Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of InstallationGuidelines/Chat

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05/29/14 15:40:10 (11 years ago)

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knowing42

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InstallationGuidelines/Chat

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+== Chat Server Setup == 
+
+1) Download Openfire server tar file from http://www.igniterealtime.org/downloads/download-landing.jsp?file=openfire/openfire_3_9_1.tar.gz
+Recommended version: 3_9_1
+
+2) Using the .tar.gz, extract the archive to /opt :
+{{{
+sudo tar -xzvf openfire_version.tar.gz
+sudo mv openfire /opt
+cd /opt/openfire/bin
+./openfire start
+}}}
+Doing this will enable web console.
+Open the browser with url http://127.0.0.1:9090/
+
+3) Follow through the onscreen steps to set up web console.
+Basic Steps
+Language Selection
+Server Settings: Choose default
+Database settings: Select embedded as of now since database integration is still in progress. 
+Profile Settings: Default (store users and groups in the server database)
+Admin account: Give a valid email address for admin
+
+4) After logging into admin console go into server settings tab, go into HTTP Binding and enable “Clients can connect to this server using HTTP binding. ”. and save the settings.
+
+The port numbers can be changed to whichever you like.
+The default ports are 7070 and 7443.
+
+Go to Server->Server Settings->HTTP Binding and enable script syntax.
+
+5) Go into plugins, from available plugins install 
+Client Control   
+Presence Service
+Search(will already be installed)    
+User Creation
+User import Export
+Registration
+Broadcast
+
+If for some reason you cannot see available plugins you can upload jar files after downloading from https://www.igniterealtime.org/projects/openfire/plugins.jsp.
+
+6) Restart the Openfire server.
+{{{
+sudo /opt/openfire/bin/openfire restart
+}}}
+
+== Setup contact list for each user and greeting message ==
+
+1) Create a group called "everyone".
+Users/Groups -> Groups -> Create New Group .
+
+2) Click enable in Contact List (Roster) Sharing.
+
+3) Enter “everyone” as Group Name and tick share group with additional users(after clicking select all users option).
+
+4) Go to User/Group -> Users -> Registration Properties 
+
+5) Enter whatever message you want to welcome message box and click on save message.
+6) Enter the default group as “everyone” in default group box and click on save group.
+7) Then in the registration settings box at the top tick:
+* Enable welcome message.
+* Enable automatically adding of new users to a group
+Click on Save Settings. 
+
+8) Go to User/Groups -> Groups.
+ Go to everyone group and manually add admin as the user to that group.
+
+== Setup Status messages ==
+1) Go to Server -> Server Settings -> Presence Service and change presence visibility to Anyone.