check the file is readable by ejabberd

mfoss — Thu, 14 Apr 2005 08:59:55 +0000

The config looks right, and that's the only place where you need to specify the certificate.

If the SSL certificate is bad created, the route is not correctly specified on ejabberd.cfg or if the file is not readable by the system user that runs ejabberd, a message in the log will appear every time a user tries to connect using SSL, STARTTLS or SASL:

...
    error_info: {{badmatch,{error,"ssl_ctx_use_certificate_chain_file failed"}},
                  [{ejabberd_c2s,wait_for_feature_request,2},
...

ejabberd - Comments for "Cannot connect using SSL"

check the file is readable by ejabberd