Installing Openfire on CentOS 5.5

The install process takes less than 15 minutes.

1. Do a basic install of CentOS with mySQL support and any other packages you want.
2. Installing Java:
   1. If you don’t have Java install do the following:
   2. Download Java from (java.com) and do the following:
   3. mkdir /usr/java
   4. cp jre-6u13-linux-i586-rpm.bin /usr/java
   5. cd /usr/java
   6. sh jre-6u13-linux-i586-rpm.bin
   7. rpm -iv jre-6u13-linux-i586-rpm.bin



3. Installing Openfire 3.6.4:
   1. (At the time of writing this document 3.6.4 was the current version)
   2. wget http://www.igniterealtime.org/downloadServlet?filename=openfire/openfire-3.6.4-1.i386.rpm
   3. rpm -ivh openfire-3.6.4-1.i386.rpm
   4. service openfire reload
   5. Now open a http session http://localhost:9090
      1. This will take you through the install procedure.
      2. Our BaseDN: OU=Users,DC=NY,DC=SIFIZM,DC=com
      3. Our AdminDN: CN=sifizm,OU=IT,OU=Users,DC=NY,DC=SIFIZM,DC=com
      4. Complete the install, once that is completed you have to reboot the server. (This is due to a bug in this version)
   6. Once the server starts, let’s check to make sure that Openfire is running.
   7. service openfire status
   8. Now open a http session http://localhost:9090
   9. Login with the Domain Admin account allowed access to.