2.3.2. RealChat Server: Installing on Windows® NT®/2000/XP platforms
586/200 MHz with 64 MB RAM or higher Dedicated PII/400 MHz with 256 MB RAM
is enough to handle 400 or more concurrent users.
RealChat Server for Windows® platforms requires Sun's Java Runtime Environment
in order to run. Supported Java™ versions are JRE 1.3 and JRE 1.4. If you
haven't already done so, please download and install one before you continue.
JRE for Windows® is freely available from SUN: http://java.sun.com/jre/.
In order to install and run RealChat Server you need to have administrator permissions.
RealChat Server for Windows® platforms comes packaged as single installation
executable. Double-click rcserverXXX.exe located in the /server
folder of the distribution archive and follow the instructions.
Once you have installed RealChat Server, you are ready to do a test run
to check if everything is OK. Click the Start button, point to Programs
-> RealChat Server -> Configure, and then click Test Run [ Console mode
].
If everything is in place, a command prompt console will appear and you
should see something like:
Running RealChat Server.
RealChat Server version 2.0b
FloodCheck enabled.
Stats collection enabled.
DropTimeout set to 100 seconds.
LingerTimeout set to 10 seconds.
BanTimeout set to 15 minutes.
Current server session: 1
Localhost is: 192.168.2.82
Server [ RealChatServer ] running and listening on port 8080
Use ctrl-c to interrupt.
[12 16 16:43:13] Server started.
If the server fails to start, please refer to the Troubleshooting
section below.
Otherwise, stop the test run by pressing CTRL+C over the command prompt
console and proceed to the next section.
RealChat Server features built-in HTTP Control Server, which you can use
to get various statistics, as well as to access the server API. To open
the Web Console, point your browser to http://localhost:10010/.
If you happen to change
the HttpControlPort
parameter in the server configuration file, you should replace the default
value of 10010 with the one that you choose.
Note: By default, RealChat Server will only allow requests which
come from the local host. See the TrustedIP
and AllowExternal
configuration directives for details.
After successfully installing the software, you should set up RealChat Server as a Windows®
Service, so it will be started at system boot time and will not terminate
after you log off. To do so, click the following program menu items:
Start menu -> Programs -> RealChat Server -> Configure -> Service->
Install as Service
After you installed RealChat Server as service, you can control it, with
start, stop, and restart, by clicking the following program menu items:
Start menu -> Programs -> RealChat Server -> Control
Solution: The most common reason is that this port is already in use by
another application. By default RealChat Server tries to bind to port 8080,
for the chat server, and to port 10010, for the http control server. Edit
the configuration and choose different port numbers for ServerPort
or HttpControlPort. To edit the configuration, click the following
program menu items:
Start menu -> Programs -> RealChat Server -> Configure -> Edit RealChatServer.conf
Important Note: If you modify the ServerPort, you must also change
the PORT parameter on the HTML page of the chat client.
Solution: You need to install RealChat Server as a service first.
Solution: Install Sun's Java Runtime Environment 1.3 or newer.
Solution: Install Sun's Java Runtime Environment 1.3 or newer.
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