MongooseIM

MongooseIM (previously esl-ejabberd) is Erlang Solutions' robust and efficient XMPP server aimed at large installations. Specifically designed for enterprise purposes, it is fault-tolerant, can utilize resources of multiple clustered machines and easily scale in need of more capacity (by just adding a box/VM). It provides support for WebSockets and reimplemented BOSH.

Its home at GitHub is http://github.com/esl/MongooseIM.

Changes in this fork

Add the patch found here to allow adding and removing vhosts without restarting MongooseIM. Simply edit the etc/ejabberd.cfg file to add the host configuration, and execute bin/ejabberctl vhost_update to add or remove the vhosts.

Quickstart guide

For a quick start just download the pre-built package that suits your platform.

Main differences from the parent project

This project began its life as a fork of ejabberd v.2.1.8 and later underwent some major cleanup, refactorization and optimization.

Major steps performed:

bringing the project source tree to compliance with OTP project structure recommendations,
swapping autotools for the Erlang community-standard build tool rebar,
removal of obsolete and/or rarely used modules to reduce maintenance burden,
reduction of runtime memory consumption by refactoring the code to use Erlang's binary data type for string manipulation and storage instead of operating on linked lists of characters,
functional test coverage of the system according to corresponding RFCs and XEPs.

How to build

Requirements.

To compile MongooseIM you need:
- GNU Make,
- GCC,
- Libexpat 1.95 or higher,
- Erlang/OTP R15B or higher,
- Reltool 0.5.4 or higher,
- OpenSSL 0.9.8 or higher, for STARTTLS, SASL and SSL encryption,
- Zlib 1.2.3 or higher for Stream Compression support (XEP-0138). Optional,
- PAM library. Optional. For Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM).
Compiling on UNIX-like systems.

To compile MongooseIM, go to the main repo directory $REPO and execute the command ($ stands for the shell prompt):
```
$ make
```
or
```
$ ./rebar get-deps
$ ./rebar compile
```
To generate MongooseIM release:
```
$ make rel
```
or
```
$ ./rebar generate
```
These commands will generate a self-contained OTP system image in the project's rel/ejabberd subdirectory. The contents of that directory are as follows:
- rel/ejabberd/bin - startup/administration scripts,
- rel/ejabberd/etc - configuration files,
- rel/ejabberd/lib - MongooseIM binary, header and runtime files,
- rel/ejabberd/var - spool directory,
- rel/ejabberd/log - log file directory,
- rel/ejabberd/releases - release files directory.
Running MongooseIM.

To run MongooseIM from the project tree after compiling it, change to $REPO/rel/ejabberd.

There you can use the ejabberd command line administration script to start and stop ejabberd. For example:
```
$ bin/ejabberd start
```
will start the server.

You can also run the server in interactive mode:
```
$ bin/ejabberd live
```
There's also a tool called ejabberdctl allowing you to perform some operations on a running instance, e.g.:
```
$ bin/ejabberdctl status
The node ejabberd@localhost is started with status: started
ejabberd 2.1.8 is running in that node
```
Building the testing target and running tests.

For testing purposes there's a different make target available:
```
$ make testrel
```
which will generate releases in $REPO/dev/ and prepare them for testing and generating coverage reports.

To run the tests (from project's root directory, i.e. $REPO):
```
$ cd test
$ make cover_test
```
The test results will show up in the console and a coverage report will be generated in $REPO/test/ct_report/cover.html.

MongooseIM documentation notice

MongooseIM, being a fork of ejabberd, is currently in a phase of rapid development. Because of that the documentation found in the doc/ subdirectory of the source tree, while mostly relevant, may be inaccurate.

The main reason is that some rarely useful features were removed from the repository or are still waiting to be brought up to the Erlang Solutions standards.

Don't forget to check out our wiki - hopefully, its scope will grow with time.

Want to get in touch with us?

In case of any suggestions, questions or any random thoughts on this project, please feel free to contact us by the standard GitHub ways or at ejabberd@erlang-solutions.com.

snoopaloop / MongooseIM