Archive for March, 2007

Firefox slideshow extension 0.5

March 22, 2007 at 10:53 pm · Filed under Development

I upgraded the Firefox slideshow extension to support better duplicate link checking. You can download the new version at my Projects page.

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Making JWChat work with OpenFire

March 22, 2007 at 1:11 pm · Filed under Development

Getting JWChat to work with OpenFire is difficult without some customization. Here’s a step-by-step guide to how I got it working with Apache running on Linux:

  1. Make sure Apache is running - The computer I was using had Apache 2 installed but Apache 1 configuration files, preventing Apache from starting. Since I didn’t have any site data to lose, copying the default Apache 2 configuration file worked fine.
  2. Make sure OpenFire is running - This seems pretty obvious since you need a Jabber server to connect to.
  3. Edit /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf - If you don’t have a <VirtualHost> section for your site, you’ll have to make one; <VirtualHost *> works just fine for a single site server. The following JWChat configuration lines need to be added inside the <VirtualHost> block that you’ll be setting JWChat up in: <Directory /var/www/html> Option +Multiviews </Directory> AddDefaultChatset UTF-8 ProxyPass /http-bind/ http://127.0.0.1:8080/http-bind/
  4. Extract JWChat - Download JWChat from the project site and extract it into your website directory. I moved the files to /var/www/html/, but you may want to place it elsewhere, so update any paths to match your set-up.
  5. Edit /var/www/html/config.js - JWChat needs to be configured to connect to your OpenFire server. Make the following changes:
    1. Change SITENAME to reflect the server name that OpenFire is configured to host for.
    2. Comment out the existing backends in BACKENDS and add your own. You can provide your own name and description, but these must be same:
      • httpbase:"http-bind/"
      • type:"binding"
      • servers_allowed:[SITENAME]
  6. Edit OpenFire properties - Log into OpenFire as an administrator and add two server properties:
    • xmpp.httpbind.client.requests.polling = 0
    • xmpp.httpbind.client.requests.wait = 10
    These are required because of a bug where JWChat won’t respect the polling values given to it by the server.
  7. Restart Apache - Run apachectl graceful to restart Apache gracefully and load the new configuration.

At this point, when you visit your site, you should see a JWChat login screen. The username is without the @domain suffix.

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