linux im jabber2 server

OpenFire

https://www.igniterealtime.org/projects/openfire/index.jsp

https://www.igniterealtime.org/downloads/index.js

The full version of this for Linux is in an RPM file, rather than Linux Mint DEB. It can be converted

sudo apt-get install alien dpkg-dev debhelper build-essential

sudo alien packagename.rpm

sudo dpkg -i packagename.deb

So example

sudo apt-get install alien dpkg-dev debhelper build-essential

https://www.igniterealtime.org/downloads/download-landing.jsp?file=openfire/openfire-4.0.3-1.i386.rpm

cd ~/Downloads

sudo alien openfire-4.0.3-1.i386.rpm

sudo dpkg -i openfire-4.0.3-1.i386.deb

 

 

Jabberd

Jabberd but really much more complicate because the directions are for an old version. Visit the web site for current install(very messy IMHO)

https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/serverguide/jabberd2-server.html

Pretty straight forward, start with lan and then can be opened up to the wan.

Installation

To install jabberd2, in a terminal enter:

sudo apt install jabberd2

Configuration

A couple of XML configuration files will be used to configure jabberd2 for Berkeley DB user authentication. This is a very simple form of authentication. However, jabberd2 can be configured to use LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc for for user authentication.

First, edit /etc/jabberd2/sm.xml changing:

  <id>jabber.example.com</id>

Replace jabber.example.com with the hostname, or other id, of your server.

Now in the <storage> section change the <driver> to:

   <driver>db</driver>

Next, edit /etc/jabberd2/c2s.xml in the <local> section change:

  <id>jabber.example.com</id>

And in the <authreg> section adjust the <module> section to:

    <module>db</module>

Finally, restart jabberd2 to enable the new settings:

sudo systemctl restart jabberd2.service

You should now be able to connect to the server using a Jabber client like Pidgin for example.