How to install the RocketChat server on Fedora 28

JaredBusch

Installing Rocket.Chat is simple on Fedora because the Rocket.Chat team's recommend method to install it yourself is with their snap package.

Starting from a minimal install of Fedora 28 this is all you need to do.

As always, run from the root user, or prepend these commands with sudo.

Install snapd

dnf install -y snapd

Install the RocketChat server

snap install rocketchat-server

Open the firewall

firewall-cmd --add-port=3000/tcp --permanent
firewall-cmd --reload

That's it, you can now connect to your RocketChat instance with a client.

JaredBusch

Now most people will not want their server live on the internet and all that.

And most will also want it behind a reverse proxy.

I run my stuff behind a Nginx reverse proxy that is on another instance, not on the rocket chat server itself, but the process is the same either way.

This config came from @scottalanmiller's thread on install with snap on Ubuntu. I'll post mine once I finish setting it up.

server {
    #client_max_body_size 80M;
    listen 443 ssl default_server;
    server_name my.server.com;  
    ssl          on;
    ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/my.server.com/fullchain.pem;
    ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/my.server.com/privkey.pem;

    location / {
        proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
        proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
        proxy_set_header X-NginX-Proxy true;
        proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:3000;    
        proxy_redirect off;
    }
    location /websocket {
        proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:3000;
        proxy_http_version 1.1;
        proxy_set_header Upgrade websocket;
        proxy_set_header Connection upgrade;
    }
}

GodfatherX64

hi, thanks for the info, is there any new update on the matter??
can you share more info on how to setup rocket.chat and nginx on fedora 29

travisdh1

@GodfatherX64 said in How to install the RocketChat server on Fedora 28:

hi, thanks for the info, is there any new update on the matter??
can you share more info on how to setup rocket.chat and nginx on fedora 29

Exactly the same procedure. I installed it a couple weeks ago on Fedora 29 using this guide.

GodfatherX64

which confg file to edit and put the above configs??
and is these config if the nginx on the same server as RocketChat or on another server??

scottalanmiller

@GodfatherX64 said in How to install the RocketChat server on Fedora 28:

hi, thanks for the info, is there any new update on the matter??
can you share more info on how to setup rocket.chat and nginx on fedora 29

Nothing has changed, just start with Fedora 29 instead of 28.

scottalanmiller

@GodfatherX64 said in How to install the RocketChat server on Fedora 28:

which confg file to edit and put the above configs??
and is these config if the nginx on the same server as RocketChat or on another server??

NGinx config file. So whatever you want to name it, but something like /etc/nginx/conf.d/rocket.conf

And it goes wherever your reverse proxy is. Could be in either place.

travisdh1

@GodfatherX64 said in How to install the RocketChat server on Fedora 28:

which confg file to edit and put the above configs??
and is these config if the nginx on the same server as RocketChat or on another server??

It's not a config file to edit, it's a new config file. The file is going to be in \etc\nginx\conf.d\ and it will be called myfilename.conf (I like using FQDN.conf as it makes telling what config file is for which server easy.) So I have \etc\nginx\conf.d\irc.travisdh1.net.conf for my Rocket.Chat instance. I recommend using nginx -t after changing or adding a config file.

The Nginx proxy can be on the same host or a different host. Just change the ip address for the proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:3000 to your actual IP address.

GodfatherX64

thanks so much guys, its up and running

scottalanmiller

@GodfatherX64 said in How to install the RocketChat server on Fedora 28:

thanks so much guys, its up and running

Awesome