Rocket Chat:Contrib

Contrib: John Crisp

	Note:
	Please note that there is also a howto on installing Rcoket.Chat manually here

smeserver-rocketchat contrib

	Work in Progress:
	This page is a Work in Progress. The contents off this page may be in flux, please have a look at this page history the to see list of changes.

This contrib aims to reduce some of the setup for rocketchat and add some flexibility with settings

Add repos:

• epel
• Centos-sclo-rh
• reetp

yum install rh-python34-python rh-mongodb26-mongodb rh-mongodb26-mongodb-server nodejs010 GraphicsMagick --enablerepo=centos-sclo-rh,epel

scl enable nodejs010 bash
npm install -g inherits
npm install -g n
n 0.10.40
exit

You should now be able to install the rocketchat bundle with:

yum --enablerepo=reetp install rocketchat

This may take a while on first install as it installs the npm modules for the first time.

Now you should be able to install the rocketchat contrib:

yum enablerepo=reetp install smeserver-rocketchat

db setprop rocketchat status enabled

signal-event post-upgrade;signal-event reboot

DB settings

rocketchat=service
   TCPPort=3000
   access=public
   mailPort=25
   mailURL=localhost
   status=enabled

rh-mongodb26-mongod=service
   TCPPort=27017
   access=private
   mongoURL=localhost
   status=enabled

BEFORE we login for the first time we need to set up mail settings correctly:

From bash:

mongo rocketchat --eval 'db.rocketchat_settings.update({"_id" : "SMTP_Host"}, {$set: {"value":"localhost"}});'
mongo rocketchat --eval 'db.rocketchat_settings.update({"_id" : "From_Email"}, {$set: {"value":"admin@yourdomain.com"}});'

We can check the individual values set like this:

mongo rocketchat --eval 'db.rocketchat_settings.find({"_id":"From_Email"}, {_id:0, value:1}).shellPrint();'
mongo rocketchat --eval 'db.rocketchat_settings.find({"_id":"SMTP_Host"}, {_id:0, value: 1}).shellPrint();'

All values per _id:

mongo rocketchat --eval 'db.rocketchat_settings.find({"_id" : "SMTP_Host"}).shellPrint();'
mongo rocketchat --eval 'db.rocketchat_settings.find({"_id" : "From_Email"}).shellPrint();'

Now restart rocketchat to reread the DB settings:

service rocketchat restart

Login at http://yourdomain:3000

It will first get you to create an admin user.

If you have an issue with no email sent/received then login using the email address and password you just set

Updates

If there is an update to rocket chat you should just be able to run:

yum --enablerepo=reetp install rocketchat

Bugs

Look for bugs :-) As the contrib is not in CVS please report them in the forum

You ay get an error on install of the rocketchat rpm as follows:

npm WARN deprecated minimatch@2.0.10: Please update to minimatch 3.0.2 or higher to avoid a RegExp DoS issue

This is due to the installed version of npm/node from SCL. Rocket.Chat should till work

SSL

	Note:
	This is still experimental and there are issues with SSL only for the Primary iBay and Letsencrypt. You will need a minimum version of smeserver-rocketchat-0.1-4

It is recommended to add Letsencrypt support as detailed below.

We need some extra settings to enable SSL with ProxyPass.

First install proxy pass rpm:

yum --enablerepo=fws install mod_proxy_wstunnel

Regenerate httpd.conf

signal-event remoteaccess-update

Now we need to setup our subdomain

db domains set chat.mycompany.local domain Description RocketChat Nameservers internet \
TemplatePath ProxyPassVirtualRocketchat ProxyPassTarget http://localhost:3000/

It should look like this:

chat.mycompany.local=domain
   Nameservers=internet
   ProxyPassTarget=http://127.0.0.1:3000/
   TemplatePath=ProxyPassVirtualRocketchat

We need to set Rocket.Chat to listen on localhost now:

config setprop rocketchat rootURL localhost
signal-event remoteaccess-update
service rocketchat restart

If you can now successfully get to Rocketchat on your subdomain https://chat.mycompany.local you can disable default access on port 3000:

config setprop rocketchat access private
signal-event remoteaccess-update

Letsencrypt support

	Note:
	25 Aug 2016 - I still haven't quite figured out how to template an Alias and ProxyPass for the .well-known/acme-challenge directory

You can add letsencrypt should you wish - please see https://wiki.contribs.org/Letsencrypt

You will need to add the domain key as follows, and add your letsencrypt certificates as per the wiki page:

db domains setprop chat.mycompany.local letsencryptSSLcert enabled

Note that smeserver-rocketchat adds a ProxyPass directive for the letsencrypt directory .well-known/acme-challenge

Mongo DB examples

Example using mongo itself:

mongo

use rocketchat

db.rocketchat_settings.find({"_id" : "SMTP_Host"})
db.rocketchat_settings.find({"_id" : "From_Email"})

db.rocketchat_settings.findOne({_id : "From_Email"}, {_id:0, value: 1})
db.rocketchat_settings.findOne({_id : "SMTP_Host"}, {_id:0, value: 1})

db.rocketchat_settings.update({"_id" : "From_Email"}, {$set: {"value":"admin@reetspetit.info"}})
db.rocketchat_settings.update({"_id" : "SMTP_Host"}, {$set: {"value":"mail.reetspetit.info"}})