First, we would have to spin up a Ubuntu 12.10 x64 droplet:
Next, login to your droplet via SSH as root.
apt-get -y install ejabberd
Change "password" to your own value:
ejabberdctl register admin localhost password
By default, hostname used by eJabberd is 'localhost', which can be modified from config file.
For our example we will call our admin user "admin@localhost" and modify the following lines in /etc/ejabberd/ejabberd.cfg:
%% Admin user {acl, admin, {user, "admin", "localhost"}}. %% Hostname {hosts, ["localhost"]}.
service ejabberd restart
Now you can navigate to your eJabberd Web Admin interface on droplet's IP address port 5280
http://198.199.90.115:5280/admin
The login username is user@domain ("admin@localhost" in our case):
From the web admin interface you can modify all the settings:
From web admin interface, click Virtual Hosts -> localhost -> Users
You can also add a user from command line via SSH:
Now you can install a client like Pidgin to connect to XMPP:
Remember to use port 5222 to connect to your XMPP server using encryption:
From Pidgin you can either press CTRL+B or from menu "Buddies" -> "Add Buddy" to buddies:
Your buddy would receive a friend request that they would have to authorize:
Now you will be able to communicate securely using XMPP and OTR encryption module in Pidgin:
And you are all done!
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eJabberd no longer uses the
.cfg
file mentioned in this writeup, and now uses.yml
@barkamlesh.nit: Unfortunately it’s not possible to install ejabberd on shared hosting.
Thank you, that is very helpful. I hope I can also find an article that helps me integrate an already created database with ejabberd’s authentication/functions
This tutorial is severely outdated. Please update.
Config is a YAML and the admin page must be accessed using https, not http.
Not works:(( http://165.227.137.175:5280/ ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE
With the package install, how can we enable mysql configuration?
ejabberd is configured to use ‘mysql’, but the following Erlang modules are not installed: ‘[mysql, mysql_auth, mysql_conn, mysql_recv]’
Any pointers?
Hey
Can I run eJabbered on the same server as the app eJabbered is used on? Or does it need it’s own server?
My server has 4GB Ram
Not working in 16.04 , after all configuration my home page is not opening for ejabberd home with port 5280
Hi, it is not possible to establish an OTR connection when I want to send a message by Pidgin client. The eJabberd server says: “...@localhost has requested an Off-the-Record private conversation https://otr.cypherpunks.ca/. However, you do not have a plugin to support that.”. How can I add the required plugin to support OTR?
FYI ejabberd.cfg is converted to ejabberd.yml