Guide – How To Start – Rocket.Chat on Rocky 8 on Amazon

Rocket.Chat on Rocky 8 ensures seamless and secure team collaboration, optimized for performance and reliability on Rocky Linux 8.

This is a quick deployment and ready-to-run image.
Simple and rapid installation. Easy to maintain.

Configuration and launching Rocket.Chat on Rocky 8

Before creating a VM, review the system requirements for the Rocket.Chat server: Hardware Requirements – Rocket.Chat Docs

1. The Rocket.Сhat service is run automatically when the VM starts.

2. After purchasing and starting the VM, you should know its IP address. You can find it in Amazon’s personal account. 

To work, you must open port 3000 TCP in the network properties of the security group

3. For the initial server configuration, go to the following address http://*vm_ip:3000 with any browser.

4. In the first step, you need to fill in the data for the administrator account – your name (1), username (2), email (3) and password (4). Then click ‘Next’ (5).

5. Confirm changing IP

6. Select New workspace

7. Confirm the creation of a new workspace

8. In the second step, you must enter information about the organization where Rocket.Сhat will be used. Filling data fields can be skipped and then press ‘Next’.

9. You have been sent an email confirming your registration. If you did not receive the email, click Resend.

10. Go to your mail client and confirm registration.

11. You have been redirected to the next page.

You can close it.

12. Return to your Rocket.Chat page – it’s ready.

13. The server setup is complete. You can invite new members using the link.

14. You can use it through the application client that will be most convenient for you (you can find a list of them on the Rocket.Chat website) or the web version.

Connect to a VM using SSH

1. To manage the Rocket.Chat server manually, you should connect to a VM. 

• To get the password, you should connect to the VM. To do that, generate a “Private Key” in advance. This can be done using the following instructions Guide – How To – Create and use Key Pair to connect to a VM. You need to use the .pem file from step 4 of the guide.

• Run PowerShell

• Enter the command ssh -i “path to .pem file” rocky@VM_IP, where: 

– “path to .pem file” is the path to the file from subparagraph a) of this paragraph

–  VM_IP is the IP address of your virtual machine.

• Confirm connection

2. Enter the next command:

sudo docker ps -a – checking server status

Official instructions for configuring and working with Rocket.Chat:

User Guides

Administrator Guides