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Changing MOTD on your Left 4 Dead 2 server

MOTD or Message of the day is a small text that appears to players once they join the server.

Banners can also be added, but we’ll cover this in a different guide.

  1. Open the Fragnet dashboard, go to My servers and select your server. Open the Files tab.

  2. First, we’ll need to locate the MOTD. By default the MOTD is located at left4dead2/motd.txt. Select it to open it in the editor. See Edit a file.

  3. There will be a link, which you can remove, and add any message you wish for all players to see.

  4. Once done, select Save file.

  5. Afterwards, we need to enable the MOTD in server.cfg, which is located in left4dead2/cfg/server.cfg. Open it and insert motd_enable 1. You can add it anywhere in the file (keep it somewhere at the beginning for easier access), then select Save file.

  6. Start or restart the server and connect to it. See Power controls.