Hi everyone, I got the ecwebv3 set up and working. On the fron page is the lightirc (applet?).

Anyways, Comcast blocks the IRC port 6667 so I changed the port in sbbs services configuration to port 7776. Now, I don't know if comcast can tell an IRC connection from any other TCP connection so maybe they can still block IRC no matter what port I use or not, but the lightirc still wont connect. So I figure I either need to set the new port somewhere else or comcast can and is still blocking it.

If there's a simple code change to make to pass in my new port number then I'd like to get it working, but if not I can hide the light IRC applet just as easily. I am definitely not looking to do anything extensive.

Thanks!

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Re: quick question about lightirc port number
By: Xucaen to All on Mon Nov 23 2015 21:12:32

Hi everyone, I got the ecwebv3 set up and working. On the fron page is the lightirc (applet?).

Anyways, Comcast blocks the IRC port 6667 so I changed the port in sbbs services configuration to port 7776. Now, I don't know if comcast can tell an IRC connection from any other TCP connection so maybe they can still block IRC no matter what port I use or not, but the lightirc still wont connect. So I figure I either need to set the new port somewhere else or comcast can and is still blocking it.

You will probably need to add 7776 to your extra_ports in the [flashpolicyserver] section of ctrl/modopts.ini. (And be sure that the Flash socket policy server is running.)

http://wiki.synchro.net/howto:ecweb#flash_socket_policy_server

If an IRC client seems like a useful feature to you (or anyone), please let me know. I haven't bothered to include one in my newer web UI thus far, but I may yet do so.

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Re: quick question about lightirc port number
By: echicken to Xucaen on Mon Nov 23 2015 10:19 pm

If an IRC client seems like a useful feature to you (or anyone), please let me know. I haven't bothered to include one in my newer web UI thus far, but I may yet do so.

I added one to the Runemaster Web UI through an iFrame chat applet provided by Mibbet.com.

Links if anyone is interested:
On my site:
http://bbs.kd3.us/mibbit.ssjs
Download files here: bbs.kd3.us/download/sbbs-mibbit-irc-chat-runemaster_web_ui.zip

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Re: quick question about lightirc port number
By: Xucaen to All on Mon Nov 23 2015 09:12 pm

Hi everyone, I got the ecwebv3 set up and working. On the fron page is the l

Anyways, Comcast blocks the IRC port 6667 so I changed the port in sbbs serv or not, but the lightirc still wont connect. So I figure I either need to se

If there's a simple code change to make to pass in my new port number then I

Thanks!

Do you have a rounter in place? Comcast might not have been blocing anything. In most cases you need your rounter to Port Forward 6667 to your system. But if Comcast is indeed blocking port 6667 the need to port forward the new port to the correct system in your network.


Best Regards,

TRI0N

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Re: quick question about lightirc port number
By: Xucaen to All on Mon Nov 23 2015 09:12 pm

Hi everyone, I got the ecwebv3 set up and working. On the fron page is the l

Anyways, Comcast blocks the IRC port 6667 so I changed the port in sbbs serv or not, but the lightirc still wont connect. So I figure I either need to se

If there's a simple code change to make to pass in my new port number then I

Thanks!

Also you need port 843 open and directed to the correct system inside your netwrok for IRC to function correctly.

Best regards,

TRI0N

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If an IRC client seems like a useful feature to you (or anyone), please let me know. I haven't bothered to include one in my newer web UI thus far, but I may yet do so.

I think it is useful and the more features the better. LightIRC is a good addition to the existing htmlterm "web telent client" which is included with Nightshade. With that said, I don't really know if it's open source etc..


Lith,

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Re: Re: quick question about lightirc port number
By: Lith to echicken on Tue Nov 24 2015 09:59 pm

I think it is useful and the more features the better. LightIRC is a good addition to the existing htmlterm "web telent client" which is included with Nightshade. With that said, I don't really know if it's open source etc..

I don't see a license statement anywhere, the site says it's freeware and donations/licenses are accepted. 40 euros.

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Also you need port 843 open and directed to the correct system inside your >netwrok for IRC to function correctly.

Yes I have it open, plus I added the IRC port and port 843 to modopts.ini under the [flashpolicyserver] section, still not working. If it isn't Comcast blocking the ports I don't know what's wrong with it.

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Do you have a rounter in place? Comcast might not have been blocing anything. >In most cases you need your rounter to Port Forward 6667 to your system. But if
Comcast is indeed blocking port 6667 the need to port forward the new port to >the correct system in your network.

Yes, I have a Cisco router and I forwarded the port and opened the port in Windows firewall. I tried forwarding as TCP, UDP, and BOTH. maybe lightirc isn't working then? I'll have to do some more experimenting to see if I can figure out the problem.
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I am taking another look at this. I have given up on the port 7776 idea because word on the web is that Comcast in fact does not block IRC, so I have no need to change the port numbers. Everything is back to the way it was before I started. IRC server is listening on port 6667. I have opened up ports 6667, 1123 and 843 on the router and in windows firewall on the host machine. I even installed Adobe Flash player on the host machine. I'm not sure what else I can do to get the lightirc client working. I would love to chat with someone who has it working and maybe we can compare server settings.

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Re: quick question about lightirc port number
By: Xucaen to All on Mon Dec 14 2015 09:41 pm

I am taking another look at this. I have given up on the port 7776 idea because word on the web is that Comcast in fact does not block IRC, so I have no need to change the port numbers. Everything is back to the way it was before I started. IRC server is listening on port 6667. I have opened
up ports 6667, 1123 and 843 on the router and in windows firewall on the host machine. I even installed Adobe Flash player on the host machine. I'm not sure what else I can do to get the lightirc client working. I would
love to chat with someone who has it working and maybe we can compare

try kiwiirc instead. or use mibbit.
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I am taking another look at this. I have given up on the port 7776 idea because word on the web is that Comcast in fact does not block IRC, so I have no need to change the port numbers. Everything is back to the way it was before I started. IRC server is listening on port 6667. I have opened up ports 6667, 1123 and 843 on the router and in windows firewall on the host machine. I even installed Adobe Flash player on the host machine. I'm not sure what else I can do to get the lightirc client working. I would love to chat with someone who has it working and maybe we can compare server settings.

Adobe Flash Player is not needed on the server for this.

I posted this link a while back, but you didn't reply:

http://wiki.synchro.net/howto:ecweb#flash_socket_policy_server

Did you enable the Flash Socket Policy server as outlined in the instructions?

Did you add your IRC port (now 6667) to the 'extra_ports' value in the '[flashpolicyserver]' section of 'ctrl/modopts.ini'?

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I am taking another look at this. I have given up on the port 7776 idea because word on the web is that Comcast in fact does not block IRC, so I have no need to change the port numbers. Everything is back to the way it was before I started. IRC server is listening on port 6667. I have opened up ports 6667, 1123 and 843 on the router and in windows firewall on the host machine. I even installed Adobe Flash player on the host machine. I'm not sure what else I can do to get the lightirc client working. I would love to chat with someone who has it working and maybe we can compare server settings.

If you do want to try another IRC client with easier setup, you can go here:

https://kiwiirc.com/embedding

Edit your 'web/root/ecwebv3/pages/000-home.xjs' file. Delete the '<iframe>' tags under the 'IRC Chat' heading, then paste in the embed code that you generate at the above link.
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Re: quick question about lightirc port number
By: echicken to Xucaen on Tue Dec 15 2015 12:39 am

If you do want to try another IRC client with easier setup, you can go here:

https://kiwiirc.com/embedding

I've been using Mibbit, but I like the looks of Kiwi IRC, I may switch over to that.

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Re: quick question about lightirc port number
By: Xucaen to All on Mon Dec 14 2015 09:41 pm

I am taking another look at this. I have given up on the port 7776 idea because word on the web is that Comcast in fact does not block IRC, so I have no need to change the port numbers. Everything is back to the way it was before I started. IRC server is listening on port 6667. I have opened up ports 6667, 1123 and 843 on the router and in windows firewall on the host machine. I even installed Adobe Flash player on the host machine. I'm not sure what else I can do to get the lightirc client working. I would love to chat with someone who has it working and maybe we can compare

try kiwiirc instead. or use mibbit.
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I'm not sure about that. Really the only reason I am trying to get this working
is because lightirc came with Synchronet. I'll keep those in mind if I ever need a web based irc client.

Thanks.

PS. How did my post on dovenet get crossed over to Fidonet? It makes it very difficult for me to keep track of responses. Is sbbsecho supposed to be tossing
these back into the dovenet area?
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I'm not sure about that. Really the only reason I am trying to get this working
is because lightirc came with Synchronet. I'll keep those in mind if I ever need a web based irc client.

LightIRC was included mainly because a) it was available at the time and b) it's standalone and doesn't involve embedding something from an external site. The 'standalone' criterion made it the best choice at the time, but not necessarily the best client available. The fact that it's Flash based is probably enough reason not to keep using it now.

If you don't really want an IRC client for your website, you might just remove it altogether.

PS. How did my post on dovenet get crossed over to Fidonet? It makes it very difficult for me to keep track of responses. Is sbbsecho supposed to be tossing
these back into the dovenet area?

Some Synchronet-related conferences of DoveNet are gated to a Synchronet echo (or echoes) on Fidonet. To avoid reading the same messages twice, you might just remove one or the other from your new message scan.

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I am taking another look at this. I have given up on the port 7776 idea
because word on the web is that Comcast in fact does not block IRC, so I have
no need to change the port numbers. Everything is back to the way it was
before I started. IRC server is listening on port 6667. I have opened up
ports 6667, 1123 and 843 on the router and in windows firewall on the host >> machine. I even installed Adobe Flash player on the host machine. I'm not
sure what else I can do to get the lightirc client working. I would love to >> chat with someone who has it working and maybe we can compare server
settings.

Adobe Flash Player is not needed on the server for this.

I posted this link a while back, but you didn't reply:

http://wiki.synchro.net/howto:ecweb#flash_socket_policy_server

Did you enable the Flash Socket Policy server as outlined in the instructions?

Did you add your IRC port (now 6667) to the 'extra_ports' value in the >'[flashpolicyserver]' section of 'ctrl/modopts.ini'?

Yes to all of the above. I have verified that I have exec/flashpolicyserver.js and exec/websocketservice.js and I added both entries into ctrl/services.ini, I added extra_ports=6667,843,1123 to [flashpolicyserver] in ctrl/modoptc.ini. I forwared ports 6667, 843 and 1123 from my router to my host machine and opened ports 6667, 843 and 1123 in the windows firewall. The ftelnet client works like a charm and I often use it to test my new game, but the lightirc client does not connect at all. It's as if the connect button simply isn't connected to anything.

It might be important to mention that I am using the latest and greatest Firefox web browser. I also tested with Internet Explorer, but while the ftelnet client works perfect in IE, the lightirc doesn't even get displayed in IE.

Just for farts and chuckles, I just installed Chrome browser and voila! The lightirc client works in Chrome.

Ok, so what does that mean? I installed the latest flash player for Firefox so lightirc should be working, right? Or is lightirc strictly speaking a Chrome widget?

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If you do want to try another IRC client with easier setup, you can go here:

https://kiwiirc.com/embedding

Edit your 'web/root/ecwebv3/pages/000-home.xjs' file. Delete the '<iframe>' >tags under the 'IRC Chat' heading, then paste in the embed code that you >generate at the above link.

Several people have recommended to me that I sue a different irc client on the web page. May I ask, why is lightirc included with ecWeb if everyone, including yourself, would recommend using a different one? I mean no disrespect, I'm just trying to understand.. Thanks!

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Re: quick question about lightirc port number
By: James Barrett to Mro on Tue Dec 15 2015 10:01 am

have opened up ports 6667, 1123 and 843 on the router and in windows firewall on the host machine. I even installed Adobe Flash player on
the host machine. I'm not sure what else I can do to get the lightirc client working. I would love to chat with someone who has it working
and maybe we can compare

try kiwiirc instead. or use mibbit.

I'm not sure about that. Really the only reason I am trying to get this working
is because lightirc came with Synchronet. I'll keep those in mind if I ever need a web based irc client.

i thought lightirc IS web based.

you can run kiwiirc at home if that's what you mean.
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Re: quick question about lightirc port number
By: James Barrett to Mro on Tue Dec 15 2015 10:01 am

PS. How did my post on dovenet get crossed over to Fidonet? It makes it
very difficult for me to keep track of responses. Is sbbsecho supposed to
be tossing
these back into the dovenet area?

gating.
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15 Dec 15 10:01, you wrote to Mro:

PS. How did my post on dovenet get crossed over to Fidonet? It makes
it very difficult for me to keep track of responses. Is sbbsecho
supposed to be tossing these back into the dovenet area?

Vertrauen is the gateway to/from fidonet... plus you should have two different areas... one for the copy from dovenet and the other for the copy from fidonet... it is possible that it may also be gated into other QWK or even FTN networks...

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you have finally got it exactly the way you want it, what are you going to do with the people like you? The trouble makers. How are you going to protect your
glorious revolution from the next one?" - The twelfth Doctor

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Re: quick question about lightirc port number
By: echicken to James Barrett on Tue Dec 15 2015 03:53 pm

Some Synchronet-related conferences of DoveNet are gated to a Synchronet echo (or echoes) on Fidonet. To avoid reading the same messages twice,
you might just remove one or the other from your new message scan.

At the risk of going off topic, can you tell me which ones? I would assume it's the three Synchoinet areas. I'll just completely remove those from the BBS, it really is confusing for me to have responses show up in both areas. Thanks.

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Ok, I am all set with this now. Firefox is not playing nice with Flash player. I am able to connect to the irc server using xchat from linux and I won't waste any more time on this.

Thank you all for your help, I do appreciate it. o/

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Re: quick question about lightirc port number
By: Xucaen to All on Tue Dec 15 2015 08:37 pm

Ok, I am all set with this now. Firefox is not playing nice with Flash player. I am able to connect to the irc server using xchat from linux and I won't waste any more time on this.

Thank you all for your help, I do appreciate it. o/

kiwi irc is not flash and it's open source.
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I am taking another look at this. I have given up on the port 7776 idea because word on the web is that Comcast in fact does not block IRC, so I have no need to change the port numbers.

I'm using lightIRC and don't remember having any particular troubles installing it. But, it's been a couple of Months now.

1. I downloaded the newest version from their website and used that version. 2. Created a directory called LightIRC in the /web/root directory
3. Dumped the program in there and edited the config.js below and left the rest as default
4. opened port 6667 and 843 on the firewall and that's about it.

config.js script settings:
*****************************
* Change these parameters */
params.host = "irc.asirta.com";
params.port = 6667;
params.policyPort = 843

params.styleURL = "www.asirta.com";
********************

If you're having problems it's probably with these settings? Hope this helps!

Now, the question is how do yo get people to actually use it...

Lith,

test link:
http://asirta.com:5630/lightirc/index.html

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Several people have recommended to me that I sue a different irc client on the web page. May I ask, why is lightirc included with ecWeb if everyone, including yourself, would recommend using a different one? I mean no disrespect, I'm just trying to understand.. Thanks!

Well, please understand that ecweb was written several years ago. Just because I chose to include LightIRC with it then doesn't mean that it was the best thing then or now. I should perhaps have replaced it with something else eventually, but I didn't.

The reason it was selected is that at the time it was one of the only standalone web-based IRC clients that I could find. You could host it yourself, so it wouldn't be affected by its home site disappearing or whatever. (Digital Man doesn't like external dependencies as defaults, and I don't blame him.) Plus it's a perfectly usable IRC client, and its author was cool with me bundling it in.

That said, it's Flash based. That's on its way out. Plus you have to dick around with opening ports, configuring services, etc., and these are things that frequently trip people up.

Meanwhile self-hosted alternatives would have similar pitfalls. You could host Kiwi IRC yourself, but that would mean setting up a Websocket service, dealing with ports, etc. While we have a Websocket server, it's closely coupled with a bunch of telnet-specific stuff, so it wouldn't readily work. (I do have a generic Websocket server object ready to go, so other services could be built with it.)

However if you just go to the Kiwi IRC website and give them a few config details, they will generate embed code for you. Likewise, I assume, for Mibbit. So that's easy, and a really quick fix for any LightIRC problems you're having - you get to skip the dicking around and troubleshooting.

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Re: quick question about lightirc port number
By: James Barrett to Mro on Tue Dec 15 2015 10:01 am

PS. How did my post on dovenet get crossed over to Fidonet? It makes it very difficult for me to keep track of responses. Is sbbsecho supposed to be tossing
these back into the dovenet area?

This DOVE-Net conference is gated to FidoNet (SYNCHRONET echo). The gateway is Vertrauen, so the only system where the 2 echoes/conferences actually point to the same message base is on Vertrauen. On your BBS, if you carry the FidoNet SYNCHRONET echo, it should be a separate message area from DOVE-Net/Synchronet Discussion and you will see the same messages in both sub-boards.

digital man

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Re: quick question about lightirc port number
By: Xucaen to echicken on Tue Dec 15 2015 08:15 pm

Re: quick question about lightirc port number
By: echicken to James Barrett on Tue Dec 15 2015 03:53 pm

Some Synchronet-related conferences of DoveNet are gated to a Synchronet echo (or echoes) on Fidonet. To avoid reading the same messages twice, you might just remove one or the other from your new message scan.

At the risk of going off topic, can you tell me which ones? I would assume it's the three Synchoinet areas. I'll just completely remove those from the BBS, it really is confusing for me to have responses show up in both areas. Thanks.

http://wiki.synchro.net/network:dove-net#gateways

I suggest leaving the DOVE-Net ones linked.

digital man

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15 Dec 15 20:15, you wrote to echicken:

At the risk of going off topic, can you tell me which ones? I would
assume it's the three Synchoinet areas. I'll just completely remove
those from the BBS, it really is confusing for me to have responses
show up in both areas. Thanks.

all the synchronet areas in fidonet are gated... pick your poison! ;) -=B-)

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you have finally got it exactly the way you want it, what are you going to do with the people like you? The trouble makers. How are you going to protect your
glorious revolution from the next one?" - The twelfth Doctor

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If you do want to try another IRC client with easier setup, you can
go here:

https://kiwiirc.com/embedding

Interesting... been thinking about getting shout[1] set up...

[1] https://github.com/erming/shout

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