####RocketChat Upgrade

1. Stop the existing RocketChat.

systemctl stop rocketchat

systemctl stop rocketchat1
systemctl stop rocketchat2
systemctl stop rocketchat3

1. Move the existing /opt/Rocket.Chat to /opt/Rocket.Chat.backup

2. Backup the Mongo database
mkdir /root/chatdb
mongodump -d rocketchat -o /root/chatdb/

3. curl -L https://releases.rocket.chat/latest/download -o /tmp/rocket.chat.tgz

4. cd /tmp; tar -zxvhf /tmp/rocket.chat.tgz
5. cd /tmp/bundle/programs/server && npm install
If npm install gives error note that below command will come handy
cd /tmp/bundle/programs/server && npm audit fix
cd /tmp/bundle/programs/server && npm install -g npm --> To Upgrade npm
cd /tmp/bundle/programs/server && npm install meteor
cd /tmp/bundle/programs/server && npm install --unsafe-perm
6. cd /tmp
sudo mv /tmp/bundle /opt/Rocket.Chat
sudo chown -R rocketchat:rocketchat /opt/Rocket.Chat
7. In the root prompt
MONGO_URL=mongodb://localhost:27017/rocketchat?replicaSet=rs01
MONGO_OPLOG_URL=mongodb://localhost:27017/local?replicaSet=rs01
8. Enabled Opslog in mongodb, as it requires for multi instance setup of RocketChat
App

vi /etc/mongod.conf
replication:
replSetName: rs01

sudo systemctl enable mongod && sudo systemctl start mongod

mongo --eval "printjson(rs.initiate())"

9. Edit the RocketChat systemd service file

Vi /usr/lib/systemd/system/rocketchat.service --> Comment out below Environment

and Add as shown below.

#Environment=INSTANCE_IP=192.168.0.11
MONGO_URL=mongodb://localhost:27017/rocketchat
ROOT_URL=http://chat.girmitisoftware.com:3000/ PORT=3000
Environment=INSTANCE_IP=192.168.0.11
MONGO_URL=mongodb://localhost:27017/rocketchat?replicaSet=rs01
MONGO_OPLOG_URL=mongodb://localhost:27017/local?replicaSet=rs01
ROOT_URL=http://chat.girmitisoftware.com:3000/ PORT=3000

10. start the RocketChat

systemctl start rocketchat --> At first time it upgrade the RocketChat db and
Opslog DB
systemctl start rocketchat1 --> At first time it update RocketChat DB and OpsLog DB
systemctl start rocketchat2 --> At first time it update RocketChat DB and OpsLog DB

11. Just of Records -- here is nginx lb configurations for rocketchat

[root@chat ~]# cat /etc/nginx/nginx.conf | grep -v '#'
user nginx;
worker_processes auto;
worker_rlimit_nofile 100000;
error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;
pid /run/nginx.pid;

include /usr/share/nginx/modules/*.conf;

events {
worker_connections 1024;
multi_accept on;
use epoll;
}

http {

client_body_buffer_size 10K;
client_header_buffer_size 1k;
client_max_body_size 32m;
large_client_header_buffers 2 1k;

sendfile on;
tcp_nopush on;

keepalive_timeout 30;
keepalive_requests 100000;

send_timeout 120;

gzip on;

reset_timedout_connection on;

tcp_nodelay on;

types_hash_max_size 2048;

upstream open.rocket.chat.backend {
server 192.168.0.11:5000 weight=1;
server 192.168.0.11:4000 weight=1;
server 192.168.0.11:3000 weight=1;
}

server {
listen 80 default_server;
listen [::]:80 default_server ipv6only=on;
server_name chat.girmitisoftware.com;
root /opt/Rocket.Chat/programs/web.browser/app/;
proxy_buffering off;
proxy_http_version 1.1;
proxy_read_timeout 600;
proxy_send_timeout 600;
proxy_set_header Host $host:$server_port;
proxy_set_header Referer $http_referer;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
 proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto http;
proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
proxy_set_header Connection "upgrade";
proxy_set_header X-Nginx-Proxy true;
proxy_redirect off;
location / {
proxy_pass http://open.rocket.chat.backend;
}
}
}
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