SSL how to: install ssl on eJabberd

Article describes how to get StartSSL certificates working with eJabberd. First of all read how to get free ssl certificate from StartSSL and actually create certificates.

cat www_privatekey.pem www_certificate.pem sub.class1.server.ca.pem > /etc/ejabberd/ejabberd.pem
 chown ejabberd:ejabberd /etc/ejabberd/ejabberd.pem
 chmod 400 /etc/ejabberd/ejabberd.pem

The SSL portion of the eJabberd config should look something like this.

{5222, ejabberd_c2s, [
                        {access, c2s},
                        {shaper, c2s_shaper},
                        {max_stanza_size, 65536},
                        starttls, {certfile, "/etc/ejabberd/ejabberd.pem"}
                       ]},

 {s2s_use_starttls, true}.
 {s2s_certfile, "/etc/ejabberd/ejabberd.pem"}.