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Submitted by Scartaris on April 11, 2008 - 3:19pm.

With the permission of the RP Haven staff, I have set up a chat room for RP Haven on a server I administer. Instructions are below, but if you have any questions, feel free to ask.

Create an account Pidgin
  1. Select menu item Accounts->Manage
  • Click the Add button
    • Protocol: XMPP
    • Screen name: Your character's name
    • Domain: mortshire.org
    • Resource: Home
    • Password: Choose a password
    • Local Alias: [Your character's name]@mortshire.org (or whatever you like)
    • Remember password: checked (or not, if you prefer)
    • Use this buddy for this account (up to you; must be 65x65 and less than 8 KB)
    • Create this account on the server: Checked.
    • Click the Save button
    • NOTE:  If the account already exists on the server, but is not already set up in Pidgin, you do need to add it to Pidgin, but you can un-check "Create this account".
    • Select menu item Accounts
    • Make sure the account is "enabled"

      • Create acount in Pidgin

      Web interface
      1. In Firefox, go to https://www.mortshire.org/jwc/
        • Username: Your character's name
      2. Password: Choose a password
      3. Register new account: Checked
      4. Click the Login button
        5. Log in Pidgin
        1. Select menu item Buddies->Add Chat
          • Account: (account you created above)
        2. Room: Haven
        3. Server: conference.mortshire.org
        4. Handle: (account you created above)
        5. Password: RP
        6. Alias: RP Haven (or whatever you like)
        7. Group: World Of Warcraft (or whatever you like)
        8. Click the Add button

          9. Join chat in Pidgin

          Web interface
          1. In Firefox, go to https://www.mortshire.org/jwc/
            • Username: Your character's name
          2. Password: Choose a password
          3. Register new account: Not checked
          4. Click the Login button
          5. At the bottom left, click the icon of three people standing (tooltip: "Join Groupchat").
            • Nickname: (account you created above)
            • Room: Haven
            • Server: conference.mortshire.org
            • Password: RP
            • NOTE: If you type in the wrong user password, you will get "Authorization failed". If you type in the wrong chat room password, you will get an empty chat room, but no error message.

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              ‹ Mortshire chat server down for maintenace We are having technical difficulties... ›
              Scartaris's picture

              (( I overlooked a couple of

              Submitted by Scartaris on April 11, 2008 - 8:19pm.

              (( I overlooked a couple of settings, and have added them to the instructions. Please let me know if you have trouble creating an account or logging in! ))

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              it is still a beautiful world.

              Inokentei's picture

              So... let's start at the

              Submitted by Inokentei on April 12, 2008 - 1:29am.

              So... let's start at the beginning. Then go to the middle. Then go to the end. The instructions you gave don't really seem to support the correct order of doing things... or getting from A-to-B-to-C ...etc. I made an account on the mortshire.org and it gave me a random chatroom that served no purpose and had no options...

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              Scartaris's picture

              ((Did you follow the

              Submitted by Scartaris on April 12, 2008 - 8:50am.

              ((

              Did you follow the instructions? Beginning: create an account. Middle: log into the chat room. End: Chat!

              If the instructions are unclear, please let me know which step you did not understand, or at which you did not see what you expected to see on-screen.

              ))

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              With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
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              Artisania's picture

               When you register an

              Submitted by Artisania on April 12, 2008 - 8:11am.

               When you register an account, you get a sort of splash-room that says "Welcome to Mortshire.org."  This is NOT a chat room.  After making an account, follow the above instructions to actually join the Haven chatroom.

               

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              The Haven Moderator formerly known as Lorith.

              Scartaris's picture

              ((Ah, I see. That's not a

              Submitted by Scartaris on April 12, 2008 - 8:49am.

              ((

              Ah, I see. That's not a chat room. That is a private message from the chat server to you, welcoming you. Think of it like a /whisper in WOW.

              You can, in fact, chat with anyone else also logged into the server, privately, this way.

              ))

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              Noctifer's picture

              I'm unstickying this one,

              Submitted by Noctifer on May 6, 2008 - 7:17am.

              I'm unstickying this one, but its now directly available from the "chat" selection in the horizontal menu at the top.

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              Carpe Arrpeedem

              Scartaris's picture

              ((Neat!)) -- With all its

              Submitted by Scartaris on May 6, 2008 - 8:48am.

              ((

              Neat!

              ))

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              it is still a beautiful world.

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              mortshire.org will be OFFLINE for most of 2008-05-20

              Submitted by Scartaris on May 19, 2008 - 5:41pm.

              ((

              mortshire.org will be OFFLINE for most of 2008-05-20

              The good news is that the pipe into the building is being upgraded. The bad news is that they have to unplug things to do it.

              The server should be offline for a couple of hours, at most.

              ))

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              With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
              it is still a beautiful world.

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              UPDATE: mortshire.org will be OFFLINE the morning of 2008-05-22

              Submitted by Scartaris on May 20, 2008 - 2:18pm.

              ((

              UPDATE: mortshire.org will be OFFLINE the morning of 2008-05-22

              The network upgrade was rescheduled.

              ))

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              With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
              it is still a beautiful world.

              Ahtail's picture

              Is the chat room still

              Submitted by Ahtail on July 7, 2008 - 11:11pm.

              Is the chat room still working?  I haven't been able to log into it using the web interface.

              I am also having problems

              Submitted by Moriurya on September 25, 2008 - 7:30pm.

              I am also having problems with the system. I hope I am not missing any conversations! Hopefully people are actually using the in game channel so that people can still stay in touch easy. I would be upset to see the live chat die.

              We -could- make a chatroom through www.meebo.com that would be easy to access but still has a password. That would be cool I think if the chat stops working.

              <a href="http://wow.magelo.com/profile/51856" target="_blank"><img src="http://wow.sig.magelo.com/51856" border="0" /></a>

              Scartaris's picture

              problems with the chat room

              Submitted by Scartaris on September 25, 2008 - 10:16pm.

              ((

              You are having problems? I am in it all day, every day, and lots of people log in with the web interface.

              Are you using Firefox 3 on a Mac, by any chance? There appears to be some wrinkle in that specific combonagtion that has caused a few people some difficulty. Tell me what your set up and what happens when you try to log in, and I will try to help.

              ))

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              With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
              it is still a beautiful world.

              Aelu's picture

              ((Concurred. Firefox 3 is

              Submitted by Aelu on September 26, 2008 - 7:12am.

              ((

              Concurred. Firefox 3 is wholly borked with the web interface. The only solution I've found is to go back to 2.0

              ))

              Shaleigh's picture

              ((ewwwwwwww *grumbles*

              Submitted by Shaleigh on November 17, 2008 - 3:16pm.

              ((ewwwwwwww *grumbles* sad...))

              Scartaris's picture

              ((Has anyone tried Firefox

              Submitted by Scartaris on November 17, 2008 - 4:13pm.

              ((

              Has anyone tried Firefox 3.04 with the Mac? It might work now.

              And please note that Firefox 3 on the Mac is the only one that had problems, as far as I know.

              ))

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              With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
              it is still a beautiful world.

              Arnora's picture

              Sadly, it does not.

              Submitted by Arnora on November 18, 2008 - 6:46am.

              Sadly, it does not.

              Scartaris's picture

              ((Due to unforeseen

              Submitted by Scartaris on November 20, 2008 - 6:09pm.

              ((

              Due to unforeseen circusmtances, the RP Haven chat room will be unavailable until 2008-11-26.

              I apologize for the inconvenience.

              ))

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              With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
              it is still a beautiful world.

              Mandy's picture

              (( What's the difference

              Submitted by Mandy on December 8, 2008 - 7:32am.

              (( What's the difference between a Mac and Mac OS X?

              The laptop I had the haven and hart chat running on died, and the room that the other windows computer is in is occupied. So.... yeah. All that is left is my Mac, and I can't figure out how to download the progam onto it. :-/ ))

              Mandy's picture

              ((*facepalm* Okay, so I am

              Submitted by Mandy on December 8, 2008 - 8:37am.

              ((*facepalm* Okay, so I am guessing that my Mac is a Mac OS X since I figured out how to get to the 'about this Mac' option and saw that is what it is calling itself.

              But the rest of my question still remains! lol))

              Scartaris's picture

              I wish I could help

              Submitted by Scartaris on December 10, 2008 - 10:54am.

              ((

              I wish I could help, but I am not a Mac person. However, Adium may be what you want.

              http://trac.adiumx.com/wiki/AboutAdium

              I do not know if it supports multi-user chat (aka "MUC", or, as we humans like to call them, chat rooms). Not every XMPP client does, unfortunately.

              ))

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              With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
              it is still a beautiful world.

              Kolja's picture

              Yeah, Adium works pretty

              Submitted by Kolja on December 10, 2008 - 11:22am.

              Yeah, Adium works pretty well for chatrooming. I use it too, at home. The configuration is a little different from Pidgin's. I'm sure you'll figure it out.

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              The Future is full of beautiful unmade mistakes. ~Abe

              Scartaris's picture

              Chat will be offline 2008-12-10

              Submitted by Scartaris on December 10, 2008 - 10:56am.

              ((

              Over the next few days, I will be performing some upgrades to the server which hosts the Haven chat room. The first phase of that will be this evening, from 18:00 eastern US time until around 20:00. The chat server may be unavailable during this time. If you have any questions, please post them here.

              ))

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              With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
              it is still a beautiful world.

              Engl's picture

              Mandy, I use Adium at home

              Submitted by Engl on December 10, 2008 - 11:05am.

              Mandy,

               

              I use Adium at home on my Mac. the website tells you how to install. Once you have it installed and you add the mortshire.org account you have to go up to "Join Chat" fill in the blanks. Haven has to be haven and the passwor RP. If I captialize Haven It won't let me in.

              Scartaris's picture

              ((The upgrade is taking

              Submitted by Scartaris on December 11, 2008 - 7:03pm.

              ((

              The upgrade is taking longer than I anticipated. I shall keep you posted on my progress.

              ))

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              With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
              it is still a beautiful world.

              Scartaris's picture

              ((The chat server is back

              Submitted by Scartaris on December 13, 2008 - 10:34am.

              ((

              The chat server is back up. I am still working on the web interface, but Pidgin or Adium should work fine..

              ))

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              With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
              it is still a beautiful world.

              Scartaris's picture

              ((The web interface appears

              Submitted by Scartaris on December 13, 2008 - 10:52am.

              ((

              The web interface appears to be working now (even in Firefox 3, at least in Windows XP). Please let me know if you have any problems.

              ))

              --
              With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
              it is still a beautiful world.

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              ((I just tried to join via

              Submitted by Lirriel on December 13, 2008 - 12:08pm.

              ((I just tried to join via pidgin and got "404: Remote Server Not Found." Dunno if I did something wrong or what.))

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              Horde alts: Linnadia, Cordanna

              Scartaris's picture

              ((Try again, please?)) --

              Submitted by Scartaris on December 13, 2008 - 4:49pm.

              ((

              Try again, please?

              ))

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              With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
              it is still a beautiful world.

              Lirriel's picture

              ((Still getting the 404

              Submitted by Lirriel on December 14, 2008 - 8:01pm.

              ((Still getting the 404 error. Dunno what I did/dind't do. I may delete and try again.))

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              Alt chars: Camyra, Vyana, Dzintra, Lormar

              Horde alts: Linnadia, Cordanna

              Scartaris's picture

              ((What URL is in the address

              Submitted by Scartaris on December 14, 2008 - 8:03pm.

              ((

              You see a 404 when using Pidgin? I do not understand how that is possible.

              ))

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              With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
              it is still a beautiful world.

              Scartaris's picture

              Firefox breaks web chat

              Submitted by Scartaris on February 25, 2009 - 11:46am.

              ((

              It would appear that the recent version of Firefox breaks http polling, which is how the web chat interface talks to the chat server.

              http://blog.jwchat.org/2009/02/10/firefox-306-not-able-to-read-cookie-breaks-muckljwchat-with-http-polling/

              I am looking into a fix.

              ))

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              With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
              it is still a beautiful world.

              {{ **cries** Well, time to

              Submitted by Harrigan on February 25, 2009 - 11:52am.

              {{

              **cries**

              Well, time to roll back.

              }}

              Scartaris's picture

              (( Fixed! )) -- With all

              Submitted by Scartaris on February 25, 2009 - 1:39pm.

              ((

              Fixed!

              ))

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              With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
              it is still a beautiful world.

              Celise's picture

              (( It's been a while since

              Submitted by Celise on July 17, 2009 - 2:22pm.

              ((

              It's been a while since I've fired up Pigin.  Where's the Haven chat room lately, its name, and do I need a password, etc?

              ))

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              Scartaris's picture

              It hasn't changed

              Submitted by Scartaris on July 18, 2009 - 9:52am.

              (( It hasn't changed from what you see above. ))

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              Celise's picture

              (( Thanks. :)  All that

              Submitted by Celise on July 19, 2009 - 10:50pm.

              ((

              Thanks. :)  All that was missing was the PW.  Thanks for your response.  :)

              ))

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              "I want to hurt you just to hear you screaming my name..." - Tarja -

              Scartaris's picture

              Now available via https!

              Submitted by Scartaris on August 16, 2009 - 7:49pm.

              ((

              The web interface is now available via https. The http interface is still available, but I urge you to use the https URL instead.

              ))

              --
              With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
              it is still a beautiful world.

              Celise's picture

              (( I dusted off Pidgin, and

              Submitted by Celise on December 5, 2009 - 6:21am.

              Edit:  Ignore this.  I'm up too early and just read that maintenance was being done.  :D

               

              ((

              I dusted off Pidgin, and can't get in.  Prolly something on my end?

              "Unable to find alternative XMPP connection methods after failing to connect directly."

              I don't see any messages from my firewall, but Ima have a look at it.

              ))

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