Rocket.Chat

Rocket.Chat is free, unlimited and open source. Replace email, HipChat & Slack with the ultimate team chat software solution.

Software Included

Creating an App using the Control Panel

Click the Deploy to DigitalOcean button to create a Droplet based on this 1-Click App. If you aren’t logged in, this link will prompt you to log in with your DigitalOcean account.

Creating an App using the API

In addition to creating a Droplet from the Rocket.Chat 1-Click App using the control panel, you can also use the DigitalOcean API. As an example, to create a 4GB Rocket.Chat Droplet in the SFO2 region, you can use the following curl command. You need to either save your API access token) to an environment variable or substitute it in the command below.

curl -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
         -H 'Authorization: Bearer '$TOKEN'' -d \
        '{"name":"choose_a_name","region":"sfo2","size":"s-2vcpu-4gb","image": "rocketchat-20-04"}' \
        "https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/droplets"

Getting Started After Deploying Rocket.Chat

Thanks for installing Rocket.Chat!

You’ll likely want a registered domain name to access Rocket.Chat.

We recommend setting up an A record from your domain to your servers IP address. Ex: chat.mycompany.com

Rocket.Chat will not work with HTTPS out of the box because certificates are unique for each installation, but with this setup HTTPS will be available using Let’s Encrypt certificates.

After the Rocket.Chat One-Click is finished and your domain is setup. You will need to login to your droplet to finish setup.

ssh root@your_droplet_ip

Once you are connected you should see something like:

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Rocket.Chat is the leading open source team chat software solution. Free, unlimited and completely customizable with on-premises and SaaS cloud hosting.
Replace email, HipChat & Slack with the ultimate team chat software solution.

This Rocket.Chat image uses docker under the hood. To learn more, please read our docker documentation - https://docs.rocket.chat/deploy/prepare-for-your-deployment/rapid-deployment-methods/docker-and-docker-compose

You can find the compose project in /root/rocketchat directory.

Looking for how to use Rocket.Chat? Be sure to check our docs: https://docs.rocket.chat
Need some help? Join our community forums https://forums.rocket.chat and https://open.rocket.chat
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