Configuring Push Notifications
Without using a Rocket.Chat SAAS to manage your workspace, you can manually configure push notifications to your customized App build.
This will give the ability for your workspace users using mobile devices to receive push notifications on their devices. This guide shows how to achieve that.
- In your Rocket.Chat workspace, go to Administration > Settings > Push
- Disable Gateway and hit Save changes
- Also disable Production if you’re trying in debug mode
- Expand “Credentials and Keys” section
- Go to Cloud Messaging on Firebase settings
- Copy “Server Key” token from Firebase into “GCM API Key”
- Copy “Sender ID” into “GCM Project Number”
- Make sure you’ve done “Creating Push Notifications certificates” first
- In your terminal, go to the folder which contains your push files (CSR, .cer, .p12).
- Execute
openssl x509 -in aps_development.cer -inform der -out DevPushCert.pemopenssl pkcs12 -nocerts -out DevPushKey.pem -in yourP12File.p12
- You must set a password for your PEM file
- Execute
openssl x509 -in aps.cer -inform der -out PushCert.pemopenssl pkcs12 -nocerts -out PushKey.pem -in yourP12File.p12
- You must set a password for your PEM file
- Copy the contents of your development PEM files and password into APN Dev Key, APN Dev Cert, and APN Dev Passphrase
- Copy the contents of your production PEM files and password into APN Key, APN Cert, and APN Passphrase
- You can use
caton the terminal to get the content of your PEM filescat PushKey.pem
- Save and restart your server
- Log into the server as the same user on your mobile device and close it (it won’t receive push notification if it’s open)
- Open Push settings on admin from desktop and click “Send a test push to my user”
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