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Version: 1.0

Mattermost Getting Started

Mattermost is an open source, self-hosted Slack-alternative. As an alternative to proprietary SaaS messaging, Mattermost brings all your team communication into one place, making it searchable and accessible anywhere.

If you have installed Websoft9 Mattermost, the following steps is for your quick start

Preparation​

  1. Get the Internet IP of your Server on Cloud
  2. Check your Inbound of Security Group Rule of Cloud Console to ensure the TCP:80 is allowed
  3. Complete Five steps for Domain if you want to use Domain for Mattermost
  4. Get default username and password of Mattermost

Mattermost Initialization​

Steps for you​

  1. Using local Chrome or Firefox to visit the URL http://domain name or http://Internet IP, you will enter the register interface of Mattermost
  2. Set the username and password, start to create administrator account of Mattermost
  3. Create a new team or Go to system console
  4. Open Settings > Display to set your language
  5. Quit and reload Mattermost, you can see your language is in effect

More useful Mattermost guide, please refer to Matterbase Administrator’s Guide

Having trouble?​

Below is for you to solve problem, and you can contact Websoft9 Support or refer to Troubleshoot + FAQ to get more.

Mattermost QuickStart​

Mattermost Setup​

Increase the number of Teams users​

Log in to the console and set the [SITE CONFIGURATION] > [Users and Teams] > [Max Users Per Team] values to set the team size:

Domain Binding（Modify URL）​

Domain name five-step setting After completion, you need to set the URL of Mattermost:

Log in Mattermost console, open: ENVIRONMENT > Web Server, modify Site URL value

Configure SMTP​

  1. Get SMTP related parameters in the mailbox management console

  2. Log in Mattermost Console, open ENVIROMENT > SMTP Set smtp

  3. Enter the SMTP settings

  4. Click the Test Connection, you can get the feedback "no errors were..." if SMTP is useful

Install the plugin​

For example, JITMI is used a lot.

Language settings​

Support multiple languages (including Chinese), log in to the console, open [SITE CONFIGURATION] > [Localization], set the language

Reference sheet​

The below items and General parameter sheet is maybe useful for you manage Mattermost

Run docker ps command, view all Containers when Mattermost is running:

CONTAINER ID   IMAGE                                       COMMAND                  CREATED             STATUS                       PORTS                                                                NAMES
1c26e24d9c18   dpage/pgadmin4:latest                       "/entrypoint.sh"         About an hour ago   Up About an hour             443/tcp, 0.0.0.0:9090->80/tcp, :::9090->80/tcp                       pgadmin
1d96d7bd3dd8   mattermost/mattermost-team-edition:latest   "/entrypoint.sh matt…"   About an hour ago   Up About an hour (healthy)   8067/tcp, 8074-8075/tcp, 0.0.0.0:9001->8065/tcp, :::9001->8065/tcp   mattermost
4baf3c38539b   postgres:13-alpine                          "docker-entrypoint.s…"   About an hour ago   Up About an hour             5432/tcp                                                             mattermost-db

Path​

Mattermost installation directory:： /data/apps/mattermost
Mattermost data directory:： /data/apps/mattermost/data/mattermost_data
Mattermost log directory:： /data/apps/mattermost/data/mattermost_logs
Mattermost plugin directory:： /data/apps/mattermost/data/mattermost_plugins
Mattermost configuration file： /data/apps/mattermost/data/mattermost_config/config.json

The config.json file contains database connection information

Port​

No special port

Version​

sudo docker exec -i mattermost /mattermost/bin/mattermost version

Service​

sudo docker start | stop | restart | stats mattermost
sudo docker start | stop | restart | stats mattermost-db
sudo docker start | stop | restart | stats pgadmin

CLI​

Mattermost provides both 'mattermost' and 'mmctl' commands, mattermost is a server-side command, mmctl API-based client commands

/opt/mattermost/bin/mattermost -h #In-container operations
/opt/mattermost/bin/mmctl -h

If you run /opt/mattermost/bin/mmctl version, the version will be slightly lower

API​

Mattermost API Reference