Chapter 20. 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:

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.