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Lightman

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Registered: 2014-09-22

Posts: 14

Software advice for a web based chat server

Hi,

I am try to create a web based group chat server. Users would log onto a webpage and then be able to chat both as a group or with each other. I don't want a IRC style server as I need to avoid having a separate client. I have a LAMP Server ready, is there a web package that I can install that would allow this?

I don't need compatibility with any traditional messaging technologies, just a central web suite that allows group chat.

Thanks.

Awebb

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Registered: 2010-05-06

Posts: 6,688

Re: Software advice for a web based chat server

"web based chat server" on google did not result in, say, a first hit with 26 open-source solutions to your problem?

Lightman

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Registered: 2014-09-22

Posts: 14

Re: Software advice for a web based chat server

Oddly enough, no.

Whilst I accept that I can find 26 open source packages and that is only one of tens of millions of such pages. I find that my problem is just as much about semantics as it is about systems. My search criteria is too broad. With the focus now on productivity through online communication, the term "chat" can mean video/voice/text or a combination of all three. Also, as this is a current trend of the Internet, everyone wants to sell me something.

However, I am getting somewhere. I did learn the term "self-host" where the actual software resides on my server - which I know I want. My current thinking is to build a IRC Server to give me text based chat functionality and then use a package named thelounge to act as an in-browser client so my users would not need a separate client - which I also know I want. I understand that I can configure thelounge to only connect to my server and act as a gateway where a username and password is required. If I can stop anyone connecting to my IRC sever from outside, i.e. not through thelounge, I've cracked it.   

And... Duly noted, abrupt and badly worded support requests will only attract sarcasm, especially on this forum.

Type not of frustration but explain the problem fully.

Awebb

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Registered: 2010-05-06

Posts: 6,688

Re: Software advice for a web based chat server

IRC + web client is a solid start. I'd also recommend Matrix + a web client.