Changing your Sons Of The Forest server’s name

If you’re running a Sons of the Forest server, you may want to change the default server name to something more descriptive, fortunately this can easily be done through the Startup tab in your control panel and in this article we will show you how to do it!

How to change your server’s name:

1- Go to your server’s control panel, then hit “Stop” to stop your server

2- Click on the “Startup” tab in your control panel, you’ll find a field labeled “SERVER NAME” replace the default name with your desired server name

3- Go to the “Console” tab, then hit “Start” to start your server

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