Openfire

Description

Openfire (formerly Wildfire) is a real time collaboration (RTC) server dual-licensed under the Open Source GPL and commercially. It uses the only widely adopted open protocol for instant messaging, XMPP (also called Jabber). Openfire is incredibly easy to setup and administer, but offers rock-solid security and performance.

Download and install Openfire

Go to http://www.igniterealtime.org/downloads/index.jsp and click on linux, download the latest openfire rpm and install:

yum localinstall openfire-3.4.1-1.i386.rpm

Create the Database

To create the Openfire Database, you'll need to perform each of the following steps:

mysqladmin create openfiredb
mysql -e "grant all privileges on openfiredb.* to openfireuser@localhost identified by 'yourpassword'"
mysql -e "flush privileges"
cd /opt/openfire/resources/database
mysql openfiredb < openfire_mysql.sql

	Warning:
	You may wish to alter the "openfireuser" and "yourpassword" information in the grant privileges line above. Be sure to remember to remember what you used as the web manager will ask you for it!

Access MySQL from the local network

To use the MySQL database you will need to run a script to make port 3306 available to the Openfire Instant Messaging Server.

/sbin/e-smith/config setprop mysqld LocalNetworkingOnly no
/sbin/e-smith/expand-template /etc/my.cnf
/etc/rc.d/rc7.d/S50mysqld restart

Start the Openfire Messaging Server

/etc/rc.d/init.d/openfire start

Visit admin web page to complete Openfire configuration

Go to http://yourserver:9090 (insecure) or https://yourserver:9091 (secure)and follow through the setup via the browser. The only area that may be confusing is the database setup area. See example configuration below.

Database Driver Presets: MySql

JDBC Driver Class: com.mysql.jdbc.Driver

Database URL: jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/openfiredb

Username: openfireuser

Password: yourpassword

SME Server specific configuration

config set openfire service TCPPorts '5222,5223,7777' access public status enabled
signal-event remoteaccess-update

Add startup link:

ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d/e-smith-service /etc/rc.d/rc7.d/S99openfire

Optional

If you would like to have web access to the openfire documentation has been installed on your server, this section will show you how to make an e-smith custom template.

Make the custom-template directory:

mkdir -p /etc/e-smith/templates-custom/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
cd /etc/e-smith/templates-custom/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

Create and edit a file called "99openfire"

pico -w 99openfire

(add the code shown below to the template) (you can select and copy then paste in PuTTY with right click)

# Openfire instant messaging server

Alias /openfiredocs /opt/openfire/documentation/docs

<Directory /opt/openfire/documentation/docs>
     AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .php3 .phtml
     Options Indexes +Includes FollowSymLinks
     order deny,allow
     deny from all
     allow from all
</Directory>

# end of Openfire fragment

ctrl-x to save, y to agree, and [Enter] to exit the PICO editor

Expand the template

expand-template /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd-e-smith restart

access your documentation at:

http://yourservername-or-IP/openfiredocs/

To reiterate, this is NOT an essential step in the installation process and only provides local access to the documentation.

Uninstalling Openfire

Commands to remove openfire

/etc/rc.d/init.d/openfire stop
yum remove openfire
rm -Rf /opt/openfire
mysqladmin drop openfiredb
config delete openfire
signal-event remoteaccess-update