{"id":321,"date":"2025-05-08T09:35:46","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T09:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hostinger.io\/support\/2025\/05\/08\/11325138-how-to-use-chatwoot-vps-template-at-hostinger\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T12:11:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T12:11:57","slug":"11325138-how-to-use-chatwoot-vps-template-at-hostinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/11325138-how-to-use-chatwoot-vps-template-at-hostinger\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Use Chatwoot VPS Template at Hostinger"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chatwoot is an open-source customer engagement platform that enables businesses to manage conversations across multiple communication channels — including website live chat, email, Facebook, WhatsApp, and more — from a single unified inbox. It offers features like real-time messaging, automation, canned responses, team collaboration tools, and analytics, making it ideal for support and sales teams. Chatwoot is designed to be self-hosted or cloud-deployed, giving organizations full control over their data and customization.<\/p>

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With Hostinger’s Ubuntu 24.04 64bit with Chatwoot VPS template, setting up Chatwoot is streamlined, as it comes pre-installed. <\/p>

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This guide will help you get started with Chatwoot on your VPS.<\/p>

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Getting started<\/h2>
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    Open a web browser and visit http:\/\/[your-VPS-hostname]<\/code>. Make sure to replace [your-VPS-hostname]<\/code> with the actual hostname of your VPS.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Fill in your details and click Finish Setup<\/b><\/p>\n

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    After finishing the setup, you will be redirected to the login page. Enter your credentials to proceed. <\/p>\n

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    After logging in, you will be presented with the Chatwoot dashboard:<\/p>\n

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    💡 To learn more about Chatwoot capabilities and configuration – refer to the Chatwoot User Guide<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>

    To learn more about .env variables, that Chatwoot supports – refer to the environment variables guide<\/a>. You can find those by logging in the VPS – for example<\/p>

    ssh root@<your-vps-ip> <\/code><\/pre>
    Or use a web terminal directly from hPanel. Then navigate to:<\/p>
    cd \/root\/chatwoot<\/code><\/pre>
    Where you will find the docker-compose and .env files. Edit the .env file with your favorite text-editor and recreate the containers, for example:<\/p>
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    nano .env

    docker compose down
    docker compose up -d<\/code><\/pre>
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    💡 For more detailed information and troubleshooting, refer to the Chatwoot documentation<\/a> 💡<\/p>\n<\/div>
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    Accessing and setting up Chatwoot on Hostinger\u2019s VPS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"include_on_kodee":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[206],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vps-os-and-templates"],"hreflangs":[{"locale":"en-US","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/11325138-how-to-use-chatwoot-vps-template-at-hostinger\/","default":1}],"include_on_kodee":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1812,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions\/1812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}