does it and it's needed to work.

[The-Spy]

Yes, the files in my fastDL location are compressed to .bz2 / Bzip2 (as they always have been, which worked before the update) and my normal files inside the server are uncompressed, as you can see in the links above.