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.
Before we begin, you should have the following:
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.
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.
Create a new user for Rocket.Chat with the following command:
$ sudo adduser rocketchat
Set a strong password and provide other required information.
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
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
.
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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