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I. Server Requirements

xChat supports all platforms: Windows, MacOS, Linux.

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• 2GB of RAM - recommend 4GB

• 40GB of HDD

• 1 CPU core - recommend 2 cores at least

• 3 domains / sub domains

  • api.[your-domain] and point to server IP address

  • admin.[your-domain] and point to server IP address

  • [your-domain] and point to server IP address

II. Software Requirements

• NodeJS v14.x - To install please download NodeJS here

• MongoDB v3.6 - To install please download mongoDB

• Redis server v2.8 - To install please download and setup Redis

• FFMPEG

• Graphicsmagick

• Nginx v1.3

• PM2 is a daemon process manager that will help you manage and keep your application online 24/7

• Yarn or npm to manage nodeJS package

• Typescript 4.2.3 or higher - To install run npm install typscript@latest

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Testing

From command line / terminal please run these commands to check

1. NodeJS

$ node -v
v14.16.0

2. MongoDB

$ mongo --version
MongoDB shell version v4.0.7
git version: 1b82c812a9c0bbf6dc79d5400de9ea99e6ffa025
allocator: system
modules: none
build environment:
    distarch: x86_64
    target_arch: x86_64

3. Redis Server

$ redis-server --version
Redis server v=5.0.4 sha=00000000:0 malloc=libc bits=64 build=d4ba11298acbb366

4. FFMPEG

$ ffmpeg -version
fmpeg version 2.8.15-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 Copyright (c) 2000-2018 the FFmpeg developers
built with gcc 5.4.0 (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.10) 20160609
configuration: --prefix=/usr --extra-version=0ubuntu0.16.04.1 --build-suffix=-ffmpeg --toolchain=hardened --libdir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu --incdir=/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu --cc=cc --cxx=g++ --enable-gpl --enable-shared --disable-stripping --disable-decoder=libopenjpeg --disable-decoder=libschroedinger --enable-avresample --enable-avisynth --enable-gnutls --enable-ladspa --enable-libass --enable-libbluray --enable-libbs2b --enable-libcaca --enable-libcdio --enable-libflite --enable-libfontconfig --enable-libfreetype --enable-libfribidi --enable-libgme --enable-libgsm --enable-libmodplug --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libopus --enable-libpulse --enable-librtmp --enable-libschroedinger --enable-libshine --enable-libsnappy --enable-libsoxr --enable-libspeex --enable-libssh --enable-libtheora --enable-libtwolame --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enable-libwavpack --enable-libwebp --enable-libx265 --enable-libxvid --enable-libzvbi --enable-openal --enable-opengl --enable-x11grab --enable-libdc1394 --enable-libiec61883 --enable-libzmq --enable-frei0r --enable-libx264 --enable-libopencv
libavutil      54. 31.100 / 54. 31.100
libavcodec     56. 60.100 / 56. 60.100
libavformat    56. 40.101 / 56. 40.101
libavdevice    56.  4.100 / 56.  4.100
libavfilter     5. 40.101 /  5. 40.101
libavresample   2.  1.  0 /  2.  1.  0
libswscale      3.  1.101 /  3.  1.101
libswresample   1.  2.101 /  1.  2.101
libpostproc    53.  3.100 / 53.  3.100

5. NGINX

$ nginx -v
nginx version: nginx/1.10.3

6. Graphicsmagick

$ gm
GraphicsMagick 1.3.31 2018-11-17 Q16 http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
Copyright (C) 2002-2018 GraphicsMagick Group.
Additional copyrights and licenses apply to this software.
See http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/www/Copyright.html for details.
Usage: gm command [options ...]
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7. Pm2

$ pm2 -v
[PM2] Spawning PM2 daemon with pm2_home=/Users/xxx/.pm2
[PM2] PM2 Successfully daemonized
4.4.0

8. Yarn

$ yarn -v
1.22.4

III. Setup and Test It Locally

1. API

• Ensure node v14.x, MongoDB, Redis server, FFMPEG, Graphicsmagick and yarn are running

• CD to your API folder

• Run yarn to install nodeJS dependencies

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• Open browsers and run http://localhost:9000 it should show success message or Cannot GET /

2. Frontend Web

• Ensure nodejs and yarn are running

• From frontend root directory run yarn command to install nodejs dependencies

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• Then you can open browser http://localhost:8081 to see the web

3. Admin Web

• Similar Frontend web, same steps.

• You should change default port with 8082 then open http://localhost:8082 to see your admin app

IV. Setup Production Environment with NGINX

1. API

• Make sure you have installed nodeJS dependencies by yarn command

• In API root directory, copy config > development.json to config > production.json

• Open .env file and change

  • NODE_ENV to production

  • PORT to 8080

  • Change your base url, logoUrl… to your production Url

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• Run pm2 start server/www.js --name=api to run API under background

2. Frontend Web

• Make sure you have installed nodeJS dependencies by yarn command

• Edit your API url and socket Url in config > shared.ts

• Run yarn build

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• Run pm2 start yarn --interpreter bash --name xchat-web to run application under port 8081

3. Admin Web

• Similar Frontend web, same steps.

• You should change default port to 8082 by export PORT=8082 or change port in server > index.ts file

• Run pm2 start yarn --interpreter bash --name xchat-admin to run app under port 8082

4. Setup NGINX

Config ports api, web, admin as following

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• Open browser and access: http://yourdomain.com to access web frontend

• Open browser and access: http://admin.yourdomain.com to access web admin

5. Check applications are running under pm2

• Run pm2 ls to see your applications

• Run pm2 stop [id] to stop app or pm2 reload [id] to reload

• Run applications in start up by pm2 startup then pm2 save

6. Set up NGINX with HTTPS

• Check here to setup https with nginx

• Setup https with Certbot nginx

7. Migration

• From API root directory run node server/migrate to seed default values for settings and users

  • Default Admin: admin@example.com

  • Default Password: admin

• You can change default values in server > migrations folder