How to configure connection?

1. server configuration

To configure connection in <123FlashChatServer installed DIR>\server\etc\fcserver.xml, edit "connection" section.

<Connection>
<primary-server ip="*" port="51127" />
<secondary-server ip="*" port="51128" enable="off" />

<cross-domain-policy>
<allow-access-from domain="*" />
</cross-domain-policy>
</Connection>

You can set double servers and listen to double ports.

primary-server

secondary-server

1) flash player earlier than 7 only allow access on high port (1024-65535) out of security reason, while low port is forbidden. If you are okay with high port, you don't have to set secondary-server. Only if you want to set port lower than 1024, you need a secondary-server.
(See table1 below)

2) If setting the port of primary-server to lower than 1024, like 80, then only users with flash player 7 can access chat while users with flash player 6 can't.
In this case secondary-server is necessary. Its port should be greater than 1024, which allow users with earlier flash player to chat.
(See table1 below)

3) If setting high port for primary-server, then usually you don't need secondary-server, you can leave it as default :enable="off" .
(See table2 below)

4) It's just temporary solution to set two servers because some of users are still using flash player earlier than 7.
When flash player 7 becomes more and more popular, we'll remove this secondary-ser3ver function in future version.

To help understanding, please study two tables below:

	High port (1024-51127)	Low port (<1024)
>=Flash player 7		Primary server
< Flash player 7	secondary server

table1

	High port (1024-51127)	Low port (<1024)
>=Flash player 7	Primary server
< Flash player 7	(unnecessary)

table2

Recommended Simple Setting:

Leave the connection configuration as default.

Advanced Setting:

To bind your chat server to low port like 80 or 443, here's the solution:
(See above table1.)

For primary-server, set a port lower than 1024, like "80" or "443".
While for secondary-server, set a port higher than 1024.

With such a connection setting, secondary-server is only useful to users with earlier version of flash player. (As we stated before, flash player earlier than 7 only allow access on high port (1024-65535).)

IP configuration:

2. client configuration

These 7 parameters are added in version 6.8 in order to replace the Connection and Group configuration originally in the client.xml which was removed there now, the admin should configure the 7 parameters to make the 123flashchat.swf communicate with the chat server properly if necessary.

Please leave the init_host, init_host_s and init_host_h value to "*" if the chat server and the web server (which hosts 123flashchat.swf file) are located on the same server. If the SWF file is on another web server, you should configure the init_host, init_host_s, init_host_h value according to the chat server domain or IP address. The init_port, init_port_s and init_port_h value must be identical with the ones in fcserver.xml.

Notice: if you are upgrading to the current version from the older version (before version 6.8), don’t forget to add the 7 parameters to your HTML page which include the 123flashchat.swf file, otherwise the 123flashchat.swf file will use the default value init_host="*", init_port=51127 and init_group="default" to communication with the chat server.

Example:

<script src="123flashchat.js"></script>
<script language="javascript">
init_host="*";
init_port=51127;
init_host_s="*";
init_port_s=51128;
init_host_h="*";
init_port_h=35555;
init_group="default";
openSWF('123flashchat.swf','634','476');
</script>
<noscript>
<DIV id="flashchat">
<OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,19,0" WIDTH="634" HEIGHT="476" id="topcmm_123flashchat">
<PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="123flashchat.swf?init_host=*&init_port=51127&init_host_s=*&init_port_s=51128&init_host_h=*&init_port_h=35555&init_group=default">
<PARAM NAME=quality VALUE="high">
<PARAM NAME="menu" value="false">
<EMBED src="123flashchat.swf?init_host=*&init_port=51127&init_host_s=*&init_port_s=51128&init_host_h=*&init_port_h=35555&init_group=default" quality=high menu=false WIDTH="634" HEIGHT="476" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" scale="noscale" name="topcmm_123flashchat" swLiveConnect="true">
</EMBED>
</OBJECT>
</DIV>
</noscript>

If you want to change client host, keep it match the server host value anyway.

One more issue is about flash player. The flash player earlier than version 7 only allow connection with the same domain name for security reason.

In flash player 6, For example:
the domain "www.123flashchat.com" resolves to 69.93.110.158,
the client SWF file located at http://www.123flashchat.com/123flashchat.swf cannot connect to the server if you set host value to: 69.93.110.158, you should set host value to www.123flashchat.com instead.

A SWF file located at http://69.93.110.158/123flashchat.swf cannot connect to the server if you set host value to: www.123flashchat.com, you should set host value to 69.93.110.158.

Identical numeric IP addresses are compatible. However, a domain name is not compatible with an IP address, even if the domain name resolves to the same IP address.

The following table shows examples of compatible domains:

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