How to Configure an Easily Expandable Instant Chat Application — Tailchat

Introduction:

Tailchat—An open-source and easily expandable instant chat application, making communication more free, flexible, and fun

For personal users, Tailchat perfectly adapts to the following scenarios:

1. Playing with Friends: Simply create a group, and divide different topics through multiple channels; you can also use a web panel to share your favorite webpages.
2. Building Your Fan Circle: Use bots to subscribe and forward information to the chat panel, gather fans together, avoid creating countless QQ/WeChat groups, and multiple channels enable multiple topics to be generated together.
3. Privacy in Your Hands: If privacy is of great concern to you, Tailchat allows you to deploy it yourself, and everything can be controlled in your hands.

For business users, Tailchat also has rich features:

1. Panelized Design: Fully meets the customization needs of the enterprise.
2. Plug-in Architecture: Development based on the core becomes extremely convenient.
3. Self-deployment Implementation: Protects corporate value, giving you peace of mind in use.
4. Open Source Code: Transparency of the code makes auditing simple.

Step One: Update the Sources

#Ubuntu/Debian
apt update -y && apt upgrade -y    
#Centos
yum update -y && yum upgrade -y    

Step Two: Install Docker

curl -fsSL https://get.docker.com -o get-docker.sh && sh ./get-docker.sh

Step Three: Pull the Image

docker pull moonrailgun/tailchat # Pull tailchat image from the public image library
docker tag moonrailgun/tailchat tailchat # Rename the downloaded image as tailchat (keep consistent with source code compilation; if not renamed, source code compilation process will be followed)

Step Four: Download Necessary Files

mkdir tailchat && cd tailchat
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/msgbyte/tailchat/master/docker-compose.yml
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/msgbyte/tailchat/master/docker-compose.env
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/msgbyte/tailchat/master/docker/admin.yml 

Modify the docker-compose.env file settings, suggesting changes to the following content:

1. API_URL External accessible URL address, used for file service access, can be a domain name or an IP If images cannot be displayed properly, this variable is not set
2. SECRET Server encryption key, used to generate Tokens. Default is tailchat
3. SMTP_SENDER Send email verification information, format as xxx@example.com or "YourName" xxx@example.com
4. SMTP_URI SMTP email service address, format as: <protocol>://<username>:<password>@<host>:<port>/<other-info>
5. ADMIN_USER Administrator account name
6. ADMIN_PASS Administrator account password

Step Five: Launch the Application

docker compose -f docker-compose.yml -f admin.yml up -d

Access: http://<server ip>:11000 to open Tailchat

Access: http://<server ip>:11000/admin to open Tailchat admin panel

Note:

Below are all the current environment variables, which can be added or modified directly in docker-compose.env. After modifying, run the following command to clear the cache and restart the container

docker-compose down --rmi all
docker compose -f docker-compose.yml -f admin.yml up -d