INSTALL BOTPRESS ON LINUX THE BEST AI CHATBOT SOFTWARE GLOBALLY?:
copy pasting commands that have already been pasted does not matter just copy-paste, it will not break anything. Of course, edit if needed for the password bit just edit those and that is it!
Terminal login to ssh and run these commands
Do the following commands on Ubuntu 22 or 20(64bit):
sudo apt update -y
sudo apt-get update -y
mkdir botpress
cd botpress
wget https://s3.amazonaws.com/botpress-binaries/botpress-v12_30_6-linux-x64.zip
unzip botpress-v12_30_6-linux-x64.zip
./bp
Thatâs it! Yes, the Botpress server is now running at http://localhost:3000 http://yourserverip:3000
Terminal
PostgreSQL can be easily installed using the command:
sudo apt update && sudo apt install postgresql
Note: You can also install the optional package, âpostgresql-contribâ but itâs not necessary. I havenât found any benefit to installing it because all weâll be doing is creating a PostgreSQL user and database.
Now we need to create a PostgreSQL user and database. Use the following command to switch to the PostgreSQL âpostgresâ user account.
sudo su postgres -
To enter PostgreSQL we then type the following:
psql
The Terminal prompt should now look like this:
postgres=#
Great! In order to create our Botpress user, we use the syntax:
CREATE USER botpressuser WITH PASSWORD âyourpasswordhereâ;
Almost there! To create the database, we use:
CREATE DATABASE botpressdb;
Itâs important to note the username does not have quotations, but the password does. Personally, I prefer only including alphanumeric characters (letters and numbers) in the password so you donât have to worry about escaping any characters. Also, make sure you put the semicolon at the end of the command. Note down these details because we need them later. To exit PostgreSQL type:
\q
and then:
exit
to return to our normal Terminal prompt.
Weâve created a PostgreSQL user and database, but Botpress doesnât know about it. Letâs tell Botpress where it can find this information â and to use it! In order to do this we need to create an environment file in the extracted directory of Botpress (the same folder where the âbpâ executable file is). Type the following:
nano .env
This creates a file called â.envâ and opens it in the ânanoâ text editor. Type the following:
DATABASE_URL=postgres://botpressuser:yourpasswordhere@localhost:5432/botpressdb
On the next line, put:
BPFS_STORAGE=database
and finally on the next line:
AUTO_MIGRATE=true
Close the file by pressing âCTRL + Xâ and press âYâ to accept the changes. Thatâs it! When you run
./bp
Setup SSL on Botpress
Botpress âProduction Checklistâ
If you followed the above steps yours will look different to this, but donât fret because my installation is just configured differently!
Thanks for reading and I hope this helped you!
The featured image is from Botpress
Confirm that everything is running correctly by running the command below:
netstat -tulpn | grep LISTEN
The output should look kinda like this:
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:80 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 722/nginx: master p tcp 0 0 127.0.0.53:53 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 535/systemd-resolve tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:22 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 756/sshd tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:443 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 722/nginx: master p tcp6 0 0 :::3000 :::* LISTEN 13838/./bp
You should see a list of running processes, which should include Botpress on the port of 3000. What we should do next, as part of the initial setup, is set up NGINX to run Botpress as a proxy. Ensure you have a domain pointed to your server for the next steps.
Run the commands below to install NGINX if it is not installed already:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nginx
Check the available configurations for your firewall with this command:
sudo ufw app list
The output will be as follows:
Output Available applications: Nginx Full Nginx HTTP Nginx HTTPS OpenSSH
Next, enable NGINX with the following command:
sudo ufw allow âNginx HTTPâ
Now copy paste these commands:
sudo ufw allow 22 sudo ufw enable
Then, confirm the setting by running the command below:
sudo ufw status
With it installed, weâll need to also create a config file for our Botpress server. To do this, run the command below:
cd /etc/nginx/sites-available
Create a new file by running the following command.
sudo nano kodeec.website
Copy the following in the file and save it.
server {
# listen on port 80 (http)
listen 80;
server_name kodeec.website 47.254.153.30 www.kodeec.website;
location / {
include proxy_params;
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:3000;
}
}
Enable the configuration with the following command.
sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/kodeec.website /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/
Now you should be able to access 'kodeec.website' on your browser but it is still unsecure.
To install SSL encryption for your website, we can use Letâs Encrypt.
To get started with this, install the dependencies with the following commands:
sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository universe
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:certbot/certbot sudo apt-get install certbot python-certbot-nginx
or
sudo apt-get install certbot python3-certbot-nginx
Once everythingâs installed and running, run the command below:
sudo certbot --nginx
Follow the prompt to generate a certificate for your domain.
Finally, run the commands below to enable HTTPS encryption and reload NGINX.
sudo ufw allow https sudo systemctl reload nginx
After doing that, you should be able to access 'https://kodeec.website' on your browser. We have successfully installed and secured Botpress on a cloud KVM VPS server (Linux)
To let the bp binary run after you leave the terminal, simply launch the commands:
Installing and using PM2
Install pm2 using the below command
apt install npm
npm install pm2 -g
Start Botpress as a background process
pm2 start â./bp start -pâ
You can also use below commands to manage Botpress process, the option names are self-explanatory
pm2 list
pm2 logs
pm2 start â./bp start -pâ
pm2 reload â./bp start -pâ
pm2 stop â./bp start -pâ
pm2 delete â./bp start -pâ
YOU MIGHT GET THIS ISSUE:
CHAT BOT URL GOES TO localhost:3000 instead of the domain url:
SOLVED:
Use the web ui admin area of botpress and go to the code editor, if you do anything wrong in that code editor you will need to reinstall. I simply added https://example.domain.com inside the external URL ââ bit. Before you say it, yes already tried editing files from the command line over ssh/terminal,
Update Botpress easy! LInux Ubuntu cloud server vps kvm botpress update version how to:
cd botpress
wget https://s3.amazonaws.com/botpress-binaries/botpress-v12_30_6-linux-x64.zip
unzip botpress-v12_30_6-linux-x64.zip
./bp
When asked in the terminal, replace All and yes to replace files, should be fine.
NOW YOU HAVE A FULL-PRODUCTION AI CHAT BOT SERVER! FYI Botpress is probably the best opensource chat bot making software in the world 2022-2023.
Botpress is not limited like other so-called open sources, for example, openai chat bot forces you to use a limited API and basically is not open source because you have to pay to use it.
Info is taken from my tutorial:
