Server game - error loading save

[Palalet]

Hello,
We are having problem with launching new game from heightmap (created locally) as multiplayer game on server. My setup (current version of game 1.:

1) i pick newgrfs I want to play, on my local PC. I copy all settings needed to CFG file on server (Linux Centos). I upload all TAR files to coresponding directories, everything looks the same.
2) i create a new game from heightmap (Central_and_West_USA-1.tar from ingame loader), done successfully. Start the game, go save.
3) i upload the save to the server, and go launch server "./openttd -D -g save/autosave/server.sav"
4) i get an error

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dbg: [net] Loading game failed, so a new (random) game will be started!
dbg: [net] Generating map, please wait...
dbg: [net] Map generation percentage complete: 5
dbg: [net] Map generation percentage complete: 10
dbg: [net] Map generation percentage complete: 15
dbg: [net] Map generation percentage complete: 20
dbg: [net] Map generation percentage complete: 25
dbg: [net] Map generation percentage complete: 30
dbg: [net] Map generation percentage complete: 35
dbg: [net] Map generation percentage complete: 40
dbg: [net] Map generation percentage complete: 45
dbg: [net] Map generation percentage complete: 50
dbg: [net] Map generation percentage complete: 55
dbg: [net] Map generation percentage complete: 60
dbg: [net] Map generation percentage complete: 65
dbg: [net] Map generation percentage complete: 70
dbg: [net] Map generation percentage complete: 75
dbg: [net] Map generation percentage complete: 80
dbg: [net] Map generation percentage complete: 85
dbg: [net] Map generation percentage complete: 90
dbg: [net] Map generation percentage complete: 99
dbg: [net] Map generated, starting game

and the map is newly generated. This happens all the time, no matter what I tried with config, newgrfs and so on.

What am I doing wrong? Is there a way to generate the startmap from heightmap locally and send it to server to act as basic stone for any new games launched there? Can I somehow debug, what is going wrong with the save game? (i am aware of -d param, but its more about debugging grfs, doesn't say anything usefull about savegame itself, afaik)

Thank you!

[planetmaker]

Loading the game will fail, if you miss any of the necessary NewGRFs (in the very exact version as required by the savegame). Maybe the server doesn't find the tars you uploaded (wrong dir?). Or if you miss the compression library needed to decompress the particular savegame (which might happen if you compiled OpenTTD from source yourself).

You can debug the found grfs by starting OpenTTD with "./openttd -D grf=X" where X is a number 0...9 (the bigger the more it will tell. It will tell you in particular which files are found where upon startup).