Following the Prosody installation tutorial I wrote last time you’ll notice that we didn’t touch any database configuration for storage, therefore Prosody will use the default storage, the file system.
Here is how to use MySQL as storage backend for Prosody.
Prosody is a free and open source software that provides XMPP/Jabber server service for chat or instant messaging. It has multi-domain supports and other XMPP/Jabber features.
Let’s install it, configure it and use it. I’ll be using Ubuntu server 14.04 and Prosody from apt-get.
Upgrade the server and reboot:
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sudo apt-get -y update
sudo apt-get -y upgrade
sudo reboot
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Please note that you may skip above steps if you know what you’re doing.
Install Prosody:
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sudo apt-get -y install prosody
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That’s it. Installation is finished. Next is to create SSL certificates and do some basic configuration.
Do It Yourself an Instant Messaging server, an experiment with ejabberd.
This article is divided into three parts:
The goal of this article is to compile and install ejabberd from source on CentOS, configure admin account to enable the web admin and add an example how to configure ejabberd to support multiple domains or virtual hosts.
Linux server installation:
Please note that you can always use full version of CentOS, the same installation steps in this article will still work.
Update: This article will also work on CentOS 7.1