Rocketchat installation default settings

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Is it possible to define default settings to be applied to RocketChat at installation time (when the database is created)? The main reason is that I want to set FileSystem as the Storage by default whenever I spin a new Rocketchat server, instead of GridFS.

The main reason for that, among others, is that I can change from FileSystem to S3 if I ever need space in a very easy and practical way (just syncing the local folder with S3, and changing the setting), while with GridFS I don’t even know how, and even if I knew it would probably be a pain.

I would prefer the FileSystem as a default so that there would not be a risk that I forget in future installations to change manually the Storage option.

Additionally, I would like to setup the Hubot user during (or right after) installation, instead of adding it manually later, and having to spin up hubot only after that.

Thanks in advance.

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You can use an environmental variable to set that setting’s value. For example, FileUpload_Storage_Type=FileSystem.

https://docs.rocket.chat/guides/administrator-guides/settings-via-env-vars#set-setting

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Thanks for the reply! Yesterday the docs where offline for me, so I couldn’t find it.

Is there a list with the settings documented somewhere? It seems this answer shows a way to get the ids from the mongo database, I will give it a try.

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Best way to get the current list of settings is to query the database and just list the ids of the items in the collection.

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