Mattermost Preview
Team Communication Service
Version 0.50

About Mattermost

Mattermost is a team communication service. It brings team messaging and file sharing into one place, accessible across PCs and phones, with archiving and search.

We built Mattermost to help teams focus on what matters most to them. It works for us, we hope it works for you too.

Installing the Mattermost

You're installing "Mattermost Preview", a pre-released 0.50 version intended for an early look at what we're building. While SpinPunch runs this version internally, it's not recommended for production deployments since we can't guarantee API stability or backwards compatibility until our 1.0 version release.

That said, any issues at all, please let us know on the Mattermost forum at: http://discourse.mattermost.org

Local Machine Setup (Docker)

Mac OSX

1. Follow the instructions at http://docs.docker.com/installation/mac/
   1. Use the Boot2Docker command-line utility
   2. If you do command-line setup use: boot2docker init eval “$(boot2docker shellinit)”
2. Get your Docker IP address with boot2docker ip
3. Add a line to your /etc/hosts that goes <Docker IP> dockerhost
4. Run boot2docker shellinit and copy the export statements to your ~/.bash_profile
5. Run docker run --name mattermost-dev -d --publish 8065:80 mattermost/platform:helium
6. When docker is done fetching the image, open http://dockerhost:8065/ in your browser

Ubuntu

1. Follow the instructions at https://docs.docker.com/installation/ubuntulinux/ or use the summary below.

   sudo apt-get update
   sudo apt-get install wget
   wget -qO- https://get.docker.com/ | sh
   sudo usermod -aG docker <username>
   sudo service docker start
   newgrp docker

2. Run docker run --name mattermost-dev -d --publish 8065:80 mattermost/platform:helium

3. When docker is done fetching the image, open http://localhost:8065/ in your browser

Arch

1. Install docker using the following commands:

   pacman -S docker
   systemctl enable docker.service
   systemctl start docker.service
   gpasswd -a <username> docker
   newgrp docker

2. Start docker container:

   docker run --name mattermost-dev -d --publish 8065:80 mattermost/platform:helium

3. When docker is done fetching the image, open http://localhost:8065/ in your browser.

Notes

If your ISP blocks port 25 then you may install locally but email will not be sent.

If you want to work with the latest bits in the repo you can run the cmd
docker run --name mattermost-dev -d --publish 8065:80 mattermost/platform:latest

You can update to the latest bits by running
docker pull mattermost/platform:latest

If you wish to remove mattermost-dev use the following commands

1. docker stop mattermost-dev
2. docker rm -v mattermost-dev

If you wish to gain access to the container use the following commands

1. docker exec -ti mattermost-dev /bin/bash

AWS Elastic Beanstalk Setup (Docker)

1. Create a new elastic beanstalk docker application using the Dockerrun.aws.json file provided.

   1. From the AWS console select Elastic Beanstalk
   2. Select "Create New Application" from the top right.
   3. Name the application and press next
   4. Select "Create a web server" environment.
   5. If asked, select create and IAM role and instance profile and press next.
   6. For predefined configuration select docker. For environment type select single instance.
   7. For application source, select upload your own and upload Dockerrun.aws.json from docker/Dockerrun.aws.json. Everything else may be left at default.
   8. Select an environment name, this is how you will refer to your environment. Make sure the URL is available then press next.
   9. The options on the additional resources page may be left at default unless you wish to change them. Press Next.
   10. On the configuration details place. Select an instance type of t2.small or larger.
   11. You can set the configuration details as you please but they may be left at their defaults. When you are done press next.
   12. Environment tags my be left blank. Press next.
   13. You will be asked to review your information. Press Launch.
   14. Up near the top of the dashboard you will see a domain of the form *.elasticbeanstalk.com copy this as you will need it later.

2. Map a wildcard domain to the new elastic beanstalk application 15. From the AWS console select route 53 16. From the sidebar select Hosted Zones 17. Select the domain you want to use or create a new one. 18. Modify an existing CNAME record set or create a new one with the name * and the value of the domain you copied in step 1.13. 19. Save the record set

3. Set the environment variable "MATTERMOST_DOMAIN" to the domain you mapped above (example.com not www.example.com) 20. Return the Elastic Beanstalk from the AWS console. 21. Select the environment you created. 22. Select configuration from the sidebar. 23. Click the gear beside software configuration. 24. Add an environment property with the name “MATTERMOST_DOMAIN” and a value of the domain you mapped in route 53. For example if your domain is *.example.com you would enter example.com not www.example.com. 25. Select apply.

4. Try it out! 26. Return to the dashboard on the sidebar and wait for beanstalk update the environment. 27. Try it out by entering the domain you mapped into your browser.

Contributing

To contribute to this open source project please review the Mattermost Contribution Guidelines at http://www.mattermost.org/contribute-to-mattermost/.

License

Most Mattermost source files are made available under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL). See individual files for details.

As an exception, Admin Tools and Configuration Files are are made available under the terms of the Apache License, version 2.0. See LICENSE.txt for more information.