Chatlr is a realtime chat powered by node.js, socket.io, and connect with Tumblr OAuth verification.
08-24-2011: The following instructions are out of date as I am updating Chatlr to use Socket.IO v0.7.
The following is an example of how to install Chatlr from scratch on Ubuntu 11.04 (as root).
# Get the essentials
apt-get update
apt-get install git-core build-essential libssl-dev
# Install node.js
cd /usr/src
git clone https://github.com/joyent/node
cd node
./configure
make
make install
# install Chatlr
cd /usr/src
git clone git://github.com/KevinNuut/Chatlr.git
# Setup Chatlr
cd Chatlr
git submodule update --init --recursive
cp config/config.js.bu config/config.js
# Open config/config.js and set up the custom fields
# Replace anything in all caps
# Run the Chatlr script and output errors to out.log
node chatlr.js > out.log &
Alternatively, you can use the forever package by running the additional commands.
# Install NPM (Node Package Manager)
curl http://npmjs.org/install.sh | sudo sh
# Install Forever
npm install forever
# Run Node.JS as a forever script
cd /usr/src/Chatlr
forever start chatlr.js
An example script can be found in install.sh. This is great for getting Chatlr quickly running on Cloud or VPS instance.
# Run this command from your local computer into your clean remote Ubuntu box
ssh root@IP_ADDRESS 'bash -s CHATLR_DOMAIN TUMBLR_CONSUMER_KEY TUMBLR_CONSUMER_SECRET TUMBLR_USERNAME SESSION_SECRET' < install.sh
Note that there are other config options available in config.js, like changing the default IP address, port, and OAuth service.