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How to cluster the ejabberd between ubuntu and window xp?

Submitted by Jeff on Mon, 2007-06-18 05:39

I setup two ejabberd server, one on unbuntu 6.0.6 lts with mysql, the other on window xp. I want to cluster these two server, but I can not find the .erlang.cookie neither in ubuntu nor in windows xp. Are there anybody who can help me?
For my writting english is a little bit poor, I hope you can understand me.

Erlang cookie on ejabberd installers

Submitted by mfoss on Mon, 2007-06-18 08:47.

To cluster two ejabberd nodes, both must run a similar version of ejabberd. On Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Dapper Drake) there is only ejabberd 1.0.0.

You have several alternatives:

install ejabberd 1.0.0 on both machines: using apt on ubuntu and an old binary installer on windows.
install ejabberd 1.1.2 on both machines: install the Feisty package manually on ejabberd, and the 1.1.2 installer on windows
install ejabberd 1.1.3 on both machines: using the binary installer for linux, and for windows

Once you have installed ejabberd on both machines, you must make sure they use the same cookie:

The ubuntu packages probably create the file /var/lib/ejabberd/.erlang.cookie which contains the cookie. The cookie may seem a password, for example: IQZPINAFINQLEJAPXZAR
The binary installers for linux and windows do not create a file, they set the cookie on the file ejabberd-1.1.3/bin/ejabberd , and is always the same cookie: ejabberd

how to cluster with mysql

Submitted by Jeff on Mon, 2007-06-18 09:03.

Thx a lot.
I used the same bin file to install the ejabberd 1.1.3 on ubuntu and window xp, but I have not find the .erlang.cookie file, I also found the cookie had been set as ejabberd in ejabberdctl file as you said. For the guide doc takes mnesia for example, as for mysql, what can i do.

'ejabberd' cookie

Submitted by teo on Mon, 2007-06-18 09:59.

badlop wrote:

and is always the same cookie: ejabberd

If it's true then I would call it a security hole.

Hello, You can change it as

Submitted by mremond on Mon, 2007-06-18 10:32.

Hello,

You can change it as you want but moreover, you do not want in any case to open the epmd port on the Internet.
I have never seen a system administrator doing so.

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Mickaël Rémond
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