Find the lastest version of openfire These instructions were created against version 3.3.3. Also AssUMed that you are going to use MySQL. There are many choices LDAP among them. Just make sure that what ever database method you choose that you update the path in the SMF file below.

1. Java version

   java -version

   needs to be 1.5 or later

2. MySQL version

    mysql --version

   needs to be 4.12 or later 5.X preferred

We will be installing openfire into /opt/openfire.

 
cd /opt/src
curl http://www.igniterealtime.org/downloadServlet?filename=openfire/openfire_3_3_3.tar.gz >openfire_3_3_3.tar.gz
gtar xvzf openfire_3_3_3.tar.gz
mv openfile ../

You now have the official installation instructions in /opt/openfire/documentation/index.html

mysql -u USERNAME -pPASSWORD
Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 948 to server version: 5.0.22
 
Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer.
 
mysql> create database openfire;
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)
 
mysql> exit
Bye

Then populate the database

mysql -u USERNAME -pPASSWORD openfire </opt/openfire/resources/database/openfire_mysql.sql 

Depending on what you want to do there are quite a few plug-ins to choose from. Here is an example of installing the gateway plugin.

cd /opt/openfire/plugins
curl http://www.igniterealtime.org/projects/openfire/plugins/gateway.jar >gateway.jar

That is all you need to do. When openfire is up and running it will see the new .jar file and install it automatically.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<!--
	smf_openfire
	Created by Linda Derezinski on 2007-10-21.
-->
 
<!DOCTYPE service_bundle SYSTEM '/usr/share/lib/xml/dtd/service_bundle.dtd.1'>
<service_bundle type='manifest' name='XMPP/openfire'>
  <service name='network/XMPP/openfire' type='service' version='0'>
    <create_default_instance enabled='true'/>
    <single_instance/>    
    <dependency name='fs' grouping='require_all' restart_on='none' type='service'>
      <service_fmri value='svc:/system/filesystem/local'/>
    </dependency>
    <dependency name='net' grouping='require_all' restart_on='none' type='service'>
      <service_fmri value='svc:/network/loopback'/>
    </dependency>
    <dependent name='mongrel_multi-user' restart_on='none' grouping='optional_all'>
      <service_fmri value='svc:/milestone/multi-user'/>
    </dependent>    
    <exec_method name='start' type='method' exec='/opt/openfire/bin/openfire start' timeout_seconds='60'>
      <method_context working_directory='/opt/openfire'>
        <method_credential user='root' group='root' />
        <method_environment>
           <envvar name="PATH" value="/opt/csw/gnu:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sfw/bin:/opt/csw/bin:/opt/csw/sbin:/opt/csw/mysql5/bin:/opt/csw/postgresql/bin" />
        </method_environment>
      </method_context>
    </exec_method>
    <exec_method name='stop' type='method' exec='/opt/openfire/bin/openfire stop' timeout_seconds='60'>
      <method_context/>
    </exec_method>
  </service>
</service_bundle>

sudo svccfg import smf_openfire.xml

Make sure it came up ok

# svcs -a |grep openfire
online         13:37:25 svc:/network/XMPP/openfire:default

Point your browser to http://your-public-ip:9090/ and finish up the installation.