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Log in to your ParaChat Server's Administration
pages (found by visiting: http://<your-host-name>:7877/plynx/parachat/index.lhtml).
Enter the Server Admin name and password you selected during installation,
and click the 'Sign In' button.
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You will arrive at the ParaChat Server
Administration Main Menu (see image below).
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Enter the name of the ParaChat room you want
to create in the field marked: Create New Room
HINT: ParaChat
room names must begin with the "#" symbol to be recognized by the server.
By default, the "#" symbol is auto-filled in the Create New Room field.
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You will arrive at the
Room
Parameters page for the ParaChat room you are creating (see image below).
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There are 7 input fields
on the Room Parameters page. A description of each follows:
1. Title:
For internal use only, and is not required. The title you place here
will appear along with the ParaChat room name on the "View currently active
rooms" list that is linked from the Main Menu page. It will not appear
in the ParaChat room itself
2. Topic:
Enter the topic for the chat room. The topic you enter here will
appear each time a user logs into the chat room. You will have an opportunity
to change this later, or from the ParaChat room itself using the GUI Admin
Console or admin commands. This field is not required.
3. Admin user(s):
Enter the user name(s) of the Room Admin user. You may enter multiple
names here separated only by a comma. There is no need to place a
comma and a space between Admin user names, just a comma. If you
leave this field blank, only the Server Admin User will have admin powers
in this room.
HINT: Room
Admin user names should be password protected. If you list a user
name(s) in this field, it is suggested that you create a User Profile for
each user. If you do not create a User Profile for an Admin name,
any person who logs into the chat room using that Admin name will have
admin privileges in the room. Instructions for creating User Profiles
are below in Section 5.
4. Banned
IPs:
You may manually add user IP addresses in this location
that you wish to ban from the chat room. User IP addresses that are
banned by the Admin user from the chat room (via the GUI Admin Console,
or using admin user commands) will appear in this list. IP addresses
should be separated by a comma only, and not a comma and a space.
If you wish to remove an IP address that is on the list, simply highlight
the IP address and delete it, remembering not to leave 2 commas separating
any remaining IP addresses. You do not need to add data to this field
during room creation.
5. Allowed URLs:
ParaChat's unique URL enforcement system allows you to limit the way applet
code for a particular room can be distributed onto other web pages on the
Internet. By indicating the EXACT URL(s) where you wish your room
HTML applet code to run, you may limit people from taking the code from
your HTML and running your chat room on their own web page without your
permission. List all URLs where you wish to run your applet code
in this field.
HINT: It
is important to note that users sometimes access domains with out the www
suffix
before your domain name. Therefore, if your chat page is
http://www.domain-name.com/chat.html,
you may also wish to include
http://parachat.com/chat.html
- without the www suffix - as an allowed URL. It is
best to use the complete URL structure here, so be certain to include the
http://
as well. It is also important to note that if you designate an allowed
URL as http://www.domain-name.com,
for example, the server will permit the ParaChat room to run on any web
page within that domain, and not just on a specific page within that domain.
6. Enforce
URLs:
ParaChat Server will enforce the URLs you provide for each
room by either:
- allow - allows all user connections regardless of URL
- warn - warns users that a ParaChat room is running on a web page that is not allowed
- deny - does not allow a connection to the server
Users
will still be able to connect with the URL enforcement set to both
allow
and
warn. However, an Imposter Room server message will appear
in the room if the Enforce URLs is set to warn, and a page is running on
a disallowed web page.
7. Home URL:
For internal use only, and not required. Place the home domain name
of the ParaChat Pro room if applicable as a point of reference if the Allowed
URLs reside on a different domain.
HINT: The
default URL enforcement for ParaChat Server is warn.
This configuration can be easily changed in the server configuration file
(\ParaChat\ParaChat400\config\pchatd) to either allow
or deny.
Each room that you create will always use the servers default URL enforcement.
You may configure the room to a URL enforcement setting other than the
server default using this pull-down menu.
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Create New Room