New to server administration and management...

[Foocey]

I have bought and started a Team Fortress 2 server for friends and fun. But soon I'd like to hold more players, and lose the password. So, I will begin by noting: I thought it was a bit simpler...

First of all, I have a default server auto-executable, and a more detailed server.cfg uploaded. But, nothing happens when I start up the server, nor when I manually execute the config. The server is set to sv_pure 2 (when config should change it to 0), no sprays ever show, tf_forced_holiday never changes it to fullmoon. Although most importantly, for my general and Sourcemod privliges, exec admins and exec admin_groups are never "found".

It's a bit irritating, as I am knew to servers, and I cannot find any reason as to why my configs are either "not found" or simply nothing happens. I really need help

[Edge100x]

When you say that nothing happens when you start the server, what do you mean? You seem to describe the server responding to commands behavior after that.

Do you have logging enabled?

If you're not sure where to start, an easy path to take would be a standard game server with us instead of an unmanaged one.

[Foocey]

I have been at this for four days now. Although, I feel I am learning how things are starting to work. Before, I couldn't get any config files to run. When I have said "nothing happens", I meant nothing changed from the original code, that my custom commands still didn't exist. I found out it was because there were already files made, and mine were also in the wrong location. Although I still cannot get some specifics to work, like sprays. I do have code in my server.cfg for allowing upload and download (along with a max file size of 15MB). I would also love to know how to auto-run Cvars, as when I just place the code for them (ex. tfh_fullmoon 1, and sv_pure 0) in my config and run it... nothing happens (the Cvars default value is still present).

[Foocey]

Also... um. I may have been editing my files, and realized I had 2 Config folders in Addons/Sourcemod, both with the same contents. Sooo, I decided to delete one of them, cause I don't see a need for the both of them. Except, after I selected and deleted one, the contents to the other was deleted as well. Immediately, I press Ctrl+Z, but nothing recovered. So now I am left with an empty config folder as well. Maybe I shouldn't have tried to have a server of my own...