Chat Blazer Gold

Installation - On a virtual server

Go to the next page if you are not installing the software on your virtual server.

There are basically three steps to the entire installation process. First of all, a little bit on the definition of "installation". By the term "installation", we mean that all the necessary files are transferred/moved to a directory on the machine. It does not cover the starting up or execution of the Chat Gold server of clients.

Installation Steps:

Unzipping of the downloaded package to a directory on your machine.
Transferring the files to the machine that is going to run the Chat Blazer Gold server.
Check if the files are transferred or moved correctly to the target machine.

This section of the Installation process assumes that the machine running the Chat Blazer Gold server is a virtual server. You will require FTP to transfer the files to your virtual hosting account. Telnet is required to start up the Chat Blazer Gold server. Telnet is an utility where you are able to execute commands on a remote machine some distance away.

One common FTP program is WS_FTP which you can search for in www.download.com.

Step I - Unzipping of the downloaded package

The aim of Step I is to unzip the software package into a directory on a machine.

To unzip the software package, please follow the sub-steps below:

Create an empty directory (e.g. "/chat") on your hard disk to store the files which will be unzipped from the software package. Windows users can run the Explorer to create the directory. Unix users can do a "mkdir [directory name]" command.

Move the downloaded Chat Blazer Gold software package (cbdemo1.zip or cbdemo1.tar.gz) into the newly created directory.

Launch an Unzip utility (such as Winzip, PKZip, gunzip). Unix users should be able to run the utility "gunzip [filename]" or "unzip [filename]".

For Windows users, please select all the files within the unzip utility and extract it to the newly created directory. For Unix users, your files should already be extracted from your command in the previous sub-steps.

Check the file listing of the new directory. It should contain the files as stated in the Software Package description.

Step II - Transferring files

Before you proceed, you should have checked that all the files as stated in the Software Package description are in the newly created directory.

The aim of this step is to transfer the files to the machine which you are going to test the Chat Blazer software. This means transferring your files to your virtual server account.

Since your machine is not located in your premises (in other words you are using a remote virtual server), you need to use the FTP method of transferring files. Some hosting companies have FrontPage extension which you can use as well. Most of the time, webmasters, simply transfer the files using FTP.

We will not covering the transfer of files to your virtual server account using FrontPage Extension as that is a relatively simple task. However, we will provide a more detailed description on how to transfer the Chat Blazer Gold files using FTP. Please follow the sub-steps below:

Open up your FTP utility. If you do not have one, please download WS_FTP LE which is free. You can go to www.download.com and do a search for that software.
Connect to your Virtual Server account.
Within the FTP application, navigate to the newly created directory in your LOCAL hard disk containing the Chat Blazer Evaluation files which you had unzipped in Step 1.
After the connection is established with your remote machine, navigate to the directory on the remote machine where you intend to store the chat files. We strongly recommend that you create a sub directory under your www root directory (usually the directory containing your index.html file). Hence, you will have something like www/chat where chat is a sub directory under your www root directory called "www".
Select all .class and .jpg/.gif files in your LOCAL hard disk.
Ensure that the BINARY transfer mode is selected within the FTP application.
Click on the relevant Transfer button within the FTP utility.
After the transfer is done, select the remaining Chat Blazer Gold files in your LOCAL hard disk within your FTP utility.
Select ASCII transfer mode within your FTP utility.
Click on the relevant Transfer button within the FTP utility.
After the transfer is done, Close the FTP connection. But do not exit the FTP utility as you will still need to transfer the configuration files containing your Chat Blazer Gold settings.

Step III - Verification (For UNIX users only)

After you have transferred the files to your virtual server account, you need to verify that the files retain the same naming and casings. This Step is relevant only for UNIX users. You need to check that the following list of files have retained their casings and correct filenames. One common fault is that the Operating Systems automatically truncate the filename to 8.3 (DOS) format.

The list of files are found in the Software Package documentation. Hence, you need to check if all the class files are retained correctly in their casing and naming. E.g. Link.class is not the same as link.class. The latter will not cause your chat to work.

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