Chapter 21. Startup File for tigase.sh - tigase.conf
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# Chapter 21. Startup File for tigase.sh - tigase.conf

Artur Hefczyc <artur.hefczyc@tigase.net> v2.0, June 2014: Reformatted for AsciiDoc. :toc: :numbered: :website: http://tigase.net :Date: 2010-04-06 21:18

Property file name for tigase.sh startup script is a second parameter for the startup script. It can be skipped if environmental variables are set in different place or in different way.

Config file for startup script simply sets number of environment variables with location of required components. Possible variables to set in this file are:

- JAVA_HOME - location of Java installation home directory. Must be set.
- TIGASE_HOME - location of Tigase installation home directory. By default script try to find this location by searching directories from the location where the script has been run.
- TIGASE_CONSOLE_LOG - file to which all console messages will be redirected if server is run in background. By default it will be: TIGASE_HOME/logs/tigase-console.log. If this file/directory is not writable by Tigase process all console messages will be redirected to /dev/null
- TIGASE_PID location of the file with server PID number. By default it will be TIGASE_HOME/logs/tigase.pid.
- TIGASE_CONFIG - location of the Tigase server config file. This is main config XML file. Not to be confused with startup script parameters file. If not set script trys to find it in following locations in given order: /etc/conf.d/tigase-server.xml, /etc/tigase-server.xml, /etc/tigase/tigase-server.xml or finally in TIGASE_HOME/etc/tigase-server.xml
- JAVA_OPTIONS - options for JVM like size of RAM allocated for the JVM, properties and so on.
- TIGASE_OPTIONS - additional options for Tigase server program. You can tweak here initial parameters for your environment.

Sample file to run Tigase with PostgreSQL database may look like:

    ENC="-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -Dsun.jnu.encoding=UTF-8"
    DRV="-Djdbc.drivers=org.postgresql.Driver"
    JAVA_OPTIONS="${ENC} ${DRV} -server -Xms100M -Xmx100M "
    CLASSPATH=""
    TIGASE_CONFIG="tigase-pgsql.xml"
    TIGASE_OPTIONS=" --property-file etc/init.properties "

Please note encoding settings. I have received several requests about encoding problems. JVM by default uses encoding set in operating system environment. XMPP protocol, however uses UTF-8 for all data processing. So the above settings enforces UTF-8 encoding for all operations.

Another significant setting is \'CLASSPATH'. It is intentionally set to empty string. The tigase.sh startup script builds the CLASSPATH on it’s own from files found in jars/ and libs/ directories. I advice to set the CLASSPATH to the empty string because the Tigase server scans all available classes to find all components and plugins implementation. If the CLASSPATH contains lots of libraries which are not used anyway it cases long startup time and lots of memory consumption.

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