cstar / ejabberd

ejabberd - High-Performance Enterprise Instant Messaging Server 

--- Note/caveat from cstar ----
Cloud Edition -- That's just to look pompous and cool.
Though it is a fork in the github sense, it is *proof of concept*.
It has not seen production yet so use at your own risk

Quickstart guide


0. Requirements

To compile ejabberd you need:
 - GNU Make
 - GCC
 - Libexpat 1.95 or higher
 - Erlang/OTP R10B-9 or higher. The recommended version is R12B-5.
   Support for R13 is experimental.
 - OpenSSL 0.9.6 or higher, for STARTTLS, SASL and SSL
   encryption. Optional, highly recommended.
 - 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).
 - GNU Iconv 1.8 or higher, for the IRC Transport
   (mod_irc). Optional. Not needed on systems with GNU Libc.
 - erls3 (https://github.com/cstar/erls3/tree) and erlsdb (https://github.com/cstar/erlsdb/tree)
 - ImageMagick’s Convert program. Optional. For CAPTCHA challenges.
 - exmpp 0.9.1 or higher. Optional. For import/export XEP-0227 files. 

1. Compile and install on *nix systems

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

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. Configure ejabberd

Edit ejabberd.cfg
Set the environment variables AMAZON_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AMAZON_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY to your AWS account values.
Set EJABBERD_SALT to a sufficiently long string for password encryption.

Please note that passwords are exchanged in clear, so you want to enable C2S TLS encryption.

3. 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