[Sagnik]

Some history of Garry's Mod:
Garry's Mod (commonly abbreviated as GMod), is a sandbox physics game created by Garry Newman and later by his company, Facepunch Studios for Microsoft Windows and OS X. Garry's Mod was originally a mod for Valve's Half-Life 2, but was later made into a standalone release in 2006.
Okay...now lets get to work...
WAIT...THIS TUTORIAL IS ONLY FOR THE WINDOWS VERSION OF GARRY'S MOD DEDICATED SERVER...NOT THE LINUX...
STEPS:
1. DOWNLOAD THIS:
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/client/i...eamcmd.zip
2. CREATE A FOLDER FOR STEAMCMD(like D:\steamcmd) and UNZIP THE FILE IN THAT FOLDER.
3. RUN THE EXTRACTED EXE FILE.
4. TYPE

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login anonymous

5. CREATE A FOLDER FOR GARRY'S MOD(like D:\gmod)
6.TYPE

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force_install_dir (path to directory)

In my case it was:

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force_install_dir D:\gmod

7.THEN TYPE

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app_update 4020 validate

NOTE: THE validate attribute IS OPTIONAL. You can also write

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app_update 4020

BUT USING validate is RECOMMENDED.
8. STEAMCMD WILL START DOWNLOADING THE FILES...
9. ONCE IT IS DONE, IT WILL SAY:

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App 4020 installed successfully

10. SO NOW YOU CAN SAFELY TYPE

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exit

AND EXIT THE STEAM CONSOLE.
11. NOW FOR THE SAKE OF EASILY STARTING UP THE SERVER WE ARE GOING TO MAKE A BATCH(.bat) FILE TO DO THE WORK.
12. CREATE A NEW FILE IN NOTEPAD++ AND COPY AND PASTE THE FOLLOWING THING:

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@echo off
cls
echo Protecting srcds from crashes...
echo If you want to close srcds and this script, close the srcds window and type Y depending on your language followed by Enter.
title srcds.com Watchdog
:srcds
echo (%time%) srcds started.
start /wait srcds.exe -console -game garrysmod +gamemode sandbox +ip 1.2.3.4 +map gm_construct +maxplayers 80 -strictportbind 27015
echo (%time%) WARNING: srcds closed or crashed, restarting.
goto srcds

ALTERNATIVELY YOU CAN DOWNLOAD THE FILE GIVEN AS AN ATTACHMENT.

  start.zip (Size: 443 bytes / Downloads: 2)
DON'T FORGET TO CHANGE the ip field.
13. ALL IS DONE AND NOW YOU CAN RUN start.bat TO START YOUR GAMESERVER.
P.S.: i)THIS GUIDE DOESN'T FOCUS ON CUSTOMISING THE SERVER.
        ii)SECONDLY, THIS TUTORIAL DOESN'T MENTION HOW TO DO PORTFORWARDING.
HOPE YOU LIKED THIS...PLEASE COMMENT BELOW OR REP+ ME IF THIS HELPS YOU...

[perry]

very well done!

love the tuturial.