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ejabberd Community Edition
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[](https://travis-ci.org/processone/ejabberd) [](https://hex.pm/packages/ejabberd)
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ejabberd is a distributed, fault-tolerant technology that allows the creation
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of large-scale instant messaging applications. The server can reliably support
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thousands of simultaneous users on a single node and has been designed to
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provide exceptional standards of fault tolerance. As an open source
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technology, based on industry-standards, ejabberd can be used to build bespoke
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solutions very cost effectively.
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Key Features
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------------
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- **Cross-platform**
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ejabberd runs under Microsoft Windows and Unix-derived systems such as
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Linux, FreeBSD and NetBSD.
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- **Distributed**
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You can run ejabberd on a cluster of machines and all of them will serve the
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same XMPP domain(s). When you need more capacity you can simply add a new
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cheap node to your cluster. Accordingly, you do not need to buy an expensive
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high-end machine to support tens of thousands concurrent users.
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- **Fault-tolerant**
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You can deploy an ejabberd cluster so that all the information required for
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a properly working service will be replicated permanently on all nodes. This
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means that if one of the nodes crashes, the others will continue working
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without disruption. In addition, nodes also can be added or replaced ‘on
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the fly’.
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- **Administrator-friendly**
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ejabberd is built on top of the Open Source Erlang. As a result you do not
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need to install an external database, an external web server, amongst others
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because everything is already included, and ready to run out of the box.
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Other administrator benefits include:
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- Comprehensive documentation.
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- Straightforward installers for Linux.
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- Docker packaging to help with deploy / development on Linux, Windows or MacOS.
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- Deb and RPM packaging to support most Linux distributions.
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- Web administration.
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- Shared roster groups.
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- Command line administration tool.
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- Can integrate with existing authentication mechanisms.
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- Capability to send announce messages.
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- **Internationalized**
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ejabberd leads in internationalization. Hence it is very well suited in a
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globalized world. Related features are:
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- Translated to 25 languages.
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- Support for IDNA.
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- **Open Standards**
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ejabberd is the first Open Source XMPP server claiming to fully comply to
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the XMPP standard.
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- Fully XMPP-compliant.
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- XML-based protocol.
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- Many protocols supported.
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Additional Features
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-------------------
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Moreover, ejabberd comes with a wide range of other state-of-the-art features:
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- **Modularity**
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- Load only the modules you want.
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- Extend ejabberd with your own custom modules.
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- **Security**
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- SASL and STARTTLS for c2s and s2s connections.
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- STARTTLS and Dialback s2s connections.
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- Web Admin accessible via HTTPS secure access.
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- **Databases**
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- Internal database for fast deployment (Mnesia).
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- Native MySQL support.
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- Native PostgreSQL support.
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- ODBC data storage support.
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- Microsoft SQL Server support.
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- **Authentication**
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- Internal authentication.
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- PAM, LDAP and ODBC.
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- External authentication script.
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- **Others**
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- Support for virtual hosting.
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- Compressing XML streams with Stream Compression (XEP-0138).
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- Statistics via Statistics Gathering (XEP-0039).
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- IPv6 support both for c2s and s2s connections.
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- Multi-User Chat module with support for clustering and HTML logging.
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- Users Directory based on users vCards.
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- Publish-Subscribe component with support for Personal Eventing.
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- Support for web clients: HTTP Polling and HTTP Binding (BOSH).
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- Component support: interface with networks such as AIM, ICQ and MSN.
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Quickstart guide
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### 0. Requirements
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To compile ejabberd you need:
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- GNU Make.
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- GCC.
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- Libexpat ≥ 1.95.
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- Libyaml ≥ 0.1.4.
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- Erlang/OTP ≥ 19.3.
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- OpenSSL ≥ 1.0.0.
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- Zlib ≥ 1.2.3, for Stream Compression support (XEP-0138). Optional.
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- PAM library. Optional. For Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM).
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- ImageMagick's Convert program and Ghostscript fonts. Optional. For CAPTCHA
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challenges.
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If your system splits packages in libraries and development headers, you must
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install the development packages also.
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### 1. Compile and install on *nix systems
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To compile ejabberd, execute the following commands. The first one is only
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necessary if your source tree didn't come with a `configure` script (In this
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case you need autoconf installed).
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./autogen.sh
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./configure
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make
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To install ejabberd, run this command with system administrator rights (root
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user):
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sudo make install
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These commands will:
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- Install the configuration files in `/etc/ejabberd/`
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- Install ejabberd binary, header and runtime files in `/lib/ejabberd/`
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- Install the administration script: `/sbin/ejabberdctl`
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- Install ejabberd documentation in `/share/doc/ejabberd/`
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- Create a spool directory: `/var/lib/ejabberd/`
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- Create a directory for log files: `/var/log/ejabberd/`
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### 2. Start ejabberd
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You can use the `ejabberdctl` command line administration script to
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start and stop ejabberd. For example:
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ejabberdctl start
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For detailed information please refer to the ejabberd Installation and
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Operation Guide available online and in the `doc` directory of the source
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tarball.
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Development
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In order to assist in the development of ejabberd, and particularly the
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execution of the test suite, a Vagrant environment is available at
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https://github.com/processone/ejabberd-vagrant-dev.
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To start ejabberd in development mode from the repository directory, you can
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type a command like:
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EJABBERD_CONFIG_PATH=ejabberd.yml erl -pa ebin -pa deps/*/ebin -pa test -pa deps/elixir/lib/*/ebin/ -s ejabberd
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Translation
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-----------
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Using any gettext editor, you can improve the translation files found in
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`priv/msgs/*.po`, and then submit your changes.
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Alternatively, a simple way to improve translations is using our Weblate project:
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https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/ejabberd/ejabberd-po/
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Links
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-----
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- Documentation: https://docs.ejabberd.im
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- Community site: https://www.ejabberd.im
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- ejabberd commercial offering and support: https://www.process-one.net/en/ejabberd
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