Now that the app can receive push notifications, we need to make sure that the Mattermost Push Notification Service is able to send the notification to the device. This guide will focus on installing and configuring the push notification service.
For the sake of making this guide simple we located the files at /home/ubuntu/mattermost-push-proxy. We’ve also elected to run the Push Notification Service as the ubuntu account for simplicity. We recommend setting up
and running the service under a mattermost-push-proxy user account with limited permissions.
Download the Mattermost Push Notification Service (any version):
wget https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost-push-proxy/releases/download/vX.X.X/mattermost-push-proxy-X.X.X.tar.gz
in the previous command vX.X.X refers to the release version you want to download, see Mattermost Push Notification Service releases.
If you are upgrading a previous version of the Mattermost Push Notification Service make sure to backup your mattermost-push-proxy.json file before continuing.
Unzip the downloaded Mattermost Push Notification Service by typing:
tar -xvzf mattermost-push-proxy-X.X.X.tar.gz
Configure the Mattermost Push Notification service by editing the mattermost-push-proxy.json file at /home/ubuntu/mattermost-push-proxy/config. Follow the steps in the Android
and iOS sections to replace the values in the config file.
Setup the Mattermost Push Notification Services to use the Upstart daemon which handles supervision of the Push Service process
sudo touch /etc/init/mattermost-push-proxy.confsudo vi /etc/init/mattermost-push-proxy.conf/etc/init/mattermost-push-proxy.confstart on runlevel [2345]
stop on runlevel [016]
respawn
chdir /home/ubuntu/mattermost-push-proxy
setuid ubuntu
console log
exec bin/mattermost-push-proxy | loggerStart the process with sudo start mattermost-push-proxy or if the process is already running with sudo restart mattermost-push-proxy.
Go to the Firebase Console and select the project you’ve created. Once in the dashboard, go to the project settings and select CLOUD MESSAGING.
Look for the value of the Server Key and copy it.
Open the mattermost-push-proxy.json file in the mattermost-push-proxy/config directory and paste the value for the “AndroidApiKey” setting
Double click the Distribution Certificate generated while Setup Push Notifications for iOS to add it to your Keychain Access. Go to Keychain Access, select the login keychain and My Certificates from the side menu.
Find the certificate you imported and then right click to export it as a .p12 file
Enter a name for the filename and click Save
Leave the password blank and then click OK
Convert the downloaded certificate to .pem
\$ openssl x509 -in aps.cer -inform DER -out aps_production.pemExtract the private key from the certificate you exported ..
\$ openssl pkcs12 -in Certificates.p12 -out aps_production_priv.pem -nodes -clcerts -passin pass:Verify the certificate works with apple
\$ openssl s_client -connect gateway.push.apple.com:2195 -cert aps_production.pem -key aps_production_priv.pemCopy the private key file aps_production_priv.pem into your mattermost-push-proxy/config directory
Open the mattermost-push-proxy.json file under the mattermost-push-proxy/config directory and add the path to the private key file as the value for “ApplePushCertPrivate” and the value for “ApplePushTopic” with your Bundle Identifier
Verify that the server is functioning normally and test the push notification using curl:
curl http://127.0.0.1:8066/api/v1/send_push -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"type": "message", "message": "test", "badge": 1, "platform": "PLATFORM", "server_id": "MATTERMOST_DIAG_ID", "device_id": "DEVICE_ID", "channel_id": "CHANNEL_ID"}'
MATTERMOST_DIAG_ID with the value found by running the SQL query:
sql
SELECT * FROM Systems WHERE Name = 'DiagnosticId';
DEVICE_ID with your device ID, which can be found using (where your_email@example.com is the email address of the user you are logged in as):
sql
SELECT
Email, DeviceId
FROM
Sessions,
Users
WHERE
Sessions.UserId = Users.Id
AND DeviceId != ''
AND Email = 'your_email@example.com';
CHANNEL_ID with the Town Square channel ID, which can be found using:
sql
SELECT Id FROM Channels WHERE DisplayName = 'Town Square';
You can also verify push notifications are working by opening your Mattermost site and mentioning a user who has push notifications enabled in Account Settings > Notifications > Mobile Push Notifications.
To view the log file, use:
$ sudo tail -n 1000 /var/log/upstart/mattermost-push-proxy.log2018/04/13 12:39:24 CRIT Failed to load the apple pem cert err=failed to parse PKCS1 private key for type=apple_rn
panic: Failed to load the apple pem cert err=failed to parse PKCS1 private key for type=apple_rn
aps_production.ceropenssl x509 -in aps.cer -inform DER -out aps_production.pemaps_production.cer to install it into the keychain toolopenssl pkcs12 -in Certificates.p12 -out intermediate.pem -nodes -clcertsopenssl rsa -in intermediate.pem -out intermediate_rsa_priv.pemsed -i '/^-----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY-----$/,$d' intermediate.pemcat intermediate.pem intermediate_rsa_priv.pem >> aps_production_priv.pem && rm intermediate.pem intermediate_rsa_priv.pemopenssl s_client -connect gateway.push.apple.com:2195 -cert aps_production.pem -key aps_production_priv.pemFor issues with repro steps, please report to https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/issues