Activating Whiteboard Plugin

Whiteboard plugin is one of the few plugins which requires a third-party service. Whiteboard can use either RED5 or Adobe FMS server.

Use RED5 server

If you would like to self-host RED5 server,

• Point your browser to http://www.red5.org/

• Download and install Red5 1.0 RC1 on your server from the following link: http://code.google.com/p/red5/
  (outside support scope)

If you would like to use a third-party Red5 host,

• Sign up with a host like http://www.red5host.com/

Installing Whiteboard Plugin with RED5 server

• If you don’t have Red5 installed on your server, click the following link:
  Steps to install Red5 along with server side packages of CometChat plugins on your server

• If you have Red5 up and running on your server, configure CometChat plugins by following the steps listed below:

On Linux based systems :

1. Check whether the Red5 server is up and running by visiting the URL: http://<red5 server URL or IP>:5080

2. If the Red5 server is running successfully then go to to webapps directory of your Red5 installation. If RED5 is installed using SVN then in most of the cases the webapp directory is red5_<version>.svn/dist/webapps.

3. Download the sever side package for the required plugin by executing the following command:
   wget http://www.cometchat.com/extra/ccred5whiteboard.tar.gz

4. Run the given command to extract the package: tar -xzf ccred5whiteboard.tar.gz

5. Then delete the tar file by executing the given command: rm ccred5whiteboard.tar.gz

6. Finally restart the Red5 server.

7. Thus you have successfully configured Red5 server with server side packages of CometChat plugins on your Linux based systems and now you can test the Whiteboard plugin on your site.

On Windows server :

1. Check whether the Red5 server is up and running by visiting the URL: http://<red5 server URL or IP>:5080

2. If the Red5 server is running successfully then download the sever side package for the required plugin from http://www.cometchat.com/extra/ccred5whiteboard.zip

3. Unzip the ccred5whiteboard.zip file and move the whiteboard folder to webapps folder of Red5 installation.

4. Finally restart the Red5 server.

5. Thus you have successfully configured Red5 server with server side packages of CometChat plugins on your Windows Server and now you can test the Whiteboard plugin on your site.

Use Adobe FMS

If you would like to self-host Adobe FMS server,

• Purchase, download and install Adobe FMS on your server (outside support scope)

If you would like to use a third-party Adobe FMS host,

• Sign up with a host like http://www.influxis.com/

Installing Whiteboard Plugin with FMS

Create a folder named ‘whiteboard’ in the applications directory of your FMS.

For example, if you are using FMS v4.5 on windows system then you need to create the whiteboard folder in ‘C:\Program Files\Adobe\Flash Media Server 4.5\applications‘ folder.

Configuring the Whiteboard Plugin

• In the CometChat Admin Panel-> Plugins section, add the Whiteboard Plugin to your live plugins and click on the config link besides the name.

• Enter the required details.

• Click on the Update Settings button and close the window.