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How to enable LUA autorefresh?

2 min readUpdated November 2026

By default, we disable the functionality on GMod server hosted on mTxServ (disable for security reasons).

However, if you need this feature occasionally, especially to develop/configure your server, we allow you to activate it.

How to enable LUA autorefresh?

  1. Go to your GMod management panel.
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  2. Click on Files & FTP to open web FTP.
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  3. All you need to do is create a file: srcds/garrysmod /disableluarefresh_off.txt.

    Regardless of its contents, it will be detected when the server starts and will indicate to leave the autorefresh enabled.
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  4. Restart your GMod server.
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  5. Delete the file when you no longer need it.

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