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Thursday July 5, 2007 8:17 pm

How To: Use IRC On The iPhone With Colloquy

Andru Edwards

Posted by Andru Edwards
Categories: Apple, Cell Phones, Internet, Mods / Hacks, Software

iPhone IRC Colloquy

Since the launched, we have been on the lookout for all the cool web apps that we were sure would begin to show up. We have had quite a few come along, but just a few minutes ago we were able to log in to IRC on our iPhone, and thought that was pretty nifty. So much so, in fact, that I thought we’d share the process on how to do it yourself. Do note, though, that we used Colloquy to help us out here - that is an application, so you do need a Mac to use this method.

So, here are the steps you want to take:


  1. First, be sure you already have Colloquy installed. You can pick it up free at the Colloquy site. One you have that done, go ahead and download the Colloquy Web Interface Add-on plugin.
  2. Install the plugin in ~/Library/Application Support/Colloquy/PlugIns by dragging it to that directory.
  3. Now you need to fire up Terminal. Set a password with this command: defaults write info.colloquy WebInterfacePassword yourpassword
    iPhone IRC
  4. Open or relaunch Colloquy.
  5. Visit http://YourIP:6667 on your iPhone.
  6. Enter the password that you created in the Terminal command.

From there, you get a look at the available IRC channels. Log in, and let the fun ensue!

iPhone IRC Colloquy

Give it a shot, and let us know how it goes or if you run in to any trouble. Check out our full iPhone IRC walkthrough gallery for a few more images of the setup process.

Gallery: How To: Use IRC On The iPhone With Colloquy

  • iPhone Colloquy IRC Alongside Colloquy OS X
  • iPhone Typing in Colloquy IRC
  • Choose Colloquy Channel to Join on iPhone
  • Colloquy on iPhone Full Screen
  • iPhone Colloquy Channel Display
  • Create IRC Password in Terminal



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  • chris
    By chris at 7/6/07

    I followed directions, and forwarded port 6667 from my router, page just keeps loading but nothing shows

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  • By at 7/6/07

    This SHOULD work without any port forwarding...maybe try removing?

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  • chris
    By chris at 7/6/07

    I disabled it, but I am on a network with 10 computers, why wouldn’t you port fwd this? it works at the network ip level

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  • David
    By David at 7/6/07

    chris,

    Check that the firewall on your Mac is allowing traffic in on that port.

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  • chris
    By chris at 7/6/07

    No the macs firewall is off, I never keep it on, little snitch is not even installed

    what else could it be?

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  • By at 7/6/07

    Chris,

    To be safe, be sure to repair your permissions as well. That helped someone else get it running.

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  • Sparky
    By Sparky at 7/6/07

    It didn’t work for me at first, but I repaired my permissions (from Disk Utility in the Utilities folder of your Applications) and it works like a charm. Now I can pop into IRC any time I want and check in with my friends.

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  • saltydog4791
    By saltydog4791 at 7/6/07

    It works a treat.  Anyone know of some cool IRC hangouts that are mac-centric.?

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  • Matt Killmon
    By Matt Killmon at 7/6/07

    Any chance it will one day be able to scroll up and down? :/ Other than that it’s great.

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  • Sean
    By Sean at 7/6/07

    Use two fingers to scroll up and down.

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  • Eric
    By Eric at 7/8/07

    any idea when this will work in Firefox? I’d like to use this from work >:-D

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  • wohali
    By wohali at 7/8/07

    Suggestion: Try cgi:irc? As an AJAX application it runs just fine on the iPhone, and the backend will run virtually anywhere UNIX-y.

    http://cgiirc.org/

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  • Chris
    By Chris at 7/8/07

    I cannot for the life of me get this to work… When I first launch the myip:6667/ it asks me for the pass. When I type it in, the area around the password field turns red, and it just sits there… I typed the password exactly as I did in terminal…

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  • mrdale
    By mrdale at 7/9/07

    Excellent, although I was disappointed to realize that you have to be on your LAN for this to work right?

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  • By at 7/9/07

    mrdale,

    You can do it remotely as well, but you do have to connect to another computer.

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  • jaco
    By jaco at 8/11/07

    Very misleading article, you have to read the comments to understand you need to be on a LAN to do this. It’s mentioned no where in the article or tutorials.

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  • mirc yükle
    By mirc yükle at 11/26/07

    thanks

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  • Axod
    By Axod at 2/4/08

    Or you can just use the excellent web IRC client http://www.mibbit.com :D

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  • Serdar
    By Serdar at 2/19/08

    very good smile thanks.

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  • link building
    By link building at 3/11/08

    The executable output by the linker may need another relocation pass when it is finally loaded into memory just before execution.

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  • Stephanie
    By Stephanie at 4/14/08

    is there *any* way to get irc onto an iphone from a windows computer? i’ve been searching around for an hour and a half and all i’ve found is from a mac :(

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