1 Install an ejabberd with synchronized credentials
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6 [Ejabberd](https://www.ejabberd.im/) is a chat server that uses XMPP as messaging protocol that you can use with a large amount of clients.
7 In conjunction with the "xmpp" addon it can be used for a web based chat solution for your users.
12 - Change it's owner to whichever user is running the server, ie. ejabberd
14 $ chown ejabberd:ejabberd /path/to/friendica/bin/auth_ejabberd.php
16 - Change the access mode so it is readable only to the user ejabberd and has exec
18 $ chmod 700 /path/to/friendica/bin/auth_ejabberd.php
20 - Edit your ejabberd.cfg file, comment out your auth_method and add:
22 {auth_method, external}.
23 {extauth_program, "/path/to/friendica/bin/auth_ejabberd.php"}.
25 - Disable the module "mod_register" and disable the registration:
27 {access, register, [{deny, all}]}.
30 - Enable the module "mod_http_bind"
33 {5280, ejabberd_http, [captcha, http_poll, http_bind]}
35 - In your apache configuration for your site add this line:
37 ProxyPass /http-bind http://127.0.0.1:5280/http-bind retry=0
39 - Restart your ejabberd service, you should be able to login with your friendica credentials
43 - if a user has a space or a @ in the nickname, the user has to replace these characters:
44 - " " (space) is replaced with "%20"
45 - "@" is replaced with "(a)"