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Chat daemon and Alternatives

by Eduardo Perdido - Thursday, April 9, 2015, 3:58 PM

Hello!

I'm trying to use the chat with the Daemon, starting the daemon I get this:

Moodle chat daemon v1.0 on PHP 5.4.36

[2015-04-08 16:00:25] *IMPORTANT* Started Moodle chatd on port 9111, listening socket Resource id #69

As it starts without errors I think there is no problem in the php_socket, but when I try to connect to the chat I always get timeouts (the same as not having the daemon running).

I'm using the chat_server as 127.0.0.1 and the port is 9111.

Also, which third-party would be the best for using as a chat?

Thanks in advance.

Re: Chat daemon and Alternatives

by Matteo Scaramuccia - Friday, April 10, 2015, 3:36 AM

Hi Eduardo,
you should:

bind the chat daemon to your public network address - the one used to expose your Moodle instance -, otherwise no one will be able to connect to it outside the server;
check your firewall settings to allow connections on both the server and the clients;
(optional) select a firewall-friendly port for your clients e.g. 8080.

HTH,
Matteo

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