Hi all, apologies for the newbie questions. I'm running a dating site and have decided to setup my own chat server as the provider i was using has become very unreliable. i've setup ejabberd on my server but cannot seem to find any decent ajax clients around. Basically I want to give my users the same chat experience as they get on facebeook. I hope this is possible.
One's i've seen so far :
1 - jwchat - looks quite outdated
2 - ijab - looks promising but their site is down half the time, when it's up half of it is in chinese and seems they're in a hurry to set up a paid model
3 - several others half developed or haven't been updated since 2008
my questions are :
1 - does anybody have a full setup with an ajax client and ejabberd back end and reliably running 50-100 chat sessions per hour
2 - my site is running on a different server than i've installed ejabberd on. will this be a problem ?
thanks in advance.
1. JWChat was last updated
1. JWChat was last updated many time ago, and very rarely is updated. But it works perfectly with old and new ejabberd releases. If by 'outdated' you refer to its appearance, you can touch its CSS to adapt its coloring to your site.
Remember to configure the web client to use BOSH (http-bind), not the old http-poll technique. And the latest ejabberd 2.1.* version you can get.
2. Yes, the client page and ejabberd can be on different machines. Or you can setup the HTTP server with the AJAX client in the same ejabberd machine: ejabberd can even serve the files with mod_http_fileserver.
See http://www.ejabberd.im/jwchat-localserver