summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/xmpp.html
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
Diffstat (limited to 'xmpp.html')
-rw-r--r--xmpp.html189
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 189 deletions
diff --git a/xmpp.html b/xmpp.html
deleted file mode 100644
index d20cfd5..0000000
--- a/xmpp.html
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,189 +0,0 @@
-<!DOCTYPE html>
-<html lang=en>
- <head>
- <title>XMPP Server (Prosody) &ndash; LandChad.net</title>
- <meta charset="utf-8"/>
- <link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />
- <link rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' href='style.css'>
- <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
- <link rel='alternate' type='application/rss+xml' title='Land Chad RSS' href='/rss.xml'>
- </head>
-<body>
- <header><h1>XMPP Server (Prosody)</h1></header>
- <nav></nav>
- <main>
-
- <p>XMPP is a fantastically simple protocol that's usually used as a messenger.
- It's highly extensible,
- better than IRC,
- lighter and more decentralized and Matrix
- and Telegram and normie social media can't hold a candle to it.
- </p>
-
- <p>
- XMPP is so decentralized and extensible that there are many <em>different</em> XMPP servers.
- Here, let's set up an <a href="https://prosody.im/">Prosody</a> XMPP server.
- </p>
-
- <h2>Installation</h2>
-
- <p>
- Prosody is in the Debian repositories, so we can easily install it on our server with the following command:
- </p>
-
- <pre><code>apt install prosody</code></pre>
-
-
-<h2>Configuration</h2>
-
-<p>
-The Prosody configuration file is in <code>/etc/prosody/prosody.cfg.lua</code>.
-To set it all up, we will be changing several things.
-</p>
-
-<h3>Setting Admins</h3>
-
-<p>
-Let's go ahead and set who our admin(s) will be.
-Find the line that says <code>admins = { }</code> and to this we can specify one or more server admins.
-</p>
-
-<pre><code># To add one admin:
-admins = { "chad@landchad.net" }
-
-# We can add more than one by separating them by commas. (This file is written in Lua.)
-admins = { "chad@landchad.net", "chadmin@landchad.net" }</code></pre>
-
-<p>
-Note that we have not created these accounts yet, we will do this <a href=#user>below</a>.
-</p>
-
-<h3>Set the Server URL</h3>
-
-<p>
-Find the line <code>VirtualHost "localhost"</code> and replace <code>localhost</code> with your domain.
-In our case, we will have <code>VirtualHost "landchad.net"</code>
-</p>
-
-<h3>Multi-User Chats</h3>
-
-<p>
-Most people will probably want the ability to have chats with more than two users.
-This is easily enough to enable.
-In the config file, add the following:
-</p>
-
-<pre><code>Component "<strong>chat.landchad.xyz</strong>" "muc"
- restrict_room_creation = "admin"</code></pre>
-
-<p>
-On the first line, you must have a separate subdomain for your multi-user chats.
-I use the <code>chat.</code> subdomain, but some use <code>muc.</code>.
-Anything if possible.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-The second line is important because it prevents non-admins from creating and squatting rooms on your server.
-The only situation where you might not want that is if you indend to open a general public chat system for people you don't know.
-</p>
-
-<aside>
-<p>
-Read more about the <code>muc</code> plugin on the Prosody documentation page <a href="https://prosody.im/doc/modules/mod_muc">here</a>.
-</p>
-</aside>
-
-
-<h3>End-to-end Encryption</h3>
-
-<p>
-Importantly, we'll want end-to-end encryption enabled for user privacy.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Find the array beginning with <code>modules_enabled</code>.
-This includes a list of modules to be used.
-Add
-<code>"omemo_all_access";</code> to that list.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-This module is not installed by default,
-but you can easily download it by running the following command on the command prompt
-to download and install the module to the correcy directory.
-</p>
-
-<pre><code style=font-size:x-small>curl -sL https://hg.prosody.im/prosody-modules/raw-file/785389a2d2b3/mod_omemo_all_access/mod_omemo_all_access.lua &gt; /usr/lib/prosody/modules/mod_omemo_all_access.lua</code></pre>
-
-<h3>Other things to check</h3>
-
-<p>Check the config file for other settings you might want to change.
-For example, if you want to run a general public XMPP server, you can allow anyone to create an account by changing <code>allow_registration</code> to <code>true</code>.
-</p>
-
-<h2>Certificates</h2>
-
-<p>
-Obviously, we want to have client-to-server and server-to-server encryption.
-Nowadays, use can use Certbot to generate certificates and use a convenient command below <code>prosodyctl</code> to import them.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-<strong>If you have multi-user chat enabled, be sure to get a certificate for that subdomain as well.</strong>
-I usually just create a dummy nginx site for each and run it with the <code>--nginx</code> option.
-This makes auto-renewal a little easier.
-</p>
-
-<!-- <pre><code>server { -->
-<!-- listen 80 ; -->
-<!-- listen [::]:80 ; -->
-<!-- root /var/www/html; -->
-<!-- index index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html; -->
-<!-- server_name <strong>muc.landchad.net</strong> ; -->
-<!-- location / { -->
-<!-- try_files $uri $uri/ =404; -->
-<!-- } -->
-<!-- }</code></pre> -->
-
-<pre><code>certbot --nginx</code></pre>
-
-<p>
-Once you have the certificates for encryption, run the following to import them into Prosody.
-</p>
-
-<pre><code>prosodyctl --root cert import /etc/letsencrypt/live/</code></pre>
-
-<p>
-Note that you might get an error that a certificate has not been found if your <code>muc</code> subdomain and your main domain share a certificate.
-It should still work, this is just notifying you that no specific
-</p>
-
-
-<p>
-For user privacy, we will definitely want to install and enable encryption with OMEMO.
-</p>
-
-<h2 id=user>Creating users/admins manually</h2>
-
-<p>
-Let's manually create the admin user we prepared for above.
-Note that you can indeed do this in your XMPP client if you have not disabled registration, but this is how it is done on the command line:
-</p>
-
-<pre><code>prosodyctl adduser chad@landchad.net</code></pre>
-
-<p>This will prompt you to create a password as well.</p>
-
-
-<h2>Make changes active</h2>
-
-<p>
-With any system service, use <code>systemctl reload</code> or <code>systemctl restart</code> to make the new settings active:
-</p>
-
-<pre><code>systemctl reload prosody</code></pre>
-
- </main>
- <footer><a href="https://landchad.net">LandChad.net</a></br>Because Everyone should be an Internet LandChad.</br><li><a href="index.html"><img src="pix/chad.gif" alt="chad"></a></li><li><a href="rss.xml"><img src="pix/rss.svg" alt="RSS"></a></li><li><a href="pix/btc.png"><img src="pix/btc.svg" alt="BTC"></a></li><li><a href="pix/xmr.png"><img src="pix/xmr.svg" alt="XMR"></a></li><li><a href="https://github.com/lukesmithxyz/landchad"><img src="pix/git.svg" alt="Github"></a></footer>
-</body>
-</html>