= I need help hosting a dedicated server =

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I have been at this all weekend, literally. I have exhausted all my options pretty much. I have been through 2 dedicated hosting companies trying to set this up. I have admitted defeat with trying to rent a dedicated server and I am simply going to set one up locally. I just want to put a server up and am so frustrated at wasting my weekend off from work, and coming to a close of this weekend and still don't have a working server.

Anyways. Here is where we are. I have a server up, ports forwarded. I can see the server in the server list and can join my own server but no one else can. I created the mod with the VMAS tool or whatever, I name it testovalnew. When someone else tries to join my server it hangs on "downloading testovalnew.rfmod" and won't continue

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I have "allow downloads" or whatever enabled in my multiplayer options text file. I have the ports forwarded. Why won't this download?

Also, my problem might be I don't have exactly what I need in my "packages" folder. All I have in my "packages" folder is "testovalnew.fmod" and a folder called "skins" that is empty. Am I missing something that is supposed to be in this "packages" folder?

Also, the user who is trying to join my server has both the track and car installed from the workshop, exactly the same content that I am using which I also installed from the workshop.

Please help, I am frustrated at the fact that I can't get this going.

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when you created the rfmod, did you make sure to leave the locations and vehicles unticked? If you check these, it packages them within the rfmod which will make it hundreds of megabytes instead of 5KB, and anyone who joins will have to download the entire thing regardless of whether they have the content installed or not as the game will interpret it as different from what they've got

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