mIRC Help.

[Hell No..]

Hey, so ive got mIRC now and want to make a proper channel for my forum. How do I go about doing it? And making a link on my forum for it etc? Thanks.

[Tornado Rex]

/join #yourforumschan

 

BAM! Channel created

 

 

And making a link on my forum for it

irc://yourserver/yourforumschan

[segosa]

Depends.

 

First of all you need a server to host the channel on. I doubt you have the experience or resources to run your own, so you'll have to create your channel on a public server.

 

There is a list of the most popular ones here: http://irc.netsplit.de/networks/

 

I would suggest irc.freenode.org. It's a general purpose IRC network with NickServ/ChanServ/etc and makes registering a channel easy.

 

Steps... (all of them without the <> around the parameters)

 

• Register your nickname by using /msg nickserv register <password> (to identify each time you connect.. /msg nickserv identify <password>)
• Join the channel. /join #yourchanname
• Register the channel. /msg chanserv register <#channel> <password>

To link to it from your forum, you need to get everyone to install mIRC of course.. (unless you set up a webchat which I won't go into details about) and then get them to click a link that goes to

 

irc://irc.freenode.org/yourchannelname

 

<a href="irc://irc.freenode.org/yourchannelname">blahblah</a> for example

 

If this is your first time using IRC then you are gonna need to do a lot of reading to understand how it works. I suggest you start off with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRC

 

EDIT: Blah at Tornado Rex.

[PSXtreme]

• Register the channel. /msg chanserv register <#channel> <password>

 

  8:34a    -ChanServ (serv[email protected])- Syntax: REGISTER channel password description

 

[segosa]

 

Register the channel. /msg chanserv register <#channel> <password>

 

 

  8:34a    -ChanServ (serv[email protected])- Syntax: REGISTER channel password description

 

 

[15:31:00] -> *chanserv* help register[15:31:00] -ChanServ- Syntax: REGISTER <channel> <password>

 

 

freenode.