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Thursday July 5, 2007 8:17 pm
How To: Use IRC On The iPhone With Colloquy
Since the iPhone 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 OS X application, so you do need a Mac to use this method.
So, here are the steps you want to take:
- 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.
- Install the plugin in ~/Library/Application Support/Colloquy/PlugIns by dragging it to that directory.
- Now you need to fire up Terminal. Set a password with this command: defaults write info.colloquy WebInterfacePassword yourpassword
- Open or relaunch Colloquy.
- Visit http://YourIP:6667 on your iPhone.
- 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!
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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Comments:
I followed directions, and forwarded port 6667 from my router, page just keeps loading but nothing shows
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
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.
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?
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.
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 :(
I did everything like the instructions said, but all I get is the crappy ‘Test Page for Apache Installation.
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