[JDEV] Problems installing JabberD 1.4.2 on Win2000

[Phil Harris]

JJ wrote:
> Hi,
> I have problems starting Jabber server on my Windows 2000 server.
> I downloaded the .exe file and changed the .xml file to reflect my domain
> name (ns1.inttelco.us).
> Also I created a folder in the same directory where I installed jabberd
> (under "spool"), called ns1.inttelco.us (/spool/ns1.inttelco.us/).
> When I tried to start jabber server I'm getting the following message:
>
> Unable to access home folder /home/temas/src/jabber-1.4.2: No such file or
> directory
> 20020612T00:43:06: [notice] (-internal): initializing server
>
> Any ideas?


Yep,

You need to tell jabberd what the home directory is

jabberd -H . -D for instance

-H takes a parameter which would be your jabberd directory:

jabber-d -H d:/jabberd -D

on my machine for instance.

hth