Tigase Administration Guide
Tips and Tricks

It has happened recently that we have tried very hard to fix a few annoying problems on one of the Tigase installations. Whatever we did, the problem still existed after uploading a new version and restarting the server. It worked fine in our development environment and it just didn’t on the target system.

It turned out that due to specific environment settings on the target system, an old version of Tigase server was always started regardless of what updates uploaded. We finally located the problem by noticing that the logs were not being generated in the proper locations. This led us to finding the issue: improper environment settings.

The best way to check all the environment settings used to start the Tigase server is to use…​.. check command line parameter:

./scripts/tigase.sh check etc/tigase.conf
Checking arguments to Tigase
TIGASE_HOME = .
TIGASE_JAR = jars/tigase-server.jar
TIGASE_PARAMS = etc/tigase.conf
TIGASE_CONFIG = etc/tigase.xml
TIGASE_RUN = tigase.server.XMPPServer -c etc/tigase.xml --property-file etc/init.properties
TIGASE_PID = ./logs/tigase.pid
TIGASE_OPTIONS = --property-file etc/init.properties
JAVA_OPTIONS = -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -Dsun.jnu.encoding=UTF-8 \
    -Djdbc.drivers=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver:org.postgresql.Driver \
    -server -Xms100M -Xmx200M -XX:PermSize=32m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m
JAVA = /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.6/Home/bin/java
JAVA_CMD =
CLASSPATH = ./jars/tigase-server.jar:./libs/jdbc-mysql.jar:./libs/jdbc-postgresql.jar:\
    ./libs/tigase-extras.jar:./libs/tigase-muc.jar:./libs/tigase-pubsub.jar:\
    ./libs/tigase-utils.jar:./libs/tigase-xmltools.jar
TIGASE_CMD = /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.6/Home/bin/java \
    -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -Dsun.jnu.encoding=UTF-8 \
    -Djdbc.drivers=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver:org.postgresql.Driver \
    -server -Xms100M -Xmx200M -XX:PermSize=32m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m \
    -cp ./jars/tigase-server.jar:./libs/jdbc-mysql.jar:./libs/jdbc-postgresql.jar:\
    ./libs/tigase-extras.jar:./libs/tigase-muc.jar:./libs/tigase-pubsub.jar:\
    ./libs/tigase-utils.jar:./libs/tigase-xmltools.jar tigase.server.XMPPServer \
    -c etc/tigase.xml --property-file etc/init.properties
TIGASE_CONSOLE_LOG = ./logs/tigase-console.log

In our case TIGASE_HOME was set to a fixed location pointing to an old version of the server files. The quick check command may be a real time saver.