MateBot Web

MateBot Web is a web frontend for MateBot. It is served as single-side application to allow embedding as Matrix Custom Integration.

Install from source

In order to install MateBot Web, the following packages are required (based on Debian 11):

• git
• build-essential

Go 1.18:

As Debian 11 provides an old version of golang, use the installation instructions from the official site

NodeJS 16 LTS:

curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_lts.x | bash -
apt-get install -y nodejs

Compile and install the project itself:

git clone https://github.com/hopfenspace/matebot-web.git
cd matebot-web
make
make install

Configuration

cp /etc/matebot-web/example.config.toml /etc/matebot-web/config.toml

Reverse Proxy

It is recommended to deploy matebot-web behind a reverse proxy. Nginx is used as reference.

Install nginx:

apt-get install nginx

Copy nginx configuration file:

cp matebot-web.nginx /etc/nginx/sites-available/matebot-web.conf
ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/matebot-web.conf /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/

Set SERVER_NAME to the vhost, your server can be accessed by:

sed -i -E 's/SERVER_NAME/your-server-name/' /etc/nginx/sites-available/matebot-web.conf

Set SSL_CERT_PATH and SSL_CERT_KEY_PATH to a certificate, that is valid for SERVER_NAME:

sed -i -E 's/SSL_CERT_PATH/\/path\/to\/cert\.pem/' /etc/nginx/sites-available/matebot-web.conf
sed -i -E 's/SSL_CERT_KEY_PATH/\/path\/to\/key\.pem/' /etc/nginx/sites-available/matebot-web.conf

Finally, start nginx:

systemctl start nginx