Ejabberd sbin/ejabberdctl start(No such file or directory)

Question

When i was installing Ejabberd, it gave an error saying it wasnt installed successfully. But then i have the folder my-ejabberd with all the folders in it.

I am not sur

Answer 1

If you have installed the ejabberd with source code then ejabberdctl will be sbin folder. If installed from source code, follow this:

$ cd /path/to/my-ejabberd
$ sbin/ejabberdctl start
$ sbin/ejabberdctl status
The node ejabberd@localhost is started with status: started
ejabberd 15.06.21 is running in that node

If you have installed with binary installer, then you will see the ejabberdctl in bin folder. And also you see start, stop and some other commands. If you did this, then follow

$ cd /path/to/my-ejabberd
$ cd bin
$ ./ejabberdctl start
$ ./ejabberdctl status
The node ejabberd@localhost is started with status: started
ejabberd 15.06.21 is running in that node

If you see the node is starting, then the ejabberd is running successfully. If you want you can check http://localhost:5280/admin for the ejabberd admin panel interface. To access this admin panel you need to register a user and give admin access in the ejabberd configuration file as:

// If installed from source code
$ sbin/ejabberdctl register username localhost password

// If installed from binary installer
$ ./ejabberdctl register username localhost password

Then open the ejabberd configuration file (ejabberd.yml) and add username under the admin as:

acl:  
  admin:
    - "username": "localhost"

Now restart the server or stop and start the server and open the admin panel. Give username and password then you can access the admin panel.

Answer 2

In my particular case installing with .dmg i found using find / -name ejabberdctl in terminal and result /Applications/ejabberd.xx.x/bin/ejabberdctl