ejabberd and prosody XMPP server with synchronized credentials
Ejabberd is a chat server that uses XMPP as messaging protocol that you can use with a large amount of clients. In conjunction with the “xmpp” addon it can be used for a web based chat solution for your users.
ejabberd Installation
- Change it’s owner to whichever user is running the server, ie. ejabberd
$ chown ejabberd:ejabberd /path/to/friendica/bin/auth_ejabberd.php
- Change the access mode so it is readable only to the user ejabberd and has exec
$ chmod 700 /path/to/friendica/bin/auth_ejabberd.php
- Edit your ejabberd.cfg file, comment out your auth_method and add:
{auth_method, external}. {extauth_program, "/path/to/friendica/bin/auth_ejabberd.php"}.
- Disable the module “mod_register” and disable the registration:
{access, register, [{deny, all}]}.
- Enable BOSH:
- Enable the module “mod_http_bind”
- Edit this line:
{5280, ejabberd_http, [captcha, http_poll, http_bind]}
- In your apache configuration for your site add this line:
ProxyPass /http-bind http://127.0.0.1:5280/http-bind retry=0
- Restart your ejabberd service, you should be able to login with your friendica credentials
Other hints
- if a user has a space or a @ in the nickname, the user has to replace these characters:
- “ ” (space) is replaced with “%20”
- “@” is replaced with “(a)”
Prosody Installation
If you want to use your Friendica installation for authentication with the prosody XMPP server, you have to do the following.
- Enable the
auth_http_async
module of prosody - Adopt the configuration file (
prosody.cfg.lua
) of your prosody server to use Friendica for authentication (use your Friendica nodes domain instead of example.com)
authentication = "http_async"; http_auth_url = "https://example.com/api/account/verify_credentials.json";
You can now use your Friendica account credentials to login to your prosody, there is no need to register a new account on the XMPP server.