Rocket Chat is the leading open source team chat software solution. Free, unlimited and completely customizable with on-premises and SaaS cloud hosting.
You can consider rocket chat as an alternative to Skype and Slack chat solutions.
In this tutorial, we are learning how to install rocket chat on Ubuntu or Debian and configure let's encrypt SSL also we discuss how to take backup Rocket chat server.
Install Rocket chat Server
1. Update the system.
2. Install snap if it is not installed.
Then browse to http://localhost:3000 and setup Rocket Chat Server.
Enable the new configuration by creating a link to it from /etc/nginx/sites-available/
Test the configuration and reload the new configuration
7. Generate SSL certificates using Certbot
Certbot will ask for information about the site. The responses will be saved as part of the certificate also Certbot will also ask if you would like to automatically redirect HTTP traffic to HTTPS traffic. It is recommended that you select this option.
You can consider rocket chat as an alternative to Skype and Slack chat solutions.
In this tutorial, we are learning how to install rocket chat on Ubuntu or Debian and configure let's encrypt SSL also we discuss how to take backup Rocket chat server.
Install Rocket chat Server
1. Update the system.
sudo apt-get update
2. Install snap if it is not installed.
sudo apt-get install snapd
3. Install Rocket Chat
sudo snap install rocketchat-server
4. Check if Rocket Chat is running
sudo service snap.rocketchat-server.rocketchat-server status
Then browse to http://localhost:3000 and setup Rocket Chat Server.
Setup NGINX with Reverse Proxy and SSL
5. Install Nginx and enabled to start automatically on reboot
sudo apt install nginx
sudo systemctl start nginx
sudo systemctl enable nginx
6. Set up NGINX Reverse Proxy
Remove the default site
sudo rm /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default
Create /etc/nginx/sites-available/rocketchat.conf file.
add the necessary values to point to your domain name and to add the reverse proxy. Replace example.com with your actual domain name.
vim /etc/nginx/sites-available/rocketchat.conf
server {
listen 80;
server_name example.com;
location / {
proxy_pass http://localhost:3000/;
}
}
Enable the new configuration by creating a link to it from /etc/nginx/sites-available/
sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/rocketchat.conf /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/
Test the configuration and reload the new configuration
sudo nginx -t
sudo nginx -s reload
7. Generate SSL certificates using Certbot
sudo apt-get install python-certbot-nginx
sudo certbot --nginx
Certbot will ask for information about the site. The responses will be saved as part of the certificate also Certbot will also ask if you would like to automatically redirect HTTP traffic to HTTPS traffic. It is recommended that you select this option.
Again Test the configuration and reload the new configuration
Then browse to https://yourdomain.com and setup Rocket Chat Server.
sudo nginx -t
sudo nginx -s reload
Then browse to https://yourdomain.com and setup Rocket Chat Server.
