Date: Sat, 6 May 2006 23:04:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Bigby Findrake <bigby@ephemeron.org> To: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How do I set up an IRC site? Message-ID: <20060506225211.W82917@home.ephemeron.org> In-Reply-To: <20060504161553.GA98295@thought.org> References: <20060504161553.GA98295@thought.org>
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On Thu, 4 May 2006, Gary Kline wrote: > Folks, > > I'm thinking of setting up an IRC page on my website so I > can chat (live) with just a few people. Are there any tutorials > on this? Othr than using GAIM and ymessenger, the last time I > did live chat was circa 1991 with the write utility. So beyond > that, I'm clueless. I use hybrid (http://ircd-hybrid.com/) for the ircd - I chose that for its reputed stability. Hybrid's not the most featureful ircd out there, but it's been great to me. I added on hybserv (http://www.hybserv.net/) for services. For the web front-end part, I've tried several, from java clients to a cgi gateway. pjirc (http://www.pjirc.com/about.php) is a very sweet java applet. It's free, slick looking, very configurable (on the back/admin end) and very featureful as java clients go. Some limitations of java clients is that your clients need network access to the irc server (some sites/networks/companies/etc. block irc access) and you need java (which not all browsers/OSes support). That's why I also offer a cgi-to-irc (http://cgiirc.sourceforge.net/) gateway. It's a bit clunky, but it allows people who can't use the java client (for one of the above reasons) to still connect to irc via the web. /-------------------------------------------------------------------------/ Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed. -- A. E. Housman finger://bigby@ephemeron.org http://www.ephemeron.org/~bigby/ irc://irc.ephemeron.org/#the_pub news://news.ephemeron.org/alt.lemurs /-------------------------------------------------------------------------/
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