How To Setup a Meteor Server on the same server as the Webserver

gol10dr

I am trying to get realtime updates to happen without avail. I have setup a meteor server to the spec on the meteor site and have used the method to redirect 4670 to port 80 from another IP, however the plugin is not working for me.
I can get the buttons to show and the page seems to reload but no notices are there. I am going to remove all the meteor setup and start again but any insight would be helpful.
Performing a netstat I can see the daemons running showing both ports 4670/1, the plugin is using the forwarded IP and all seems to be working but no notices get pulled into the timeline. I am running on 0.9.5.

jordanc

@gol10dr Take a look at some of the examples from this thread, it may help you out. http://forum.status.net/discussion/920/realtime-refresh-not-working/

gol10dr

Thank you. I talked to Aricg today as well and got things working. Here was the setup:
- Meteor setup (follow all instructions on http://meteorserver.org/installation/
- I selected 8081 for my subscriber port and put in my outside IP for the Subscriber IP in /usr/local/meteor/Meteor/Config.pm
- I also specified an internal address (might not be needed but did it anyway) in the Config.pm for the controlserver to 127.0.0.1 and left the default port to 4671
- Changed my webport in meteor.js in /usr/local/meteor/public_html/meteor.js
- Setup the Meteor plugin in your statusnet config.php as follows:
addPlugin('Meteor', array('webserver' => '$your_site_name', 'webport' => '8081', 'controlserver' => '127.0.0.1', 'controlport' => '4671'));
-Make sure to restart the queuedaemons. Mine tended to keep running even when running scripts/stopdaemons.sh so you might want to kill that pid first. The just run scripts/startdaemons.sh and refresh your webpage to load the new config.php.

Make sure you add the Meteord daemons to start at boot and you should be in business.

jordanc

@gol10dr Awesome, I'll probably be using this as a reference post for other people having trouble with metor, I appreciate that you came back to post your fix. aricg's got a few years of experience on me, but I'm taking notes!

gol10dr

It is what community is about. Thank you for the help!

gol10dr

I wrote something more detailed on my blog, including the issue with the public_html files and Webkit browsers. http://gol10dr.com/meteor-showers-live-statusnet-updates

kampfflunder

Should the modifications to meteor better go to /etc/meteord.conf instead of Config.pm?

jordanc

@kampfflunder I believe that it's just Config.pm not /etc/meteord.conf

kampfflunder

@jordanc What is /etc/meteord good for, then? For instance, SubscriberIP is defined in both meteord.conf and Config.pm - I'm confused :-(

kampfflunder

I followed the instructions by @gol10dr - without success :-( When I write a new dent from my desktop client, I get in my logs:

2010-09-29 11:01:06 LOG_INFO: [statusnet.example.com:10526.b0532326 POST /api/statuses/update.xml] No PuSH subscribers for https://statusnet.example.com/api/statuses/user_timeline/1.atom

Two questions:
Is that error "No PuSH subscribers" related to meteor?
Might https cause problems? (I need https)

kampfflunder

Never mind. The Howto brought by @gol10dr is fine - eventually, I found out that I have an issue with SSL.
I'll bind apache to 127.0.0.1:80 and put a stunnel in front of apache to prevent from further SSL related problems.
Thank you @gol10dr

jordanc

@kampfflunder good stuff!

Guatecall

i still can't get auto updates working on my site and i followed it exactly .. no ssl

PLEASE HELPPP!!

jordanc

@Guatecall Can I have some more info on your hosting setup? Take a look at this:
http://forum.status.net/discussion/552/-sticky-how-to-debug-read-this-before-posting-/

Sukhi

Does it work with xampp under windows xp?

jordanc

Probably not. I am almost 100% certain you need a linux install to use meteor.

Sukhi

hm thats bad :/
i also tried to run cometd but it doesnt worked out :/