I am wanting to put together a simple chat room that I can run off of my website. I found the following link and tried it out, but I am kinda lost.
http://www.2createawebsite.com.../create-chat-room.html
Ralf's Chat is probably one of the easiest scripts to configure and install. I installed this on a site that I used to run and it worked great.
First, you need to download the free chat room script. If you do not have an unzipping/extracting utility, go to WinZip to download their evaluation version so you can unzip the files.
If you have Windows XP, you will already have the capability of unzipping and do not need to download any software.
The download file comes with instructions (ReadMe.txt) so you can learn how to edit the script to fit your needs.
Installation Instructions
1) Upload chat.cgi, chat2.cgi and config.pm (all in ASCII mode) somewhere on your server where cgi-scripts are allowed.
For example, I would create a folder called "chat" inside your server's cgi-bin.
2) CHMOD the chat.cgi and chat2.cgi files to 755
3) Make a sub directory on your server called "data" in the same directory
4) CHMOD the data folder to 777 data
5) If you want logs: mkdir logs; chmod 777 logs
6) Run the chat script with http://yourserver.com/path/chat.cgi
I dont know what CHMOD is and how to configure this. I uploaded the files to www.mydomain.com/Chat - as suggested in the instructions. Please help!
This topic is better suited for the Windows/PC software forum.
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Anandtech Senior Moderator
http://www.2createawebsite.com.../create-chat-room.html
Ralf's Chat is probably one of the easiest scripts to configure and install. I installed this on a site that I used to run and it worked great.
First, you need to download the free chat room script. If you do not have an unzipping/extracting utility, go to WinZip to download their evaluation version so you can unzip the files.
If you have Windows XP, you will already have the capability of unzipping and do not need to download any software.
The download file comes with instructions (ReadMe.txt) so you can learn how to edit the script to fit your needs.
Installation Instructions
1) Upload chat.cgi, chat2.cgi and config.pm (all in ASCII mode) somewhere on your server where cgi-scripts are allowed.
For example, I would create a folder called "chat" inside your server's cgi-bin.
2) CHMOD the chat.cgi and chat2.cgi files to 755
3) Make a sub directory on your server called "data" in the same directory
4) CHMOD the data folder to 777 data
5) If you want logs: mkdir logs; chmod 777 logs
6) Run the chat script with http://yourserver.com/path/chat.cgi
I dont know what CHMOD is and how to configure this. I uploaded the files to www.mydomain.com/Chat - as suggested in the instructions. Please help!
This topic is better suited for the Windows/PC software forum.
esquared
Anandtech Senior Moderator
