Upgrade to Openfire 3.7.1

Post by **cah** » Wed Oct 26, 2011 1:20 pm

Become "root" user, then, execute the following commands:

/etc/init.d/openfire stop
cd /opt
rm openfire
gzcat /work/applications/openfire_3_7_1.tar.gz | tar xf -
cd openfire 

cd bin
cp -p /opt/openfire.3.7.0/bin/openfire.vmoptions .

cd ../conf
mv openfire.xml openfire.xml.ori
cp -p /opt/openfire.3.7.0/conf/*.xml .

cd ..
cp -rp /opt/openfire.3.7.0/embedded-db .

cd ..
mv openfire openfire.3.7.1
ln -s openfire.3.7.1 openfire

/etc/init.d/openfire start

P.S. 1. Server certificate. When new version is installed, the server certificate was not in place. Self-signed certificates can be generated by clicking on the first link on the following page:

Server -> Server Settings -> Server Certificates

One or more certificates are missing. Click here to generate self-signed certificates or here to import a signed certificate and its private key.

Then, web server needs to be restarted.

Certificates were modified so HTTP server needs to be restarted. Click here to restart HTTP server.

P.S. "IM Gateway" plugin has to be added manually again before it works. In the release of 3.7.1 (and 3.7.0), IM Gateway plugin is no longer provided. I had to copy the plugin jar file (gateway.jar - 1.2.4d) from /opt/openfire.3.6.4/plugins to /opt/openfire/plugins. Then, a restart of openfire picked up the IM Gateway.

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cp /opt/openfire.3.6.4/plugins/gateway.jar /opt/openfire/plugins
/etc/init.d/openfire stop
/etc/init.d/openfire start

It takes some time before admin console comes up. Typical JAVA app.

P.S. 2. I was wondering why IM Gateway disappeared after version 1.2.4d. I found Kraken IM Gateway Plugin from forum and interestingly enough it is from the same author - Daniel Henninger. The IM Gateway 1.2.4d was developed earlier 2006 - 2008 while the Kraken IM Gateway was developed later 2008-2010. I don't know why there's such a difference. The existing IM gateway works fine and there's no reason to change until I find a good reason. In order to keep a record, I have attached the Kraken IM Gateway plugin for reference.

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Post by **cah** » Wed Oct 26, 2011 2:26 pm

I tested Kraken IM Gateway Plugin and it provides more IMs including Facebook.
The other features are pretty much the same.

I am going to use MSN most and maybe AIM and Yahoo.
No difference to me with Kraken.

From the forum, it seems like the author of the IM Gateway Plugin (Daniel Henninger) is moving on to spectrum project (http://spectrum.im/projects/spectrum/wiki). The last Kraken Gateway IM plugin will be 1.1.3 beta 3.