Rocket Chat

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About

"Rocket Chat, the ultimate webchat platform. From group messages and video calls all the way to helpdesk killer features. Our goal is to become the number one cross-platform open source chat solution"

Video Conference Chat with your colleagues and friends face-to-face over audio and video.
Helpdesk chat Have your website visitors contact you in real-time and increase conversions.
File sharing Drag-and-drop files or select them from your computer or mobile device.
Voice messages Record and transmit voice messages to a channel, group or private conversation.
Link preview Post a link and immediately view its content. YouTube, Twitter, Gifs!
API Integrate your chat to multiple services: GitHub, GitLab, JIRA, Confluence and others.
Extendability Want a killer new feature? Add a new package. It's as simple as that.
Native applications Native client applications available for download on Linux, Windows and OSX.
Mobile applications Mobile client applications available for iOS and Android on their respective stores.

In short, a Slack alternative completely self hosted and controlled. Great for closed (company) teams.

RAW NOTES

RocketChat install script for SME Server 9.x 64-bit
Copyright 2016 RequestedDeletion (RequestedDeletion@gmail.com)

Add epel repo

/sbin/e-smith/db yum_repositories set epel repository \
Name 'Epel - EL6' \
BaseURL 'http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/$basearch' \
MirrorList 'http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=epel-6&arch=$basearch' \
EnableGroups no \
GPGCheck yes \
GPGKey http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL \
Exclude perl-Razor-Agent \
Visible no \
status disabled

Add Centos-rh SCL repo’s

/sbin/e-smith/db yum_repositories set scl \
repository Name 'Software collections' \
BaseURL 'http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/SCL/$basearch/' \
EnableGroups no Visible yes status disabled

/sbin/e-smith/db yum_repositories set centos-sclo-rhl \
repository Name 'Software collections' \
BaseURL 'http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/sclo/$basearch/rh/' \
EnableGroups no Visible yes status disabled

Expand new repo’s

signal-event yum-modify

Install Software Collections applications

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

using NPM:

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

Start Mongodb as service

(please note the usage of mongod and NOT mongodb)

ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d/e-smith-service /etc/rc7.d/S99rh-mongodb26-mongod
config set rh-mongodb26-mongod service
config setprop rh-mongodb26-mongod status enabled
config setprop rh-mongodb26-mongod access private
config setprop rh-mongodb26-mongod TCPPort 27017

Create boot scripts for software collections application

nano -w /etc/profile.d/scls-rh-mongodb26

#!/bin/sh
export ROOT_URL=http://YOURSERVERIP:3000/
export PORT=3000
export MONGO_URL=mongodb://localhost:27017/rocketchat

nano -w /etc/profile.d/scls-rh-python34.sh

#!/bin/sh
source /opt/rh/rh-python34/enable
export X_SCLS="`scl enable rh-python34 'echo $X_SCLS'`"

nano -w /etc/profile.d/scls-rh-java-common.sh

#!/bin/sh
source /opt/rh/rh-java-common/enable
export X_SCLS="`scl enable rh-java-common 'echo $X_SCLS'`"

nano -w /etc/profile.d/scls-nodejs010.sh

#!/bin/sh
source /opt/rh/nodejs010/enable
export X_SCLS="`scl enable nodejs010 'echo $X_SCLS'`"

Create SME Server rocket chat service

config set rocketchat service status enabled TCPPort 3000 access public
signal-event remoteaccess-update

Get RocketChat from downloads

cd /root
curl -L https://rocket.chat/releases/latest/download -o rocket.chat.tgz
tar zxvf rocket.chat.tgz
mv bundle /opt/Rocket.Chat
cd /opt/Rocket.Chat/programs/server
npm install

Start Rocket Chat

cd /opt/Rocket.Chat
node main.js &

Browse to https://yourserver:3000 and create the first admin user.

TO DO

Auto start Rocket Chat
Fine tune various things (e.g. Security)
Enable LDAP authentication
Create subdomain e.g. https://chat.yourdomain.com using the webapps-common contrib
Test, test, test
Create a contrib
Showcase SME Server, contribs and software collections.

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