[Gibins]

I have read a ton of posts here about people who can't get fastdl to work on their servers and I have gone through all of their solutions on my own and they just don't work and I'm totally stumped.

I'm hosting a cs1.6 server on a Hetzner VPS. The server runs fine, but I can't get the faster download to work. I have set up an apache server to put the download files in, and I know it's set up properly because I also host Quake3 servers which use it and everyone who plays on those has 0 issues with the fast auto download.

I have it set to sv_downloadurl "http://167.235.195.116/cstrike/" in the config. I check ingame using rcon and the ssh window and it confirms that, yes, it is sv_downloadurl "http://167.235.195.116/cstrike/".

I've tried a bunch of different combinations of commands like
sv_allowdownload 1/0
sv_allowupload 1/0
sv_allow_dlfile 1/0
and no combination of them seems to work.

Just to test it, the only thing I'm trying to get to work with it is 1 map file, de_cpl_mill.bsp. So I'm not trying to get a bunch of stuff working at once and wondering why some stuff works and others don't. I just can't get this 1 thing to work. It's a 3.5KB file which takes 2 minutes to download, meanwhile I have multiple 20KB Quake3 files that download in 3 seconds, so I don't know what I'm doing wrong here.

Only thing I can think of at this point is that I didn't use steamcmd to download hlds, I was advised to use hlds_build_8684. At this point, I'm either overlooking something really simple and I'm going to feel really really dumb, or maybe the version of hlds I'm using is the problem.

If anyone has some insight into this, please let me know because I'm going mad trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong. Thank you.