OpenFire Joomla Integration Plugin

OpenFire Joomla Integration Plugin allows the OpenFire XMPP (Jabber) Server to authenticate against the Joomla user database. This allows members of your Joomla website to have Instant Messenger accounts at your domain. Please see the Joomla Instant Messaging extensions page for the full list of free extensions we provide.

OpenFire Joomla Integration Plugin Compatibility

This plugin is only available for Joomla1.5. Joomla1.0 does not have the functionality to needed to run such a plugin.

Download OpenFire Joomla Integration Plugin

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OpenFire Joomla Plugin Installation

Download the latest version of OpenFire Joomla from our Joomla OpenFire Integration Project.
Install the Plugin using the Joomla1.5 online installer.
Plublish the plugin in your Joomla Plugins manager.
Edit the openfire configuration file: /config/openfire.xml. The location of this file depends on your OpenFire installation. If you did a manual install, it would be at: /opt/openfire/config/openfire.xml.

Insert the following lines, if or update it if it exsits:

<jdbcAuthProvider> 
    <passwordSQL>select password from jos_openfire_users where username = ?</passwordSQL>  
    <passwordType>sha1</passwordType> 
  </jdbcAuthProvider>