Openfire
Openfire 3.3.3 Howto
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 jre-6u3-linux-i586-rpm.bin & Openfire 3.3.3
Go to http://www.java.com/en/download/linux_manual.jsp and download the Linux RPM (self-extracting file)
copy or move jre-6u1-linux-i586-rpm.bin into /tmp
cd /tmp
chmod a+x jre-6u1-linux-i586-rpm.bin
sh jre-6u1-linux-i586-rpm.bin
Download Openfire
Go to http://www.igniterealtime.org/downloads/index.jsp and click on linux & download openfire_3_3_3.tar.gz
NOTE: DO NOT DOWNLOAD THE RPM
copy or move openfire_3_3_3.tar.gz into /tmp
tar xvzf openfire_3_3_3.tar.gz
mv /tmp/openfire /opt
chown -R www.www /opt/openfire
chmod 750 /opt/openfire
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
IMPORTANT: You may wish to alter the "openfireuser" and "yourpassword" information in the grant privileges line above. BE SURE 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
Use the netstat -ant command to check status
netstat -ant
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Look for the following line in your `netstat -ant` result: tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:3306 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN While you're looking, you should see the ports that wildfire will be using: tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:9090 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:9091 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:5222 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:5223 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:5269 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
Start the Openfire Messaging Server
cd /opt/openfire/bin
./openfire start
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
Openfire daemon
Need to create a openfire daemon that will load at start upS et Up Initialization So Openfire Starts On A Server Reboot
cd /opt/openfire/bin/extra
chmod 700 redhat-postinstall.sh
./redhat-postinstall.sh
cd /opt/openfire/bin
chmod 755 openfire
Create symbolic link to the script at runlevel 7 (/etc/rc7.d)
cd /etc/rc7.d
ln -s /opt/openfire/bin/openfire S90openfire
Reboot your server to make sure the openfire daemon initializes on startup...
shutdown -r now
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 /openfire /opt/openfire
<Directory /opt/openfire>
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/openfire/documentation/
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
- yum remove openfire
- mysqladmin drop openfiredb