[ubuntu-uk] Jabber server

[Matthew Wild]

On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 6:29 PM, Rob Beard <rob at esdelle.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm trying to implement a jabber server for one of my clients so the
> staff can chat to each other between the two sites they have without
> resorting to use MSN/Yahoo etc.
>
> I've been having a play around but I can't seem to find any definitive
> instructions on how to get Jabber up and running.
>
> I've tried Jabberd (which the instructions were on the Ubuntu Help wiki
> here - https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SettingUpJabberServer).
>

jabberd14 (which is installed by the 'jabber' package) is ancient.
There was a fork to create jabberd2, which is also in the repos. If
you don't need anything fancy, try this.

After apt-get'ing, you need to edit /etc/jabberd2/c2s.xml and
/etc/jabberd2/sm.xml to have the server's hostname, the default is
localhost, and then restart it.

If you need a hand getting it running, poke me (MattJ) in #jabber on Freenode.

Matthew.