How To Install eJabberd XMPP Server on Ubuntu 15.10 and 14.04

eJabberd XMPP Server on Ubuntu 15.10 & 14.04

ejabberd is an XMPP application server, written mainly in the Erlang programming language. It can run under several Unix-like operating systems such as Mac OS X, GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and OpenSolaris. Additionally, ejabberd can run under Microsoft Windows. The name ejabberd stands for Erlang Jabber Daemon (Jabber being a former name for XMPP) and is written in lowercase only, as is common for daemon software.

Install eJabberd

$ sudo apt-get install ejabberd

Configure eJabberd

For this installation we are using domain demo.hackthesec.co.in in configuration. You may only use localhost for you local system, but for remote server use a domain or sub-domain. So at first I make a host file entry to map demo.hackthesec.co.in with eJabberd server ip address.

$ sudo echo "192.168.10.120 demo.hackthesec.co.in" >> /etc/hosts

Now you need to create admin accounts for your domain. Below commands will create admin accounts for both virtual hosts localhost and demo.hackthese.co.in.

$ ejabberdctl register admin localhost password
$ ejabberdctl register admin demo.hackthesec.co.in password

Now edit ejabberd configuration file /etc/ejabberd/ejabberd.yml in text editor and add acl for admin user for demo.hackthesec.co.in.

acl:
  admin:
     user:
         - "admin": "localhost"
         - "admin": "demo.hackthesec.co.in"

Now add im.example.com under hosts section.

hosts:
  - "localhost"
  - "demo.hackthesec.co.in"

Access eJabberd Web Panel

After making all above configuration, let’s restart eJabberd service using following command.

$ sudo service ejabberd restart

eJabberd admin web panel start on default port 5280. Access access your domain on port 5280 followed by /admin

  http://demo.hackthesec.co.in:5280/admin

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