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Installation and operation guide for J2J (Jabber-to-Jabber) gateway.

Installation and configuring

Dependencies

For J2J you will need:

• Python >=2.3
• Twisted >=8.0.1
• PostgreSQL >=7.4.7
• PyGreSQL >=3.8

(Note: there is experimental mysql support in 1.1.8, see Changelog.txt)

• Any Jabber-server (for example ejabberd, jabberd2 or Openfire), that supports:
  • XEP-0114: Jabber Component Protocol
  • XEP-0030: Service Discovery

Source code downloads

You need to get sources of J2J. You can do it at JRuDevels Downloads, or with help of SVN:

svn co https://svn.jrudevels.org/j2j/trunk j2j/

Database setup

You need to setup a database to work with J2J:

Let's create a DB user:

createuser -P j2j

A -P key means, that user is created with a password-prompt. Store it, because it will be needed for next steps.

Let's create a database for J2J:

createdb j2j

And import a database structure:

psql -U j2j j2j
\i pgsql.schema

Gateway configuration

Configuration file is needed for J2J. Default search paths for it is: ./j2j.conf, ~/.j2j/j2j.conf, /etc/j2j/j2j.conf. Let's copy example of this and edit it:

cp j2j.conf.example j2j.conf
nano -w j2j.conf

Parameters:

• Section component
  • JID - JID of gateway. For example,

JID=j2j.server.com

• • Host - IP or domain-name of your Jabber-server. For example,

Host="127.0.0.1"

• • Port - port on Jabber-server to which J2J will be connected. It must be the same as it specified in your Jabber-server's configuration.
  • Password - password on Jabber-server to which J2J will be connected.
• Section database
  • Host - IP or Domain-name of your database server. Leave it blank to use postgres' UNIX-socket.
  • Type - Type of your database server: postgres or mysql
  • User - Database username (in our example is j2j)
  • Name - Database name (in our example is j2j)
  • Password - Password for this database username.
  • Prefix - pass it as is.
• Section admins
  • List - a list of JIDs, for a notifications of new users registrations. For example,

List=vasya@server.ru,zhenya@server.com

• Section debug
  • Pass it as is. If you will get errors in J2J's work try to turn on logging in it section.

Running

Let's start the gateway:

python main.py

Command line options

Start J2J with the --help key for get the help on command-line options.