Install Openfire On Ubuntu Server
Today, We will learn how to install the Openfire XMPP chatting server on Ubuntu. Openfire is the most popular and amazing texting (IM) server using the XMPP/Jabber convention. Openfire is better than the other Presence Servers. Therefore, the Openfire server is be defined as a Real-Time Collaboration (RTC) server that the client should use it. But there are heaps of clients that support the XMPP protocol. Spark is the most popular and created by Openfire. In addition, XMPP (Extensible Messaging and Presentation Protocol) known as the open protocol for instant messaging. Its a real-time communication protocol based on XML (which includes chat). We can also create an Android chat App like Whatsapp in Android Studio. So, You can link to the Openfire XMPP server as a user database.
Openfire Most Popular features
Openfire provides the best features from other XMPP servers.
- MYSQL, Embedded Database and Oracle for massages storage and user details.
- Integration With LDAP.
- Web Admin Panel.
- Support Jingle Node for Audio and Video Calling.
- User Status Plugin Which Traces User IP.
- Integrate With android XMPP Clients apps like Conversations Android App, Xabber and A talk.
- A lot of plugins.
Install Openfire XMPP Server On Ubuntu
First of all, So, We need to update our Ubuntu server to install Openfire. Therefore open a new window and run the following command.
sudo apt update sudo apt upgrade
Install JAVA JDK For Openfire
Once our ubuntu server packages are updated. To install Java JDK we will run the following command
sudo apt install openjdk-8-jdk java -version
Installing MariaDB With New Version
It’s most important to install MariaDB with the new version because the Openfire database has a long table that can’t upload properly without a new version. So, Please run the following commands to install MariaDB with the latest version.
sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 0xF1656F24C74CD1D8
Now add a new file by running this command
sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mariadb.list
After opening a new file, Please copy and paste the following lines and save it.
deb [arch=amd64,arm64,ppc64el] http://sfo1.mirrors.digitalocean.com/mariadb/repo/10.3/ubuntu bionic main
deb-src http://sfo1.mirrors.digitalocean.com/mariadb/repo/10.3/ubuntu bionic main
Now, We need to update our ubuntu server with the following command.
sudo apt update
Once our ubuntu server updated, We will install MariaDB with running the following command.
sudo apt install mariadb-server sudo systemctl status mariadb sudo systemctl stop mariadb.service # To Stop MariaDB service sudo systemctl start mariadb.service # To Start MariaDB service sudo systemctl status mariadb.service # To Check MariaDB service status sudo systemctl restart mariadb.service
Download & Install Openfire XMPP On Ubuntu Server
We will download Openfire from the official website. So please visit and copy the new version download link and paste here
wget -O openfire.deb https://www.igniterealtime.org/downloadServlet?filename=openfire/openfire_4.5.0_all.deb
Once Openfire downloaded then we will run the following command to install.
sudo dpkg -i openfire.deb systemctl status openfire #check status ● openfire.service - LSB: Start/stop openfire jabber server Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/openfire; generated) Active: active (running) since Tue 2020-01-26 12:00:06 UTC; 9min ago Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8) Tasks: 22 (limit: 1153) CGroup: /system.slice/openfire.service
Create Database For Openfire XMPP Server
So, We will create a database for the Openfire server by running the following commands.
mysql -u root -p Enter password. create database openfire; GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON openfire.* TO openfire@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'password123!'; flush privileges; exit
So, After creating a database and user. Now, we will import the Openfire database schema by running the following command
mysql -u root -p Enter password: use openfire; source /usr/share/openfire/resources/database/openfire_mysql.sql; show tables; exit;
Firewall To Access Openfire
$ sudo ufw enable $ for i in 9090 9091 5222 7777; sudo ufw allow $i; sudo ufw disable // you can also stop firewall
To open admin panel, So please visit HTTP://<server-ip|domain>:9090

In addition, the server setting page gives the same domain URL. Secondly, database Settings is Given Below and also shown in the screenshot.
1. Database Driver Presets:MySQL
2. JDBC Driver Class: com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
2. Database URL:jdbc:mysql://127.0.0.1/openfire?useUnicode=true&characterEncoding=UTF-8&characterSetResults=UTF-8
4.Username: openfire
5. Password: password123!
After fill-up, the information. So, please hit the Continue button and you will see a Profile Settings page and Default option. In finally you will see the admin user, email address and password. Set your new password for admin user name. Now you can log in with the following details
username: admin
password: your new given password