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

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