Debian Linux server help

[JoeShmo]

Greetings.. I glanced through the install instructions, and everything seemed pretty basic...
I installed the pserver (4.5.1) on my Debian Etch server, running kernel 2.6.12. When I try to run httpd, I get
pooky:/var/www/chat/pserver/bin# ./httpd
-bash: ./httpd: No such file or directory
pooky:/var/www/chat/pserver/bin# ls -alrt httpd
-rwxr-x--x 1 root root 199065 2000-07-27 19:30 httpd
pooky:/var/www/chat/pserver/bin# file httpd
httpd: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), not stripped

the only thing I can think of is that its looked for an old (ancient?) version of libc or glibc.. but no idea what.. even 'strace' doesnt tell me what its looking for...
I'm trying to evaluate various chat systems for some of my web hosting customers. From looking at palace stuff, this looks like a real nice solution to this person's site and chat needs. I havnt gotten too far with palace yet, but would also like to add a custom auth script that will check user/pass from a PHPBB database. I've added this auth to a few other chat systems, but have always had source, but with palace, I dont have the source.. maybe I can get ahold of the dev group for that?

But in the least case, I want to see if I can get this thing up and running for evaluation to see if we want to persue it furthor. We do have a windows box in our server farm, but I'd much rather use one of our linux servers...

[maarten]

Hi Joe

Well the first paart of your quesiton is easy: You don't neet to start the httpd. Like you said it is looking for an ancient library because it is ancient tech. The httpd is a very old apache version used for filetransfers. Your better of using your own Apache server for this.

You can either edit the Pserver.prefs or log onto your Palace server and as Owner use the 'fileserver command:

In your Palace Server you become Owner and type the following:
'fileserver http://yourdomain.palaceplanet.com/myfiles/media/

Any media you put in there and use in your Palace will now be served up by the webserver. Palace simply redirects the clients filetransfer to use http instead of the ancient superslow Palace protocol.


There used to be a yahoo-group around that helped with converting database entries to usable Palace login / password but i can't find them anywhere.

Your best bet for this is to ask on the Palace Server maillist:

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/palace-server/

The best way to introduce people to the Palace is to use Instant Palace: a web based client you can integrate into your website.

It has only two problems: the official version doesn't work with the nw Java engine, but there is a work around for this

and it needs to be on the same server as the Palace server.

Anyway, thats my personal opion because I think the Palace client is to much explaining to get people intrested.