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Howto install mosquitto with websockets

Install mosquitto with websockets

This is a guide how to install mosquitto on Ubuntu with websockets enabled.

It is more or less the same as explained in the article "Six Steps to install mosquitto 1.4.2 with websockets on debian whezy" http://www.xappsoftware.com/wordpress/2015/05/18/six-steps-to-install-mosquitto-1-4-2-with-websockets-on-debian-wheezy/comment-page-1/

Exceptions:

  1. mosquitto version 1.4.10 is used.
  2. libwebsockets-dev was installed using apt-get instead of building from source.

Install the dependencies

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install build-essential python quilt python-setuptools python3
$ sudo apt-get install libssl-dev
$ sudo apt-get install cmake
$ sudo apt-get install libc-ares-dev
$ sudo apt-get install uuid-dev
$ sudo apt-get install daemon
$ sudo apt-get install libwebsockets-dev

Download mosquitto

$ cd Downloads/
$ wget http://mosquitto.org/files/source/mosquitto-1.4.10.tar.gz
$ tar zxvf mosquitto-1.4.10.tar.gz
$ cd mosquitto-1.4.10/
$ sudo nano config.mk

Edit config.mk

WITH_WEBSOCKETS:=yes

Build mosquitto

$ make
$ sudo make install
$ sudo cp mosquitto.conf /etc/mosquitto

Configure ports for mosquitto

Add the following lines to /etc/mosquitto/mosquitto.conf in the "Default Listener" section:

port 1883
listener 9001
protocol websockets

Add user for mosquitto

$ sudo adduser mosquitto

Reeboot computer

$ reboot

Run mosquitto

$ mosquitto -c /etc/mosquitto/mosquitto.conf
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set09603 commented Jul 17, 2019

Worked great - but I needed to install these to make it work on a raspberry pi

sudo apt-get install xsltproc
sudo apt-get install docbook-xsl

Also, to make systemctl work...
sudo ln -s /usr/local/sbin/mosquitto /usr/sbin/

@mitul-srashtasoft
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1606973623: mosquitto version 1.6.12 starting
1606973623: Config loaded from /etc/mosquitto/mosquitto.conf.
1606973623: Opening websockets listen socket on port 9001.
1606973623: Error: Unable to create websockets listener on port 9001.

@joko2020
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Hello All,
I have Successfully install Mqtt with Instruction from http://linoxide.com/tools/setup-mosquitto-mqtt-server-ubuntu-16-04/
and running well.
but my mqtt server only listening on http protocol and I would like to use with websocket, and I follow Instruction Above
but my mqtt server won't start anymore with error Websockets support not available.
How to correct this issue

For Information I use
OS Ubuntu 16.04
mosquitto-1.4.9

@joko2020
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Hello All,
I have Successfully install Mqtt with Instruction from http://linoxide.com/tools/setup-mosquitto-mqtt-server-ubuntu-16-04/ and running well.
but my mqtt server only listening on http protocol and I would like to use with websocket, and I follow Instruction Above
but my mqtt server won't start anymore with error Websockets support not available.
How to correct this issue

For Information I use
OS Ubuntu 16.04
mosquitto-1.4.9

Trying Clean installation of Ubuntu 16.04 and reinstall mosquitto with instruction above... now works fine for me.. thanks for tutorial

@devgraphy
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It works!!! thank you!!

@paul1982
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It is working with https://mosquitto.org/files/source/mosquitto-2.0.11.tar.gz
I installed it on a raspberry, but before I could build it I need to install cJSON

git clone https://github.com/DaveGamble/cJSON.git
cd cJSON/
mkdir build
cd build/
cmake ..
make
make install

I hope this help if you get the error: cjson/cjson.h no such file or directory

@tranchausky
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sudo yum install openssl-devel worked

it work for me centos7, mosquitto 1.6 (after allow firewall)

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