Ejabberd improvements + ejabberd 20.03

Neustradamus · March 29, 2020, 4:17am

In last ejabberd 20.01 upgrade, you have forgotten all my changes…

I have already requested you some.

Can you add a function for 5223 port?
It is not needed by default.
But you can enable by default for old machine.
Admin must to quickly disable in interface.

Can you add a function for MUC?
It is not needed by default.
But you can enable by default for old machine.
Admin must to quickly disable in interface.

Can you add a function for BOSH?
It is not needed by default.
But you can enable by default for old machine.
Admin must to quickly disable in interface.

Can you add a function for WebSockets?
It is not needed by default.
But you can enable by default for old machine.
Admin must to quickly disable in interface.

Can you add a function for API?
It is not needed by default.
But you can enable by default for old machine.
Admin must to quickly disable in interface.

Can you add a function to choice the port of BOSH?
Admin must to quickly disable in interface.

Can you add a function to choice the port of HTTP UPLOAD?
Admin must to quickly disable in interface.

Can you add a function for CAPTCHA?
It is not needed by default.
Admin must to quickly disable in interface.

Can you add a function to enable vhosts? (like for email)
Admin must to quickly disable in interface.

Can you add a function to choice the ejabberd webamin lang (“en” by default)?
Admin must to quickly disable in interface.

Note it has been changed no?

https://github.com/NethServer/nethserver-ejabberd/search?q=http-bind&unscoped_q=http-bind

stephdl · March 29, 2020, 8:31am

Please could you try to upgrade to the new release and bring back what is broken/workable ?

stephdl · March 29, 2020, 11:28am

github.com

processone/ejabberd/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md

# Version 20.03

* Changes in this version
- Add support of ssl connection when connection to mysql
  database (configured with `sql_ssl: true` option)
- Experimental support for cockroachdb when configured
  with postgres connector 
- Add cache and optimize queries issued by `mod_shared_roster`,
  this should greatly improve performance of this module when
  used with `sql` backend
- Fix problem with accessing webadmin
- Make webadmin work even when url is missing trailing slash
- When compiling external modules with ext_mod, use flags
  that were detected during compilation of ejabberd
- Make config changed to ldap options be updated when issued
  `reload_config` command
- Fix `room_empty_destory` command
- Fix reporting errors in `send_stanza` command when xml
  passed to it couldn't be passed correctly

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not a big change :-?

it looks like a bug fix release, we need to update the nethserver-ejabberd because we require for a specific version

stephdl · March 29, 2020, 11:31am

Please could you test and report back after

yum install nethserver-ejabberd --enablerepo=nethserver-testing

Neustradamus · March 31, 2020, 5:42am

Have you added options in Cockpit?

I have forgotten MQTT options too (disabled by default)

giacomo · March 31, 2020, 6:37am

We are not going to add more options on ejabberd, especially mqtt since nobody uses it.
If you need such configuration, please use a template-custom.

I do not see any really relevant change on ejabberd 20.30.
@stephdl if you think it worth the effort, please open the issue and link the existing PR to it.

IMHO we can stay with ejabberd 20 for a while if there are no severe security issues.

stephdl · March 31, 2020, 6:40am

thank for the up, who wants to test ejabberd 20.03 ?

Neustradamus · March 31, 2020, 3:45pm

But other points than MQTT?
-> I have requested you to add in Cockpit, the option to enable or disable, easy no?

giacomo · March 31, 2020, 3:53pm

Please se above response:

oneitonitram · April 1, 2020, 4:32am

forgive my folly.

i am really having a hard time understanding the use cases for ejabberd.
also, i installe dit to see how it looks and functions, but i cannot access its user interface because/
i do not know the default username and password.
can someone enlighten me please.

giacomo · April 1, 2020, 6:23am

Ejabberd it’s an XMPP chat system with bulit-in federation. Many software uses XMPP to exchange data.

You need to install a client, like Gajim.

You can use system user names and passwords.

See also the doc: Chat — NethServer 7 Final

stephdl · April 3, 2020, 10:02am

ding dong ding dong last minutes before we close the PR to upgrade Ejabberd to 20.03

If no testers, there is no interests

fausp · April 3, 2020, 10:17am

I am interested, but also vy busy… Maybe in the evening.
How can I check my installed version?

oneitonitram · April 3, 2020, 11:22am

@stephdl is there not supposed to be a chat window on webtop after installation?

mrmarkuz · April 3, 2020, 11:28am

You need to configure:

http://docs.nethserver.org/en/v7/webtop5.html#chat-integration

stephdl · April 3, 2020, 12:18pm

thank mates…

What I would like to demonstrate is there is no regressions, so in short, firs we install the stable, then we upgrade and check you can create a salon, talk with mates, do upload of files etc etc

mrmarkuz · April 4, 2020, 2:00am

Thanks for new ejabberd! I really appreciate it as I like to test some XMPP web clients.

I updated my VPS and got following error in /var/log/messages:

Apr 4 02:01:23 nethserver sh: /bin/sh: /opt/ejabberd-20.01/bin/ejabberdctl: No such file or directory

I saw /usr/lib/systemd/system/ejabberd.service points to the old ejabberd 20.01, we have 20.03.

ExecStart=/bin/sh -c "/opt/ejabberd-20.01/bin/ejabberdctl start && /opt/ejabberd-20.01/bin/ejabberdctl started"
ExecStop=/bin/sh -c "/opt/ejabberd-20.01/bin/ejabberdctl stop && /opt/ejabberd-20.01/bin/ejabberdctl stopped"
ExecReload=/bin/sh -c "/opt/ejabberd-20.01/bin/ejabberdctl reload_config"

After changing version and another systemctl daemon-reload ejabberd was working properly.

Create room works
Chat and upload/download works

Found some warnings in /var/log/ejabberd:

2020-04-04 02:41:08.147 [warning] <0.106.0>@ejabberd_config_transformer:warn_removed_option:539 Option 'log_rotate_date' is deprecated and has no effect anymore. Please remove it from the configuration.
2020-04-04 02:41:08.147 [warning] <0.106.0>@ejabberd_config_transformer:warn_removed_option:539 Option 'log_rate_limit' is deprecated and has no effect anymore. Please remove it from the configuration.
2020-04-04 02:41:08.315 [warning] <0.106.0>@gen_mod:warn_soft_dep_fail:582 Module mod_mam is recommended for module mod_muc but is not found in the config

I tested with Xabber on Android and Pidgin on Windows. More tests will follow (encryption etc)

Neustradamus · April 4, 2020, 8:00am

Example of configuration, please look all, there are a lot of changes between NethServer ejabberd configuration, example you use 5223 by default and it is not here:

https://github.com/processone/ejabberd/blob/master/ejabberd.yml.example

loglevel: info:
-> https://github.com/processone/ejabberd/commit/e4a8afb15d6c995b294a60ed150b86775e2f6805

OMEMO part, 5223 part, BOSH part, …

Several options need to be in Nethgui/Cockpit…

Warning: Pidgin is the best bad XMPP client, please do not use it.

Computer: Psi/Psi+ is the best with Gajim.

stephdl · April 4, 2020, 9:01am

my bad but a big thank you, I do the changes and open a real issue to track this update

stephdl · April 4, 2020, 9:40am

need to check, new obsolete settings, did I never say that I do not like this software

2020-04-04 11:34:21.255 [warning] <0.106.0>@ejabberd_config_transformer:warn_removed_option:539 Option 'log_rotate_date' is deprecated and has no effect anymore. Please remove it from the configuration.
2020-04-04 11:34:21.255 [warning] <0.106.0>@ejabberd_config_transformer:warn_removed_option:539 Option 'log_rate_limit' is deprecated and has no effect anymore. Please remove it from the configuration.