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Enabling matchmaking on Left 4 Dead 2 server

By default, our servers aren't open to matchmaking, meaning no other players can join via the Quick Match option in the game.

If you wish to have a server that's available to that option, follow these steps:

  1. Open the Fragnet dashboard, go to My servers and select your server. Stop your server. See Power controls.

  2. Open the Files tab.

  3. Go to left4dead2/cfg/server.cfg and select it to open it in the editor. See Edit a file.

  4. Find the line sv_steamgroup_exclusive 0 (line 31 in the default server.cfg) and set it to 1, so it looks like this: sv_steamgroup_exclusive 1.

Steam Group

  1. Once edited, select Save file.

  2. Start the server again, and now players can join your server via Quick Match.