Last Updated: February 25, 1998

Chat Touring

1. Example
2. Installation
3. Documentation

Example of Chat Touring

Chat Touring at BWSD!

Installation

To install the Java Chat Touring onto your Virtual Server, you will need to telnet or SSH to your Virtual Server and then do the following steps:

1. cd   (this will put you in your home directory)
2. tar -xvf /usr/local/contrib/ChaTour.tar
3. Uncomment out the AddType directive for CGI's in your srm.conf file.

   cd ~/usr/local/etc/httpd/conf
   open up the file srm.conf and find the line:
       #AddType application/x-httpd-cgi .cgi
   uncomment this line by removing the '#', i.e. change the line to:
       AddType application/x-httpd-cgi .cgi
   

4. Change the occurrences of "DOMAIN_NAME" in the chat.cgi and express.cgi scripts to be that of your domain name.
   • Change line 11 of chat.cgi from
         $docBase="http://www.DOMAIN_NAME/Chat/";
     to
         $docBase="http://www.[your domain name]/Chat/";
     for example:
         $docBase="http://www.surfutah.com/Chat/";
     

     Change line 17 of express.cgi from
         $docBase="http://www.DOMAIN_NAME/Chat/";
     to
         $docBase="http://www.[your domain name]/Chat/";
     for example:
         $docBase="http://www.surfutah.com/Chat/";
     

5. Go to "http://www.[your domain name]/Chat/" and start chatting!

If you are unfamiliar with JAVA, or would like to learn more about JAVA: Programming for the Internet, the following URL is an excellent resource:

http://java.sun.com

Documentation

Your installation of the Chat Touring software will include a help file which you should probably browse through.

Chat Touring is copyright © 1996 by Paul Burchard, and is distributed under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License.

Development of Chat Touring funded in part by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, a non-profit corporation on whose mission is identifying issues in education at all levels, and administering programs which address them.