1. For Mac users

1.1 Download the latest version of 123 Flash Chat Server Software(without JVM) from: http://www.123flashchat.com/download.html

1.2 Uncompress the 123flashchat_s.tar.gz

$gzip -d 123flashchat_s.tar.gz
$ tar xf 123flashchat_s.tar

Start 123 Flash Chat Server:
$./fcserver_mac.sh start

Stop 123 Flash Chat Server:
$./fcserver_mac.sh stop

Restart 123 Flash Chat Server:
$./fcserver_mac.sh restart

After installation, if you may need to store your data (such as your old user information and room information) in MySQL, please click here.

2.For Solaris users

2.1 Create a file: fcstart.sh

2.2 Copy the following string into this file:

$JRE_HOME/bin/java-server-classpath $JRE_HOME/lib/charsets.jar:$JRE_HOME/lib/javaplugin.jar:$JRE_HOME/lib/jce.jar:$JRE_HOME/lib/jsse.jar:$JRE_HOME/lib/rt.jar:$JRE_HOME/lib/sunrsasign.jar:$FCSERVER_HOME/lib/fcserver.jar:$FCSERVER_HOME/lib/log4j.jar:$FCSERVER_HOME/lib/xerces.jar:$FCSERVER_HOME/lib/jdom.jar:$FCSERVER_HOME/lib/mysql.jar:$FCSERVER_HOME/lib/crimson.jar:$FCSERVER_HOME/lib/bcprov.jar:$FCSERVER_HOME/lib/dbpool.jar:$FCSERVER_HOME/lib/uuid.jar:$FCSERVER_HOME/lib/httpcore.jar:$FCSERVER_HOME/lib/httpcore-nio.jar:$FCSERVER_HOME/lib/httpcore-niossl.jar:$FCSERVER_HOME/lib/mina-core.jar:$FCSERVER_HOME/lib/slf4j-api.jar:$FCSERVER_HOME/lib/slf4j-log4j.jar:$FCSERVER_HOME/lib/datedFileAppender.jar:$FCSERVER_HOME/lib/crrcmsn.jar:$FCSERVER_HOME/lib/asyncweb-common.jar:$FCSERVER_HOME/lib/commons-beanutils-bean-collections.jar:$FCSERVER_HOME/lib/commons-beanutils-core.jar:$FCSERVER_HOME/lib/commons-codec.jar:$FCSERVER_HOME/lib/commons-collections.jar:$FCSERVER_HOME/lib/commons-httpclient.jar:$FCSERVER_HOME/lib/commons-io.jar:$FCSERVER_HOME/lib/commons-lang.jar:$FCSERVER_HOME/lib/commons-logging.jar:$FCSERVER_HOME/lib/commons-pool.jar:$FCSERVER_HOME/lib/ehcache.jar:$FCSERVER_HOME/lib/jetty.jar:$FCSERVER_HOME/lib/jetty-util.jar:$FCSERVER_HOME/lib/jta.jar:$FCSERVER_HOME/lib/quartz.jar:$FCSERVER_HOME/lib/servletapi.jar:$FCSERVER_HOME/lib/spring-beans.jar:$FCSERVER_HOME/lib/spring-context.jar:$FCSERVER_HOME/lib/spring-core.jar:$FCSERVER_HOME/lib/whirlycache.jar:$FCSERVER_HOME/lib/red5-minimal.jar:$FCSERVER_HOME/lib/fclib.jar:$FCSERVER_HOME/lib/json.jar:$FCSERVER_HOME/lib/proxool.jar:$FCSERVER_HOME/lib/proxool-cglib.jar:$FCSERVER_HOME/lib/hsqldb.jar:$FCSERVER_HOME/lib/velocity-dep.jar:$FCSERVER_HOME/lib/velocity.jar:$FCSERVER_HOME/lib/mail.jar:$FCSERVER_HOME/lib/aspirin.jar:$FCSERVER_HOME/lib/dnsjava.jar:$FCSERVER_HOME/lib/activation.jar:$FCSERVER_HOME/lib/ojdbc.jar:$FCSERVER_HOME/lib/derby.jar:$FCSERVER_HOME/lib/derbyclient.jar:$FCSERVER_HOME/lib/derbynet.jar com.topcmm.jchat.FCServer &

3. Find $JRE_HOME in this file, and replace it with the actual path of your JRE

4. Find $FCSERVER_HOME in this file and replace it with the actual path of your 123flashchat.

5. Please run the following commend to start your chat : "./ fcstart.sh".

6. If you need to stop the chat server, please run the following commend:"ps -ef | grep java" to find the corresponding process id and kill it.