Installing Claros Chat couldn't be easier.

1. Unzip the claros-x.y-zip.
2. Create a new database called chat (or whatever you like) at MySQL (MySQL command -> "create database chat"
3. Run the SQL script at the SQL directory. (Type at shell prompt -> "mysql -u root -p chat < chat-mysql.sql"
4. There is a file called chat.war in the archive. Drop it into the webapps directory of Apache Tomcat
2. Start Tomcat
3. Edit the /tomcat-install-dir/webapps/chat/WEB-INF/config/config.xml file, Hint: simply change your database password.
4. Restart tomcat

That's it. You can access the Claros Chat interface with any Ajax capable browser at:

http://your.domain.com:8080/chat/

Note that it runs best on Mozilla Firefox