How to make eJabberd XMPP Server work? (in droplet with nginx/php/maridb/tls already running)

Posted on November 21, 2017

Development

Nginx

Ubuntu 16.04

Messaging

PHP

MariaDB

By MrCruz

I already have a droplet running Nginx/Php/Maridb with TLS(https). It works just fine. Then i tried to install eJabberd XMPP Server in the same droplet using this tutorial: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-ejabberd-xmpp-server-on-ubuntu The installation works fine. I run “service ejabberd status” and it says it’s running, BUT it doesn’t work. I can not open the http://(or https://)<my droplet ip>:5280/admin or 5222 or 5223… It just doesn’t return anything. Am i doing something wrong here?

– after “sudo netstat -plutn”:

Active Internet connections (only servers) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State PID/Program name tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:25 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 1964/master tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:443 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 1492/nginx -g daemo tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:3306 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 1797/mysqld tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:80 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 1492/nginx -g daemo tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:40595 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 1518/beam.smp tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:22 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 1368/sshd tcp6 0 0 :::25 :::* LISTEN 1964/master tcp6 0 0 :::443 :::* LISTEN 1492/nginx -g daemo tcp6 0 0 :::5280 :::* LISTEN 1518/beam.smp tcp6 0 0 :::5222 :::* LISTEN 1518/beam.smp tcp6 0 0 :::80 :::* LISTEN 1492/nginx -g daemo tcp6 0 0 :::4369 :::* LISTEN 1/init tcp6 0 0 :::5269 :::* LISTEN 1518/beam.smp tcp6 0 0 :::22 :::* LISTEN 1368/sshd

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Bobby

May 5, 2022

Hello,

The service seems to be already listening on both ports 5280 and 5222.

This means that it is most likely your firewall that is blocking the connections.

You need to allow the traffic to those two ports. The exact command would depend on the firewall that you are using, for example, if you are using ufw it would be: