didliedo / chatserver

retroshare-chatserver c++ backend

retroshare-chatserver

This is a chat intro server for RetroShare, which (hopefully) deals with the issues the current one from retroshare-nogui has.

How the chatserver works:

• adds all certificates in a given, hardcoded directory, after adding it deletes them
• all added PGP ids are stored in a list, which is saved on disk (chatserver_temporary_friends.txt)
• if a hardcoded number of friends is reached, the oldest gpgIDs are denied as friends
• after some startup time, the chatserver looks for visible chatlobbies and joins them, if he can still see e.g. the lobby "Chatserver DE"
• if the lobbys can't be joined, it creates new ones

How to setup:

• download the git repo

  mkdir ~/retroshare-chatserver
  cd ~/retroshare-chatserver 
  git clone https://github.com/RetroShare/ChatServer.git trunk
  cd trunk
  git submodule update --init

• change hardcoded constants in chatserver.h to what you want to, compile with

  qmake CONFIG+=rs_chatserver && make

• setup an account with retroshare-gui as usual, perhaps add some friends which always will be allowed to connect (leeching lobbys and distributing the chatserver lobbys even more far)
• copy config folder to server
• create the folder certificateFolder and the file chatserver_temporary_friends.txt (hardcoded in chatserver.h!)
• start with ./retroshare-chatserver -c configfolder
• setup w2c as webinterface, see https://github.com/cavebeat/rs-w2c
• make sure everything is correct with your permissions!

Paths:

• created Folders in ~/.retroshare
• ~/.retroshare/chatserver This is where the files of chatserver are stored
• ~/.retroshare/chatserver/NEWCERTS This is where www-data is storing entered pgp certificates
• ~/.retroshare/chatserver/STORAGE This is where the serverkey, lobbys and a hyperlink are stored

Files:

• the file serverkey.txt is stored in ~/.retroshare/chatserver/STORAGE and holds the RetroShare public certificate which is displayed in php frontend
• friendfifo.txt is stored in ~/.retroshare/chatserver/ and holds the FIFO Slots. chatserver reads them and deletes oldes entry from friendlist if there are more than 100 lines.
• PHP Frontend https://github.com/cavebeat/rs-w2c/ stores all new certificates in ~/.retroshare/chatserver/NEWCERTS/ chatserver reads all new pgp certificates from this directory and adds them to friendlist. And adds a line to ~/.retroshare/chatserver/friendfifo.txt