How to install Openfire Meetings on ClearOS

Openfire 4.x and ClearOS 7.x

Background

ClearOS is an operating system for your Server, Network, and Gateway systems. It is designed for homes, small to medium businesses, and distributed environments. ClearOS is commonly known as the Next Generation Small Business Server, while including indispensable Gateway and Networking functionality. It delivers a powerful IT solution with an elegant user interface that is completely web-based. Simply put.. ClearOS is the new way of delivering IT.Source: https://www.clearos.com/

Openfire is a real time collaboration (RTC) server licensed under the Open Source Apache License. It uses the only widely adopted open protocol for instant messaging, XMPP (also called Jabber). Openfire is incredibly easy to setup and administer, but offers rock-solid security and performance. Source: http://www.igniterealtime.org/projects/openfire/index.jsp

Openfire Meetings is an Openfire plugin that uses WebRTC and the Jitsi Videobridge to provide high quality, scalable video conferences for your Openfire users.You will also need the Openfire Meetings Chrome extension for screen sharing, co-browsing and application sharing. Source: https://www.igniterealtime.org/projects/openfire/plugins/ofmeet/readme.html

Information:

To install Install Openfire on ClearOS within the Wikisuite enviroment follow the next steps.

1.- Install a fresh ClearOS Server, be sure to Run the lastest Software updates to the core system and include in the installation of:

a. The Web Server
b. Software Repository Modules
c. and Open LDAP and Directory Server

If not already installed, you may do so through the Webconfig-Market Place Module (https://your-ip-address:81/app/marketplace).

2.- Using Software Repository Module, make sure the clearos-epel, clearos-centos and clearos-centos-updates repositorie are enable.

Configure OpenLDAP

Through the Webconfig-Open LDAP Directory Server Module (https://your-ip-address:81/app/openldap_directory).

On the Directory Server Settings page set the server mode and Base Domain (https://your-ip-address:81/app/openldap_directory/settings/edit)

On the Directory Server Policies page set the Publish Policy and Accounts access according to your requirements (https://your-ip-address:81/app/openldap_directory/policies/edit)

Dont forget to creat one or two users as they will be use in the Openfire configuration phase.

Install Openfire

Login to your ClearOS via SSH using root

Type:

rpm -ivh http://www.igniterealtime.org/downloadServlet?filename=openfire/openfire-4.0.0-1.i386.rpm

For Openfire to work on ClearOS 64-bit the 32-bit zlib library is require.
Source: https://community.igniterealtime.org/thread/43673

Type:

yum install zlib.i686

Start the openfire service:

Type:

/etc/init.d/openfire start

And Check the status

/etc/init.d/openfire status

Configure Openfire:

Use a web browser to connect to the admin console. The default port for the web-based admin console is 9090. If you are on the same machine as Openfire, the following URL will usually work: http://127.0.0.1:9090. Initial setup and administration can also be done from a remote computer using LAN IP address instead or hostname if it is resolvable by the remote computer.

Source: http://www.igniterealtime.org/builds/openfire/docs/latest/documentation/install-guide.html

• RPM: http://www.igniterealtime.org/downloads/
• https://www.igniterealtime.org/builds/openfire/docs/latest/documentation/install-guide.html

Install Openfire Meetings Plug-inn

.- Login to your openfire Admin Console with a administrator user.

2.- Click on the Plugins Tab to manage Plugins

3.- Click on the available plugins link and scroll down to find the openfire Meetings plugin

4.- Click on then ¨+¨ to add the plugin to the openfire server

5.- Create a Chat room

6.-

• http://www.igniterealtime.org/projects/openfire/plugins/ofmeet/readme.html (latest version for 4.0 beta when available)

Configure SSL

Adding admins

There is no ClearOS group for the Openfire admins. Instead:

1. Edit server properties: https://example.org:9091/server-properties.jsp
2. Find the admin.authorizedJIDs property, edit it and add comma separated full JIDs. In our specific case user at example.org.
3. Openfire needs a restart, as root you need to do:

service openfire restart

• How to install and Configure Openfire Meetings on ClearOS