Mattermost is an open-source, self-hosted messaging platform that is widely used by companies to communicate and collaborate with their teams. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Mattermost on EndeavourOS Latest.
A server running EndeavourOS Latest.
A user account with sudo privileges.
A domain name pointing to your server IP address.
A valid SSL certificate for your domain name.
Before we proceed with the installation of Mattermost, we need to install some required dependencies on our server. You can install them by running the following command in your terminal:
sudo pacman -S git postgresql wget unzip
Next, we need to create a system user that will run Mattermost. Run the following command to create a new system user named "mattermost":
sudo useradd -r -d /opt/mattermost -U mattermost
Now we will download and install Mattermost on our server. We will install the latest stable version of Mattermost by visiting https://mattermost.org/download/. Then we will copy the download link of the Linux download.
cd /opt/
sudo wget https://releases.mattermost.com/5.38.2/mattermost-team-5.38.2-linux-amd64.tar.gz
sudo tar -zxvf mattermost*.gz
sudo chown -R mattermost:mattermost mattermost
Mattermost uses PostgreSQL as its database. Now we need to install and configure PostgreSQL on our server.
sudo pacman -S postgresql
sudo systemctl enable postgresql
sudo systemctl start postgresql
sudo -u postgres psql
Now we will create a new PostgreSQL user and database for Mattermost.
CREATE USER mmuser WITH PASSWORD 'password';
CREATE DATABASE mattermost OWNER mmuser;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE mattermost to mmuser;
\q
Next, we will configure Mattermost. We will create a new configuration file for Mattermost as follows:
sudo mkdir /opt/mattermost/config
sudo touch /opt/mattermost/config/config.json
sudo chown mattermost:mattermost /opt/mattermost/config/config.json
sudo chmod 664 /opt/mattermost/config/config.json
Now, open the configuration file with a text editor:
sudo nano /opt/mattermost/config/config.json
Copy and paste the following configuration into the file:
{
"ServiceSettings": {
"ListenAddress": "0.0.0.0:8065",
"ConnectionSecurity": "TLS",
"TLSCertFile": "/etc/letsencrypt/live/your-domain-name.com/fullchain.pem",
"TLSKeyFile": "/etc/letsencrypt/live/your-domain-name.com/privkey.pem",
"UseLetsEncrypt": false,
"Forward80To443": true,
"ReadTimeout": 300,
"WriteTimeout": 300
},
"SqlSettings": {
"DriverName": "postgres",
"DataSource": "postgres://mmuser:password@localhost/mattermost?sslmode=disable&connect_timeout=10",
"DataSourceReplicas": [],
"MaxIdleConns": 20,
"ConnMaxLifetimeMilliseconds": 3600000,
"ConnMaxIdleTimeMilliseconds": 900000
}
}
Make sure to replace "your-domain-name.com" with your actual domain name.
Save and close the file.
Now we will run Mattermost by running the following command:
sudo /opt/mattermost/bin/mattermost
Mattermost will start running in the terminal. To keep it running in the background, press "Ctrl + C" and run the following command:
sudo systemctl enable mattermost
sudo systemctl start mattermost
We will use Nginx as a reverse proxy to serve Mattermost over HTTPS. You need to install Nginx if it is not already installed on your server by running the following command:
sudo pacman -S nginx
Next, open the default Nginx configuration file with a text editor:
sudo nano /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
Delete everything and copy the following configuration:
user http;
worker_processes auto;
error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;
pid /run/nginx.pid;
events {
worker_connections 1024;
}
http {
include mime.types;
default_type application/octet-stream;
sendfile on;
keepalive_timeout 65;
gzip on;
gzip_types text/plain text/css application/json application/javascript text/xml application/xml application/xml+rss text/javascript;
server {
listen 80;
server_name your-domain-name.com;
return 301 https://$server_name$request_uri;
}
server {
listen 443 ssl;
server_name your-domain-name.com;
access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log;
ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/your-domain-name.com/fullchain.pem;
ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/your-domain-name.com/privkey.pem;
ssl_protocols TLSv1.2 TLSv1.3;
ssl_ciphers TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:TLS_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256;
ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
ssl_session_timeout 1d;
ssl_session_cache shared:SSL:50m;
ssl_session_tickets off;
location / {
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
proxy_set_header X-Nginx-Proxy true;
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8065/;
proxy_redirect off;
proxy_http_version 1.1;
proxy_set_header Connection "";
proxy_cache_bypass $http_pragma;
proxy_cache_revalidate on;
}
}
}
Save and close the file.
Now, test the Nginx configuration by running the following command:
sudo nginx -t
If the configuration is correct, you will get the following output:
nginx: configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf test is successful
Now reload Nginx for the new configuration to take effect:
sudo systemctl reload nginx
In this tutorial, we have shown you how to install Mattermost on EndeavourOS Latest. You can now use Mattermost to communicate and collaborate with your team on your own server.
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