Installing Minichat on Your Website

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Instructions:

We have made Minichat available to demonstrate new projects we are working on, to run some tests, and collect your opinions. The feedback we’ve recieved has exceeded our expectations. The most common question was: Can I/how can I install this on my website?

Installing Minichat on your website is very simple so I am providing instructions here for all of you that want to include the Minichat client on your website and allow visitors to chat with you.

Just to remind you - this code is under development and will be updated and changed frequently. It may even stop working temporarily or permanently. We can and will intentionally block certain users or IP addresses if we discover any abuse. If you are ready for this and still want to use it continue reading…​

First thing to know: Minichat will only work with the tigase.org XMPP server right now. This is not because of some limitations in the code or special non-standard implementation. This is to simplify deployment of the service. If you wanted Minichat to connect to a different domain or XMPP server the installation would be much more difficult, involving Apaches proxy mod installation, configuration and possibly Bosh component/server deployment.

Second thing to know: Minichat connects to the server as anonymous user. To avoid sending spam the anonymous user can only send messages to users within the XMPP server. It means that although you can configure Minichat to send messages to user@jabber.org, Tigase server won’t deliver those messages.