1. You have to create a user: prosody 2. And a group: prosody 3. You have to create these 3 directories: mkdir -p -m750 /var/lib/prosody mkdir -p -m750 /var/run/prosody mkdir -p -m750 /var/log/prosody 4. Owner and group of both dirs have to be set to the previously created ones: chown prosody:prosody /var/lib/prosody chown prosody:prosody /var/run/prosody chown prosody:prosody /var/log/prosody 5. Configure prosody config file: /etc/prosody/prosody.cfg.lua There is already an example file included in /etc/prosody/ NOTE: Step 1-4 can easily be done by 'sh config-helper.sh' in current directory. Have fun :-)