Rocket.Chat (self-hosted Slack alternative)

[clonm]

Mitar recommends Rocket.Chat over Riot.im/Matrix. Could also be part of migrating to NextCloud.

[kngnm]

An Update:

• There is an official docker image for rocket chat server (docker pull rocket.chat). I have not figured out how to give the image persistent memory. I have experimented with using docker volumes, but they seem to cause the image to crash.
• There is also a REST API for rocketchat. I was able to use this to write a script to automatically add channels and users from the house list spread sheet.
• I have a raspberry pi with a nginx reverse proxy server installed on it. If it could be set up to have ip address 64.62.133.46 on the cloyne network (presumably by attaching it to the router and configuring it like one of Cloyne's servers) I could host the rocket chat server by ssh tunneling into the pi from the host machine. I think this solution may be less time intensive than routing the packets. I would only need help setting up the pi on the cloyne network; the rest I have already prepared at home. Let me know if you see any flaws with this solution and/or would be willing to help me implement it.

@clonm

[clonm]

Great! I've been working at it from the other end - I got DNS to work and am now trying to figure out all the layers of nginx proxies on server3 to get letsencrypt to register.

I think I know enough to map .46 to Kingman now - although maybe Cloyne should vote on that since it's technically a finite house resource? I feel like not though - council's long enough already and it's been sitting unused for 4 years... Do you have a domain name registered? or are you thinking kingman.cloyne.org?

[kngnm]

A kingman network manager from 20 years ago named Ping registered kingmanhall.org. I got in touch with him and he helped me change it to resolve to 64.62.133.46. I hope that works. Sorry if I jumped the gun.