I'm writing these steps primarily for myself as a reference.  However, if someone else finds them useful to great. Adding XMPP framework to your server.  Initially I was going to add Prosody, however as I'm working off an Apache server with Centos 6.10 this quickly proved to a goal that was out of reach.  Instead, I pivoted and redirected to Erlang.   Is your server hardware running Linux, BSD, OS X, or Windows? Can you use Java or Python or another language if the server...

To add ejabberd and run MYSQL to the server I needed to update the server version of mysql from 5.5 to 5.7.  Fortunately, there are great instructions on the Plesk support page regarding how to achieve this outcome. https://support.plesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/213403429-How-to-upgrade-MySQL-5-5-to-5-6-5-7-or-MariaDB-5-5-to-10-0-10-1-10-2-on-Linux As a point of reference, as I worked through the steps... step 10 you need to restart the MYSQL server.  This is a quick progress by...