ponyplace is a 2d pony chatroom powered by node.js and WebSocket.

Setup

Configuration

1. Make sure you have a special-users.json file in the server/data directory. Make sure the usernames listed have accounts attached, otherwise anyone can create one with that name and use mod powers. Should be of format:

    {
        "joe": "creator",
        "fred": "moderator",
        "garry": "moderator",
        "tomatobot": "bot"
    }
   

2. You'll also need a bypass.json file in server/data. You can leave it empty ({}), but if you have any bots, this allows them to bypass login via Persona, and instead use a password, e.g.:

    {
        "somebot": "password123"
    }
   

Running Server

1. Obviously, make sure you have node.js.
2. cd into the server directory and do npm install. This is equivalent to npm install websocket to get WebSocket-Node (which itself requires node-gyp, do sudo npm install -g node-gyp first) and npm install keypress to get the keypress module.
3. Run server.js (add --debug switch if running locally)
4. Run a web server at the same hostname. When debugging, run one at localhost:8000. Note that it expects, for login verification purposes, the production server to always be called ponyplace.ajf.me and be on port 80.