2.3.2. RealChat Server: Installing on Windows NT/2000/XP platforms
586/200MHz with 64MB RAM or better. Dedicated PII/400MHz with 256MB RAM is enough to handle 400+ 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/.
Note: Since Version 2 RealChat Server for Windows platforms comes bundled with Sun's JavaTM 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition Version 1.3.1_01. In case you have no proper JRE installed, you may choose to download the bundled version.
In order to install and run RealChat Server you need to have administrator permissions.
RealChat Server for for Windows platforms comes packaged as single installation executable. Doubleclick on rcserverXXX.exe
or rcserverXXX-jre.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 everithing 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/
. User name: 'root', password: 'root'. If you happen to change the HttpControlPort
parameter in the server configiration file you should replace the default value of 10010 with the one you chose.
Note: By default, RealChat Server will only allow requests which come from localhost. See the TrustedIP
and AllowExternal
configuration directives for details.
After successfull installation it is recommended to setup 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 go to:
Start menu->Programs->RealChat Server->Configure->Service->Install as service
After you installed RealChat Server as service, you can control it ( start, stop and restart ) through:
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
and/or HttpControlPort
. To edit the configuration go to:
Start menu->Programs->RealChat Server->Configure->Edit RealChatServer.conf
Important Note: If you modify the ServerPort, you *must* also change the PORT
parameter in the HTML page of the chat client.
Solution: You need to install RealChat server as 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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