This advanced software requires 2 types of hosting: a regular web hosting plan for the regular website features and a special plan (usually on a different special server) for video streaming and other instant communication required between chat clients. Resources on a streaming server are more expensive and that's why the software was designed to use a standard web server for the rest of the features, to make it more affordable to run. This architecture makes it 100% web based and very easy to run for your website users. On our website you can read more details about the FMS platform benefits or browse our Videochat Script Compatible Hosting Plans.

Software Requirements

• Web Server [ Datetopia - PHP& MySQL Hosting Plans ]
  • PHP & MySQL
• Streaming Server (2 options supported, any can be used)
  1) FCS 1.5 / FMS2 / FMIS3 / FMIS3.5 Server
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  or
  2) Red5 Server
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PHP Configuration
- GD module enabled
- register_globals On
- allow_url_fopen On
- error_reporting E_ALL  ^ E_NOTICE
- short_open_tag On
If you have suphp you don't need to configure file permissions.

MySQL Configuration

Strict mode disabled

To disable strict mode open your my.cnf in an editor and remove/comment out the following line:
sql-mode="STRICT_TRANS_TABLES,NO_AUTO_CREATE_USER,NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION"
Then restart the database server

Server Power
The hardware configuration depends very much on the number of website members and visitors and also on website settings and target, so we cannot give you exact requirements. The software can be balanced from the webmaster settings to provide more quality and resources to users or save more space and bandwidth.

Streaming Servers

Flash Media Server 2
You can buy the Flash Media Server 2 software from Adobe and install it on your web server or use another special FMS2 server, or you can buy FMS2 hosting from a company specialized on this platform. Unless your business is very big and you have your own servers and server staff, we recommend ordering a FMS2 hosting plan from a FMS2 hosting provider.

We offer special managed plans for our customers. These include full FMS installation, including deployment of the asc file(s) and setup of the required flash media server permissions.

Red5 Server
Red5 is a free, open source, Java based, alternative to Adobe's Flash Media Server. To install Red5 you need a dedicated server. You can not install Red5 on a shared hosting plan. Red5 is available for both Windows and Linux. You can find more info about it here: http://osflash.org/red5

To setup Red5 on Windows just download and run the Red5 windows installer.

To install Red5 on Linux read this Red5 linux installation tutorial or order Red5 installation.

How to setup a Windows server

You will need a web server with php and mysql. We recommend WAMP for easy setup.

Your php needs to be configured to show only errors, not notices.
You should have error_reporting = E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE in php.ini .

PHP settings should have these enabled:
register_globals
allow_url_fopen

You need to have php_gd, php_mysql modules enabled.

To send emails you will need to install a SMTP server or use an external one and configure these in php.ini :

[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
SMTP = localhost
smtp_port = 25

; For Win32 only.
sendmail_from = you@yourdomain

You can also try with fake sendmail as explained on this blog.

Mailing Troubleshooting

The scripts use the standard php mail function to send emails. You can edit how emails are sent in lib/mail.php .

If you experience emailing issues (like errors on mailing, blank emails or no emails) an alternative lib/mail.php can be used. That uses just \r as some windows servers don't allow \r\n .

<?php

function send_html($from, $to, $subject, $text, $html)
{
global $debug;
if ($debug) echo "<HR>DEBUG|From:$from|To:$to|Subject:$subject<HR>$text<HR>$html<HR>";
$headers = "From: $from\r";
$headers .= "Reply-To: $from\r";
$headers .= "X-Mailer: PHP/" . phpversion()."\r";
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r";
$boundary = uniqid("MAB");
$headers .= "Content-Type: multipart/alternative" .
"; boundary = $boundary\r\r";
$headers .= "$text\r\r";
$headers .= "--$boundary\r" .
"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1\r" .
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\r\r";
$headers .= chunk_split(base64_encode("$text"));
$headers .= "--$boundary\r" .
"Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1\r" .
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\r\r";
$headers .= chunk_split(base64_encode("$html"));
mail($to, $subject, "", $headers);
}

function parse_mail($mail, $param)
{
foreach ($param as $key=>$val)
$mail=str_replace("#".$key."#",$val,$mail);
return $mail;
}
?>

If that doesn't work you could use a variant to send text emails only if your mail server does not allow html mailing.

<?php
function send_html($from, $to, $subject, $text, $html)
{
$headers = "From: $from\r\n";
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "$text\r\n\r\n";
mail($to, $subject, "", $headers);
}

function parse_mail($mail, $param)
{
foreach ($param as $key=>$val)
$mail=str_replace("#".$key."#",$val,$mail);
return $mail;
}
?>

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