From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 7 06:03:53 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1637E16A410 for ; Sun, 7 May 2006 06:03:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bigby@ephemeron.org) Received: from dsl.ephemeron.org (dsl092-035-072.lax1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.92.35.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CDC143D55 for ; Sun, 7 May 2006 06:03:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bigby@ephemeron.org) Received: from home.ephemeron.org (root@home.fake.net [10.0.2.3]) by dsl.ephemeron.org (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k4763pIG017175; Sat, 6 May 2006 23:03:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bigby@ephemeron.org) Received: from home.ephemeron.org (bigby@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by home.ephemeron.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k4764OkD093843; Sat, 6 May 2006 23:04:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bigby@ephemeron.org) Received: from localhost (bigby@localhost) by home.ephemeron.org (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) with ESMTP id k4764NgZ093840; Sat, 6 May 2006 23:04:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bigby@ephemeron.org) X-Authentication-Warning: home.ephemeron.org: bigby owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 6 May 2006 23:04:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Bigby Findrake To: Gary Kline In-Reply-To: <20060504161553.GA98295@thought.org> Message-ID: <20060506225211.W82917@home.ephemeron.org> References: <20060504161553.GA98295@thought.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: How do I set up an IRC site? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 07 May 2006 06:03:53 -0000 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 /-------------------------------------------------------------------------/