Looking to add chat to your server? Don’t want to mess with java and IRC? Want to try a PHP/MySQL solution? ARSC could be for you.
From the 4-step installation from INSTALL docs:
- Create a MySQL database
- Provide the hostname, username, password, and database
name to allow ARSC to connect to your MySQL Server
- Copy the ARSC files onto the webserver
- Open the install script url in the webbrowser
We have been looking to do some kind of chat for Webmaster Cookbook, so I just conducted a quick installation there to see how long the base installation actually took.
Started 8:02am. End: 8:15am. 13 minutes which included creating the database and user/pass in PHPMyAdmin and FTPing the files.
Notes
- don’t forget to delete the install subdirectory
- customize the outside and inside pages using the layout option in the admin area
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on February 17th, 2006 at 3:12 pm | #Link Comment