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    Setup CDN

    CDN (Content delivery Network) is a function to speedup the download of the resources for connecting users and to relive the server. The CDN can be provided with any filehosting server that supports HTTP/HTTPS.

    It's working as followed: The client connects to the CDN Server, which provides the resource files for the client. After the download is complete, the client connects to the alt:V Server.

    Step-by-Step Tutorial

    Example values

    In this tutorial following example values are used:

    Key Value Description
    cdnUrl http://connect.example.com/ The url to the cdn server.
    Server IP 127.0.0.1 The IP address of the alt:V server.
    Server Port 7788 The Port of the alt:V server.

    Step-by-Step Example

    1. Add useCdn = true to server.toml.
    2. Add cdnUrl = "http://connect.example.com" to server.toml.
    3. Start you server with params --host 127.0.0.1 --port 7788 --justpack
    4. Add all generated files from the folder cdn_upload to your CDN server, the files should be placed in the root of the domain. (You should be abble to access connect.json under http://connect.example.com/connect.json).
    5. For direct connect use your cdnUrl connect.example.com

    CDN meta file

    Caution

    With alt:V 16.0 a new file called cdn-meta.bin got added to the process.
    Make sure to keep this file in your server's bin directory.

    The cdn-meta.bin file is an important file in your server's bin folder, containing information about custom vehicles, peds and weapons.

    This file has 2 primary purposes:

    • it stops the server from parsing this data on every start
    • you don't need to have these resources directly on your server, only on CDN