Linking a Website to Your Rust Server

Overview

Rust servers expose a server info page in-game, and one of the fields you can populate is a clickable website URL. It is a small detail, but a useful one. Players can jump to your Discord, your community site, or whatever else you want them looking at, all without leaving the game. This guide covers two ways to set it up.

Method 1: Using Your Panel Settings

If you would rather not touch any config files, your panel handles it for you.

1. Open your control panel and stop your Rust server.
2. Open your panel settings from the panel sidebar.
3. Find the Server URL field.
4. Paste your desired link into it.

Once saved, head back to the main panel page and start the server again.

Method 2: Editing server.cfg via FTP

Useful if you prefer manual edits, or the panel field is not behaving.

1. Stop the server from the control panel.
2. Open your FTP client (or your panel's file manager) and log in.
3. Navigate into your server folder, then the world folder, then the `cfg` folder.

1. Locate `server.cfg` (or create it if it does not exist) and open it for editing.
2. On a new line, add:

``` server.url "[your url link]" ```

Replace `[your url link]` with your actual link, keeping the quotation marks intact.

1. Save the file and restart the server from the main panel page.

After the restart, players opening the server info screen should see a View Webpage button.

Clicking it opens whatever URL you set, whether that points to a website, a Discord invite, or your favorite social platform.

Common Issues

The View Webpage button does not appear. The server probably did not pick up the URL. Re-enter it through your panel, restart the server, and check again. If the panel settings route fails, try the FTP method, or the other way around.

The button shows up, but the link is broken. Usually a typo or a URL pointing to a dead page. Test the link in your own browser first, then paste it into the config. Quotation marks matter, and trailing spaces are silent troublemakers.