Some ideas to try

mfoss — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 23:30:15 +0000

Your configuration looks to be good, maybe the problem is in other place.

I downloaded the php file from http://yo.jabber.ru/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=385
I configured ejabberd similar to you.
I do not have Drupal installed, so I am not sure if the script works correctly, but there are a few tips you can try.

1. When ejabberd starts, check the files ejabberd.log and sasl.log. Maybe you see an error like this:

sh: /etc/ejabberd/drupal_auth.php: /usr/local/bin/php: bad interpreter: The file does not exist

In my Debian I have php in a different location:

$ which php
/usr/bin/php

so I have to change in drupal_auth.php the first line:

#!/usr/bin/php

2. When ejabberd starts and no error is shown in its log files, check if the script is running:

$ ps -C drupal_auth.php
  PID TTY          TIME CMD
23182 ?        00:00:00 drupal_auth.php

3. Then I tried to login with an account 'test123', but of course I couldn't login because I didn't configure MySQL.
I tried to login with an account that existed in 'internal', but ejabberd didn't allow me to login.
This means ejabberd in my case was using external.

4. I wanted to see some log files of the script, so I changed those lines to a place easy to remember:

        var $debugfile  = "/tmp/pipe-debug.log";  /* Debug output */
        var $logging    = true;                                       /* Do we log requests ? */
        var $logfile    = "/tmp/pipe-log.log" ;   /* Log file ... */

But I don't see any log files in /tmp.

ejabberd - Comments for "External program not working"

Some ideas to try