Tutorial: Server Installation

Please make sure you've completed the basic Installation before reading this part!

In this part of the installation, we're going to install SourceMod and the neccessary plugins to your Source server.

SourceMod

Download the latest stable version of MetaMod: Source and SourceMod for your operating system. Any version should work, but it's important you get a version of SourceMod over 1.10. Skip this part if you already have these two.

Unzip the .zip files you downloaded, and extract them directly into your server's game directory.

For example, if you're installing SourceMod 1.10.0 for Windows for a Team Fortress 2 server, you'd have the following files:

sourcemod-1.10.0-git6528-windows.zip/
├─ addons/
├─ cfg/

Copy addons/ and cfg/ directly into the tf2 folder in your server's folder:

bin/
hl2/
platform/
steamapps/
tf2/ <-- unzip into this
srcds.exe
steam_appid.txt
thirdpartylegalnotices.txt

Go ahead and run your server, and ensure SourceMod is working by running sm version. If you see something like this, it's working!

sm version
	SourceMod Version Information:
	SourceMod Version: 1.10.0.6528
	SourcePawn Engine: 1.10.0.6528, jit-x86 (build 1.10.0.6528)
	SourcePawn API: v1 = 5, v2 = 12
	Compiled on: Nov 16 2021 01:35:28
	Built from: https://github.com/alliedmodders/sourcemod/commit/9149a172
	Build ID: 6528:9149a172
	http://www.sourcemod.net/

Plugins

Now that we've got SourceMod working, we need to get the plugins required.

• sourcemod.js - Download the latest .smx file and drop it into tf/addons/sourcemod/plugins. (replace tf with your appropiate game server)
• sm-json - Download the latest Source code .zip. Unzip it, and copy the addons folder to your game's directory as we did earlier with SourceMod.
• sm-websocket (fixed) - Unzip the file and copy the .smx file into your plugins directory, as we just did with sourcemod.js. (note: This is an unofficial version of the plugin, compilied by me. The official build does not work, and has yet to be fixed. This version has a fix for that issue. If you really don't trust me, just compile it yourself)
• Sockets - Unzip it, and copy the addons folder to your game's directory as we did earlier with SourceMod.

Go ahead and run your server. You should see the following if it worked:

[SMJS] sourcemod.js loaded!
[SMJS] Started WebSocket server on port 27013!

You can also run the console command smjs_test:

[SMJS] Test!

And that's it! sourcemod.js has successfully been installed to your Source server. Next up, it's time for the client installation.