You wont be giving up much if you switch, node.js and APE support long polling as well as webSockets. The major difference is that node.js is a SSJS platform while APE is a full fledge comet server.
Sent from my iPhone On Apr 24, 2012, at 7:47 PM, Orthonormal <s.coven...@gmail.com> wrote: > After googling around for cases similar to mine, and asking Dreamhost > about wildcard DNS, I think my problem is that wildcard dns was not > enabled. > > After this little adventure with APE, and reading up on other comet > implementations...I think I will be going back to node.js/socket.io > (was mucking around with them before I tried out comet). > > Having tried both, I think there is more support and a larger > community for node/socket than for the various comet servers. Thanks > for your help and advice. I hope I am not making a mistake giving up > comet for websockets? > > On Apr 24, 10:51 pm, Pablo Tejada <ptejad...@gmail.com> wrote: >> When i first started my search for a comet server i notice must were >> java based, memory hogs. CometD seem to be a popular favorite. >> Lighthttpd seems like a good comercial solution, not sure about their >> support though. >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On Apr 24, 2012, at 5:14 PM, Orthonormal <s.coven...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>> I have a feeling I need to contact Dreamhost support to allow wildcard >>> DNS on my VPS. >> >>> Or maybe I should abandon APE and try a comet server that is easier to >>> work with for newbies? :p >> >>> Since this is a commercial project, I don't mind paying for a >>> commercial comet server with support. Any good ones to recommend? >> >>> On Apr 24, 10:05 pm, Orthonormal <s.coven...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> Am I right to assume that for "0.bob.dreamhosters.com:443" to work, >>>> Dreamhost has to allow "wildcard DNS"? >> >>>> Based on their support article (http://wiki.dreamhost.com/ >>>> Wildcard_DNS), I might have to contact them to allow wildcard DNS. Is >>>> this a likely solution? >> >>>> On Apr 24, 9:55 pm, Pablo Tejada <ptejad...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>>>> Is a server misconfiguration for sure, you should keep testing with >>>>> static content. >> >>>>> Is weird they recommend to bind it to the 443 port, isn't that the HTTPS >>>>> port? >> >>>>> Sent from my iPhone >> >>>>> On Apr 24, 2012, at 4:46 PM, Orthonormal <s.coven...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>>>>> Nope. I get: "Oops! Google Chrome could not find >>>>>> 0.bob.dreamhosters.com:443" (using chrome) >> >>>>>> On Apr 24, 9:43 pm, Louis Charette <charette.lo...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>>> You said that if you go to "http://bob.dreamhosters.com:443/"; you get >>>>>>> the "APE Server No command given" message. Do you have the same message >>>>>>> when you type ":http://0.bob.dreamhosters.com:443"; in your browser? >> >>>>>>> - Louis >> >>>>>>> Le 2012-04-24 à 16:40, Orthonormal a écrit : >> >>>>>>>> Still doesn't work! Same error message. My virtualhost looks like >>>>>>>> this: >> >>>>>>>> <VirtualHost *> >> >>>>>>>> Servername bob.dreamhosters.com >>>>>>>> ServerAlias ape.bob.dreamhosters.com >>>>>>>> ServerAlias *.bob.dreamhosters.com >> >>>>>>>> DocumentRoot "/home/alice/www" >> >>>>>>>> </VirtualHost> >> >>>>>>>> On Apr 24, 9:26 pm, Louis Charette <charette.lo...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>>>>> If you have access to SSH, you can also restart apache2 instead of >>>>>>>>> rebooting the whole server for the virtualhost setting to update. >> >>>>>>>>> - Louis >> >>>>>>>>> Le 2012-04-24 à 16:25, Orthonormal a écrit : >> >>>>>>>>>> Ok I tried Pablo's virtualhost and it didn't work. Same error >>>>>>>>>> message. >> >>>>>>>>>> AFK for 30-45 mins. Then trying Louis' method and change ServerAlias >>>>>>>>>> to *.bob.dreamhosters.com. Wish me luck lol. >> >>>>>>>>>> On Apr 24, 8:57 pm, Louis Charette <charette.lo...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>> When I go to:http://bob.dreamhosters.com:443/, it says "APE Server >>>>>>>>>>>> No >>>>>>>>>>>> command given.". So I assume the server is running fine? >> >>>>>>>>>>> Yes it does. >> >>>>>>>>>>> The test did find the server, but didn't find the frequency thing >>>>>>>>>>> because the wildcard is binded to "ape.bob.dremhosters.com" instead >>>>>>>>>>> of "bob.dreamhosters.com". Since he specified the port in config.js >>>>>>>>>>> he should be fined and it should work after an apache reboot. >> >>>>>>>>>>> - Louis >> >>>>>>>>>>> Le 2012-04-24 à 15:53, Pablo Tejada a écrit : >> >>>>>>>>>>>> The problem is your virtual host, the default port is 80 i guess >>>>>>>>>>>> and you binded the APE server in 443. Try this virtual host >>>>>>>>>>>> configuration, no sure if it will do the trick though: >>>>>>>>>>>> <VirtualHost *> >>>>>>>>>>>> Servername bob.dreamhosters.com >> >>>>>>>>>>>> DocumentRoot "/home/alice/www" >>>>>>>>>>>> </VirtualHost> >>>>>>>>>>>> <VirtualHost *:443> >>>>>>>>>>>> Servername ape.bob.dreamhosters.com >>>>>>>>>>>> ServerAlias *.ape.bob.dreamhosters.com >>>>>>>>>>>> </VirtualHost> >> >>>>>>>>>>>> Sent from my iPhone >> >>>>>>>>>>>> On Apr 24, 2012, at 3:28 PM, Louis Charette >>>>>>>>>>>> <charette.lo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>>>>>>>>>>>> Change >> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ServerAlias *.ape.bob.dreamhosters.com >> >>>>>>>>>>>>> to this >> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ServerAlias *.bob.dreamhosters.com >> >>>>>>>>>>>>> - Louis >> >>>>>>>>>>>>> Le 2012-04-24 à 15:22, Orthonormal a écrit : >> >>>>>>>>>>>>>> I did this. And the check ran. But I got: >> >>>>>>>>>>>>>> "Can't contact APE Server. Please check the folowing url is >>>>>>>>>>>>>> pointing >>>>>>>>>>>>>> to your APE server :http://0.bob.dreamhosters.com:443"; >> >>>>>>>>>>>>>> On Apr 24, 8:00 pm, Louis Charette <charette.lo...@gmail.com> >>>>>>>>>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Hi there, >> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The "APE_JSF" folder should be uploaded on the website you want >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> to use Ape on directly. >> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> - Louis >> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Le 2012-04-24 à 14:57, Orthonormal a écrit : >> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I signed up for VPS from Dreamhost, and is trying to set up >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> APE by >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> following the tutorial. Which step did I go wrong? Did I leave >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> out any >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> step? >> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 1) It says: >> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> "If you are using APE in tandem with a web server which is >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> already >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> bound on port 80 (such as Apache), you don't have to edit >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> anything. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> APE is configured to run on port 6969 by default. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> You can jump to Run your APE Server." >> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> However, I changed my ape.conf so that "port = 443" instead >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> because >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> dreamhost recommends that we bind on port 443. >> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 2) Went to the /bin/ folder and ran "aped". I get the APE >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Engine logo >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> and it says bind on port 443. So no problem there. >> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 3) Edited the httpd.conf file to include these: >> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> <VirtualHost *> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Servername bob.dreamhosters.com >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ServerAlias ape.bob.dreamhosters.com >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ServerAlias *.ape.bob.dreamhosters.com >> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> DocumentRoot "/home/alice/APE_JSF" >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> </VirtualHost> >> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Not using the actual names but assuming my admin user name is >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> "alice", >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> and my dreamhost domain is bob.dreamhosters.com. >> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 4) Edited Demos/config.js to be: >> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> APE.Config.baseUrl = 'http://bob.dreamhosters.com/APE_JSF'; >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> APE.Config.domain = 'bob.dreamhosters.com'; >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> APE.Config.server = 'ape.bob.dreamhosters.com:443'; >> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 5) Finally, I went >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> tohttp://bob.dreamhosters.com/APE_JSF/Tools/Check/ >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> but got a 404 error. 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