ejabberd
ejabberd is an open source, multi-platform, XMPP application server and MQTT broker, written mainly in Erlang.
Installation
USE flags
USE flags for net-im/ejabberd Robust, scalable and extensible XMPP server
+stun
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Enable STUN/TURN support |
captcha
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Support for CAPTCHA Forms (XEP-158) on registration |
debug
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Enable extra debug codepaths, like asserts and extra output. If you want to get meaningful backtraces see https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Quality_Assurance/Backtraces |
full-xml
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Use XML features in XMPP stream (ex: CDATA), requires XML compliant clients |
ldap
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Add LDAP support (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) |
mssql
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Enable Microsoft SQL Server support (via ODBC) for data storage |
mysql
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Enable MySQL support for data storage |
odbc
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Enable ODBC support to access data storage |
pam
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Add support for PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) - DANGEROUS to arbitrarily flip |
postgres
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Enable PostgreSQL support for data storage |
redis
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Enable Redis support for transient data |
roster-gw
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Turn on workaround for processing gateway subscriptions |
selinux
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!!internal use only!! Security Enhanced Linux support, this must be set by the selinux profile or breakage will occur |
sip
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Enable SIP support |
sqlite
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Enable SQLite database support |
zlib
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Enable Stream Compression (XEP-0138) using zlib |
Emerge
Install ejabberd:
root #emerge --ask net-im/ejabberdAdding various modules through USE flags will trigger things like: dev-lang/erlang, net-im/ejabberd, etc. to be installed with ejabberd.
Configuration
Files
ejabberd.cfg has been superseded by ejabberd.yml, which is formatted in a completely different way. For old .cfg config files, "man ejabberdctl" for an automatic conversion script, see convert_to_yaml.
In /etc/jabber/ejabberd.cfg put:
/etc/jabber/ejabberd.cfg:{acl, admin, {user, "bob", "süpercomputer"}}.
And:
/etc/jabber/ejabberd.cfg:{hosts, ["foo.bar"]}.
Where foo.bar is what is required for the accounts, like bob@foo.bar (so the server should be available at foo.bar. If not, clientside configuration needs extra server parameter).
In /etc/jabber/ejabberctl.cfg put:
/etc/jabber/ejabberctl.cfg:ERLANG_NODE=ejabberd
So the node will be called ejabberd@süpercomputer while süpercomputer is the one configured in /etc/conf.d/hostname If this is changed, remember to issue:
root #rc-service hostname restartService
OpenRC
Then start:
root #rc-service ejabberd startThen create users:
user $ejabberdctl register {name} {domain} {password}For example:
user $ejabberdctl register bob foo.bar süpersecretSet up a jabber server using ejabberd
This often fails at first try, because the whole ejabberd-erlang-mnesia thing can be really picky sometimes. So, one hint may be to not initialize/start/test anything until the final hostname selections are in every config file. Changing hostname afterwards can cause problems, at least before becoming familiar with the above mentioned tools.
Second hint: If errors are encountered when restarting here, Erlang nodes might have to be stopped, which unfortunately are not called 'erlang' or something, but 'beam', so this might be found useful:
user $killall beam -9