was having issues with LDAP, then it worked (quite unexpectedly), then I wanted to make a small change (the admin user) and hosed everything up. This has prompted me to re-install the whole thing (as you suggest here is the issue with the embedded DB) and now I'm running into the same LDAP issues I was before.
I don't exactly know how I solved them the first time around- but now I'm additionally experiencing an issue where- after the first failure to add an admin user- I can't get past the database portion. Trying to continue with the Embedded Database option results in "the openfire database schema doesn't appear to be installed, please consult the installation guide to fix this".
And helpfully the installation guide has nothing to say- of course.
Honestly I'm not too keen on adding the additional complications of first setting up a MySQL database (never done it) and then attempting to connect it to LDAP (which I'm already having serious issues with)- but I now see the point in it.
Back to square one. I'm going to try some of the ideas I'm seeing here tomorrow, see if it gets me anywhere...