How to Install Rocket.Chat on OpenBSD

Rocket.Chat is a free and open-source chat platform that allows you to communicate and collaborate with your team members. Rocket.Chat is built with JavaScript and can be installed on many operating systems including OpenBSD. In this tutorial, we will go through the steps to install Rocket.Chat on OpenBSD.

Prerequisites

Before we begin, you should have the following:

• A server or a virtual machine running OpenBSD with a static IP address.
• A user account with sudo privileges.

Step 1: Install Node.js and NPM

Rocket.Chat requires Node.js and NPM to be installed on the system. To install Node.js and NPM, run the following commands:

$ sudo pkg_add node

This command will install Node.js and NPM packages from the official OpenBSD repository.

Step 2: Install MongoDB

Rocket.Chat uses MongoDB as its database backend. To install MongoDB, run the following command:

$ sudo pkg_add mongodb

This command will install MongoDB from the official OpenBSD repository.

Step 3: Create a Rocket.Chat User

Create a new user for Rocket.Chat with the following command:

$ sudo adduser rocketchat

Set a strong password and provide other required information.

Step 4: Download and Install Rocket.Chat

Go to the Rocket.Chat website https://rocket.chat/ and download the latest stable version of Rocket.Chat. You can download the tar.gz or zip file.

$ wget https://releases.rocket.chat/latest/download -O rocket.chat.tgz

Extract the downloaded archive with the following command:

$ tar -xvzf rocket.chat.tgz

Move the extracted directory to the /opt directory:

$ sudo mv rocket.chat /opt/

Set the ownership and permissions for the Rocket.Chat directory:

$ sudo chown -R rocketchat:rocketchat /opt/rocket.chat
$ sudo chmod -R 755 /opt/rocket.chat

Step 5: Start Rocket.Chat

Change the user to the newly created Rocketchat user

$ su - rocketchat

From the Rocket.Chat directory, start the Rocket.Chat server with the following command:

$ npm start

This will start the server on port 3000. You can now access the Rocket.Chat website by opening a web browser and entering the server’s IP address or hostname followed by port number 3000.

For example, http://<Server IP>:3000.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, you learned how to install Rocket.Chat on OpenBSD. You also learned how to install Node.js and MongoDB, and how to start the Rocket.Chat server. You can now use Rocket.Chat to communicate and collaborate with your team members.

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