Systemd docs is not working

[jhagberg]

In this page

https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat.Docs/blob/master/3.%20Installation/4.%20Manual%20Installation/PM2%2C%20Systemd%2C%20Upstart.md

The systemd guide is no longer valid.

https://github.com/RocketChat/DockerFiles.git does no longer exists

What is the best way to use systemd ?

[ghost]

Are you using docker or the manual install?

[jhagberg]

Manual install

[ghost]

Create the service file /etc/systemd/system/rocketchat.service details below

[Unit]
Description=RocketChat Server

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/node /var/www/rocketchat/main.js    # Specify the location of node and location of main.js
Restart=always
RestartSec=10                                                # Restart service after 10 seconds if node service crashes
StandardOutput=syslog                                        # Output to syslog
StandardError=syslog                                         # Output to syslog
SyslogIdentifier=nodejs-example
#User=<alternate user>
#Group=<alternate group>
Environment=NODE_ENV=production PORT=3000 ROOT_URL=https://rocketchat.domain.com MONGO_URL=mongodb://localhost:27017/rocketchat  MAIL_URL=smtp://email@domain.com:password@smtp.domain.com:587/

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

1. Enable the service
   systemctl enable rocketchat.service
2. Start the service
   systemctl start rocketchat.service
3. Verify it is running
   systemctl status rocketchat.service

[geekgonecrazy]

@jackd90 thanks for sharing that! I'll update the documentation to include this.

[ghost]

No problem. This is only for Rocket Chat, mongodb service obviously needs to be started for the service to run unless mongodb is on another server.

[geekgonecrazy]

@jackd90 absolutely. Our recommended way would be to install from repo's. So this should be setup out of the box

[jhagberg]

Thanks I created a multi systemd service file so I can enable several services to run in HA

rocketchat@.service

[Unit]
Description=The Rocket.Chat server
After=network.target remote-fs.target nss-lookup.target nginx.service mongodb.service

[Service]
User=rocketchat
Environment=MONGO_URL=mongodb://localhost:27017/rocketchat ROOT_URL=https://rocketchat.domain.com PORT=%i
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/node /var/lib/rocketchat/Rocket.Chat/main.js
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=10
StandardOutput=syslog
StandardError=syslog
SyslogIdentifier=rocketchat-%i

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Then just activate the ports you want to run via
systemctl enable rocketchat@3000.service
systemctl enable rocketchat@3001.service
and so on. Very nice and easy.

[geekgonecrazy]

@jhagberg fantastic! You mind if we use that, could be very helpful info to have in our docs

[jhagberg]

You are welcome to use that!
systemd is very easy if you want to stop you can use wildcard
systemctl stop rocketchat*.service
To stop or all services.

Maybe update https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat.Docs/tree/master/3.%20Installation/4.%20Manual%20Installation/Multiple%20Instances%20to%20Improve%20Performance

The forever-service is not the recommended way to run nodejs any longer.

[geekgonecrazy]

@jhagberg much appreciated. Opened #85 to do that 👍

[jemus42]

I would appreciate an update for the multi-instance systemd case for docker, as I'm currently running mongo and Rocket.Chat from docker containers in systemd as per the docs.

I can see how the service file posted by jhagberg works but I'm too unfamiliar with both docker and systemd files to mess with it myself.

[madawadeshan]

@ghost Wow Awesome!! Thank you very much it's work for me 👍