How to install SourceMod on your Day of Defeat: Source server

To install SourceMod on a Day of Defeat: Source server on PlayNHost, switch on Install SourceMod under Game Settings, click Update and reinstall to apply, or upload Metamod:Source and SourceMod into the dod folder yourself. A restart alone does not install it. When it works, meta list in the Console lists SourceMod.

Install it with the Install SourceMod setting

Install SourceMod adds SourceMod and Metamod:Source, the standard toolkit for admin commands and community plugins. The panel installs them only while it installs the server, so the switch needs Update and reinstall, which you start yourself.

1. Click the Settings tab. Under Game Settings, switch Install SourceMod on. It saves at once, and the row shows Applies on reinstall.
2. The panel shows "Saved. This is read while the server installs, so a restart will not apply it." with a button Update and reinstall to apply. A restart alone does not install SourceMod, so click that button and confirm. You can also scroll to the Update and reinstall card at the bottom of Game Settings.
3. The server stops, the panel takes a backup (listed on Backups as "Automatic - before update and reinstall"), and the install runs again. It usually takes a few minutes, and a server that was running starts again by itself.
4. When the server is back, check it as shown under "How do I check that SourceMod runs?" below.

If a backup is not possible, the panel asks "Update without a backup?" and does nothing until you press Update without a backup. Only the owner and subusers with the Reinstall permission can use the button.

During the install, the Console prints Installing Metamod:Source + SourceMod into dod/... and then SourceMod + Metamod installed with the two versions. If the download fails it prints ERROR: SourceMod/Metamod install failed - addons/ not populated. NOT installed. and the install fails: contact support through the website chat or a ticket and say what it printed. The panel's installer takes the 1.12 branch of both from AlliedModders.

Install it yourself

This needs no reinstall.

1. Download the Linux package (.tar.gz) of Metamod:Source and of SourceMod, the stable builds.
2. In the panel, click the Files tab and open the dod folder.
3. Click Upload and upload both files into dod.
4. Tick the box next to the Metamod:Source file and click Unzip. Do the same for the SourceMod file. A folder addons appears in dod.
5. Delete the two .tar.gz files and restart the server.

AlliedModders' installation guide says the same: extract the Linux package into your mod folder, which is dod for Day of Defeat: Source.

How do I check that SourceMod runs?

We have not yet confirmed SourceMod loading on a Day of Defeat: Source server ourselves, so check it after either install:

1. On the Console tab, type meta list in the Type a command box and press Enter. The list shows SourceMod.
2. Type sm version and press Enter. It prints the SourceMod version.

If meta list is an unknown command, Metamod:Source is not loaded. Check that dod/addons/metamod.vdf exists and restart once more. If it still does not load, contact support through the website chat or a ticket.

Where do plugins go?

SourceMod plugins are .smx files. Upload them into dod/addons/sourcemod/plugins and restart the server. SourceMod's own settings, such as the admin list, are in dod/addons/sourcemod/configs. Update and reinstall keeps these settings, your plugins and your maps, and replaces only the SourceMod and Metamod program files. It keeps dod/cfg/server.cfg, cfg/mapcycle.txt, mapcycle.txt, motd.txt and motd_text.txt, SourceMod's admins_simple.ini, admins.cfg, admin_groups.cfg, admin_overrides.cfg, admin_levels.cfg, databases.cfg, core.cfg, maplists.cfg, languages.cfg, banreasons.txt and the four adminmenu_*.txt files in addons/sourcemod/configs, cfg/sourcemod/sourcemod.cfg, the two sm_warmode_*.cfg files and addons/metamod/metaplugins.ini. Stock plugins you moved to plugins/disabled stay disabled. Switching Install SourceMod off later does not remove SourceMod: the install only adds.

Next, make yourself admin: How to add admins and kick or ban players on your Day of Defeat: Source server.

Can I add bots with a plugin?

The Valve Developer Community names RCBot2, a Metamod plugin, as the way to get proper bots in Day of Defeat: Source, which has none built in. We have not tested RCBot2 on our servers.

More on files and backups: How to upload, edit and manage your server files and How to back up and restore your Day of Defeat: Source server.