hello, I'm trying to config a IRC server via InspIRCd and I'm stuck
reddit / irc

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xyannick3 · 2021-11-23 18:22

I followed [this
tutorial](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuudVh4irRE) to get my
ubuntu to host an IRC server but I'm stuck, it says :

Syntax error - start of tag expected at
/home/xyannick3/inspircd-2.0.25/run/conf/inspircd.conf:26:22 (last tag
was on line 23)

what I have is

    <config format="xml">
    <define name="bindip" value="1.2.2.3">
    <define name="localips" value="&bindip;/24">

    ####### SERVER CONFIGURATION #######

    <server
            name="yannickserver.com"
            description="yannickserver"
            id="9YA"
            network="IRCYannick">


    ####### ADMIN INFO #######

    <admin
           name="yannick"
           nick="yannick"
           email=XXXXXXXXXXXXX">

    ####### PORT CONFIGURATION #######

    ##this is line 23 for the record##<bind
          address="XX.XX.XXX.XX"
          port="6697"
          type="clients">

I've censored a few things, but I can assure you that the IP is
correct I've double checked. does anyone know if I accidentally
deleted something, causing the problem? or could the problem be caused
by something else?

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platzbo · 2021-11-23 19:11

Do you get the same error if you try to use port 6667?

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xyannick3 · 2021-11-23 20:12

Thanks for your answer, I've just tedted with this port and it doesn't
work (same output). Do you have any other idea?

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madasi · 2021-11-23 21:07

Check the email on the previous line, it has an unmatched quotation
mark in what you posted, which can cause this error.

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Final_Savings · 2021-11-24 03:37

Make sure you don’t have the open bracket on what you marked as line
23, the comments don’t cancel out so the bracket would get not read

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xyannick3 · 2021-11-24 06:50

I marked the comment for the post don't worry they're not in the file.
But still thanks could have been that

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xyannick3 · 2021-11-24 06:52

Unfortunately it's not that I just accidentally erased it while
censoring, the original file has the quotation
Thanks for your answer

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skizzerz1 · 2021-11-24 12:25

Echoing calls to double-check the email, this time for special
characters that require xml entity escaping in the string such as &
(or potentially any multibyte Unicode characters).

If not that, we’d probably need to see the full config file, as the
error message may be misleading as to the line it’s saying the issue
is on (26)

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xyannick3 · 2021-11-24 13:17

The only special character is @

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[deleted] · 2021-11-24 17:10

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