Installing MOHA Chat

Pre-requisities

Required software are :

• Apache Web server with PHP 5.x or higher. (PHP 5.1 or above is recommended)
• A MySQL server, 4.1.0 or higher.

Web installer

If you have extracted the source into your document root, direct your browser to <root of MOHA Chat Installation>/installer/ and follow the simple instructions.

Post installation

Please remember to give write access to the cache folder /cache for the web server user, or some of the plug-ins will not work (Plug-ins are unable to cache content they retrieved from external servers).

Try this command from inside MOHA Chat root. chmod 777 cache/

Manual installation

Creating Database tables

WARNING - REMEMBER: ALWAYS BACK UP YOUR DATABASE BEFORE ATTEMPTING TO INSTALL OR UPGRADE!!!

Run the queries in <MOHA Chat Source>/dist/dbScript.sql on the database you wish to create the tables required to run MOHA Chat. (See Setting up the database)

Configuring MOHA Chat

Rename <MOHA Chat Source>/config/configuration.php-dist to <MOHA Chat Source>/config/configuration.php

Now set the parameters in <MOHA Chat Source>/config/configuration.php

Sample Configuration File Contents

<?php

   /**
    * Database connection information
    *
    */
   $databaseHost      = "localhost";
   $databaseName      = "chat";
   $databaseUser      = "root";
   $databasePassword   = "";

   $usersTable         = "users";
   $usernameField      = "UID";
   $passwordField      = "PW";

   // Title
   $title            = "MOHA Chat";

   /**
    * Links required to redirect users
    *
    */
   $forgotPasswordLink   = "/login/forgot";
   $registerLink      = "/signup";
   $loginLink         = "login/";

   // All messages will be archived if set to true
   $archive         = true;

   $tablePrefix       = "mh_ch_";

   /**
    * Passowrd Algorithm to use, even a custom function would do,
    * but PWSecurity cryptPW should be aware
    */
   $pwAlgo          = "md5";

?>

Post installation

Please remember to give write access to the cache folder /cache for the web server user, or some of the plug-ins will not work (Plug-ins are unable to cache content they retrieved from external servers).

Try this command from inside MOHA Chat root. chmod 777 cache/

Congratulations! You have MOHA Chat Installed on your server/system

With your web browser go to the root of MOHA Chat Installation

Last modified on Monday, 12th February 2007