Chat Blazer Gold

Installation - On a server located at your premises

Go to the next page if you are not intending to install the software on your local machine.

There are basically three steps to the entire installation process. First of all, a little bit on the definition of "installation". By the term "installation", we mean that all the necessary files are transferred/moved to a directory on the machine. It does not cover the starting up or execution of the Chat Gold server of clients.

Installation Steps:

1. Unzipping of the downloaded package to a directory on your machine.
2. Transferring the files to the machine that is going to run the Chat Blazer Gold server.
3. Check if the files are transferred or moved correctly to the target machine.

This section of the Installation process assumes that the machine running the Chat Blazer Gold server is located within your area of work or office location. Hence, you will not require the use of telnet. However, if the machines in your office are linked by a network, you may still FTP (File Transfer Protocol) to the target machine, though it is not necessary. Telnet is an utility where you are able to execute commands on a remote machine some distance away.

One common FTP program is WS_FTP which you can search for in www.download.com.

Step I - Unzipping of the downloaded package

The aim of Step I is to unzip the software package into a directory on a machine. The machine can ultimately be the target machine that will run the chat server or on another one that is not going to run your Chat Blazer evaluation server.

1. Create an empty directory (e.g. /chat) on your hard disk to store the files which will be unzipped from the software package. Windows users can run the Explorer to create a directory. Unix users can do a "mkdir [directory name]" command.
2. Move the downloaded Chat Blazer Gold software package (cbdemo1.zip or cbdemo1.tar.gz) into the newly created directory.
3. Launch an Unzip utility (such as Winzip, PKZip, gunzip). Unix users should be able to run the utility "gunzip [filename]" or "unzip [filename]".
4. For Windows users, please select all the files within the unzip utility and extract it to the newly created directory in step 1. For Unix users, your files should already be extracted from your command in the previous sub-steps.
5. Check the file listing of the new directory. It should contain the files as stated in the Software Package description.

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Step II - Transferring files

Before you proceed, you should have checked that all the files as stated in the Software Package description are in the newly created directory.

The aim of this step is to transfer the files to the machine which you are going to test the Chat Blazer software. You may test the software on any machine. This Step simply provides you with advice on how to transfer the files to your target machine.

Since your machine is located in your premises, you do not have to use the FTP method of transferring files. Most of the time, webmasters, simply transfer the files over by diskette to the target machine or by doing a Network Drive mapping.

However, if you intend to test out the software on the same machine which you had unzipped the software package, then you may proceed to Step III (for UNIX users only).

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Step III - Verification (For UNIX users only)

After you have unzipped the files to your target machine (which can be the same machine that received the download Chat Blazer software package), you need to verify that the files retain the same naming and casings. This Step is relevant only for UNIX users. You need to check that the list of files described in the Software Package have retained their casings and correct filenames. One common fault is that the Operating Systems automatically truncate the filename to 8.3 (DOS) format.

The list of files are found in the Software Package documentation

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