Setting up a Rust server with Windows

If it starts fully and you can connect locally, then it's a port forwarding issue most likely.

 

Check your logs for errors please. RustDedicated_Data/output_log.txt or the location of your -logfile.

 

Sounds like you do not have the correct path in the .bat file. Make sure you are either running it from the server install or the full path is set in it.

 

If that is your file, it appears to be formatted wrong. Take a look at the example that comes with Oxide and test it without editing.

 

Could you upload your .bat file instead of copy/pasting it please?

 

The file is formatted wrong, there is an @echo at the end of the line that should be moved down. You also do not need -logfile in there unless you want to change the location of the logfile (which you aren't specifying a path even). Also make sure you are running the script from the folder where RustDedicated.exe is, else set the full path before that in the script.

 

Try adding .exe to the script at the end of RustDedicated. You appear to be using an older OS, so it may not recognize it without.

 

2008 is old.

Comment out everything other than the line in your .bat script that contains RustDedicated.exe, then open a blank command prompt from your server's root directory, then run the script in that command window and see what the output is.

 

Sounds like you may be missing a dependency then. Do you have .NET installed? What happens when you run RustDedicated.exe directly?

 

Ahh, that would make sense. I believe the Rust server is 64-bit only.