ESX Legacy Installation

Start FXServer

Run FXServer.exe on Windows or run.sh on Linux. txAdmin opens its setup wizard in a browser tab.

Link your Cfx.re account

Sign in with Cfx.re and set a backup password. If your antivirus flags FXServer.exe, verify that it came from the official artifact download before taking action; do not disable antivirus protection as a routine setup step.

Choose the deployment type

Select Popular Recipes, then ESX Legacy.

Set the resource path

Change the default to a dedicated folder rather than accepting the suggestion.

Enter database credentials

The deployer creates the schema and imports every SQL file the recipe needs.

Start the server

Once the recipe completes, start the server from the txAdmin dashboard.

Clone the monorepo

git clone https://github.com/esx-framework/esx_core.git 

Copy the core folder

Copy the [core] folder from the clone into your resources directory. Keep the square brackets — FXServer treats bracketed folders as resource groups, so ensure [core] starts everything inside.

Add oxmysql

Download the latest oxmysql release into your resources folder.

Import the SQL

Import [SQL]/legacy.sql from the repository into your es_extended database. It is the only file in that folder and creates the core tables (users, jobs, job_grades, items and the rest).

Configure server.cfg

set onesync on
set mysql_connection_string “mysql://user:password@localhost/es_extended?charset=utf8mb4”
ensure chat
ensure spawnmanager
ensure hardcap
add_ace resource.es_extended command.add_ace allow
add_ace resource.es_extended command.add_principal allow
add_ace resource.es_extended command.remove_principal allow
add_ace resource.es_extended command.stop allow
ensure oxmysql
ensure esx_lib
ensure es_extended
ensure [core]

The four add_ace resource.es_extended lines let es_extended manage ACE groups at runtime. This mirrors the reference server.cfg in esx_core; compare against it after each ESX update.