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Thursday July 5, 2007 8:17 pm

How To: Use IRC On The iPhone With Colloquy

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


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

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

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

chris,

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

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

what else could it be?

Chris,

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

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.

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

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

Use two fingers to scroll up and down.

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

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/

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…

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

mrdale,

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

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.

thanks

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

very good smile thanks.

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

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 :(

how can I do that without computer?

I did everything like the instructions said, but all I get is the crappy ‘Test Page for Apache Installation.


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