@@AwesomeOpenSource Oh, glad to hear. I didn't even know that you were sick! Seriously though, your content is legitimately good, even at this early stage.
Thank you in speaking in plain English to me about this. I just want a chat server, I’m not hugely familiar with Linux and all its flavors, but everyone talks to me like I do.
@@AwesomeOpenSource thank you so much! I’ve learned a lot about docker and how it works thanks to your videos, been super helpful. There seems to be a huge gulf between “how to copy a file” to this kind of thing.
Might be. But I found multiple other folks that had the same issue, and finally found someone who had suggested the work-around I used. Just a weird thing, bu wanted to mention it in case anyone else hit it.
Thanks a bunch for the awesome walkthrough. I saw a video where you used DigitalOcean to launch your Discourse channel, can I do that for RocketChat? I am not familiar with the tools you demoed - nginx, portainer and docker. You also mentioned in the video that your apps are all running from your PC? Does that mean if I deploy my chat server it has to run on my PC? I wouldn't want that, can't it be hosted on cloud? Is there a limit on the number of members that can join with the free version? It doesn't say so RocketChat's website.
So, for certain applications, I use digital ocean. I love their seervice, and it's been top notch for me for years. That said, a lot of my servers I run on my home network because they are just for me and my family really, so downtime is no big deal for me. But for solid up time on certain applications I can't beat DO. You can 100% setup applications on a Bare Metal DO server. You just need to go through the proper instructions to do it. In that case you won't need NGinX, Portainer, but you'll still want Docker for RocketChat.
hi, thanks for the video. I am trying to set up same on amazon lightsail, all commands worked fine but when I am going to the ip address it is not showing rocketchat page instead I am getting connection timed out error.
It may take a few minutes for rocketchat to start up. If you're going through docker, then check your docker logs as well - use the command docker logs rocketchat Or whatever your container name is instead of rocketchat.
Excellent video, very comprehensive, is it possible to add a docker command to run or resource to help start the troubleshooting process when it doesn''t allow connection after install?
These days, my rocketchat runs in Docker, and my Portainer runs on the same machine in docker. I then run NginX Proxy Manager on my network (also in docker), and proxy the traffic around the network using NGinX Proxy Manager.
Keep up the good work man, I've learned a lot from your videos throughout the past months. Since I'm starting to get my feet wet on Docker and it's uses, I need your advice on one matter. My question is is it better to use a packaging systen such as Sanp or Docker containers to host a server app. Thanks in advance for you efforts.
I don't know that one is better than the other. It's always a personal choice. BSD guys will prefer Jails over Docker most of the time, and some folks will prefer Snaps over Docker or vice-versa. I say just use the thing that works best for you and your situation.
@@AwesomeOpenSource would I have to run another yml file ? Also the first installation is no longer working apparently due to mongodb old version . Could updating it possibly a new video ?
Can you please update this? I followed this video and have a working Rocket Chat. However, now I get MongoDB Deprecated and Update your Rocket.Chat New version available (4.5.4). Or can you explain how to just update everything?
@@AwesomeOpenSource push notification need gateway changes, self compiled android apps. I don't like using rocketchat gateway to be used due to security issues and limit reasons.
I'm just using their built in push. There's a limit to how many you can get in a month, but I think my site stays below that for now. As for setting up your own, it's beyond me as to how you would go about that.
@@AwesomeOpenSource Ok, thank you for the info, it needed to update a bit. I follow your video, but it is not working for me, maybe I miss something? I install it on a machine, then use my Traefik proxy machine to get TLS, but I can't open it by going to the address of the chat server (internally+port and externally). I use the newest config from the website, and it works, but when I use my mobile version to connect, it will bring down my Rocket chat... Maybe I just need to try to install it without docker.
Is self hosted, secure? Another words does not contact any and i mean any!! outside servers other than my own and the user connecting? Has it got end to end encryption?
It will do some checking with RocketChat servers for updates available, etc. I believe it's secure, but you can federate if you want to, but it's not on by default.
@Awesome Open Source white labeling is tricky, certainly not made easy! Same with Jitsi, had the same problem there. Had them all set up on my dev trial servers, but deleted them. Any chance you could look at doing a video on Shuup? Or a decent open-source multi-vendor e-commerce platform? I've tried several times to get Shuup to work, but failed. It's a python application that apparently can run in docker. Your video's are amazing! Cheers
@@AwesomeOpenSource thank you if you don’t mind I’m kinda noob can you explain me how to setup smtp do i have to open a domain or ai domain called mail.mysite.com? Do I have to sudo open port 587? I’m requesting basic steps from scratch to make mail work I’m using linode server please sir help me
@@solidsnake5239 If you aren't running your own mail server, then you can check if your current email provider has smtp setup instructions on thier help documents. For instance if you use outlook.com, you'd want to google how to setup smtp for an outlook.com account. There are so many out there, it's hard to know which setting swill work for which providers. If you want to use your own mail domain, then you'll need to have your own email server setup and running first. I have a video on how to do that using Mail-In_a-Box. th-cam.com/video/Sdm4GZf2vww/w-d-xo.html
@@AwesomeOpenSource linode says they can only configure mail server for managed hosting accounts I’m using unmanaged which is cheap managed is kinda $100 a month I’m using $9 a month unmanaged linode so they aren’t helping me with mail server
Awesome could you do a successful pixelfed installation on sever starting from scratch ? With basic understanding and bit zoomed clear view of command prompt I had tried to install pixelfed and failed many times i love pixelfed
@@solidsnake5239 see that's strange, because I just went on their website, selected the 16gb server with 160GB ssd, it was $109 for 12 months, which is $9.08 per month, as I'm in Scotland for me that's £80 per year or £6.66 per month. Amazing bargain! 😀
Awesome i hope you are around could you tell me how to update Rocket.chat when I tried sudo refresh rocketchat-server it says there no update but in information page of administration it is 3.8.3 GitHub says the latest version is 3.9.1 with few bug fixes im unable to update could you please help me
If you’re running the snap it should auto update when the snap is updated. If you’re running from Docker compose, then you need to do the following commabds docker-compose pull docker-compose up -d And that should update it.
@@AwesomeOpenSource any information update on the email service i was requesting ? On AOL ? or any other easiest way because I need this badly to get working so that only email verified users will access the site
This is incredibly high quality work you are doing.
Well, I've definitely gotten better since I made this video. But thank you.
@@AwesomeOpenSource Oh, glad to hear. I didn't even know that you were sick!
Seriously though, your content is legitimately good, even at this early stage.
Thank you in speaking in plain English to me about this. I just want a chat server, I’m not hugely familiar with Linux and all its flavors, but everyone talks to me like I do.
I hope it helps. If you need any extra help, jump over to my RocketChat server at discuss.opensourceisawesome.com and ping me @ mickintx.
@@AwesomeOpenSource thank you so much! I’ve learned a lot about docker and how it works thanks to your videos, been super helpful. There seems to be a huge gulf between “how to copy a file” to this kind of thing.
17:45 maybe there is an extension that interfere with rocket chat registration form? If I have to take I guess, I would say uBlock or Ghostery.
Might be. But I found multiple other folks that had the same issue, and finally found someone who had suggested the work-around I used. Just a weird thing, bu wanted to mention it in case anyone else hit it.
Thanks a bunch for the awesome walkthrough. I saw a video where you used DigitalOcean to launch your Discourse channel, can I do that for RocketChat? I am not familiar with the tools you demoed - nginx, portainer and docker. You also mentioned in the video that your apps are all running from your PC? Does that mean if I deploy my chat server it has to run on my PC? I wouldn't want that, can't it be hosted on cloud? Is there a limit on the number of members that can join with the free version? It doesn't say so RocketChat's website.
So, for certain applications, I use digital ocean. I love their seervice, and it's been top notch for me for years. That said, a lot of my servers I run on my home network because they are just for me and my family really, so downtime is no big deal for me. But for solid up time on certain applications I can't beat DO. You can 100% setup applications on a Bare Metal DO server. You just need to go through the proper instructions to do it. In that case you won't need NGinX, Portainer, but you'll still want Docker for RocketChat.
@@AwesomeOpenSource Thank you. I figured out there's no user limit for RocketChat, it justs depends on server resources.
Is it possible to remove Mongo Service and depends on Mongo Service in the docker compose file and use the external Mongo URL from Mongo Atlas?
Yes, you can just set it up to use an external DB if you prefer.
hi, thanks for the video. I am trying to set up same on amazon lightsail, all commands worked fine but when I am going to the ip address it is not showing rocketchat page instead I am getting connection timed out error.
It may take a few minutes for rocketchat to start up. If you're going through docker, then check your docker logs as well - use the command
docker logs rocketchat
Or whatever your container name is instead of rocketchat.
Excellent video, very comprehensive, is it possible to add a docker command to run or resource to help start the troubleshooting process when it doesn''t allow connection after install?
You'd want to use the "docker-compose logs" command to see logs for the application.
Is your portainer and rocketchat instance both sitting in a DMZ? How exactly have you got it configured for reverse proxy?
These days, my rocketchat runs in Docker, and my Portainer runs on the same machine in docker. I then run NginX Proxy Manager on my network (also in docker), and proxy the traffic around the network using NGinX Proxy Manager.
Keep up the good work man, I've learned a lot from your videos throughout the past months. Since I'm starting to get my feet wet on Docker and it's uses, I need your advice on one matter. My question is is it better to use a packaging systen such as Sanp or Docker containers to host a server app. Thanks in advance for you efforts.
I don't know that one is better than the other. It's always a personal choice. BSD guys will prefer Jails over Docker most of the time, and some folks will prefer Snaps over Docker or vice-versa. I say just use the thing that works best for you and your situation.
@@AwesomeOpenSource thanks for your speedy response, I will study more on these topics to have a better grasp.
Can you also do a video about Matrix, Zulip and Mattermost too?
Planning updates for most of these soon.
I have a Question , Is it possible to run two instances of the rocket chat server on the portainer?
Sure, you'll just set them to use different ports on the host side.
@@AwesomeOpenSource would I have to run another yml file ? Also the first installation is no longer working apparently due to mongodb old version . Could updating it possibly a new video ?
Awesome Video.
Thank you.
Can you please update this? I followed this video and have a working Rocket Chat. However, now I get MongoDB Deprecated and Update your Rocket.Chat New version available (4.5.4). Or can you explain how to just update everything?
I plan to make an update when Rocketchat updates their docs. Their documentation still follows what I have here today.
@@AwesomeOpenSource thanks a bunch. Though it does work with no issues, its my OCD for the updates that has me going :)
Can you make an specific video about rocketchat push notifications?
What are you wanting to know?
@@AwesomeOpenSource push notification need gateway changes, self compiled android apps. I don't like using rocketchat gateway to be used due to security issues and limit reasons.
I'm just using their built in push. There's a limit to how many you can get in a month, but I think my site stays below that for now. As for setting up your own, it's beyond me as to how you would go about that.
@@AwesomeOpenSource ok thanks
Why not use latest version of Mongo DB?
This is an old video, but they are using a much newer version with their 5.x releases.
@@AwesomeOpenSource Ok, thank you for the info, it needed to update a bit. I follow your video, but it is not working for me, maybe I miss something? I install it on a machine, then use my Traefik proxy machine to get TLS, but I can't open it by going to the address of the chat server (internally+port and externally).
I use the newest config from the website, and it works, but when I use my mobile version to connect, it will bring down my Rocket chat... Maybe I just need to try to install it without docker.
Is self hosted, secure? Another words does not contact any and i mean any!! outside servers other than my own and the user connecting? Has it got end to end encryption?
It will do some checking with RocketChat servers for updates available, etc. I believe it's secure, but you can federate if you want to, but it's not on by default.
@Awesome Open Source white labeling is tricky, certainly not made easy! Same with Jitsi, had the same problem there. Had them all set up on my dev trial servers, but deleted them. Any chance you could look at doing a video on Shuup? Or a decent open-source multi-vendor e-commerce platform? I've tried several times to get Shuup to work, but failed. It's a python application that apparently can run in docker. Your video's are amazing! Cheers
I’ll take a look.
Where is the smtp thing i requested on comments ?
SMTP is in there. In the time stamps I believe. But in the setting part before the url and SSL.
@@AwesomeOpenSource thank you if you don’t mind I’m kinda noob can you explain me how to setup smtp do i have to open a domain or ai domain called mail.mysite.com? Do I have to sudo open port 587? I’m requesting basic steps from scratch to make mail work I’m using linode server please sir help me
@@solidsnake5239 If you aren't running your own mail server, then you can check if your current email provider has smtp setup instructions on thier help documents. For instance if you use outlook.com, you'd want to google how to setup smtp for an outlook.com account. There are so many out there, it's hard to know which setting swill work for which providers. If you want to use your own mail domain, then you'll need to have your own email server setup and running first. I have a video on how to do that using Mail-In_a-Box. th-cam.com/video/Sdm4GZf2vww/w-d-xo.html
@@AwesomeOpenSource linode says they can only configure mail server for managed hosting accounts I’m using unmanaged which is cheap managed is kinda $100 a month I’m using $9 a month unmanaged linode so they aren’t helping me with mail server
@@solidsnake5239 Ok, who do you have email with now?
Awesome could you do a successful pixelfed installation on sever starting from scratch ? With basic understanding and bit zoomed clear view of command prompt I had tried to install pixelfed and failed many times i love pixelfed
Ssn nodes no longer has $9 monthly offer
They've got some great deals on at the moment. Got an email from them today.
@@CodingScot nope I’m looking for $9 /month offer their pricing starts at $19 a month I don’t want that
@@solidsnake5239 see that's strange, because I just went on their website, selected the 16gb server with 160GB ssd, it was $109 for 12 months, which is $9.08 per month, as I'm in Scotland for me that's £80 per year or £6.66 per month. Amazing bargain! 😀
@@CodingScot can you provide link
Screen sharing not possible right? On video conference using iPhone android
No, iphone and Android don't generally allow you to share their screens through the browser that I'm aware of.
Is it possible to do a video on Samba. This service is required by many users.
Are you asking from a file share aspect, or a user access control direction?
@@AwesomeOpenSource - user access control direction ....
Awesome i hope you are around could you tell me how to update Rocket.chat when I tried sudo refresh rocketchat-server it says there no update but in information page of administration it is 3.8.3 GitHub says the latest version is 3.9.1 with few bug fixes im unable to update could you please help me
Ok I found that snap usually take time to produce updates probably 15th of every month
If you’re running the snap it should auto update when the snap is updated. If you’re running from Docker compose, then you need to do the following commabds
docker-compose pull
docker-compose up -d
And that should update it.
@@AwesomeOpenSource any information update on the email service i was requesting ? On AOL ? or any other easiest way because I need this badly to get working so that only email verified users will access the site
White labeling part ?
White labeling I had to re work. I didn’t have everything ready when I started digging in, so it’s in an upcoming video.