Openfire - Host Instant Messaging Services with Openfire on Debian 5 (Lenny) - Linode Library. Warning This document is an older, unmaintained guide.
There may be a new guide available for this software. Openfire is an open source real-time collaboration (instant messaging) server, built on the XMPP protocol and available for multiple platforms. This guide will help you get started with Openfire on your Debian 5 (Lenny) Linux VPS. If you haven't done so already, please follow the steps outlined in our getting started guide before following these instructions, and make sure your system is fully updated. Openfire requires a Java runtime engine (JRE). Examine your /etc/apt/sources.list file to make sure you have the non-free repository enabled. Install Openfire on Debian Lenny « Get Geeky! 2009-03-25 17:22:00 by Saz If you're looking for a good jabber/XMPP server with LDAP/Active Directory integration.
Have a look at Openfire. It's working really great and you can push contacts to your clients. No need for adding every employee of your company on your users client. I've installed Openfire on Debian Lenny. Enable non-free sources.list You have to add the non-free repository to your /etc/apt/sources.list, because you have to install sun-java6-jre (You can also use sun-java5-jre, but on my freshly installed Lenny, sun-java6-jre has less dependencies). Here is my /etc/apt/sources.list: # # lenny # deb lenny main contrib non-free deb-src lenny main contrib non-free # # Security updates # deb lenny/updates main contrib non-free deb-src lenny/updates main contrib non-free After adding the non-free repository, run apt-get update. Install SUN Java 6 JRE apt-get install sun-java6-jre Download latest version of Openfire as .deb You can find more information about versions here. wget. Build Your Own Openfire Chat Server on Debian Linux (Page 1) By Philip C. Paradis April 10, 2009 For those unfamiliar with Openfire, it's an extremely capable real-time collaboration system.
Published under the GPL, this open source system allows administrators to easily set up a flexible chat server (for use with Jabber clients, along with gateways to other IM systems), although it's able to do much more than simple chat. This tutorial will teach you how to install Openfire on a Debian 5 (Lenny) server.
For my purposes, I chose to set up a dedicated virtual machine for Openfire using VMware Server. This material has also been tested on a Linode Linux VPS (ClassHelper has been hosted on a Linode for years). If you haven't installed Debian before, I recommend starting with the relevant Debian server installation steps outlined in an earlier tutorial. Once your base Debian system is installed, you'll need to add support for the non-free repositories to your apt sources list. Next, we need to install some prerequisite packages.
Wget. Installer OpenFire sur Debian. OpenFire est un serveur XMPP (cad.
Jabber) écrit en Java. Il a l'avantage d'être particulièrement simple à mettre en place et à administrer. Son inconvénient majeur : il ne peut gérer qu'un seul domaine par instance (pas de support des hôtes virtuels). Cet article vous aide à configurer OpenFire sur Debian GNU/Linux. Ce guide a été testé sur les distributions suivantes : Debian 4.0 EtchDebian 5.0 LennyDebian 6.0 Squeeze Pré-requis Ce guide nécessite un serveur MySQL disposant du script mysql-tools disponible dans le guide Installer et configurer MySQL sur Debian. Paramètres Renseignez le nom de domaine ou sera disponible l'application : DOMAIN="jabberd.domaine-exemple.fr" Renseignez le nom d'hôte de votre serveur MySQL (si vous ne savez pas de quoi il s'agit, ne modifiez pas cette valeur) : MYSQL_HOST="localhost" Si votre serveur MySQL n'est pas local, ce guide effectuera une connexion SSH pour y créer la base de données.