Howto: Openfire - XMPP (also called Jabber) Server

**handband2** · August 14th, 2007

Installing openfire
http://www.igniterealtime.org/projec...fire/index.jsp

Install Ubuntu 6.06 LTS LAMP
Recommended sites to setup your LAMP server:
http://www.howtoforge.com/ubuntu_lamp_for_newbies
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Ap...&redirect=LAMP

Check which version of Java you are running. Note the following: the .tar.gz build does not contain a bundled Java runtime (JRE). Therefore, you must have JDK or JRE 1.5.0 (Java 5) or later installed on your system. You can check your java version by typing "java -version" at the command line and (if necessary) upgrade your Java installation by visiting http://java.sun.com.)

Java 6 is available for 6.06 LTS via the "backports" repository. If this is a fresh install of Ubuntu, you will need to edit your SOURCES.LIST to enable this repository.

Code:

$ sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list

Uncomment the following line(s):
Default source.list.

Code:

# deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-backports main restricted universe multiverse
# deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-backports main restricted universe multiverse

Uncommented.

Code:

deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-backports main restricted universe multiverse

Update system.

Code:

$ sudo apt-get update

Install java6.

Code:

$ sudo apt-get install sun-java6-bin

Check java versions on your system.

Code:

$ java -version

Install java6 If you don't have java already installed.

Code:

$ sudo apt-get install sun-java6-bin

Configure Java.

Code:

$ sudo update-alternatives --config java
Select java6 for your default.
select /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/bin/java

To create a database for openfire MySQL, Oracle, Microsoft SQLServer, PostgreSQL, IBM DB2, or HSQLDB can be used. I chose MySQL since it was installed with my LAMP setup.

Now use phpmyadmin or the terminal to create the database. The following is through the terminal.

Login as root

Code:

$ su

Login to MySQL

Code:

# mysql

or the following if you setup a user and a password.

Code:

# mysql -u USERNAME -p

Create the database in MySQL

Code:

# mysql> CREATE DATABASE openfire;

Code:

# mysql> exit

Download Openfire to a directory. I chose the /opt/ directory.

Code:

# cd /opt

Download File or go here to get the most recent: http://www.igniterealtime.org/downlo...x.jsp#openfire

Code:

# wget http://www.igniterealtime.org/downloadServlet?filename=openfire/openfire_3_3_2.tar.gz

Code:

# mv downloadServlet\?filename\=openfire%2Fopenfire_3_3_2.tar.gz openfire_3_3_2.tar.gz

Extract the files.

Code:

# tar -zxvf openfire_3_3_2.tar.gz

Create a symlink

Code:

# ln -s /opt/openfire/bin/openfire /etc/init.d/

Make the symlink executible

Code:

# chmod +x /etc/init.d/openfire

Add openfire to our startup.

Code:

# update-rc.d openfire defaults

Fix the nohup output.

Code:

# vim /opt/openfire/bin/openfire

Modify openfire script with the following: >../logs/SDTOUT.log 2>../logs/SDTERR.log into /opt/openfire/bin/openfire

ORIGINAL:

Code:

nohup "$app_java_home/bin/java" -server -Dinstall4j.jvmDir="$app_java_home" 
-Dexe4j.moduleName="$prg_dir/$progname" $INSTALL4J_ADD_VM_PARAMS 
-classpath "$local_classpath" com.install4j.runtime.Launcher start 
org.jivesoftware.openfire.starter.ServerStarter false false "$prg_dir/../logs/stderror.log" 
"$prg_dir/../logs/stdoutt.log" true true false "" true true 0 0 "" 20 20 "Arial" "0,0,0" 8 500 
"version 3.3.2" 20 40 "Arial" "0,0,0" 8 500 -1 -DopenfireHome=$app_home 
-Dopenfire.lib.dir=$app_home/lib &

Goto line 262 of /opt/openfire/bin/openfire and insert the following at the end of nohup .... with >../logs/STDOUT.log 2>../logs/STDERR.log

MODIFIED:

Code:

nohup "$app_java_home/bin/java" -server -Dinstall4j.jvmDir="$app_java_home" 
-Dexe4j.moduleName="$prg_dir/$progname" $INSTALL4J_ADD_VM_PARAMS 
-classpath "$local_classpath" com.install4j.runtime.Launcher start 
org.jivesoftware.openfire.starter.ServerStarter false false "$prg_dir/../logs/stderror.log" 
"$prg_dir/../logs/stdoutt.log" true true false "" true true 0 0 "" 20 20 "Arial" "0,0,0" 8 500 
"version 3.3.2" 20 40 "Arial" "0,0,0" 8 500 -1 -DopenfireHome=$app_home 
-Dopenfire.lib.dir=$app_home/lib >../logs/STDOUT.log 2>../logs/STDERR.log &

Now lets start Openfire (xmpp-server). Restart or run the following command to start Openfire:

Code:

# /opt/openfire/bin/openfire start

Now setup the rest of Openfire through your browser.
http://localhost:9090

**proactiv3** · August 21st, 2007

Great tutorial.

I have a question, though. I manage the IT department of a small company (in fact I am the department

). Until some months ago we were an 100% Microsoft based company, exception made for the creative department that uses Macintosh.

My boss asked me to put together a small intranet Wiki and I saw the perfect opportunity to give Linux a try (I hate IIS). I installed Ubuntu, Apache, MySQL and PHP on an old machine, gave it a static IP and it has been functioning since then as an internal Web Server.

Thus I'm loving the experience and the server has had absolutely no problem since then, there are still many co-workers of mine reluctant to accept GNU\Linux as a possible alternative to the Microsoft monopoly (which represents to us an massive investment, just in software licensing).

Today it was given me the chance to, once more, prove the value of this kind of operating system: it was asked me to start an internal instant messaging server. I chose to create the IM server in that same Ubuntu machine and I went for an open-source solution: OpenFire (once again there are many people relutant to accept this solution as a good solution: there's a mentality that if it's free, it can't be that good).

Because I'm new to this world, I'm having serious difficulties. I've found no relevant documentation in the Ignite Realtime foruns, and I started looking in the Ubuntu Foruns.

I followed this tutorial (in fact it's very similar to the instructions given by the software creators) and successfully completed all steps, except the last one.

I can't open the OpenFire setup page: I assume that it's because I'm running Apache. When I type the give URL, it just says that Firefox couldn't connect to the server...

Help would me much appreciated. I've tried to search both Google and the Forum in several different ways, but I found nothing relevant. Once again I'm a complete n00b, so simple language and an explanation to what I'm in fact doing would also be much appreciated.

**handband2** · August 21st, 2007

poractiv3,

First lets see if OpenFire (xmpp-server) is running.

Code:

$ sudo netstat -tap

You should find the following in the outputted list:

Code:

tcp6       0      0 *:xmpp-server           *:*                     LISTEN     3729/java

More than likely your PID (the 3729 number) will be different.

If nothing shows up then that means Openfire is not running. If that is the case restart the server or just start up Openfire with the following command:

Code:

$ sudo /opt/openfire/bin/openfire start

I hope that helps....

**proactiv3** · August 22nd, 2007

Oops!

In fact it wasn't running... Thanks for your time and help. Problem solved.

I'm starting out, sorry for the newbie question.

Regards

**handband2** · August 22nd, 2007

Originally Posted by proactiv3

Oops!

In fact it wasn't running... Thanks for your time and help. Problem solved.

I'm starting out, sorry for the newbie question.

Regards

I'm glad you got it working. It wasn't a newbie question. I forgot to add how to start up the xmpp server. I'll update the howto.

**D_2** · August 30th, 2007

Anyone know how to get to the admin page other than using http://localhost:9090 I have this on my Ubuntu server that isn't connected to a monitor so I use Putty to get to it and I did try links to get to it but that did get me to the pages but it was kind of hard to read and so i am trying to find a way to get to the page other than using http://localhost:9090
I did try IP of that box (192.168.1.5:9090) but it didn't work.

**dorath** · February 7th, 2008

Originally Posted by D_2

Anyone know how to get to the admin page other than using http://localhost:9090 I have this on my Ubuntu server that isn't connected to a monitor so I use Putty to get to it and I did try links to get to it but that did get me to the pages but it was kind of hard to read and so i am trying to find a way to get to the page other than using http://localhost:9090
I did try IP of that box (192.168.1.5:9090) but it didn't work.

A late reply, yes, but I had the same problem last night and others might as well. To solve this I installed lynx, a text based browser, on the server and was then able to connect to http://127.0.0.1:9090 using the same ssh window I had been using to do the install.

I'm at work right now and don't have access to the machine, but I believe that

Code:

sudo apt-get install lynx

will do the trick. It took me a couple minutes to get used to the navigation, but it's really not bad.

**goldbuffalo** · June 19th, 2009

Hello,
My openfire 3.64, everything works but I can't tranfer file with yahoo or MSN, pls HELP!!

Thanks alot

**anung524** · August 21st, 2009

Thanks for the step-by-step tutorial.
Openfire made me go nuts with the "nohup.out" problem.
I followed the instruction, and it worked like a charm.
I'm using Openfire 3.6.4, Ubuntu 9.04 Server, Java JDK 6, and MySQL 5.1.

Thank you very much..

**lightnb** · November 2nd, 2009

I'm also trying to get this working, but having no luck. I *think* it's running...

netstat -tap shows:

Code:

tcp6       0      0 [::]:9092               [::]:*                  LISTEN      1871/java

and when I visit

Code:

http://openfire.mydomain.com:9092/

The favicon loads...

But the page is completely blank! The docs say I should see a set-up wizard, but nothing's there. There's nothing exciting in the log files either.

I'm also using Openfire 3.6.4, Ubuntu 9.04 Server, Java JDK 6, and MySQL 5.1.

Any ideas?

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