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Log in to your ParaChat Server's Administration pages:
http://<your-host-name>:7877/plynx/parachat/index.lhtml
Step 1. Enter the Server Admin name and password you selected during installation,
and click the 'Sign In' button.
Step 2. You will arrive at the ParaChat Server Administration Main Menu (see image below).
Step 3. To create a new room, enter the group in which you would like the room added to. Click on the Groups icon
 in the top navigation bar.
Step 4. If you click on 'See all the groups on this server' you will be shown a list of groups on your server.
Click on the group you would like to edit.
Step 5. To create a new room, enter the room name in the 'Add a Room to Group' field and select 'Add'.
 HINT: ParaChat
room names must begin with the "#" symbol to be recognized by the server.
By default, the "#" symbol is auto-filled in the Add a Room to Group field.
Step 6. You will see that your room has been created. To complete this creation process, you must now customize
your new room settings. To customize your new room, click on the new roomname link. In the example below
you would click on 'Edit #Test_Room.'
Step 7. You will arrive at the Room Parameters page for the ParaChat room you are creating (see image below).
There are 9 input fields on the Room Parameters page. A description of each follows:
1. Room Name:
This is the name of the room
2. Title:
For internal use only, and is not required. The title you place here
will appear along with the ParaChat room name on the "View currently active
rooms" list that is linked from the Main Menu page. It will not appear
in the ParaChat Room itself
3. Topic:
Enter the topic or greeting for the chat room. The topic you enter here will
appear each time a user logs into the chat room. You will have an opportunity
to change this later, or from the ParaChat room itself using the GUI Admin
Console or admin commands. This field is not required and will overwrite your Group
Topic setting.
3. Admin user(s):
Enter the user name(s) of the Room Admin user. You may enter multiple
names here separated only by a comma. There is no need to place a
comma and a space between Admin user names, just a comma. If you
leave this field blank, only the Server Admin User will have admin powers
in this room.
HINT: Room
Admin user names should be password protected. If you list a user
name(s) in this field, it is suggested that you create a User Profile for
each user. If you do not create a User Profile for an Admin name,
any person who logs into the chat room using that Admin name will have
admin privileges in the room. Instructions for creating User Profiles.
4. Banned IPs:
You may manually add user IP addresses in this location
that you wish to ban from the chat room. User IP addresses that are
banned by the Admin user from the chat room (via the GUI Admin Console,
or using admin user commands) will appear in this list. IP addresses
should be separated by a comma only, and not a comma and a space.
If you wish to remove an IP address that is on the list, simply highlight
the IP address and delete it, remembering not to leave 2 commas separating
any remaining IP addresses. You do not need to add data to this field
during room creation.
HINT:
When an IP address appears on this list (i.e. 111.222.333.444), any user who attempts to
access your ParaChat room from the IP address will be prevented from doing so. If a Class
C IP address is banned (i.e. 111.222.333), any user whose IP address contains the Class C
range will be prevented from entering. In extreme cases, you may also ban users from entire
ISPs by adding the Class B range (i.e. 111.222) of an IP address, or even the Class A range
(i.e. 111) of an IP address to your list of IP addresses. Be aware that you when you add the
Class B and Class A ranges, you are preventing a great number of potential users from
accessing your ParaChat room.
5. Allowed URLs:
ParaChat's unique URL enforcement system allows you to limit the way applet
code for a particular room can be distributed onto other web pages on the
Internet. By indicating the EXACT URL(s) where you wish your room
HTML applet code to run, you may limit people from taking the code from
your HTML and running your chat room on their own web page without your
permission. List all URLs where you wish to run your applet code
in this field.
HINT: It
is important to note that users sometimes access domains with out the www
suffix
before your domain name. Therefore, if your chat page is
http://www.domain-name.com/chat.html,
you may also wish to include
http://domain-name.com/chat.html
- without the www suffix - as an allowed URL. It is
best to use the complete URL structure here, so be certain to include the
http://
as well. It is also important to note that if you designate an allowed
URL as http://www.domain-name.com,
for example, the server will permit the ParaChat room to run on any web
page within that domain, and not just on a specific page within that domain.
6. Enforce URLs:
ParaChat Server will enforce the URLs you provide for each room by either:
- allow - allows all user connections regardless of URL
- warn - warns users that a ParaChat room is running on a web page that is not allowed
- deny - prevents a connection to the chat server from URLs not indicated as allowed
Users
will still be able to connect with the URL enforcement set to both
allow
and
warn. However, an Imposter Room server message will appear
in the room if the Enforce URLs is set to warn, and a page is running on
a disallowed web page.
HINT: The
default URL enforcement for ParaChat Server is warn.
This configuration can be easily changed in the server configuration file
(\ParaChat\ParaChat450\config\pchatd) to either allow
or deny.
Each room that you create will always use the servers default URL enforcement.
You may configure the room to a URL enforcement setting other than the
server default using this pull-down menu.
7. Profanity Filter:
- True: text in rooms within this group will be filtered for profanity using the words in the profanity filter
- False: text in rooms within this group will not be filtered for profanity
HINT:
ParaChat Server's profanity filter is pre-populated with a select listing of words. To edit,
add, or delete words from the list, click the Server icon at the top of the Administration Pages,
and select "Edit Language Filter / Profanity Filter"
8. Timestamp Every Message in Transcripts:
If you wish to enable a timestamp on every message written to a transcript, select true in the pull-down menu.
HINT:
It is important to note that this feature operates independently of the timestamp
feature in the chat window. You must set this value to true to add a timestamp to
a chat transcript. Turning on the timestamp feature in your ParaChat room's Control
Panel will not turn on a timestamp for your chat transcript.
9. Home URL:
For internal use only, and not required. Place the home domain name
of the ParaChat room if applicable as a point of reference if the Allowed
URLs reside on a different domain.
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in
the top navigation bar. You will be brought to the group admin page.
