6 April 2011 / EJABBERD, PATH, TUTORIAL

Installing Ejabberd - Part II

So my first attempt at installing ejabberd ended with the app not being able to start up.

I think this could be due to the fact that I was monkeying around with adding the ejabberd user and group and also the possibility of a bad setup because /usr/sbin isn’t in the path. So I’m going to try again on a new clean server.

First I made sure the /usr/sbin was in the path.
- Edit /etc/profile to include the path
```
 PATH=$PATH:/usr/sbin
 export PATH
```
- Edit roots ~/.bash_profile
```
 PATH=$PATH:/usr/sbin
 export PATH
```

Download and install. See first attempt

 sudo ./ejabberd-2.1.6-linux-x86_64-installer.bin
 Installation Directory [/opt/ejabberd-2.1.6]:
 Cluster [y/N]: n

Run
- I’m going to to a test run with just the admin. I don’t want to create an ejabberd user yet.

Start service

 sudo /opt/ejabberd-2.1.6/bin/ejabberdctl start
 sudo /opt/ejabberd-2.1.6/bin/ejabberdctl status
 # The node ejabberd@localhost is started with status:
 # started ejabberd 2.1.6 is running in that node

I don’t see a crash dump so this looks good.

Add an account with admin privileges

Add user

 sudo /bin/ejabberdctl register testuser ca7bf9e4b2.devols.phoenix.edu Welcome1

Edit configuration

 {
  acl,
  admins,
  {user, "admin", "ca7bf9e4b2.devols.phoenix.edu"},
  {user, "brlamore", "ca7bf9e4b2.devols.phoenix.edu"}
 }

Hmm. That didn’t work very well for me. I keep getting the error

 application: ejabberd
 exited: {bad_return,
             {{ejabberd_app,start,[normal,[]]},
                 {'EXIT',
                     {{case_clause,
                         {acl,admin,
                             {user,"admin","ca7bf9e4b2.devols.phoenix.edu"},
                             {user,"brlamore",
                                 "ca7bf9e4b2.devols.phoenix.edu"}}},
                     [{ejabberd_config,process_term,2},
                     {ejabberd_config,load_file,1},
                     {ejabberd_config,start,0},
                     {ejabberd_app,start,2},
                     {application_master,start_it_old,4}]}}}}
 type: temporary

Let’s just have one admin account

Restart

Connect with Client
- Added second user
- Opened two chat clients on two computers and added the contacts on each roster

Success!

Next Steps

OK now I have the server up and running and can communicate between two users. I want to look into:

Auto populate the roster for a user

References

Adding Directory to PATH