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Setup the Mattermost Server¶ ↑

Download the Mattermost by using wget command and make sure it the latest version of the Mattermost but in this we are using version 3.4.0

wget https://releases.mattermost.com/v3.4.0/mattermost-3.4.0-linux-amd64.tar.gz

Unzip the Mattermost package by using the following command

tar -xvzf mattermost-3.4.0-linux-amd64.tar.gz

Create the directory to storage the file. To set this up we will make the directory is located at /mattermost/data

Create the directory by using the following command

sudo mkdir -p /mattermost/data

Set the ubuntu user as the directory owner by using the following command

sudo chown -R ubuntu /mattermost

To Configure the Mattermost server by editing the config.json file at /mattermost/config

Replace the DriverName“: ”mysql“ with DriverName”:“postgres”

Replace the following

"DataSource": "mmuser:mostest@tcp(dockerhost:3306)/mattermost_test?charset=utf8mb4,utf8"

With

"DataSource": "postgres://mmuser:[email protected]:5432/mattermost?sslmode=disable&connect_timeout=10"

Save and exit the Mattermost configuration file

To Test the Mattermost Server

cd ~/mattermost/bin

Run the Mattermost Server by using the following command

Setup the Mattermost to use the upstart daemon which will handles supervision of the Mattermost process

sudo touch /etc/init/mattermost.conf

sudo vi /etc/init/mattermost.conf

Copy the Following into the /etc/init/mattermost.conf

start on runlevel [2345]
stop on runlevel [016]
respawn
limit nofile 50000 50000
chdir /home/ubuntu/mattermost
setuid ubuntu
exec bin/platform

To start the mattermost by using the following command

sudo start mattermost

To Verify the service is running by using the following command

curl http://10.10.10.2:8065

You now should be able to see a page titles of the Mattermost – Signup

To Stop the Mattermost process by using the following command

sudo stop mattermost