Installing Tigase on Fedora Server

Introduction

Tigase is a popular XMPP server that supports various features such as multi-user chat, message archiving, and many more. In this tutorial, we will be discussing how to install Tigase on the latest Fedora server version.

Prerequisites

Before proceeding, make sure that you have the following prerequisites:

• A Fedora server installed and updated with the latest package updates.
• A user account with sudo privileges.

Step 1: Install Java

Tigase requires Java runtime environment to work properly. We will start by installing the OpenJDK 8.

sudo dnf install java-1.8.0-openjdk-devel

Once installed, you can verify the installed version by running:

java -version

Step 2: Install Tigase

To install Tigase, we will use the package manager provided on their website. We will also install the latest version of Tigase.

wget https://projects.tigase.org/attachments/download/2406/tigase-server-8.1.0-b4394-dist-max.tar.gz
tar -xvf tigase-server-8.1.0-b4394-dist-max.tar.gz

Step 3: Run Tigase

To run Tigase, we need to navigate to the extracted directory and run the following command:

cd tigase-server-8.1.0-b4394-dist-max
./scripts/tigase.sh start etc/tigase.conf

This will start Tigase. You can verify if Tigase is running by looking at the log files, which are located in the logs/ directory.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we have discussed how to install Tigase on the latest Fedora server version. Tigase is an extensive server that requires proper configuration, which we have not discussed in this tutorial. For more details, you can check the Tigase documentation.