Uploading files and sv_downloadurl

Step 1. Connect over SFTP

Take the host, port, login and password from the FastDL control panel (see Ordering FastDL and credentials) and connect with any file client — FileZilla, WinSCP.

After signing in you'll see the www folder. Everything served to players lives inside it.

Step 2. Mirror the game's folder structure

The contents of www must mirror the game folder's structure on the game server. The game requests a file by the same path it has locally — just from a different address.

The game folder's name does not go inside www. Put maps/, materials/, models/, sound/ directly — without cstrike/ or csgo/ in front.

Files must be both on the game server and on FastDL. FastDL only speeds up the download; it doesn't replace the server's own files.

Step 3. Set the game server's config

Open cfg/server.cfg on the game server and add:

sv_downloadurl "http://<hash>.fastdl.sourhost.net"
sv_allowdownload 1
sv_allowupload 1

Replace <hash> with the address from your FastDL panel.

Only http://, and no path at the end. sv_downloadurl must be exactly http://<hash>.fastdl.sourhost.net — not https://, not an address with /www, /maps or a trailing slash. Other variants won't work.

Step 4. Restart the server and check

Restart the game server so the config applies, then join it from a clean client (with no files already downloaded).

You can check delivery without the game: open a specific file's address in a browser, e.g. http://<hash>.fastdl.sourhost.net/maps/de_mymap.bsp — the file should start downloading.

If files don't download