I meant to recommend lightstreamer for commercial solution
http://www.lightstreamer.com/

Another commercial and hosted solution you might want to try is pusher
 http://pusher.com/

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On Apr 24, 2012, at 5:14 PM, Orthonormal <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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 
>>>>>>>>>> <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> 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. Even after I rebooted my VPS.
>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> What did I miss out or did wrong?
>>
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