Community Building with ChatSpace Server Manual

Configuration—allows you to change the ping frequency used to verify
that the visitors are still present. A higher ping frequency is appropriate
for web sites with high hit rates. A low ping frequency helps increase the
accuracy of the real time reporting and decreases the time required for a
visitor to respond to your chat requests
Chat—opens your chat interface so that you can conduct chats with the
web site visitors you select.
Accessing Your Site
Now that you have your Community Server site installed, you will need to
access it and tell your user community how to access it. Several access points
are available for the software—IIS interface, direct native web server
interface, embedding on a web page on your web site, and IRC access.
IIS Interface
If IIS is installed on the computer on which you installed Community Server,
then you can access your chat site by browsing to that web site’s /Chat. For
example, if the web site’s URL is http://www.myorg.com, then you would be
able to access your Community Server at http://www.myorg.com/Chat. If you
already have a directory or virtual root called Chat, then Community Server
installs to /CSChat.
Note
The IIS Interface is the only interface that provides access to the Message
Board functions. The IIS Interface is only available if Message Board
Integration is enabled. See Message Board Integration on page 6.
Direct Native Web Server
Community Server has its own internal web server. If IIS is not installed on
the system, you can access Community Server through its own native web
server by just browsing to the hostname of the computer. For example, if the
TCP/IP hostname of the computer on which Community Server is installed is
chat.myorg.com, then you could access the Native Web Server by browsing
http://chat.myorg.com.
Even if IIS is installed on the system, the Native Web Server is still available
at port 8000. Using the above example, the URL for the Native Web Server
would be http://chat.myorg.com:8000.
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