Tutorial: How to create a FiveM Server

on Windows

Prerequisites

1. Visual C++ Redistributable 2019 or newer.
2. Git to assure a correct installation.

Installation

1. Create a new directory (for example D:\FXServer\server), this will be used for the server binaries.
2. Download the latest master branch build for Windows from the artifacts server.
3. Extract the build into the directory previously created.
   3b. Use any archiving tool (such as WinRAR or 7-Zip).
4. Clone cfx-server-data in a new folder outside of your server binaries folder, for example, D:\FXServer\server-data.
   4b. git clone https://github.com/citizenfx/cfx-server-data.git server-data
5. Make a server.cfg file in your server-data folder (copy the example server.cfg file below into that file).
6. Generate a license key at https://keymaster.fivem.net. (login with the account you created!)
7. Set the license key in your server.cfg using sv_licenseKey "licenseKeyGoesHere".
8. Start the server from the server-data folder. For example, in a plain Windows command prompt (cmd.exe) window:cd /d D:\FXServer\server-data D:\FXServer\server\FXServer.exe +exec server.cfg (the /d flag is only needed when changing directory to somewhere on a different drive)

on Linux

1. Create a new folder (for example mkdir /home/username/FXServer/server), this will be used for the server binaries.
2. Download the latest master branch build for Linux from the artifacts server(copy the URL for the latest server version and use wget <url> to download it).
3. Extract the build to the directory that was previously created, using cd /home/username/FXServer/server && tar xf fx.tar.xz (you need to have xz installed, on Debian/Ubuntu this is in the xz-utils package).
4. Clone cfx-server-data in a new folder outside of your server binaries folder.
   4b. For example git clone https://github.com/citizenfx/cfx-server-data.git /home/username/FXServer/server-data
5. Make a server.cfg file in your server-data folder (copy the example server.cfg file below into that file).
6. Generate a license key at https://keymaster.fivem.net.
7. Set the license key in your server.cfg using sv_licenseKey "licenseKeyGoesHere".
8. Run the server from the server-data folder.
   8b. bash /home/username/FXServer/server/run.sh +exec server.cfg

Add resources

• Open the resources folder in your FiveM server directory.
• Copy the resource you bought on our shop
• start the resource (server.cfg): add it to the config via  start RESOURCENAME

Have fun with your FiveM server!