This is a very quick post. Many organizations are using Rocket chat as the slack \/ IRC alternative.<\/p>\n
One important point that is not often documented is the upgrade. We ourselves ran into issues with Node.js errors, Meteror errors etc multiple times.<\/p>\n
Here is how we can upgrade without breaking anything.<\/p>\n
take a backup of the installation directory<\/p>\n
Assuming that backups are kept in \/home\/rocket\/backups and db backups are in \/home\/rocket\/backups\/db<\/p>\n #get the new version<\/p>\n install dependencies<\/p>\n All set to start the new server, migrate the dabase etc.<\/p>\n The last step performs upgrade and maintenance of the db scheme. With most of the versions this method will work.<\/p>\n It is assumed that the user rocket is the user under which Rocket.chat is installed.<\/p>\n Further, the server is running as a service which was done with :<\/p>\n This is a very quick post. Many organizations are using Rocket chat as the slack \/ IRC alternative. One important point that is not often documented is the upgrade. We ourselves ran into issues with Node.js errors, Meteror errors etc multiple times. Here is how we can upgrade without breaking anything. take a backup of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[34,131],"tags":[129,127,128,676,674,677],"class_list":["post-2345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amazon-ec2","category-tools","tag-amazon-ec2","tag-cloud-computing","tag-iaas","tag-rocket-chat","tag-slack","tag-team-collaboration-software"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\tcd \/home\/rocket
\nsu -l rocket
\ncp -rfp Rocket.chat backups\/date +%F<\/code><\/code><\/p>\ncd backups\/db
\nmongodbump
\nrm -rf \/home\/rocket\/Rocket.chat<\/code><\/p>\ncd \/home\/rocket
\ncurl -L https:\/\/rocket.chat\/releases\/latest\/download -o rocket.chat.tgz
\ntar xf rocket.chat.tgz
\nmv bundle Rocket.chat<\/code><\/p>\n(cd \/home\/rocket\/Rocket.chat\/programs\/server && npm install )<\/code><\/p>\ncd \/home\/rocket\/Rocket.chat
\nnode main .js<\/code><\/p>\nsudo forever-service install -s main.js -e \"ROOT_URL=https:\/\/chat.agileblaze.net\/ MONGO_URL=mongodb:\/\/localhost:27017\/rocketchat PORT=3000\" rocketchat<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"