Stefan
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Dear Schlaeps/Z,
To get the chat back to work in its current configuration, the program “screen” needs to be installed on the server. This is a standard Unix tool allowing users to keep programs running even after disconnecting. Of course, should a hacker gain access to the server, then this poses a security risk (he could run a spambot or something), but without it I don’t know how to keep the chat server running.
I believe the risk is worth taking (a hacker needs a server username+password combination to abuse it), but it’s your call. If you install it, you can put /home/brickco/startchat into some file at /etc/init.d (if I recall correctly) to make it start automatically with a server reboot. The manual start should also function again then.
Good luck! Contact me if there are problems (I don’t visit brickfilms.com as much as I used to, so e-mail or MSN Messenger will be more effective).
Stefan.
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thickasabrick
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Our research indicates that this may be a good solution: https://blueimp.net/ajax/.
Any thoughts?
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Stefan
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Possibly. The current chat application was built because web-based chat applications had horrible response times. But that was before the advent of AJAX. Still, it seems to me that running a dedicated server will (like IRC or our solution) provide the best chat experience.
On the other hand, if it’s easy to install, it can’t hurt test-driving it.
Stefan.
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Stefan
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Note that the reason we need ‘screen’ is that we need to run the Java application BFChatServer continuously. If there’s a way to run it as a ‘daemon’ or something, we might not need ‘screen’.
Note that BFChatServer needs read/write access to the /home/brickco/public_html/phpBB2/bfchat/ directory and needs to accept incoming connections from port 27425.
Thanks for helping us out, and good luck!
P.S. I notice Schlaeps is working on a new solution. Maybe it’s better to make him hurry 
P.P.S. I just logged in to the server, and notice that BfChatServer is, in fact, running. So it’s now simply a firewall issue. If only I remembered how to open up that port… Took me quite some time too, last time.
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Brix_Lover
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Hi Stefan, I checked but failed to connect. Please help!
Thanks!
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