Hey, have you ever installed DigiChat? If you have installed it on a server (Plesk would be nice), could you get in touch with me por favor. We're having a bit of trouble getting the ^*%&*^(&(*$ thing to work, as you may have noticed.

Very gracious people have tried (which I will name later), but at this time I'd like to hear only from people who have installed it on a server before, before I talk to all the other gracious people who offered to take a whack at it even though they've never done it.

In other words, we're at Plan B now, Plan C comes later...

DigiChat :smash:

Chicken, I did install it on a VO server. Nightmare I woud admit. It worked fine. Anyway i am moving it to a rackshack.net server running plesk very shortly so if you don't have it sorted I will let you know if i get it working.

Ok, we've made some major movement on the whole mess. First, Felix220 and Nick, then Jag worked on it, trying to get it working, but weren't able to. Vince of Site5 offered to take a whack and managed to get most of it running fine (it seems), and therer are only a couple of things that don't work (avatars and banners), and I'm not sure what else.

It seems stable, but I'm going to test it a bit more to see if everything actually works or if there are problems still. I do want to thank all the people who helped above and those who offered and might try a reinstall to get the other stuff working 100% padders, so I'll make a note of your info, thankx.

i had problems with avatars/banners on my cpanel server, i think it was just a path problem. You have to put them in the first level directory or something independant of where you put the java files. Something weird like that.

If you could get the people who got it working to write a quicky tutorial for it that would be cool, sure beat having to go through it all over again (i have been putting it off for a month now :) )

Step by step info:
Download DCServer.tar.gz from ftp.digichat.com.
Extract it to /usr/local/DigiChat.

Find out where your java installation is; ie: whereis java

This should return something like
vince@portal [~]# whereis java
java: /opt/IBMJava2-13/bin/java

Add this directory to your path, if it isn't already there.
export PATH=$PATH:/opt/IBMJava2-13/bin

Then set up $DIGICHAT.
export DIGICHAT=/usr/local/DigiChat

Then simply type:
java -Duser.dir=$DIGICHAT -cp $DIGICHAT/Server.zip com.diginet.digichat.server.ChatServer noconsole

This will prompt you for your document root, for example, /home/myuser/public_html

That's pretty much it.
Then you need to edit one of the HTML templates from under /usr/local/DigiChat/HTML_Templates to suite your tastes, (make sure you edit the base path in the HTML, otherwise the applet won't be able to find the jar/cab's, which at this point will be installed at /home/myuser/public_html/DigiChat/DigiClasses)

Once that's done, hit ctrl+c to kill the server, then type:
java -Duser.dir=$DIGICHAT -cp $DIGICHAT/Server.zip com.diginet.digichat.server.ChatServer noconsole > /dev/null &
To run it in the background.

That's all there is to it.
Though, I still have NO idea how to get avatars working. :)

Vince.

I followed exactly but when I disconnect from the server it disconnects the chat too? Any suggestions?