Thanks

So, I’m trying out Openfire on Ubuntu feisty (v7.04, for those of us who prefer version numbers). Here’s what I did to get going:

* ‘sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre’ and -jdk
(install a recent Sun JRE)

* ‘sudo update-alternatives –config java’
(specify which JRE I want to use by default, since I already had a previous version installed)

* ‘sudo update-java-alternatives -s java-6-sun’
(same goal as above)
(I got a bunch of success messages, with only a couple of errors related to the plugin, which I don’t think I need to care about)

* ‘sudo echo JAVA_HOME=\”/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/\” >> /etc/environment’
(set “JAVA_HOME” – not sure if this is necessary)

* ‘sudo adduser jive’
(The non-root user that the openfire server runs as)

* ‘sudo vipw -s’ and set the ‘jive’ password to something impossible to decrypt (e.g. ‘!’)
(since it’s just used for launching/running openfire, and not logging in)

* ‘wget http://url-to-openfire/openfire_3_3_2.tar.gz‘
(basically)

* ‘cd /opt/’; ‘tar -zxvf /path/to/openfire_3_3_2.tar.gz’
(extract to local working directory)

* ‘sudo chown -R jive:jive /opt/openfire’
(set ownership properly – I think? this may not be the optimal config for security’s sake. I may want to restrict the ‘jive’ user from modifying certain parts of openfire, but for now this works.)

* ‘su – jive’; ‘cd /opt/openfire/bin’; ‘sh ./openfire start’

http://test-server:9090

follow prompts
(use an unimportant password, since it’s being transmitted over plaintext)

click on ‘security settings’, and click on the prompt to restart the web server

https://test-server:9091
(click OK past the warnings about the self-signed certificates)

reset the admin password now that you have an encrypted connection.

… and that’s where I am right now. :)

Graham

I didn’t use an Ubuntu package. Rather I downloaded a tar.gz (openfire_3_3_2.tar.gz) from Jive at:

http://www.jivesoftware.com/downloads/

That’s why I had to move it after downloading and uncompressing it.

So the bad news is that it isn’t a package, so you can’t use package management to keep it up to date and the like, but the good news is that everything you need is just sitting in the one directory and you can move it around or delete it at will.

There is also an RPM version, if you want to use a RedHat package on your Ubuntu machine. I shied away from that option, given how easy the alternative was.

Either way, you’ll also need to create an account on the Jive site to get to the actual downloads from the link above.

I’m glad you asked, because I sort of glossed over the details. Thanks for the question, and being my first real comment from a stranger. If I had a budget, you’d win a t-shirt.