Running Rocket Chat in docker container and getting 504

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Description

I have rocket and nginx in docker containers. Rocket appears to be working (no errors in log, getting 200 when wget from server bypassing nginx) but I am getting a 504 when I try to connect to it. I believe it is an issue with my nginx conf but I can’t see anything wrong with it. Please see the stack overflow link above for config files.

Server Setup Information

rocketchat_1 | ±------------------------------------------------------+
rocketchat_1 | | SERVER RUNNING |
rocketchat_1 | ±------------------------------------------------------+
rocketchat_1 | | |
rocketchat_1 | | Rocket.Chat Version: 4.1.2 |
rocketchat_1 | | NodeJS Version: 12.22.1 - x64 |
rocketchat_1 | | MongoDB Version: 5.0.3 |
rocketchat_1 | | MongoDB Engine: wiredTiger |
rocketchat_1 | | Platform: linux |
rocketchat_1 | | Process Port: 3000 |
rocketchat_1 | | Site URL: https://chat.mydomain.com |
rocketchat_1 | | ReplicaSet OpLog: Enabled |
rocketchat_1 | | Commit Hash: 2aba8d2d82 |
rocketchat_1 | | Commit Branch: HEAD |
rocketchat_1 | | |
rocketchat_1 | ±------------------------------------------------------+

  • Version of Rocket.Chat Server:
  • Operating System: Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS x86_64
  • Deployment Method: Docker
  • Number of Running Instances: 1
  • DB Replicaset Oplog:
  • NodeJS Version:
  • MongoDB Version:
  • Proxy: Reverse proxy via nginx container
  • Firewalls involved: yes but disabled for http and ssh

Any additional Information

Please see stackoverflow question I linked above for logs.
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version: '2'

services:
  rocketchat:
    image: registry.rocket.chat/rocketchat/rocket.chat:latest
    command: >
      bash -c
        "for i in `seq 1 30`; do
          node main.js &&
          s=$$? && break || s=$$?;
          echo \"Tried $$i times. Waiting 5 secs...\";
          sleep 5;
        done; (exit $$s)"
    restart: unless-stopped
    volumes:
      - ./uploads:/app/uploads
    environment:
      - PORT=3000
      - ROOT_URL=http://localhost:3000
      - MONGO_URL=mongodb://mongo:27017/rocketchat
      - MONGO_OPLOG_URL=mongodb://mongo:27017/local
#       - MAIL_URL=smtp://smtp.email
#       - HTTP_PROXY=http://proxy.domain.com
#       - HTTPS_PROXY=http://proxy.domain.com
    depends_on:
      - mongo
    ports:
      - 3000:3000
    labels:
      - "traefik.backend=rocketchat"
      - "traefik.frontend.rule=Host: your.domain.tld"

  mongo:
    image: mongo:4.0
    restart: unless-stopped
    volumes:
     - ./data/db:/data/db
     #- ./data/dump:/dump
    command: mongod --smallfiles --oplogSize 128 --replSet rs0 --storageEngine=mmapv1
    labels:
      - "traefik.enable=false"

  # this container's job is just run the command to initialize the replica set.
  # it will run the command and remove himself (it will not stay running)
  mongo-init-replica:
    image: mongo:4.0
    command: >
      bash -c
        "for i in `seq 1 30`; do
          mongo mongo/rocketchat --eval \"
            rs.initiate({
              _id: 'rs0',
              members: [ { _id: 0, host: 'localhost:27017' } ]})\" &&
          s=$$? && break || s=$$?;
          echo \"Tried $$i times. Waiting 5 secs...\";
          sleep 5;
        done; (exit $$s)"
    depends_on:
      - mongo

  # hubot, the popular chatbot (add the bot user first and change the password before starting this image)
  hubot:
    image: rocketchat/hubot-rocketchat:latest
    restart: unless-stopped
    environment:
      - ROCKETCHAT_URL=rocketchat:3000
      - ROCKETCHAT_ROOM=GENERAL
      - ROCKETCHAT_USER=bot
      - ROCKETCHAT_PASSWORD=botpassword
      - BOT_NAME=bot
  # you can add more scripts as you'd like here, they need to be installable by npm
      - EXTERNAL_SCRIPTS=hubot-help,hubot-seen,hubot-links,hubot-diagnostics
    depends_on:
      - rocketchat
    labels:
      - "traefik.enable=false"
    volumes:
      - ./scripts:/home/hubot/scripts
  # this is used to expose the hubot port for notifications on the host on port 3001, e.g. for hubot-jenkins-notifier
    ports:
      - 3001:8080

  #traefik:
  #  image: traefik:latest
  #  restart: unless-stopped
  #  command: >
  #    traefik
  #     --docker
  #     --acme=true
  #     --acme.domains='your.domain.tld'
  #     --acme.email='your@email.tld'
  #     --acme.entrypoint=https
  #     --acme.storagefile=acme.json
  #     --defaultentrypoints=http
  #     --defaultentrypoints=https
  #     --entryPoints='Name:http Address::80 Redirect.EntryPoint:https'
  #     --entryPoints='Name:https Address::443 TLS.Certificates:'
  #  ports:
  #    - 80:80
  #    - 443:443
  #  volumes:
  #    - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock

Can you please try this docker-compose file

=> don’t change this. Set as default. ROOT_URL=http://localhost:3000

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upstream chat {
    # Use IP Hash for session persistence
    ip_hash;

    # List of Tomcat application servers
    server 127.0.0.1:3000;
    
}

map $http_upgrade $connection_upgrade {
  default upgrade;
  ''      close;
}

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name rocket.server.com;

    # Redirect all HTTP requests to HTTPS
    location / {	
        return 301 https://$server_name$request_uri;
    }
}
 
server {
    listen 443 ssl http2;
    server_name rocket.server.com;

    ssl_certificate   /.../fullchain.pem;
;
    ssl_certificate_key   /.../privkey.pem;

    ssl_session_cache	shared:SSL:1m;
    ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;


     location / {
      proxy_set_header Host $host;
      proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
      proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
      proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
      proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
      proxy_set_header Connection $connection_upgrade;
      proxy_pass http://chat;
    }


}

This one is for the Nginx configuration.
These are what I am using and it’s working well

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Hi! Just to point that we have a doc for this:

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Thank you both for the replies. I was able to get rocket chat running again.

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how were you able to get it running again? Please post your solution! :slight_smile:

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