ejabberd - High-Performance Enterprise Instant Messaging Server

Quickstart guide

0. Requirements

To compile ejabberd you need:

• GNU Make
• GCC
• Erlang/OTP R12B-5 or higher. Recommended: R12B-5, R13B04 and R14B01. Avoid R14A and R14B.
• exmpp 0.9.6 or higher
• OpenSSL 0.9.8 or higher, for STARTTLS, SASL and SSL encryption.
• Zlib 1.2.3 or higher, for Stream Compression support (XEP-0138). Optional.
• Erlang mysql library. Optional. MySQL authentication/storage.
• Erlang pgsql library. Optional. PostgreSQL authentication/storage.
• PAM library. Optional. For Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM).
• ESASL library. Optional. For SASL GSSAPI authentication.
• ImageMagick's Convert program. Optional. For CAPTCHA challenges.

1. Compile and install on *nix systems

To compile ejabberd, go to the directory src/ and execute the commands: ./configure make

If you get an error like: ./configure: No such file or directory the solution is to first execute: aclocal autoconf

To install ejabberd, run this command with system administrator rights (root user):

sudo make install

These commands will:

• Install the configuration files in /etc/ejabberd/
• Install ejabberd binary, header and runtime files in /lib/ejabberd/
• Install the administration script: /sbin/ejabberdctl
• Install ejabberd documentation in /share/doc/ejabberd/
• Create a spool directory: /var/lib/ejabberd/
• Create a directory for log files: /var/log/ejabberd/

2. Start ejabberd

You can use the ejabberdctl command line administration script to start and stop ejabberd. For example: ejabberdctl start

For detailed information please refer to the ejabberd Installation and Operation Guide