#rocketchat

Rocket.Chat is an open-source team chat platform. By using the Rocket.Chat users can Keep the workflow going by centralizing all their tools and touchpoints in one platform. It is basically made for team collaboration, DevOps, and customer engagement. Rocket.Chat is used to streamline our communication by boasting team collaboration. Software is only useful when it is adapted to our needs and has complete access to the code of our open-source platform. Rocket.Chat offers just the same, it lets fully customize, extend or add new functionality to meet your requirements.

Rocket.Chat is used by small, large organizations, banks, U.S Navy, and NGOs. It provides a variety of secure virtual communication services all from only one place. It provides not only team chats but also customer services. It even collaborates with the platforms that cover the user’s staff and outside partners, classrooms, conferences, and more and has now raised 19 million USD.

The company says that they are planning in two ways to utilize this fund, one by continually adding more customers and the other one to expand their services. The services include more security features, apps for the marketplace, options for bots, and more social media communication services for potentially creating an ecosystem for virtual events.

There are various advantages to using Rocket.Chat, that includes-

· It has been continuously improved by an active community with over 28k developers.

· It has infinite innovation potential.

· No Gate Keepers.

· Total Flexibility to adapt the platform for whatever you need it to be.

· Independence of manufacturers and service providers.

· Quick creation of new solutions.

· High software compatibility.

· Transparency and maximum reliability open-source software, like Linux and Firefox;

· High-security standards with transparency to treat your data.

All these advantages are claimed by the official website of Rocket.Chat and are also highlighted by different people who used this platform.

Rocket.Chat provides the architecture for uniting all forms of communication in a single place, no matter on which device or messaging service a user is using it. The federated approach of Rocket.Chat’s servers and integrations of other services mean that there are truly no barriers to cross-team service. Rocket.Chat has basically created a platform that empowers people to collaborate with others while simultaneously empowering individual teams to fully customize their needs on the platform to meet their unique needs.

Rocket.Chat has also won multiple prizes such as the 2016 Bossie Award for the best Open Source application and first place in the 2017 edition of All Things Open’s Start-up Competition. In 2020, the start-up earned its highest-ever ranking on Capterra’s Top 20 Remote Work & Live chat Software and the Constellation’ ShortList™ for Enterprise Group Messaging.

Presently, this start-up has over 16 million registered users across 150 countries; eight millions of them are monthly active users. The rest 16 million 11.3 million users registered themselves for the service in the last six months. It’s currently installed on around 845,000 servers. The company said that it has over 1,500 developers who are continuously building the platform.

The main advantage of open source software is that the company can customize the software according to their unique need as the source code are available to the user, and even the users can make any changes on the platform they want. As years have passed since it was established, the companies besides Rocket.Chat, have also become more caring about what they expect from software and what they get.

The pricing for the software is 4 USD for a month, or even higher depending on what services you want. The customers can also use the platform for free for minimal and free hosted services. The free version of the software also gives the customers privacy and control over electronic communication.

Eva winget is a Microsoft Office expert and has been working in the technical industry since 2006. As a technical expert, Eva has written technical blogs, manuals, white papers, and reviews for many websites.

تنزيل Rocket.Chat (2020 الأحدث) لأنظمة التشغيل Windows 10 و 8 و 7

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صاروخ هل منصة الدردشة النهائية لأجهزة الكمبيوتر التي تعمل بنظام Windows. تجربة المستوى التالي من اتصالات الفريق! صاروخ هو منتج مذهل لأنه يحتوي على مجتمع مطورين لا يصدق. جعل أكثر من 200 مساهم هذه المنصة مجموعة أدوات ديناميكية ومبتكرة ، من الرسائل الجماعية ومكالمات الفيديو إلى ميزات مكتب المساعدة القاتلة. الوصول من أي مكان: متصفح الإنترنت، وتطبيقات سطح المكتب والمحمول. قم بإعداد نظامك…

Today I was playing with Rocket.Chat, a neat open source web chat platform / framework with a lot of useful features. Unfortunately, the projest is not very mature and still has a lot of issues during the installation phase. In few hours I had to fix several issues that were not documented in the official site and/or within the GitHub's issues tab. More specifically: The Heroku one-click installer is broken (at the time of writing). The ROOT_URL configuration settings works in a misleading way and can easily prevent you from being able to run the app. Unfortunately, at the time of writing there are no working fixes for the first issue (see issues #16179 and #16333, both still open and unresolved as of today); the only way to get over it is to perform a Manual Installation by strictly following the instructions given by the official website, which are basically OK - at least for CentOS 7 and 8.

The issue

As for the latter issue, here's a breakdown summary for the problem: during the manual installation phase, you'll have to specify the remotely accessible URL for your own Rocket.Chart service, which will be in the following form: http://your-website.com:3000/ More precisely, you'll have to write it down in an Environment Variable called ROOT_URL, which is contained within the /lib/systemd/system/rocketchat.service file. If you type it properly (and don't want to change it afterwards) you'll be good to go: however, if you want (or need) to change it later on, you'll easily notice that all the subsequent changes you might want to apply to that environment variable won't work: as a matter of fact, the web service will still continue to listen to the old file. Such odd behaviour can be easily confirmed by launching a systemctl status rocketchat and see the Site URL parameter that will be shown in the console: you'll always see the firstly inserted ROOT_URL value there, regardless of any change you might have made to the ROOT_URL variable afterwards. It goes without saying that I tried to reload the units... systemctl daemon-reload ... and also to restart the web app... systemctl restart rocketchat ... and even to reset the server by issuing a reboot  command: unfortunately, none of those workaround worked.

The reason

After almost an hour I finally found the underlying reason of the problem: it seemed like, when the service is launched for the first time, it reads the ROOT_URL value and immediately writes it within the MongoDB database; such db-stored value becomes then the only "source" that the web app actually reads on all subsequent starts, thus ignoring the ROOT_URL environment variable since then. That's definitely a strange behaviour to deal with an environment variable, isn't it?

The fix

Luckily enough, once the underlying cause of the issue has been exposed, the fix was easy enough to pull off: Open a Terminal session (or a SSH shell) Open a mongo shell by typing mongo type use rocketchat to switch to the rocketchat database. type db.rocketchat_settings.update({"_id" : "Site_Url"},{$set:{value:""}})  to change the former Site_Url value stored within the DB with a new one of your choice; needless to say, replace the placeholder accordingly to suit your needs.

Conclusions

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