[jadmin] Conference setup docs

[Gregoire Menuel]

Robert Fitzpatrick wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-11-11 at 19:25 +0100, Wilfried Maschtera wrote:
>> Is it equivalent to jabber2 and mu-conference? 
>>
> 
> Yes, actually, since posting my question yesterday, I found jabberd2 in
> the FreeBSD ports system and instead, removed 1.4 and jabber-conference,
> then installed jabberd-2.0.11_2 and mu-conference. I have IM working
> again with this version using LDAP auth and PostgreSQL storage. Although
> still an issue with the conferencing, this error started popping up
> whenever I restart (or stop) the jabberd server:
> 
> esmtp# rc.d/jabberd restart
> Stopping jabberd.
> ERROR: router died.  Shutting down server.
> Starting jabberd.
> 
> Sometimes it says c2s died or resolver died, but everything seems to run
> fine. But still not sure about how to get conferencing to work. I have
> mu-conference starting fine, but cannot find any rooms when searching. I
> have my /usr/local/etc/muc.xml setup now like this:
> 
>   <name>muclinker</name>
>   <host>conference.domain.tld</host>
>   <ip>127.0.0.1</ip>
>   <port>5347</port>
>   <secret>pek2jg2n</secret>
> 
>   <spool>/var/jabberd/spool/conference.domain.tld</spool>
>   <logdir>/var/jabberd/log</logdir>
>   <pidfile>/var/jabberd/pid/mu-conference.pid</pidfile>
>   <!--
>      <logstderr/>
>   -->
>   <loglevel>124</loglevel>
>     <conference xmlns="jabber:config:conference">
>       <public/>
>       <vCard>
>         <FN>Public Chatrooms</FN>
>         <DESC>This service is for public chatrooms.</DESC>
>         <URL>http://domain.tld/</URL>
>       </vCard>
>       <history>40</history>
>       <logdir>/var/jabberd/log/</logdir>
>       <notice>
>         <join>has become available</join>
>         <leave>has left</leave>
>         <rename>is now known as</rename>
>       </notice>
>       <sadmin>
>         <user>presence at domain.tld</user>
>       </sadmin>
>       <room jid="help at conference.domain.tld">
>         <name>Assistance Zone</name>
>         <privacy/>
>       </room>
>       <room jid="admin at conference.domain.tld">
>         <name>Admin only</name>
>         <secret>test</secret>
>         <notice>
>           <join> just rocks!</join>
>           <leave> gets lost</leave>
>           <rename> feels it is more important to be known as </rename>
>         </notice>
>       </room>
>     </conference>
> 
> Then in my /usr/local/etc/jabberd/router.xml, my alias section is setup
> like this:
> 
>   <aliases>
>     <alias name='conference.domain.tld' target='muclinker'/>
>   </aliases>
> 
> Thanks for the help!
> 

In mu-conference you don't have to write in the configuration file the
rooms you want. Just join the room you want once the composant is
running, open the configuration editor and check the option "Make room
persistent", this should do the trick.

-- 
Grégoire Menuel
JID : omega at im.apinc.org