This posts documents the necessary steps to setup a running Jabber-server in Ubuntu. It uses ejabberd v2.1.5 and by the time of writing it is tested on Ubuntu 11.04.
Installation of packages
First the according Ubuntu packages are supposed to be installed:
aptitude install ejabberdCustomizing the setup
Next step is to customize two settings in /etc/ejabberd/ejabberd.cfg:
%% Admin user
{acl, admin, {user, "youruser", "yourdomain.tld"}}.
%% Hostname
{hosts, ["yourdomain.tld"]}. The rest should basically fly by itself.
Now an administrative user has to be added. Is is done on the command line with:
ejabberdctl register youruser yourdomain.tld yourpasswordAfter this, the server can be started by the following line:
service ejabberd startIf all went well, now the administrative backend should be good to go. It is accessibly with this URL:
http://yourjabberhostname.yourdomain.tld:5280/adminCustomizing the DNS entry
In order to get your server compliant with most of the clients, your domain is supposed to offer the following SRV-entries (example shows bind zonefile entries):
yourjabberhostname IN A IP_of_jabberhost
_xmpp-client._tcp IN SRV 5 0 5222 yourjabberhostname.yourdomain.tld.
_xmpp-server._tcp IN SRV 5 0 5269 yourjabberhostname.yourdomain.tld.
_jabber._tcp IN SRV 5 0 5269 yourjabberhostname.yourdomain.tld.Have fun with your individual jabber server!
I had an issue with registering admin user, ejabberdctl said:
“Can’t register user “foo@bar” at node ejabberd@host: not_allowed.”
To avoid it I used command:
“ejabberdctl register new_admin localhost passw0rd”
Also I adjusted settings a bit:
%% Admin user
{acl, admin, {user, “new_admin”, “localhost”}}.
%% Hostname
{hosts, [“localhost”,”mydomain.tld”]
BTW thanks for the article, it saved me a lot of time
You have to issue a
sudo service ejabberd restart
Before trying to register the admin user