Jabberd Quick Installation Guide

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Jabberd Quick Installation Guide
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Jabberd Quick Installation Guide

• The jabberd server is the original open-source
  server implementation of the Jabber protocol, and
  is the most popular software for deploying Jabber
  either inside a company or as a public IM
  service.
• Save the file jabberd-1.4.2.tar.gz to /tmp/ (or
  to a directory of your choice).
• Open a console window and create the directory as
  /path/to/jabber/ as follows
• root_at_im rootmkdir /path/
• root_at_im rootmkdir /path/to/
• root_at_im rootmkdir /path/to/jabber/
• Type mv /tmp/jabberd-1.4.2.tar.gz
  /path/to/jabber/
• Type cd /path/to/jabber/
• Type gzip -d jabberd-1.4.2.tar.gz

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• Type tar -xvf jabberd-1.4.2.tar (this creates a
  jabberd-1.4.2/ directory containing various files
  and subdirectories)
• Type cd jabber-1.4.2/
• Type ./configure
• Type make
• Open another console and type cd
  /path/to/jabber/jabber-1.4.2/
• Type ls -l jabberd/jabberd to view the
  permissions on the Jabber daemon. The
  output on your console should look something like
  this -rwxr-xr-x 1 user group 675892 Feb
  25 2004 jabberd/jabberd

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• Type ./jabberd/jabberd to start the Jabber
  daemon. This will run the server using the
  default hostname of localhost. You should see one
  line of output in your console window
  20020923T025026 notice (-internal)
  initializing server.
• Open a separate console window on the same
  machine and type telnet localhost 5222 to connect
  to your server (yes, you can connect using simple
  old telnet!). You should see the following
• Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to
  your-machine-name. Escape character is ''.

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• Now open an XML stream to your server by pasting
  the full text of the following XML snippet into
  your telnet window
• ltstreamstream to'localhost'
  xmlns'jabberclient' xmlnsstream'http//ether
  x.jabber.org/streams'gt You should
  immediately receive a reply from your server
• lt?xml version'1.0'?gt ltstreamstream
  xmlnsstream'http//etherx.jabber.org/streams'
  id'some-random-id' xmlns'jabberclient'
  from'localhost'gt
• Congratulations! Your Jabber server is working.

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• Close the stream properly by pasting the
  following XML snippet into your telnet window
  lt/streamstreamgt
• Stop the server by killing the process or simply
  typing C in the window where you started the
  server deamon.

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Configuring the Hostname

• You change the configuration of jabberd by
  editing a file named jabber.xml, which is located
  in your /path/to/jabber/jabber-1.4.2 directory.
  The jabber.xml file contains a great deal of
  comments that help you understand what each
  configuration option does. However, right now all
  that we need to change is the hostname. So open
  jabber.xml in your favorite text editor (vi,
  emacs, etc.) and edit the line that reads as
  follows
• lthostgtltjabberdcmdline flag"h"gtlocalhostlt/jabberd
  cmdlinegtlt/hostgt
• You now need to give Jabber server's ip address
  or hostname here.
• Ex.
• lthostgtltjabberdcmdline flag"h"gt192.168.200.8lt/ja
  bberdcmdlinegtlt/hostgt
• or
• lthostgtltjabberdcmdline flag"h"gtim.jic.comlt/jabber
  dcmdlinegtlt/hostgt

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• Note
• Make sure to create a folder and name it as the
  name you put in the above line that is
  192.168.200.8 or im.jic.com in /path/to/jabber/jab
  ber-1.4.2/spool/ Ex
• root_at_im rootmkdir /path/to/jabber/jabber-1.4.2/
  spool/192.168.200.8
• or
• root_at_im rootmkdir /path/to/jabber/jabber-1.4.2/
  spool/im.jic.com

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• Now you need to configure your server to bind to
  a specific IP address. First, in the ltpthcsock/gt
  section of your jabber.xml file, change ltip
  port"5222"/gt to ltip port"5222"gtyourIPaddresslt/ip
  gt. Second, in the dialback section of your
  jabber.xml file, change ltip port"5269"/gt to ltip
  port"5269"gtyourIPaddresslt/ipgt.
• Ex
• ltip port5222gt192.168.200.8lt/ipgt
• ltip port5269gt192.168.200.8lt/ipgt
• Now jabber.xml and type in console again
  ./jabberd/jabberd to start the Jabber daemon
  previously you have killed.

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• Install windows jabber client exodus
  version0.9.0.0 in your win PC in the same lan
  segment that the jabber server runs. You can
  specify the jabber server name by typing server
  name or ip address in the Server drop down menu.
  Type your user name and password (any username
  and password you like) and click ok

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• Then it ask to create a new user since it was not
  previously in the jabber server.

• Click yes and proceed. You need to add another
  user like this and add contact between the other
  user and start messaging. Following screenshots
  show how to add a new contact.

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