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retro
Junior Member
123 Posts |
 Posted - 11 February 2002 : 14:24:52
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Update your Flash player. I had a user with this problem and he just uninstalled the Flash player and then reinstalled the most recent version and it solved the problem.
On a side note, I am ditching Pipey chat. It stinks when you get more than 5 or 6 people in the chat room. It starts kicking people left and right. I am going to use chatspace instead.
Sean
Edited by - Retro on 10 May 2002 17:06:21 |
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retro
Junior Member
123 Posts |
Posted - 12 February 2002 : 15:35:01
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Another update to the Pipey chat saga. I got an email from Pipey about how to keep users from getting kicked off if they are just lurking and not actively chatting. This was one of the other big probs. Here's the email message:
quote:
Hi Sean
I don't think it's a problem with the chat as such. What happens is, if a
user doesn't succesfully communicate with the server for more than 2
minutes, they get logged out of the chat. This can be caused by a slow
dial-up connection, a busy server, or internet congestion in general.
What you could do is this: look in the file loginout.asp for a line that
says Session.Timeout=2. Change the value to 3 or 4 to increase the number of
minutes before a user gets timed out. The downside of this is that when a
user closes the browser window without logging off properly, it'll take 3 or
4 minutes before the userlist reflects the fact that they're no longer
there.
Regards
Pipey
Sean
Edited by - Retro on 10 May 2002 17:06:37 |
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retro
Junior Member
123 Posts |
Posted - 18 March 2002 : 11:08:58
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Another update on the Pipey Chat
After updating the timeout per the message from Pipey, I have had very few problem. About the only bad points I can see about Pipey are:
1) It's a bandwidth hog. If you are on a limited bandwidth budget, be cautious as this app will eat it up
2) Users who don't have the most recent version of Flash have problems (this can be resolved by having them do an upgrade)
3) Users with older computers may have problems. I have one user with a 486 and the chat app locks his computer. Not a whole lot I can do about that.
Otherwise it works fine.
Sean
Edited by - Retro on 10 May 2002 17:07:04 |
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brujo
Average Member
USA
602 Posts |
Posted - 19 March 2002 : 10:37:43
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Retro & Any Other who can help,
Have got my Chat files in my Forum folder - and now have the virtual folder pointing towards this Forum folder.
I have also included the chat_check.asp file - to see whether The Snitz Cookie is there.
However if you click on my Live Chat link on my default.asp page then (the links I have put into inc_top.asp and online.asp)
Irrespective of if you are logged in or not - it takes you to the login.asp page created for those not logged in.
http://jobinthesun.com/forum/
If you are logged in - it should take you to /forum/chatroom.asp
I cannot understand this.
Has anyone got any ideas or is anyone else using this modification successfully.
It is also not recognising anyone in the chatroom.
Yesterday I had three users in the chat - but it continued to state it was empty.
Thanks in advance.
Carlos
http://jobinthesun.com/forum/
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retro
Junior Member
123 Posts |
Posted - 19 March 2002 : 11:52:43
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Carlos,
Sorry for the delay in getting back to you, I got sidetracked with a MAJOR issue with my database.
Anyway, when I try to directly access your chatroom.asp page, I get the following error:
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The chat is not correctly installed. To install the chat correctly, you need to place it in a virtual directory on the webserver.
If you have access to the Microsoft Management Console on the server, you can create a virtual directory yourself (see the documentation for MMC).
If you are using the chat on a server provided by a web host, ask your web host's technical support personnel to do this for you. If necessary, you can direct them to this page so that they can read this message.
This means that the chatroom is not recognizing the virtual directory that has been created. My guess is that the problem is with your virtual directory being named "chat" instead of forum. For instance, if you click on this link:
http://jobinthesun.com/forum/chatroom.asp
the chatroom error comes up
If, however, you click on this link:
http://jobinthesun.com/chat/chatroom.asp
the chatroom comes up. This is because the second link is accessing the chatroom via the virtual director. I suggest you create an additional virtual directory called "forum" that points to your forum directory. When I log onto the chat room and then open another window and go to http://jobinthesun.com/chat/ I can see me in the chatroom. In short, to resolve your problem:
1) Create a virtual directory created for you forum directory called "forum" .
2) Make sure your link to the chatroom (in the chat_check.asp) is to http://jobinthesun.com/chat/chatroom.asp
I'll look at the chat_check.asp later to see what's going on with that.
Hope this helps!
Sean
Edited by - Retro on 10 May 2002 17:07:31 |
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brujo
Average Member
USA
602 Posts |
Posted - 19 March 2002 : 17:54:16
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Retro,
If you do that - how do you know when you type in for example
http://jobinthesun.com/forum/chatroom.asp
if it is reading from Virtual or the Physical directory... ????
chat check
<%
'Redirects the user if the Snitz Cookie does not exist
If Request.Cookies("Snitz00User") = "" Then
MM_authorizedUsers=""
MM_authFailedURL="login.asp"
MM_grantAccess=false
MM_qsChar = "?"
If (InStr(1,MM_authFailedURL,"?") >= 1) Then MM_qsChar = "&"
MM_referrer = Request.ServerVariables("URL")
if (Len(Request.QueryString()) > 0) Then MM_referrer = MM_referrer & "?" & Request.QueryString()
MM_authFailedURL = MM_authFailedURL & MM_qsChar & "accessdenied=" & Server.URLEncode(MM_referrer)
Response.Redirect(MM_authFailedURL)
End IF
'end redirect code
%>
<%
'Redirects the user to the chat if the Snitz Cookie exists
If Request.Cookies("Snitz00User") <> "" Then
Response.Redirect("http://jobinthesun.com/forum/chatroom.asp")
End IF
'end redirect code
%>
<html>
<head>
<title>JobInTheSun.com - Chat Check</title>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0">
<table width="775" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" height="100%">
<tr>
<td valign="top">
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" height="80">
<tr valign="middle">
<td width="25%"> </td>
<td width="75%">
<div align="right"></div>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<div align="center">
<table width="775" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" bordercolor="#000000">
<tr bordercolor="#FFFFFF">
<td width="175"> </td>
</tr>
</table>
<table width="100%" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" height="75%" bordercolor="#000000">
<tr valign="top">
<td width="77" bgcolor="#333366">
<div align="center"> </div>
</td>
<td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="692">
<div align="center">
<table width="95%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td valign="top">
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
Any clues ?????
Thanks
Carlos
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brujo
Average Member
USA
602 Posts |
Posted - 19 March 2002 : 18:15:00
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ok
have put the chat_check .asp back into the /forum/ folder and changed the links to it accordingly....
For some reason that works ok now
i.e.
If you are logged onto the Snitz forum, clicking the link for Live Chat - takes you in........although I still cannot tell if it shows up on the Online part of the main page....
Need someone to try this while I am on.
If you are not logged on with your Snitz password - then Chatcheck correctly diverts you to a Login page Login.asp
Login.asp is now also in the Forum folder.
however, when I put my forum USERNAME and PASSWORD in to the input boxes the post statement in the login.asp doesnt work.
it simply reloads the login.asp page.
Login.asp reads as follows :
HTML><HEAD><TITLE>JobInTheSun.com - Login</TITLE>
<BODY text=#000000 bgColor=#C7E9E8 leftMargin=0 topMargin=0 marginheight="0"
marginwidth="0">
<TABLE height="100%" cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=775 border=0>
<TBODY>
<TR>
<TD vAlign=top>
<DIV align=center>
<TABLE borderColor=#C7E9E8 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0
width="100%" border=1 height="100%">
<TBODY>
<TR vAlign=top>
<TD bgColor=#C7E9E8>
<DIV align=center> </DIV>
<DIV align=center>
<TABLE cellSpacing=1 cellPadding=1 width="95%" border=0 height="100%">
<TBODY>
<TR>
<TD vAlign=center width=134> </TD>
<TD vAlign=center>
<DIV align=center><B><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2" color="#006666">Please
supply your username and password</font></B> </DIV>
<FORM name=form1
action=login.asp
method=post>
<TABLE borderColor=#C7E9E8 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0
width="50%" align=center border=1>
<TBODY>
<TR>
<TD width="50%" bgColor=#C7E9E8>
<DIV align=right><FONT color=#ffffff><B><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2" color="#336600">Username:
</font></B></FONT></DIV>
</TD>
<TD width="50%" bgColor=#C7E9E8>
<INPUT name=tfUsername>
</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD width="50%" bgColor=#C7E9E8>
<DIV align=right><FONT color=#ffffff><B><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2" color="#336600">Password:
</font></B></FONT></DIV>
</TD>
<TD width="50%" bgColor=#C7E9E8>
<INPUT type=password
name=tfPassword>
</TD>
</TR>
<TR bgColor=##C7E9E8>
<TD width="50%" bgcolor="#C7E9E8">
<DIV align=right>
<INPUT type=submit value=Login name=Submit>
</DIV>
</TD>
<TD width="50%" bgcolor="#C7E9E8">
<INPUT type=reset value=Reset name=Reset>
</TD>
</TR>
</TBODY>
</TABLE>
<DIV align=center></DIV>
</FORM>
<B><FONT
face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2></FONT></B></TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD vAlign=center width=134> </TD>
<TD vAlign=center><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2" color="#336600">In
order to interact with some of the sections of this site,
we require that you supply your JobInTheSun.com username
and password. If you have not created your JobInTheSun.com
Forum account, please <A
href="http://jobinthesun.com/forum/policy.asp">click here</A>
to do so now.</font></TD>
</TR>
</TBODY>
</TABLE>
</DIV>
</TD>
</TR>
</TBODY>
</TABLE>
</DIV>
</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></BODY></HTML>
Hopefully nearly there now
Thanks
Carlos
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retro
Junior Member
123 Posts |
Posted - 19 March 2002 : 18:32:18
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Carlos,
You are 99% of the way there. Here is what I did:
1) Opened your site and logged on.
2) Clicked the live chat link -- took me to the chat room
3) Opened a new browser (leaving the first one in the chat room)
4) Opened your site
Since I have one browser window in the chat room and one browser window in the forum, I can see that I am both in the forum and in the chat room. So everything works on your chat piece.
As for the login.asp page, it is incomplete because it doesn't include the ASP code. Try this one insted and just take off the .txt
This should get ya up and running!
Sean
Edited by - Retro on 10 May 2002 17:08:05 |
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brujo
Average Member
USA
602 Posts |
Posted - 19 March 2002 : 23:43:26
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Call me stupid ....call me thick.......just please GIVE ME SOME SLEEP
I'm still up on this one .....
so sorry Retro,
have used the Login.asp file
still no go.
When you try :
http://jobinthesun.com/forum/chat_check.asp i.e. follow the live chat link when logged in - everything is a ok .....fine and dandy
The problem I am still having is the redirection when not logged in.....
it is just coming up PAGE NOT FOUND for the address
http://jobinthesun.com/forum/chat_check.asp
as if it is not there.....but it is DEFINATELY there
similarly
login.asp
is definately there......as per the code you gave.....and is in the /forum/
however if you type the address :
http://jobinthesun.com/forum/login/asp
yes, you've guessed it - NO GO !!
:0
I have put the files here
http://jobinthesun.com/test/chat_check.txt
http://jobinthesun.com/test/login.txt
have tried putting these asp files in the root and then in the forum and changing the paths accordingly.
at the moment they all reside in the /forum/ directory
Thanks in advance
Carlos
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jrloar
Starting Member
USA
24 Posts |
Posted - 08 April 2002 : 22:03:29
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Does any one have a copy of PIPEY chat they can E-mail me? jim@pawheelers.com or send me a link of where to get it other than www.pipey.com I can not get on there site. It must be down.
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Average Member
Canada
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Beano_ie
Junior Member
Ireland
328 Posts |
Posted - 23 April 2002 : 19:17:56
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Mind if I ask a dumb question...... but isn't there a Mod called snittzy chat? Is Pipey better than snittzy chat? I've used pipey but not snittzy.
I'm only asking because I do want to have a chat room as part of my site but I want to know the cons and pros first.
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Tmpj
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Denmark
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