testing the Jappix package from mentors
Hi Philippe,
I've just tested your Jappix package from mentors
My testing is biased: I already had ejabberd running and I had already
used BOSH to integrate with the Candy chat client so my server was able
to run Jappix very quickly. It took me all of about 5 minutes to get it
going.
So far, I feel the Jappix chat client is more reliable for both group
chat and private chat than the Candy client. The Candy client would get
into a bad state after trying to start any private chat.
It was very easy for me to just disable the stuff in
/etc/apache2/conf.d/jappix.conf and set it up in a virtual host. In my
Apache2 virtual host, I used the following to force it to work with my
ejabberd:
RewriteEngine On
# for Candy:
RewriteRule ^/example/http-bind/ http://ejabberd-host:5280/http-bind/ [P]
# for Jappix:
RewriteRule ^/http-bind http://ejabberd-host:5280/http-bind/ [P]
Various issues:
- I feel there are a lot of options in the Jappix setup wizard. People
not familiar with Jabber may not know all the server names they need to
insert and the guesses are not going to be correct for a high percentage
of users. This is an issue for upstream to improve.
- the user login form: there should be an easy way to customize it, many
people will just want the user logged in anonymously, without the full
form. Candy has various login modes, in one case, it just asks the user
to choose a nick name.
- at one point, my Firefox test login dropped out of the chat session
with "Internal server error" but it was happy to log in again 5 seconds
later and showed the missed messages
- I don't think the setup wizard should appear the first time somebody
browses to the page: the admin password should be set during
installation perhaps. With Drupal, it is necessary to browse to
install.php to force the setup wizard to run, so random visitors don't
start Drupal setup by accident. This is not highly secure either, but
it removes some risk of random chance.
- Please add a README.Debian
- if you can, include something in README.Debian about how people can
integrate Jappix into their existing web site
- it would be particularly interesting if you provide, under
/usr/share/doc/jappix some sample ejabberd.cfg or a diff from the
default Debian ejabberd.cfg - I had to enable the mod_http_bind module,
declare a new domain for my anonymous web users and then declare that
http_bind was permitted for that domain.
- when I installed the .deb package, it tries to restart apache although
I have apache2, so it gives an error:
[ ok ] Reloading web server config: apache2.
Setting up jappix (0.9.8+dfsg-1) ...
invoke-rc.d: unknown initscript, /etc/init.d/apache not found.
[ ok ] Reloading web server config: apache2.
- the font you mentioned in an earlier email - is there any reason it
couldn't be listed in a separate source package in your control file?
Regards,
Daniel
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