Ejabberd
Ejabberd Jabber XMPP server for SME 7.x
Maintainer
Jean-Paul Leclère
mailto:jean-paul@leclere.org
Description
Ejabberd is a (GNU GPL) robust full-featered Jabber XMPP server. It can support thousands of simultaneous users.
smeserver-ejabberd provides ejabberd services for SME, with dedicated configuration panel in the server-manager, and also specific embedded administration web pages via https.
Download
You can download this package here. If you would like to save it directly on your SME Server, you should give this command at a linux-prompt
wget http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/contribs/jpl/smecontribs/smeserver-ejabberd/smeserver-ejabberd-1.1.4-1.el4.eos.i386.rpm
Installation
Installation needs following steps.
- smeserver-ejabberd package installation :
yum localinstall smeserver-ejabberd-1.1.4-1.el4.eos.i386.rpm
- sme configuration database update :
/etc/e-smith/events/actions/initialize-default-databases
- server-manager panels navigation update :
/etc/e-smith/events/actions/navigation-conf
- creation of your ejabberd admin account
For security reasons you need to create the admin@yourdomain Jabber account as soon as you enable your ejabberd service because this account will have administration rigths for your ejabberd administration. Jabber services are disabled after package installation, so there is no risk before you enable ejabberd with the server-manager panel.
- In your ejabberd panel, enable your ejabberd server, verify or change your Jabber domain and set registration parameter to "Allowed for everybody"
- With a Jabber client, register the account "admin@yourdomain" with a (secure) password, and remember this password. This "admin@yourdomain" account and associated password wil be needed to access the administration web page of your ejabberd server at https://yourserver.yourdomain:5280/admin (if enabled in your ejabberd panel).
- After setting admin account, you can return to your ejabberd panel and change registration setting for your requirements
Use
Jabber services panel
- Jabber services access
No access --> ejabberd service disabled
Allow access only from local networks --> ejabberd enabled for all your local networks on LAN port
Allow public access --> ejabberd enabled on LAN and WAN ports
- Jabber domain
You can choose which of your server domains is used by ejabberd for JID accounts.
- Type of access
non secured access available --> non encryted access on port 5222, TLS access on port 5223
secured TLS access only --> TLS access on ports 5222 and 5223
- Jabber client registering
Registering with a Jabber client is disabled --> Jabber clients cannot register accounts
Allowed for enabled user accounts of your server --> Jabber clients can only register accounts for users already registered in your SME server (but not for admin account)
Allowed for everybody --> Jabber clients can register accounts without restriction
- Welcome message
Set the subject and text of the message sent to your new Jabber users. If subject is left blank, no welcome message will be sent.
- Jabber admin web page
smeserver-ejabberd provides a web interface at https://tourserver.yourdomain:5280/admin/ to manage your ejabberd accounts and services. A full account JID with ejabberd admin rigths (default is admin) is needed to access ejabberd admin web pages.
This account is not set by the rpm package installation and must be created with a Jabber client, as specified in installation instructions.
enabled --> access to admin web pages is enabled
disabled --> access to admin web pages is disabled
