Made a server, players getting "Missing Map" bug.

[Myspeld]

DarkRP server and I have "RP DownTown V2" and when people join it says missing map and kicks them. I looked around for about an hour and couldn't find anything. Please help me.

[Decicus]

Have you made sure your fast download (a.k.a FastDL) also has the map on it, preferably compressed to .bz2? (7-Zip is common for doing that).

[Myspeld]

I am a new to all of this (sorry) I do not know what FastDL is, I just setup me server today. I am not on a hosting site by the way.

[MrPresident]

Here is a wiki article on fastdl
https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Sv_downloadurl

Essentially you need to tell the connecting clients where to download the map if they don't have it. If you are running the server from a personal computer, it is highly recommended that you have some external source be your fastdl server. If that is not possible, you may need to look into also hosting a simple web server. If you are running windows, check out WAMP.

[Valgoid]

If its a map from the Steam Workshop, then you can add a force download to the server, which will force the player to download the map to join the game, which will resolve your problem.

Name the lua script "forcedownload.lua"
Paste in this code below.

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resource.AddWorkshop( "ID" )
resource.AddWorkshop( "ID" )
Replace the "ID" with the map's ID from the workshop. If you want to add more just keep pasting in IDs from the workshop, this will work for any addon from the workshop. Place the lua folder into lua/autorun/server/.

If you made the map, then you would either have to put it on a website like dropbox for FastDL, or just upload it to the workshop yourself.

FastDL: https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Sv_downloadurl
Upload to Workshop: http://wiki.garrysmod.com/page/Workshop_Addon_Creation