Much Better

Previously...

• I discovered that gen_tcp could partially parse HTTP.
• I ran into the weird mod_adhoc problem again.
• I discovered that there were version problems with ejabberd and erlang

Today I tried downloading ejabberd 2.1.10 and rebuilding and reinstalling.  That went fine and I tried connecting with Pidgin.  That worked (over BOSH no less), so I tried copying over the megaphone stuff.  

For reference, I had to make the following changes in order to get the build to include megaphone:

• Run configure
• Change the resulting Makefile
• Add megaphone to the list of sub-directories to build
• Run make
• Run sudo make install
• Change the ejabberd.cfg file
• Add megaphone to the listeners
• Add megaphone to the modules

Change the Makefile/Add megaphone to the list of sub-directories to build

This consisted of finding the following line in the Makefile:

SUBDIRS = mod_irc mod_pubsub mod_muc mod_proxy65 eldap  web stringprep stun tls  ejabberd_zlib

And adding "megaphone" to the list.  Note that I had a makefile in the megaphone directory that I copied from the ejabberd web directory.

Change the ejabberd.cfg file/Add megaphone to the listeners

In the section that looks like this:

%%%.   ===============

%%%'   LISTENING PORTS

%%

%% listen: The ports ejabberd will listen on, which service each is handled

%% by and what options to start it with.

%%

{listen,

 [

I added the line 

  {6280, megaphone, []}

To the end of the list.

Change the ejabberd.cfg file/Add megaphone to the modules

In the section that starts with this:

%%%.   =======

%%%'   MODULES

%%

%% Modules enabled in all ejabberd virtual hosts.

%%

{modules,

 [

I added the line

  {mod_megaphone, []}

To the end of the list.

Then I just used ejabberdctl start to start up ejabberd.

And everything worked.

Well, actually it didn't.

But at least ejabberd started up and didn't complain about mod_adhoc or that megaphone was a "bad file" because it was using opcodes for a different version.

Next step is to continue debugging the megaphone module, now that ejabberd is up and running again.