Good luck with this. It has been ~a year since I last did got it working happily (since nobody else had something, I just had a few virtual machines setup for it).
> I'm attempting again to make my wave server federable, and have some > questions that I hope someone can answer: > 1) Is there any wave server out there that will accept self-signed > certificates? I'd like to test this first, before I try ca-issued > certificates (because I'm guessing it may be more difficult to achieve that > and I want to start simple, though I may be wrong). None currently. I can make one available if needed, but the effort to get a certificate from StartCom is significantly less than the effort to make it all work together anyway. Neither route is any more difficult. > 2) The check-certificates.sh script seems to be outdated, it assumes that > either run-config.sh or run-config.sh.example exist, but none of them exist > anymore (I'm in git master branch). Can I simpy comment out those checks in > check-certificates.sh and go ahead, or is something important really > missing if I did that? The problem with removing the run-config.sh check is that the rest of the script depends on the values it got from that. (In short the script is pretty much useless now). Remove or fix? > 3) The initial setup I'm aiming for is this: use my own desktop pc (running > debian sid), forward whatever ports are necessary in the router (so far > I've forwarded 9898 tcp incoming), and assume people can access my wiab > server through my dyndns subdomain (which is in the form "foobar.dyndns.org"). > Is this setup enough for testing federation, or would I need to > purchase/use a domain that *I* fully control (e.g. "foobar.com") in order > to configure it in ways that dyndns may not allow? To allow XMPP communication to work, you need to be able to setup TXT records detailing which port to use for the wave service. I don't know if dyndns allows you to do this. The federation guide over at waveprotocol (http://www.waveprotocol.org/federation) is still correct in how to setup federation. (TODO: move this document across) You will probably find some useful information in the thread 'Is federation working with current head?' in the archives for August 2012, which documents my last attempt. Ali
