\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article} \usepackage{graphics} \usepackage{hevea} \usepackage{verbatim} \usepackage[twosideshift=0pt]{geometry} \usepackage[pdftex,colorlinks,unicode,urlcolor=blue,linkcolor=blue,pdftitle=Ejabberd\ Installation\ and\ Operation\ Guide,pdfauthor=Alexey\ Shchepin,pdfsubject=ejabberd,pdfkeywords=ejabberd]{hyperref} \newcommand{\logoscale}{0.7} \newcommand{\imgscale}{0.58} \newcommand{\insimg}[1]{\insscaleimg{\imgscale}{#1}} \newcommand{\insscaleimg}[2]{ \imgsrc{#2}{} \begin{latexonly} \scalebox{#1}{\includegraphics{#2}} \end{latexonly} } \newcommand{\bracehack}{\def\{{\char"7B}\def\}{\char"7D}} \newcommand{\ns}[1]{\texttt{#1}} \newcommand{\jid}[1]{\texttt{#1}} \newcommand{\option}[1]{\texttt{#1}} \newcommand{\poption}[1]{{\bracehack\texttt{#1}}} \newcommand{\node}[1]{\texttt{#1}} \newcommand{\term}[1]{\texttt{#1}} \newcommand{\shell}[1]{\texttt{#1}} \newcommand{\ejabberd}{\texttt{ejabberd}} \newcommand{\Jabber}{Jabber} \newcommand{\module}[1]{\texttt{#1}} \newcommand{\modannounce}{\module{mod\_announce}} \newcommand{\modconfigure}{\module{mod\_configure}} \newcommand{\moddisco}{\module{mod\_disco}} \newcommand{\modirc}{\module{mod\_irc}} \newcommand{\modlast}{\module{mod\_last}} \newcommand{\modmuc}{\module{mod\_muc}} \newcommand{\modecho}{\module{mod\_echo}} \newcommand{\modoffline}{\module{mod\_offline}} \newcommand{\modprivacy}{\module{mod\_privacy}} \newcommand{\modprivate}{\module{mod\_private}} \newcommand{\modpubsub}{\module{mod\_pubsub}} \newcommand{\modregister}{\module{mod\_register}} \newcommand{\modroster}{\module{mod\_roster}} \newcommand{\modservicelog}{\module{mod\_service\_log}} \newcommand{\modsharedroster}{\module{mod\_shared\_roster}} \newcommand{\modstats}{\module{mod\_stats}} \newcommand{\modtime}{\module{mod\_time}} \newcommand{\modvcard}{\module{mod\_vcard}} \newcommand{\modversion}{\module{mod\_version}} \newcommand{\titem}[1]{\item[\bracehack\texttt{#1}]} %\setcounter{tocdepth}{3} \begin{latexonly} \global\parskip=9pt plus 3pt minus 1pt \global\parindent=0pt \gdef\ahrefurl#1{\href{#1}{\texttt{#1}}} \gdef\footahref#1#2{#2\footnote{\href{#1}{\texttt{#1}}}} \end{latexonly} \newcommand{\tjepref}[2]{\footahref{http://www.jabber.org/jeps/jep-#1.html}{#2}} \newcommand{\jepref}[1]{\tjepref{#1}{JEP-#1}} \newcommand{\iqdiscitem}[1]{\titem{iqdisc} #1 IQ queries processing discipline (see~\ref{sec:modiqdiscoption}).} \newcommand{\hostitem}[1]{ \titem{host} Defines hostname of the service (see~\ref{sec:modhostoption}). \titem{hosts} Defines hostnames of the service (see~\ref{sec:modhostsoption}). If neither \texttt{host} nor \texttt{hosts} are not present, then prefix \jid{#1.} is added to all \ejabberd{} hostnames. } \title{Ejabberd Installation and Operation Guide} \author{Alexey Shchepin \\ \ahrefurl{mailto:alexey@sevcom.net} \\ \ahrefurl{xmpp:aleksey@jabber.ru}} \date{July 31, 2005} \begin{document} \begin{titlepage} \maketitle{} {\centering \insscaleimg{\logoscale}{logo.png} \par } \end{titlepage} %\newpage \tableofcontents{} \newpage \section{Introduction} \label{sec:intro} \ejabberd{} is a Free and Open Source fault-tolerant distributed \Jabber{} server. It is written mostly in Erlang. The main features of \ejabberd{} are: \begin{itemize} \item Works on most of popular platforms: *nix (tested on Linux, FreeBSD and NetBSD) and Win32 \item Distributed: You can run \ejabberd{} on a cluster of machines to let all of them serve one Jabber domain. \item Fault-tolerance: You can setup an \ejabberd{} cluster so that all the information required for a properly working service will be stored permanently on more than one node. This means that if one of the nodes crashes, then the others will continue working without disruption. You can also add or replace nodes ``on the fly''. \item Support for virtual hosting \item Built-in \tjepref{0045}{Multi-User Chat} service \item Built-in IRC transport \item Built-in \tjepref{0060}{Publish-Subscribe} service \item Built-in Jabber Users Directory service based on users vCards \item Built-in web-based administration interface \item Built-in \tjepref{0025}{HTTP Polling} service \item SSL support \item Support for LDAP authentication \item Ability to interface with external components (JIT, MSN-t, Yahoo-t, etc.) \item Migration from jabberd14 is possible \item Mostly XMPP-compliant \item Support for \tjepref{0030}{Service Discovery}. \item Support for \tjepref{0039}{Statistics Gathering}. \item Support for \ns{xml:lang} \end{itemize} The misfeatures of \ejabberd{} are: \begin{itemize} \item No support for authentication and STARTTLS in S2S connections \item Access rules can be defined only for global conext, not for specific virtual host \end{itemize} \section{Installation from Source} \label{sec:installation} \subsection{Installation Requirements} \label{sec:installreq} \subsubsection{Unix} \label{sec:installrequnix} To compile \ejabberd{}, you will need the following packages: \begin{itemize} \item GNU Make; \item GCC; \item libexpat 1.95 or later; \item Erlang/OTP R8B or later; \item OpenSSL 0.9.6 or later (optional). \end{itemize} \subsubsection{Windows} \label{sec:installreqwin} To compile \ejabberd{} in MS Windows environment, you will need the following packages: \begin{itemize} \item MS Visual C++ 6.0 Compiler \item \footahref{http://erlang.org/download/otp\_win32\_R10B-1a.exe}{Erlang/OTP R10B-1a} \item \footahref{http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/expat/expat\_win32bin\_1\_95\_7.exe?download}{Expat 1.95.7} \item \footahref{http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/libiconv/libiconv-1.9.1.tar.gz}{Iconv 1.9.1} (optional) \item \footahref{http://www.slproweb.com/products/Win32OpenSSL.html}{Shining Light OpenSSL} (to enable SSL connections) \end{itemize} \subsection{Obtaining} \label{sec:obtaining} Stable \ejabberd{} release can be obtained at \ahrefurl{http://www.process-one.net/en/projects/ejabberd/download.html}. The latest alpha version can be retrieved from Subversion repository\@. \begin{verbatim} svn co svn://svn.process-one.net/opt/data/svn/ejabberd/trunk ejabberd \end{verbatim} \subsection{Compilation} \label{sec:compilation} \subsubsection{Unix} \label{sec:compilationunix} \begin{verbatim} ./configure make su make install \end{verbatim} This will install \ejabberd{} to \verb|/var/lib/ejabberd| directory, \verb|ejabberd.cfg| to \verb|/etc/ejabberd| directory and create \verb|/var/log/ejabberd| directory for log files. \subsubsection{Windows} \label{sec:compilationwin} \begin{itemize} \item Install Erlang emulator (for example, into \verb|C:\Program Files\erl5.3|). \item Install Expat library into \verb|C:\Program Files\Expat-1.95.7| directory. Copy file \verb|C:\Program Files\Expat-1.95.7\Libs\libexpat.dll| to your Windows system directory (for example, \verb|C:\WINNT| or \verb|C:\WINNT\System32|) \item Build and install Iconv library into \verb|C:\Program Files\iconv-1.9.1| directory. Copy file \verb|C:\Program Files\iconv-1.9.1\bin\iconv.dll| to your Windows system directory. Note: Instead of copying libexpat.dll and iconv.dll to Windows directory, you can add directories \verb|C:\Program Files\Expat-1.95.7\Libs| and \verb|C:\Program Files\iconv-1.9.1\bin| to \verb|PATH| environment variable. \item Being in \verb|ejabberd\src| directory run: \begin{verbatim} configure.bat nmake -f Makefile.win32 \end{verbatim} \item Edit file \verb|ejabberd\src\ejabberd.cfg| and run \begin{verbatim} werl -s ejabberd -name ejabberd \end{verbatim} \end{itemize} %\subsection{Initial Configuration} %\label{sec:initconfig} \subsection{Starting} \label{sec:starting} To start \ejabberd{}, use the following command: \begin{verbatim} erl -pa /var/lib/ejabberd/ebin -name ejabberd -s ejabberd \end{verbatim} or \begin{verbatim} erl -pa /var/lib/ejabberd/ebin -sname ejabberd -s ejabberd \end{verbatim} In the latter case Erlang node will be identified using only first part of host name, i.\,e. other Erlang nodes outside this domain can't contact this node. Note that when using above command \ejabberd{} will search for config file in current directory and will use current directory for storing user database and logging. To specify path to config file, log files and Mnesia database directory, you may use the following command: \begin{verbatim} erl -pa /var/lib/ejabberd/ebin \ -sname ejabberd \ -s ejabberd \ -ejabberd config \"/etc/ejabberd/ejabberd.cfg\" \ log_path \"/var/log/ejabberd/ejabberd.log\" \ -sasl sasl_error_logger \{file,\"/var/log/ejabberd/sasl.log\"\} \ -mnesia dir \"/var/lib/ejabberd/spool\" \end{verbatim} You can find other useful options in Erlang manual page (\shell{erl -man erl}). To use more than 1024 connections, you should set environment variable \verb|ERL_MAX_PORTS|: \begin{verbatim} export ERL_MAX_PORTS=32000 \end{verbatim} Note that with this value \ejabberd{} will use more memory (approximately 6MB more). To reduce memory usage, you may set environment variable \verb|ERL_FULLSWEEP_AFTER|: \begin{verbatim} export ERL_FULLSWEEP_AFTER=0 \end{verbatim} But in this case \ejabberd{} can start to work slower. \section{Configuration} \label{sec:configuration} \subsection{Initial Configuration} \label{sec:initconfig} The configuration file is initially loaded the first time \ejabberd{} is executed, when it is parsed and stored in a database. Subsequently the configuration is loaded from the database and any commands in the configuration file are appended to the entries in the database. The configuration file consists of a sequence of Erlang terms. Parts of lines after \term{`\%'} sign are ignored. Each term is tuple, where first element is name of option, and other are option values. E.\,g.\ if this file does not contain a ``host'' definition, then old value stored in the database will be used. To override old values stored in the database the following lines can be added in config: \begin{verbatim} override_global. override_local. override_acls. \end{verbatim} With this lines old global or local options or ACLs will be removed before adding new ones. \subsubsection{Host Names} \label{sec:confighostname} Option \option{hosts} defines a list of \Jabber{} domains that \ejabberd{} serves. E.\,g.\ to serve \jid{example.org} and \jid{example.com} domains add the following line in the config: \begin{verbatim} {hosts, ["example.org", "example.com"]}. \end{verbatim} Option \option{host} defines one \Jabber{} domain that \ejabberd{} serves. E.\,g.\ to serve only \jid{example.org} domain add the following line in the config: \begin{verbatim} {host, "example.org"}. \end{verbatim} It have the same effect as \begin{verbatim} {hosts, ["example.org"]}. \end{verbatim} %This option is mandatory. \subsubsection{Default Language} \label{sec:configlanguage} Option \option{language} defines default language of \ejabberd{} messages, sent to users. Default value is \term{"en"}. In order to take effect there must be a translation file \term{.msg} in \ejabberd{} \term{msgs} directory. E.\,g.\ to use Russian as default language add the following line in the config: \begin{verbatim} {language, "ru"}. \end{verbatim} \subsubsection{Access Rules} \label{sec:configaccess} Access control in \ejabberd{} is performed via Access Control Lists (ACL). The declarations of ACL in config file have following syntax: \begin{verbatim} {acl, , {, ...}}. \end{verbatim} \term{} can be one of following: \begin{description} \titem{all} Matches all JIDs. Example: \begin{verbatim} {acl, all, all}. \end{verbatim} \titem{\{user, \}} Matches user with name \term{} at the first virtual host. Example: \begin{verbatim} {acl, admin, {user, "aleksey"}}. \end{verbatim} \titem{\{user, , \}} Matches user with JID \term{@} and any resource. Example: \begin{verbatim} {acl, admin, {user, "aleksey", "jabber.ru"}}. \end{verbatim} \titem{\{server, \}} Matches any JID from server \term{}. Example: \begin{verbatim} {acl, jabberorg, {server, "jabber.org"}}. \end{verbatim} \titem{\{user\_regexp, \}} Matches local user with name that matches \term{} at the first virtual host. Example: \begin{verbatim} {acl, tests, {user, "^test[0-9]*$"}}. \end{verbatim} %$ \titem{\{user\_regexp, , \}} Matches user with name that matches \term{} and from server \term{}. Example: \begin{verbatim} {acl, tests, {user, "^test", "example.org"}}. \end{verbatim} \titem{\{server\_regexp, \}} Matches any JID from server that matches \term{}. Example: \begin{verbatim} {acl, icq, {server, "^icq\\."}}. \end{verbatim} \titem{\{node\_regexp, , \}} Matches user with name that matches \term{} and from server that matches \term{}. Example: \begin{verbatim} {acl, aleksey, {node_regexp, "^aleksey$", "^jabber.(ru|org)$"}}. \end{verbatim} \titem{\{user\_glob, \}} \titem{\{user\_glob, , \}} \titem{\{server\_glob, \}} \titem{\{node\_glob, , \}} This is same as above, but uses shell glob patterns instead of regexp. These patterns can have following special characters: \begin{description} \titem{*} matches any string including the null string. \titem{?} matches any single character. \titem{[...]} matches any of the enclosed characters. Character ranges are specified by a pair of characters separated by a \term{`-'}. If the first character after \term{`['} is a \term{`!'}, then any character not enclosed is matched. \end{description} \end{description} The following ACLs are pre-defined: \begin{description} \titem{all} Matches all JIDs. \titem{none} Matches none JIDs. \end{description} An entry allowing or denying access to different services would look similar to this: \begin{verbatim} {access, , [{allow, }, {deny, }, ... ]}. \end{verbatim} When a JID is checked to have access to \term{}, the server sequentially checks if this JID mathes one of the ACLs that are second elements in each tuple in list. If it is matched, then the first element of matched tuple is returned else ``\term{deny}'' is returned. Example: \begin{verbatim} {access, configure, [{allow, admin}]}. {access, something, [{deny, badmans}, {allow, all}]}. \end{verbatim} Following access rules pre-defined: \begin{description} \titem{all} Always returns ``\term{allow}'' \titem{none} Always returns ``\term{deny}'' \end{description} \subsubsection{Shapers Configuration} \label{sec:configshaper} With shapers is possible to bound connection traffic. The declarations of shapers in config file have following syntax: \begin{verbatim} {shaper, , }. \end{verbatim} Currently implemented only one kind of shaper: \term{maxrate}. It have following syntax: \begin{verbatim} {maxrate, } \end{verbatim} where \term{} means maximum allowed incomig rate in bytes/second. E.\,g.\ to define shaper with name ``\term{normal}'' and maximum allowed rate 1000\,bytes/s, add following line in config: \begin{verbatim} {shaper, normal, {maxrate, 1000}}. \end{verbatim} \subsubsection{Listened Sockets} \label{sec:configlistened} Option \option{listen} defines list of listened sockets and what services runned on them. Each element of list is a tuple with following elements: \begin{itemize} \item Port number; \item Module that serves this port; \item Options to this module. \end{itemize} Currently these modules are implemented: \begin{description} \titem{ejabberd\_c2s} This module serves C2S connections. The following options are defined: \begin{description} \titem{\{access, \}} This option defines access of users to this C2S port. Default value is ``\term{all}''. \titem{\{shaper, \}} This option is like previous, but use shapers instead of ``\term{allow}'' and ``\term{deny}''. Default value is ``\term{none}''. \titem{\{ip, IPAddress\}} This option specifies which network interface to listen on. For example \verb|{ip, {192, 168, 1, 1}}|. \titem{inet6} Set up the socket for IPv6. \titem{starttls} This option specifies that STARTTLS extension is available on connections to this port. You should also set ``\verb|certfile|'' option. \titem{tls} This option specifies that traffic on this port will be encrypted using SSL immediately after connecting. You should also set ``\verb|certfile|'' option. \titem{ssl} This option specifies that traffic on this port will be encrypted using SSL. You should also set ``\verb|certfile|'' option. It is recommended to use \term{tls} option instead. \titem{\{certfile, Path\}} Path to a file containing the SSL certificate. \end{description} \titem{ejabberd\_s2s\_in} This module serves incoming S2S connections. \titem{ejabberd\_service} This module serves connections from \Jabber{} services (i.\,e.\ that use the \ns{jabber:component:accept} namespace). The following additional options are defined for \term{ejabberd\_service} (options \option{access}, \option{shaper}, \option{ip}, \option{inet6} are still valid): \begin{description} \titem{\{host, Hostname, [HostOptions]\}} This option defines hostname of connected service and allows to specify additional options, e.\,g.\ \poption{\{password, Secret\}}. \titem{\{hosts, [Hostnames], [HostOptions]\}} The same as above, but allows to specify several hostnames. \end{description} \titem{ejabberd\_http} This module serves incoming HTTP connections. The following options are defined: \begin{description} \titem{http\_poll} This option enables \jepref{0025} (HTTP Polling) support. It is available then at \verb|http://server:port/http-poll/|. \titem{web\_admin} This option enables web-based interface for \ejabberd{} administration which is available at \verb|http://server:port/admin/|, login and password should be equal to username and password of one of registered users who have permission defined in ``configure'' access rule. \end{description} \end{description} For example, the following configuration defines that: \begin{itemize} \item C2S connections are listened on port 5222 and 5223 (SSL) and denied for user ``\term{bad}'' \item S2S connections are listened on port 5269 \item HTTP connections are listened on port 5280 and administration interface and HTTP Polling support are enabled \item All users except admins have traffic limit 1000\,B/s \item AIM transport \jid{aim.example.org} is connected to port 5233 with password ``\term{aimsecret}'' \item JIT transports \jid{icq.example.org} and \jid{sms.example.org} are connected to port 5234 with password ``\term{jitsecret}'' \item MSN transport \jid{msn.example.org} is connected to port 5235 with password ``\term{msnsecret}'' \item Yahoo! transport \jid{yahoo.example.org} is connected to port 5236 with password ``\term{yahoosecret}'' \item Gadu-Gadu transport \jid{gg.example.org} is connected to port 5237 with password ``\term{ggsecret}'' \item ILE service \jid{ile.example.org} is connected to port 5238 with password ``\term{ilesecret}'' \end{itemize} \begin{verbatim} {acl, blocked, {user, "bad"}}. {access, c2s, [{deny, blocked}, {allow, all}]}. {shaper, normal, {maxrate, 1000}}. {access, c2s_shaper, [{none, admin}, {normal, all}]}. {listen, [{5222, ejabberd_c2s, [{access, c2s}, {shaper, c2s_shaper}]}, {5223, ejabberd_c2s, [{access, c2s}, ssl, {certfile, "/path/to/ssl.pem"}]}, {5269, ejabberd_s2s_in, []}, {5280, ejabberd_http, [http_poll, web_admin]}, {5233, ejabberd_service, [{host, "aim.example.org", [{password, "aimsecret"}]}]}, {5234, ejabberd_service, [{hosts, ["icq.example.org", "sms.example.org"], [{password, "jitsecret"}]}]}, {5235, ejabberd_service, [{host, "msn.example.org", [{password, "msnsecret"}]}]}, {5236, ejabberd_service, [{host, "yahoo.example.org", [{password, "yahoosecret"}]}]}, {5237, ejabberd_service, [{host, "gg.example.org", [{password, "ggsecret"}]}]}, {5238, ejabberd_service, [{host, "ile.example.org", [{password, "ilesecret"}]}]} ] }. \end{verbatim} Note, that for jabberd14- or wpjabberd-based services you have to make the transports log and do XDB by themselves: \begin{verbatim} %d: [%t] (%h): %s /var/log/jabber/service.log /usr/lib/jabber/xdb_file.so /var/spool/jabber \end{verbatim} \subsubsection{Modules} \label{sec:configmodules} Option \term{modules} defines the list of modules that will be loaded after \ejabberd{} startup. Each list element is a tuple where first element is a name of a module and second is list of options to this module. See section~\ref{sec:modules} for detailed information on each module. Example: \begin{verbatim} {modules, [{mod_register, []}, {mod_roster, []}, {mod_privacy, []}, {mod_configure, []}, {mod_disco, []}, {mod_stats, []}, {mod_vcard, []}, {mod_offline, []}, {mod_announce, [{access, announce}]}, {mod_echo, [{host, "echo.example.org"}]}, {mod_private, []}, {mod_irc, []}, {mod_muc, []}, {mod_pubsub, []}, {mod_time, [{iqdisc, no_queue}]}, {mod_last, []}, {mod_version, []} ]}. \end{verbatim} \subsubsection{Virtual Host Configuration} \label{sec:configvirtualhost} Options can be defined separately for different virtual hosts using \term{host\_config} option. It have the have following syntax: \begin{verbatim} {host_config, , [