ejabberd is a distributed, fault-tolerant technology that allows the creation of large-scale instant messaging applications. The server can reliably support thousands of simultaneous users on a single node and has been designed to provide exceptional standards of fault tolerance. As an open source technology, based on industry-standards, ejabberd can be used to build bespoke solutions very cost effectively.
Cross-platform
ejabberd runs under Microsoft Windows and Unix-derived systems such as
Linux, FreeBSD and NetBSD.
Distributed
You can run ejabberd on a cluster of machines and all of them will serve the
same XMPP domain(s). When you need more capacity you can simply add a new
cheap node to your cluster. Accordingly, you do not need to buy an expensive
high-end machine to support tens of thousands concurrent users.
Fault-tolerant
You can deploy an ejabberd cluster so that all the information required for
a properly working service will be replicated permanently on all nodes. This
means that if one of the nodes crashes, the others will continue working
without disruption. In addition, nodes also can be added or replaced ‘on
the fly’.
Administrator-friendly
ejabberd is built on top of the Open Source Erlang. As a result you do not
need to install an external database, an external web server, amongst others
because everything is already included, and ready to run out of the box.
Other administrator benefits include:
Internationalized
ejabberd leads in internationalization. Hence it is very well suited in a
globalized world. Related features are:
Open Standards
ejabberd is the first Open Source XMPP server claiming to fully comply to
the XMPP standard.
Moreover, ejabberd comes with a wide range of other state-of-the-art features:
Modularity
Security
Databases
Authentication
Others
To compile ejabberd you need:
If your system splits packages in libraries and development headers, you must install the development packages also.
To compile ejabberd, execute the following commands. The first one is only
necessary if your source tree didn't come with a configure
script (In this
case you need autoconf installed).
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
To install ejabberd, run this command with system administrator rights (root user):
sudo make install
These commands will:
/etc/ejabberd/
/lib/ejabberd/
/sbin/ejabberdctl
/share/doc/ejabberd/
/var/lib/ejabberd/
/var/log/ejabberd/
You can use the ejabberdctl
command line administration script to
start and stop ejabberd. For example:
ejabberdctl start
For detailed information please refer to the ejabberd Installation and
Operation Guide available online and in the doc
directory of the source
tarball.
In order to assist in the development of ejabberd, and particularly the execution of the test suite, a Vagrant environment is available at https://github.com/processone/ejabberd-vagrant-dev.
To start ejabberd in development mode from the repository directory, you can type a command like:
EJABBERD_CONFIG_PATH=ejabberd.yml erl -pa ebin -pa deps/*/ebin -pa test -pa deps/elixir/lib/*/ebin/ -s ejabberd
Using any gettext editor, you can improve the translation files found in
priv/msgs/*.po
, and then submit your changes.
Alternatively, a simple way to improve translations is using our Weblate project: https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/ejabberd/ejabberd-po/