Live Helper Chat With Docker

Live Helper chat + Traefik (SSL Letsencrypt) + redis + MySQL Mode nodejs / php

Requirements

• git 2.2 or higher
• docker 20 or higher
• docker-compose 1.20 or higher
• Configure your public and private keys with gitlab to always use SSH with GIT
• Adrenaline and good passion for the code

Instructions

This is dockerized version of Live Helper Chat. It includes these images

• web - nginx service
• php - php-fpm service
• cobrowse - co browsing running NodeJS service
• php-cronjob - cron jobs running service
• php-resque - php-resque worker running service
• nodejshelper - NodeJS Helper NodeJS running service
• redis - Redis service
• db - Database service

Docker instructions

• Checkout the repository

• Run git clone [email protected]:marcotorres/livechat.git docker-standalone

• Run cd docker-standalone

• Copy .env.default to .env

• Edit .env file and change LHC_SECRET_HASH to any random string

• Database default settings if you don't change those in .env file.

  • Host - db
  • Database name - lhc_database
  • Database username - lhc_usr
  • Database password - lhc_password

• For standard version without NodeJS plugin run

  • Run install.sh this will check out Live Helper Chat and required extensions
  • Run docker-compose -f docker-compose-standard.yml pull && docker-compose -f docker-compose-standard.yml up

• For version with NodeJS plugin

  • Run install-nodejs.sh this will check out Live Helper Chat and required extensions
  • Run docker-compose -f docker-compose-nodejs.yml pull && docker-compose -f docker-compose-nodejs.yml up

• Navigate to localhost:8081 and follow install instructions.

At first install steps you might need to run these commands to change folders permissions.

docker exec -it dockerstandalone_web_1 chown -R www-data:www-data /code/cache
docker exec -it dockerstandalone_web_1 chown -R www-data:www-data /code/settings
docker exec -it dockerstandalone_web_1 chown -R www-data:www-data /code/var

or change permission of these folders

livehelperchat/lhc_web/cache
livehelperchat/lhc_web/settings
livehelperchat/lhc_web/var

For Traefik

Create network

docker network create --gateway 192.168.90.1 --subnet 192.168.90.0/24 traefik

RUN

cp traefik/acme.json.example traefik/acme.json && \
cp traefik/logs/traefik.log.example traefik/logs/traefik.log && \
cp traefik/shared/.htpasswd.example traefik/shared/.htpasswd && \
chmod 0600 traefik/acme.json

How to listen on standard 80 port?

Edit .env file and set LHC_PUBLIC_PORT and LHC_NODE_JS_PORT port to 80

How to set up HTTPS?

That's up to you. You can have in host machine running nginx and just proxy request or tweak images/docker files I provided. You should play around with web service.

My mails are not sending?

You have to edit back office mail settings and use SMTP.

After install todo

• Go to Settings -> Live help confgiuration -> Chat configuration -> (Screen sharing) and
  • Check NodeJs support enabled
  • In socket.io path, optional enter /wsnodejs/socket.io