Commit 59aef113 authored by Daniel Henninger's avatar Daniel Henninger Committed by dhenninger

Updated install docs.

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<h2><a name="unix">Running Openfire in Linux/Unix</a></h2>
You can start and stop Openfire using the <tt>bin/openfire</tt> script in your Openfire installation:
If you are running on a Red Hat or Red Hat like system (CentOS, Fedora, etc), we recommend using the
RPM as it contains some custom handling of the standard Red Hat like environment. Assuming that you
have used the RPM, you can start and stop Openfire using the <tt>/etc/init.d/openfire</tt> script.
<p>
<tt>
# /etc/init.d/openfire<br>
Usage /etc/init.d/openfire {start|stop|restart|status|condrestart|reload}<br>
# /etc/init.d/openfire start<br>
Starting openfire:
</tt>
</p>
If you are running on a different Linux/Unix varient, and/or you have used the .tar.gz 'installer',
you can start and stop Openfire using the <tt>bin/openfire</tt> script in your Openfire installation:
<p>
<tt>
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If you would like to install Openfire as a service, two scripts are provided in the <tt>bin/extra</tt>
directory:
<ul>
<li>redhat-postinstall.sh -- automatically installs Openfire as a service on Red Hat. It does so by creating a "jive" user and then copying the openfired script to your init.d directory. This script must be run as root. Please see the comments in the script for additional information.</li>
<li>redhat-postinstall.sh -- automatically installs Openfire as a service on Red Hat. It does so by creating a "jive" user and then copying the openfired script to your init.d directory. This script must be run as root. Please see the comments in the script for additional information.</li>
<li>openfired -- script to run Openfire as a service. You must manually configure this script. See the comments in
the script for additional details.</li>
</ul>
<b>It is not recommended that you use either of these scripts if you installed via RPM. The RPM has already taken care of what these scripts take care of.</b>
<h3>Custom Parameters</h3>
<p>Advanced users may wish to pass in parameters to the Java virtual machine (VM) to customize
the runtime environment of Openfire. If you installed via RPM, you can customize this by
editing /etc/sysconfig/openfire and looking at the OPENFIRE_OPTS option. If you installed
via .tar.gz, you will need to tweak your startup script to fit your needs.</p>
<h2><a name="plugins">Plugins</a></h2>
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be installed. If you manually download the plugin (packaged as a .jar file), you can deploy it
by copying the plugin file to the <tt>plugins/</tt> directory of your Openfire installation. A
plugin monitor will automatically extract the plugin into a directory and install the plugin in Openfire.
You may also use the "upload plugin" feature in the admin console (under the Plugins tab) to load
a plugin from your local file system to the server.
<h3>Managing Plugins</h3>
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