Rocket Chat:Contrib
Version up to 0.61.2 will work with this contrib.
Later versions will need my newer smeserver-rocketchat-0.2.x contrib which uses docker.
smeserver-rocketchat contrib
There is no contrib for v10 as yet. I will work on it when I have time. These are just some notes for reference.
Current version
NA
You may be able to install from source but chances are CentOS7 will be 'too old'
Latest source is here:
https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat/tags
Required repos
Add repos:
Settings
config set rocketchat service TCPPort 3000 mailPort 25 mailURL localhost access public status enabled
signal-event post-upgrade;signal-event reboot
System ➔ startup +----------------------------------------------------+ | SERVER RUNNING | +----------------------------------------------------+ | | | Version: 0.xx.x | | Process Port: 3000 | | Site URL: http://rocketchat.local.net:3000 | | OpLog: Disabled | | | +----------------------------------------------------+
You should now be able to connect to your Rocket.Chat instance
http://rocketchat.local.net:3000
Registering a new account
Because the SME mail server is fussy you may find it easier to force some settings in the Rocket.Chat DB before trying to register:
You can set your SMTP host as localhost or mail.yourdomain.com
mongo
use rocketchat
db.rocketchat_settings.update({"_id" : "SMTP_Host"}, {$set: {"value":"mail.yourdomain.com"}})
db.rocketchat_settings.update({"_id": "From_Email"}, {$set: {"value":"admin@yourdomain.com"}})
exit<
Errors
NA
Apache SSL with Proxypass
It is recommended to add Letsencrypt support as detailed below (see here for my contrib https://wiki.contribs.org/Letsencrypt)
Make a copy of the ProxyPassVirtualHosts dir
cp -e /etc/e-smith/templates/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf/ProxyPassVirtualHosts /etc/e-smith/templates-custom/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf/ProxyPassVirtualRocketchat
Edit this file:
/etc/e-smith/templates-custom/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf/ProxyPassVirtualRocketchat/50Content
Replace the existing code with this:
ProxyPreserveHost on
SetEnv proxy-nokeepalive 1
ProxyPass /.well-known/acme-challenge/ !
DocumentRoot /home/e-smith/files/ibays/Primary/html
<IfModule mod_proxy_wstunnel.c>
ProxyPassMatch ^/sockjs/(.*)/websocket ws://localhost:3000/sockjs//websocket
ProxyPass /websocket ws://localhost:3000/websocket
</IfModule>
ProxyPass / http://localhost:3000/
ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:3000/
<Location />
Require all granted
</Location>
<Location /.well-known/acme-challenge/>
Require all granted
</Location>
Save, and then run
signal-event webapps-update
Now we need to setup our subdomain for the reverse proxy
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 (can be localhost) ProxyPassTarget=http://127.0.0.1:3000/ TemplatePath=ProxyPassVirtualRocketchat letsencryptSSLcert=enabled (with letsencrypt support)
We need to set Rocket.Chat to listen on localhost now:
config setprop rocketchat rootURL chat.mycompany.domain SSLProxy yes 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
You may find you need to clear your browser cache before it works correctly on https://chat.mycompany.local rather than http://chat.mycompany.local:3000
IF you have Letsencrypt support you can now set your main domain to SSL only:
db accounts setprop Primary SSL enabled signal-event ibay-modify Primary
Upgrades
To upgrade rocketchat:
yum --enablerepo=reetp install rocketchat
To upgrade the rocketchat configurator:
yum --enablerepo=reetp install smeserver-rocketchat
Bugs
Look for bugs :-) As the contrib is not in CVS please report them in the forum and I will try and keep an eye out.
Mongo DB examples
Usage
Example using mongo itself:
mongo
use rocketchat
Show all collections in DB
show collections
Show all entries in a collection
db.rocketchat_avatars.chunks.find()
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"}, {$set: {"value":"admin@yourdomain.com"}})
db.rocketchat_settings.update({"_id":"SMTP_Host"}, {$set: {"value":"mail.yourdomain.com"}})
Remove all entries in a collection (CAREFUL!!!!!!)
db.rocketchat_avatars.chunks.remove({})
Help
help
Some more mongo commands for reference
https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat/issues/15880#issuecomment-570070433
Directly check a specific user ID from bash:
mongo rocketchat --eval "db.users.find({'username':'usernamehere'}).forEach( function(u) { print(u._id + \" ; \" + u.username); } )"
Log into rocketchat database:
mongo rocketchat
Check out all the user IDs in the database:
db.users.find().forEach( function(u) { print(u._id + ";" + u.username); } )
Or just a specific user's ID:
db.users.find({'username':'usernamehere'}).forEach( function(u) { print(u._id + \" ; \" + u.username); } )
Replace specific user ID's password in the database:
db.users.update( {'_id': 'useridhere'}, {$set: {'services.password.bcrypt': 'bcryptedpasswordhere'}}, {multi:true} )
My only issue with above (only time I needed it for recovery purposes), was that I didn't know which tool to use to generate a bcrypted password. So in the hurry I copied the hash from one account I already knew (my own). If someone knows a good command for creating one directly in bash, I assume it would do.
There are bcrypt password generators online, and various libraries you can use
For listing out any passwords in the database I used:
db.users.find().forEach( function(u) { print(u.services.password.bcrypt + " ; " + u.username); } )
If you have deactivated users it may fail so use this for individual accounts.
However, you can get it for an individual user with:
db.users.find({'username':'SomeUserName'}).forEach( function(u) { print(u.services.password.bcrypt + " ; " + u.username); } )
Set a user config item:
db.users.update( {'username': 'SomeUserName'}, {$set: {'settings.preferences.showMessageInMainThread': 'true'}} )
Find a single user:
db.getCollection('users').find( {'username':'SomeUserName'} )
Get limited information:
db.getCollection('users').find({}, {"username":1, "settings.preferences.showMessageInMainThread":1})
Reset 2FA nonsense:
db.users.update({'username': 'SomeUserName'}, {$unset: {'services.totp': 1}});
db.users.update({'username': 'SomeUserName'}, {$unset: {'services.email2fa': 1}});
Database Backup
You can dump the tables to a directory of your choice:
mongodump --dumpDbUsersAndRoles -d rocketchat -o /root/rocketchatmongo
Database Restore
You can restore you database as follows:
mongorestore --restoreDbUsersAndRoles -d rocketchat -dir /root/rocketchatmongo/rocketchat --quiet
Node usage
- This should go to a new Node page for reference
Use n, an extremely simple Node version manager that can be installed via npm (See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7718313/how-to-change-to-an-older-version-of-node-js)
Say you want Node.js v0.10.x to build Atom.
npm install -g n # Install n globally n 0.10.33 # Install and use v0.10.33 local only
Usage:
n # Output versions installed n latest # Install or activate the latest node release n stable # Install or activate the latest stable node release n <version> # Install node <version> n use <version> [args ...] # Execute node <version> with [args ...] n bin <version> # Output bin path for <version> n rm <version ...> # Remove the given version(s) n --latest # Output the latest node version available n --stable # Output the latest stable node version available n ls # Output the versions of node available
NPM Usage
To update your version of npm run the following
npm install -g npm
Or for a specific version:
npm install -g npm@3.10.9
DB settings
Typical standard setup:
rocketchat=service TCPPort=3000 access=public mailPort=25 mailURL=localhost status=enabled
Typical proxy subdomain setup:
rocketchat=service SSLProxy=yes TCPPort=3000 access=private mailPort=25 mailURL=localhost rootURL=chat.mydomain.co.uk status=enabled
Koozali SME v10
I am starting to look at running this under docker on v10
Some quick notes.
You will need
Docker https://wiki.contribs.org/Docker
Docker Compose (because it makes it easier to template) https://github.com/docker/compose/releases
Docker environment settings to disable 2FA
- OVERWRITE_SETTING_Accounts_TwoFactorAuthentication_Enforce_Password_Fallback=false - OVERWRITE_SETTING_Accounts_TwoFactorAuthentication_Enabled=false
Mongo (I prefer to run a full instance rather than a docker one) https://wiki.contribs.org/MongoDB
Make sure you add replicaset support in Mongo and set it up:
mongo --eval "printjson(rs.initiate())"
I'll add more later, and try and make a full contrib in due course
FAQ
