cgiirc-general — General Help and Discussion

[cgiirc-general] acess from other site

[Waldir P. <wa...@em...>]

hello, i am from portuguese wikipedia and we were creating a webchat
interface for our irc channel, #wikipedia-pt hosted on irc.freenode.net.

the page is http://wiki-chat-pt.awardspace.com, and it tries to use the irc
chat located at http://chat.wikizine.org (this is meant to be temporary, we
will host our own cgiirc chat soon)

it doesnt work, though, so my question is: why doesnt it work (would it be
because we are trying to access it from another site?), and how could we
make it work.

thanks in advance,

waldir

[cgiirc-general] irc.cgi wont start

[Jason <or...@gm...>]

http://gorgeworld.com/cgi-bin/gwcirc/irc.cgi

I have installed cgiirc into the cgi-bin for my apache2 server, and given it
world executable privileges.  It appears to be set up correctly, and tries
to run, then gives 500: Internal server error.

salvati0n[/www/cgi-bin/gwcirc]# perl irc.cgi
warnings.pm did not return a true value at irc.cgi line 26.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at irc.cgi line 26.

Line 26:
no warnings 'uninitialized';


salvati0n[/www/cgi-bin/gwcirc]# perl -v

This is perl, version 5.005_03 built for i386-freebsd



Im assuming the problem is a variable or format that this version of perl
does not understand.  Does anyone have a quick fix?  Thanks in advance!





     _jason


-- 

____________________________
property of orbsucks.com (c) 2007

[cgiirc-general] 500 Internal server error

[<je...@ag...>]

Hi, I've been using cgiirc for a couple of years on a linux server,
now I had to change servers, and I tried to install it on another
linux server.

But I can't get it to work, and I'm running out of ideas.

The apache log says like this:

[Tue Jan 16 12:57:46 2007] [error] Can't locate parse.pl in @INC (@INC
contains: modules interfaces /home/httpd/perl /etc/perl
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i686-linux
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.7/i686-linux
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.7
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/i686-linux
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/i686-linux
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/i686-linux
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/i686-linux
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/i686-linux
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i686-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8
/usr/local/lib/site_perl . /usr/lib/apache2) at
/var/www/localhost/cgi-bin/cgiirc-0.5.9/irc.cgi line 34.\n

This is the contents of the cgiirc directory:
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root  4096 Jan 16 12:47 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root  4096 Jan 16 12:46 ..
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root   105 Jan 16 12:46 .htaccess
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1109 Jan 16 12:47 cgiirc.config
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1117 Jan 16 12:46 cgiirc.config~
-rwxr-xr-x 2 root root  2377 Jan 16 12:46 client-perl.cgi
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root  5141 Jan 16 12:46 client.c
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Jan 16 12:46 formats
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root  4096 Jan 16 12:46 images
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root  4096 Jan 16 12:46 interfaces
-rwxr-xr-x 2 root root  7747 Jan 16 12:46 irc.cgi
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root  4096 Jan 16 12:46 modules
-rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 37832 Jan 16 12:46 nph-irc.cgi

This is the modules directory:
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jan 16 12:46 .
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Jan 16 12:47 ..
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root   14 Jan 16 12:46 .htaccess
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 8277 Jan 16 12:46 Command.pm
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 2517 Jan 16 12:46 Event.pm
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jan 16 12:46 IRC
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 5110 Jan 16 12:46 IRC.pm
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 3151 Jan 16 12:46 Timer.pm
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 3351 Jan 16 12:46 parse.pl

And what I can see, the file parse.pl is located under the modules
directory, I've tried all kinds of permissions on the files, and even
try to move the parse.pl script to the same directory as irc.cgi.

The strange thing is that when I run the script from the shell, it
nicely prints out the html.

Could this have anything to do with mod-perl2 ?
That's the main change from my old server I think.

Any ideas?

   /Jesper

Re: [cgiirc-general] CGIIRC strange behaviour on installation

[David L. <dg...@dg...>]

Bob Bevins wrote:
[..]
> I can get the login screen. I set the nick, server and channel. I get the
> interface but that's it. If I type in the area it does nothing when I hit
> enter it says ":not connected to IRC. It actually logs into irc server
> because my other clients see's the nick. After four minutes or so, one time
> it came up ok and I typed one message and it showed up in channel but after
> that it did the same thing.
> 
> I need some guidance on where I should be looking for the troubles. 

It sounds like a web server issue to me, it could be because
something is causing buffering (e.g. mod_gzip, mod_deflate on
Apache). Try following the instructions on
http://cvs.cgiirc.org/wiki?p=StreamProblems to see if that can help.

David

[cgiirc-general] CGIIRC strange behaviour on installation

[Bob B. <bo...@vi...>]

I have giirc setup but it is not working properly. The ircd is setup and
working good. I can connect via mirc and other clients. I can even connect
via other cgiirc to my server.

 

My server is in my basement and I am trying to connect from same network not
behind NAT. It does work from outside on other cgiirc's but not on the local
one.

 

I can get the login screen. I set the nick, server and channel. I get the
interface but that's it. If I type in the area it does nothing when I hit
enter it says ":not connected to IRC. It actually logs into irc server
because my other clients see's the nick. After four minutes or so, one time
it came up ok and I typed one message and it showed up in channel but after
that it did the same thing.

 

I need some guidance on where I should be looking for the troubles. 

 

Thanks in advance,

 

Bob

Re: [cgiirc-general] [cgiirc] Same IP addresses

[David L. <dg...@dg...>]

On 2 Jun 2006, at 15:25, Maikel Urlitzki wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> i have a little problem with this great cgiirc. All ppl that  
> connects via this cgiirc to the irc server, have the same IP.
>
> If there are connecting 4 ppl to the server, the fifth can not  
> connect because only four ppl wit same ip are allowed.
>
> Anybody knows why this is ever the same IP address? How can use  
> each ppl his own IP address?
This is just how CGI:IRC works, the connection will appear to come  
from the server as that is where CGI:IRC is running.

See http://cvs.cgiirc.org/wiki?p=FrequentlyAskedQuestions

David

[cgiirc-general] [cgiirc] Same IP addresses

[Maikel U. <ma...@in...>]

Hello list,

=20

i have a little problem with this great cgiirc. All ppl that connects =
via this cgiirc to the irc server, have the same IP.=20

=20

If there are connecting 4 ppl to the server, the fifth can not connect =
because only four ppl wit same ip are allowed.

=20

Anybody knows why this is ever the same IP address? How can use each ppl =
his own IP address?

=20

Thanks for helping.

=20

Mit freundlichem Gru=DF

Maikel Urlitzki

Industrie Tycoon

 <http://www.industrie-tycoon.de> www.industrie-tycoon.de

=20

Re: [cgiirc-general] Default username/password for Debian package?

[Adam G. <ada...@re...>]

Ahhhh, I needed an htpasswd file in /etc/apache2.

Run "htpasswd -c htpasswd <username> <password>"
Copy htpasswd to /etc/apache2

-adam

Adam Gordon wrote:
> Hi, I just installed the program via the debian package provided by 
> the website (not via apt-get) and I think I have cgi-bin setup 
> correctly in apache but I get a login prompt when I visit the 
> client.cgi URL.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -- adam
>
> _______________________________________________
> cgiirc-general mailing list
> cgi...@li...
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cgiirc-general

[cgiirc-general] Default username/password for Debian package?

[Adam G. <ada...@re...>]

Hi, I just installed the program via the debian package provided by the 
website (not via apt-get) and I think I have cgi-bin setup correctly in 
apache but I get a login prompt when I visit the client.cgi URL.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

-- adam

[cgiirc-general] Re: Beyond browser-specific interfaces?

[Giuseppe B. <bil...@ho...>]

On Mon, 22 May 2006 18:28:00 +0200, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:

> I'm looking for a cross-platform JavaScript to play/pause/stop sounds. 
> 
> In the mean time, I suggest the ie template be updated to change
> 
> if (sound) sound.play();
> 
> into
> 
> if (sound) { if(sound.play) sound.play() }
> 
> to make the script work without fail in all browsers. Further possible
> enhancements consists in adding the attribute enablejavascript="true"
> to the <embed> elements, and use width=0 height=0 instead of
> hidden="true".

Addendum: running small tests here I discovered that using
sound.dispatchEvent("play") seems to play the sound file of a
nonhidden embed element both in Opera and in Mozilla SeaMonkey. So if
the suggested changes are done to <embed> elements, chaning

if (sound) sound.play()

into

if (sound) {
 if (sound.play)
  sound.play() ;
 else
  sound.dispatchEvent("play") ;
}

is more likely to work in a wider range of setups.

-- 
Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

"I weep for our generation" -- Charlie Brown

[cgiirc-general] Beyond browser-specific interfaces?

[Giuseppe B. <bil...@ho...>]

Hello,

CGI:IRC is really an amazing piece of software, and I've started using 
it to provide quicklinks from the fora I follow to the respective IRC 
channel.

To speed up connection, I set up the links in such a way that the 
"custom login" form is bypassed, with all settings already assigned in 
the link (nickname, channel, charset, etc ... btw, is there a way to 
set the Username?).

The one particular thing I'm doing is to bypass browser detection and 
just use interface=ie. The reason for this is that I found that this 
interface is the most complete one and it works "almost" perfectly 
also in Mozilla (SeaMonkey and Firefox) and in Opera. I haven't tested 
it in Konqueror or Safari yet, but given the speed at which these 
browsers progress I wouldn't be surprised they'll soon be able to cope 
with it without hassles.

In fact, with the limited testing I've given to the various 
interfaces, I found ie to be the one that works best with Opera and 
SeaMonkey, even better than the 'specific' ones (at least with the 
versions of the browsers I'm using, very recent even if not 
bleeding-edge).

So I was wondering if it was worth to just fix the minor glitches in 
the ie interface and give it as good for any recent browsers, and only 
use the other interfaces for the oldest versions. I think this would 
reduce maintenance cost.

Anyway, the crucial point of this email is that the biggest glitch 
I've found with the ie interface in Opera and Mozilla has been the 
sound playing. It "almost" work, in the sense that neither Opera nor 
Mozilla support the play() method for HTMLEmbedElement objects in 
JavaScript: this causes a JavaScript error that halts the script 
execution (so for example join messages are not seen).

I'm looking for a cross-platform JavaScript to play/pause/stop sounds. 

In the mean time, I suggest the ie template be updated to change

if (sound) sound.play();

into

if (sound) { if(sound.play) sound.play() }

to make the script work without fail in all browsers. Further possible
enhancements consists in adding the attribute enablejavascript="true"
to the <embed> elements, and use width=0 height=0 instead of
hidden="true".


-- 
Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain
a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty
nor safety." Benjamin Franklin

RE: [cgiirc-general] Re:

[<ola...@si...>]

HTTPS is my friend ! All work fine !
Thanks peter.


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Objet=A0: RE: [cgiirc-general] Re:

> There are some (very few I think) proxies that do not support
> streaming connections that CGI:IRC uses, there's not an easy solution
> to this at the moment as changing it would involve serious changes to
> CGI:IRC.
>
> David
there is a workaround but it will increase your server load and require
quite a bit of setup.

That workaround is to use https. Nearly all proxies are set up to allow =
http
connect to the standard https port and browsers that use them are set =
up to
make use of this feature. So if you use https pretty much all of the =
proxies
code is bypassed and it becomes a dumb tcp forwarder.

RE: [cgiirc-general] Re:

[peter g. <plu...@P1...>]

> There are some (very few I think) proxies that do not support
> streaming connections that CGI:IRC uses, there's not an easy solution
> to this at the moment as changing it would involve serious changes to
> CGI:IRC.
>
> David
there is a workaround but it will increase your server load and require
quite a bit of setup.

That workaround is to use https. Nearly all proxies are set up to allow http
connect to the standard https port and browsers that use them are set up to
make use of this feature. So if you use https pretty much all of the proxies
code is bypassed and it becomes a dumb tcp forwarder.

[cgiirc-general] Re:

[David L. <dg...@dg...>]

On 12 Apr 2006, at 10:43, ola...@si... wrote:
> I=92m having some problems with CGI-IRC =85 here it is:
>
> My CGI-IRC is installed on my home WEB server on a Fedora distro, =20
> It can access IRC on main port (6667), no matter.
>
> When I=92m connecting from a direct Internet Connection, it=92s able =
to =20
> connect to IRC server, all work fine.
>
> When I=92m trying to connect from my Work (behind a HTTP-Proxy), I =20
> can see the frames of my CGI-IRC, but the page status is still =20
> loading and I can=92t see the motd or any connect message. About 30s/=20=

> 1min, whole page is loading with all messages from connection, and =20
> a Disconnect message (normally due to Time Out).
>
> So I suppose that my proxies are waiting for a ready status of the =20
> page to send it to my browser =85 and the CGI-IRC keep a =93Loading =20=

> status=94 while connected =85.
>
> How can I solve that problem? Some CGI modification ? or is it fatal ?

There are some (very few I think) proxies that do not support =20
streaming connections that CGI:IRC uses, there's not an easy solution =20=

to this at the moment as changing it would involve serious changes to =20=

CGI:IRC.

David=

[cgiirc-general] Re: An error occurred: Connecting to IRC: Connection refused connecting to

[David L. <dg...@dg...>]

On 3 Apr 2006, at 12:47, ka...@ko... wrote:
> Hello,
>
> First of all excuse me for my english.
>
> when i try loging to an irc server i get this error:
>
> *** Welcome to CGI:IRC 0.5.7 (2005/06/19)
> *** Looking up irc.******.org>
> *** Connecting to irc.******.org [194.***.***.**] port 6667
> *** An error occurred: Connecting to IRC: Connection refused  
> connecting to
> 194.***.***.**:6667
>
> I've tried differents server but it's always the same error.
>
> Could anyone help me please?

It probably means your web host is blocking access to IRC, there's  
not much you can do (except get a new host..).

David

[cgiirc-general] Timing Out Update

[Travis T. <tra...@gm...>]

I had a few people email me about having the same problem. I was told by a
couple of people, including David himself that it was likely my host
blocking access to IRC. And in fact, it was. They even went to the extent o=
f
letting me know that if I kept the script installed, they would be
suspending my account.

Anyhow, I've been using a private portal on a friends hosting for about 3-4
years now as he has kept it updated for me. I no longer do I have access to
that due to him canceling his account. Not sure if I'm supposed to do this
on this mailing list, but if anyone has a link to one I can use, or if they
would be nice enough to let me have private access, I would be more than
happy to cover the expense of the bandwidth I use if necessary.

   Thank you for the help,

          -Travis T.

[cgiirc-general] An error occurred: Connecting to IRC: Connection refused connecting to

[christophe f. <fic...@ho...>]

Hello,

First of all excuse me for my english.

when i try loging to an irc server i get this error:

*** Welcome to CGI:IRC 0.5.7 (2005/06/19)
*** Looking up irc.******.org>
*** Connecting to irc.******.org [194.***.***.**] port 6667
*** An error occurred: Connecting to IRC: Connection refused connecting to
194.***.***.**:6667

I've tried differents server but it's always the same error.

Could anyone help me please?

Re: [cgiirc-general] Timing Out

[David L. <dg...@dg...>]

On 6 Apr 2006, at 17:01, Travis Tracy wrote:
> Hello,
>
>     The CGI:IRC script I have installed (http:// 
> www.techreadysolutions.com/irc/irc.cgi ) is giving me problems. I  
> understand the images don't work, I haven't set it up. But I am  
> confused as to why my script continues to time out. Is there  
> something in the configuration that would be holding it back? What  
> are the reasons for it doing that? GameSurge is a large network, so  
> I can't imagine that it would be on the network side.
It's most likely your hosting provider firewalling access to IRC, not  
much you can do about it apart from asking them..

David

[cgiirc-general] Timing Out

[Travis T. <tra...@gm...>]

Hello,

    The CGI:IRC script I have installed (
http://www.techreadysolutions.com/irc/irc.cgi) is giving me problems. I
understand the images don't work, I haven't set it up. But I am confused as
to why my script continues to time out. Is there something in the
configuration that would be holding it back? What are the reasons for it
doing that? GameSurge is a large network, so I can't imagine that it would
be on the network side.



   Thanks,

          -Travis T.

[cgiirc-general] Bug on webpage

[Fabian S. <fab...@we...>]

Hello,

i've found something on the webpage where i'm not sure if it is a bug
or wanted.
If you click on "Docs index" in the main menu on the right you get to a
list of links, including a link named "Customising".
The same time a submenu called "Documentation" appears below the main
menu on the right. In this submenu, the link called "Customising" is
not listed.

Best regards,

Fabian Stelter

Re: [cgiirc-general] showing users Ip not shell

[David L. <dg...@dg...>]

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On 19 Feb 2006, at 23:42, Dale wrote:
> On Feb 19, 2006, at 17:59 , Name 141 wrote:
>
>> how do i make it show the users ip, not my shell IP ?
>>
>> i've tried to thurn on "realhost_as_password = 1" and it still  
>> didn't work.  i'm using unreal3.2 latest release as an IRCd.
>
> The ircd module required for this feature doesn't work with 3.2.4  
> so you either don't support it, drop back to v3.2.3 or live with it  
> not working.

[snip rants]

There should be support for CGI:IRC in an upcoming version of Unreal,  
without needing any external modules.

(You could try the UnrealIRCD CVS right now if you want support for  
it without having to downgrade to 3.2.3, but I wouldn't expect anyone  
to support you with that ;) ).

Big thanks to Syzop for writing the support :)

David
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Re: [cgiirc-general] showing users Ip not shell

[Dale <da...@ma...>]

On Feb 19, 2006, at 17:59 , Name 141 wrote:

> how do i make it show the users ip, not my shell IP ?
>
> i've tried to thurn on "realhost_as_password = 1" and it still  
> didn't work.  i'm using unreal3.2 latest release as an IRCd.

The ircd module required for this feature doesn't work with 3.2.4 so  
you either don't support it, drop back to v3.2.3 or live with it not  
working.

I stopped supporting CGI:IRC until someone fixes it, have had several  
complaints over it's forced lack of support but when a package isn't  
complete in it's proposed functionality then it's garbage and when  
people respond with the obvious lack of knowledge that an external  
module is required and should be part of this package I figure it's  
time to wait until the people involve din it's development either fix  
it or provide an alternative solution.

The people who did respond on this list didn't even know what I was  
talking about and probably still don't, they don't realize that aside  
from the perl/php scripts, a binary module which must be added to the  
ircd config is also required to make this work and it's currently not  
being developed for several years now so I wouldn't hold my breathe  
on a solution any time soon.

I was thinking about fixing it however with the lack of any real ircd  
API or knowledge from anyone here about the existing module I'd be  
better off writing something from scratch than to spend my time  
guessing at something that isn't complete and lacks information.

[cgiirc-general] showing users Ip not shell

[Name 1. <na...@gm...>]

how do i make it show the users ip, not my shell IP ?

i've tried to thurn on "realhost_as_password =3D 1" and it still didn't wor=
k.
i'm using unreal3.2 latest release as an IRCd.

Re: [cgiirc-general] CGI:IRC problems.

[Dale <da...@ma...>]

On Feb 8, 2006, at 11:06 , Mandrich wrote:

> I'm running CGI:IRC with UnrealIRCD 3.2.4 and having no issues.  
> What error message are you getting? Log snippets?

Send me the output of /modules from your ircd server.

> Mark
>
> Dale wrote:
>> It appears that the cgiirc.so module required by unrealircd for  
>> the  CGI:IRC web client doesn't work with the latest release of  
>> Unrealircd  3.2.4.
>> Is this module source file going to be updated soon or do I need  
>> to  discontinue support for CGI:IRC?
>> -- Dale

-- Dale

Re: [cgiirc-general] CGI:IRC problems.

[Dale <da...@ma...>]

On Feb 8, 2006, at 10:21 , Anton Wolkov wrote:

> compiled fine for me.
> did u recompile the module?

Let's be clear on this module because I can already see some confusion.

What version of this module are you running.

Is it used by CGI:IRC or is it used by Unrealircd?

> On 2/8/06, Dale <da...@ma... > wrote:
> It appears that the cgiirc.so module required by unrealircd for the
> CGI:IRC web client doesn't work with the latest release of Unrealircd
> 3.2.4.
>
> Is this module source file going to be updated soon or do I need to
> discontinue support for CGI:IRC?
>
> -- Dale

-- Dale