How to Install Chatwoot on Kali Linux

Chatwoot is a customer support platform designed to help businesses communicate more easily with their customers. It is open-source software that allows businesses to manage multiple customer conversations through a single dashboard. If you're looking to install Chatwoot on your Kali Linux system, this tutorial will guide you through the steps.

Prerequisites

Before you proceed to install Chatwoot on your Kali Linux system, you need to make sure that you have the following prerequisites in place:

  • A Kali Linux system
  • A non-root user with sudo privileges
  • Latest version of Node.js
  • Latest version of PostgreSQL

Step 1: Install Node.js

To install the latest version of Node.js, run the following commands in your terminal:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install curl
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_14.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

Once Node.js is installed, verify the version by typing node -v in your terminal.

Step 2: Install PostgreSQL

To install PostgreSQL, run the following commands in your terminal:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install postgresql postgresql-contrib

Once PostgreSQL is installed, start the service by running the following command:

sudo service postgresql start

You can verify if PostgreSQL is installed and running by typing sudo -u postgres psql. If you're able to access the PostgreSQL console, then it's working fine.

Step 3: Install Chatwoot

To install Chatwoot, run the following commands in your terminal:

git clone https://github.com/chatwoot/chatwoot.git
cd chatwoot
git checkout v1.20.0
cp .env.example .env
npm install
npm run build

Step 4: Setting up the Database

To set up the database for Chatwoot, follow the below steps:

  1. Open the .env file using your favorite text editor.
  2. Update the following variables to match your PostgreSQL settings:
POSTGRES_USERNAME=postgres
POSTGRES_PASSWORD=postgres
POSTGRES_DB=chatwoot_development
POSTGRES_HOST=localhost
POSTGRES_PORT=5432
  1. Save and close the file.
  2. Run the following command to create the database:
npm run db:create
  1. Once the database is created, migrate the schema by running the following command:
npm run db:migrate

Step 5: Starting Chatwoot

To start Chatwoot, run the following command in your terminal:

npm run start

You should see Chatwoot starting up in your terminal. Open your web browser and go to http://localhost:4000 to access the Chatwoot dashboard.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we showed you how to install Chatwoot on your Kali Linux system. With Chatwoot, you can easily manage multiple customer conversations through a single dashboard. If you encounter any issues during the installation process, please refer to the official documentation or ask for help in the Chatwoot community forums.