I want to integrate my RASA bot with slack’s desktop version. I want to do this without using ngrok since it is a security concern. Please suggest the alternatives to this.

Hi @gurpreetbajwa ! Depending on your exact security concerns with ngrok, another option would be to deploy it on a server. I just deployed a rasa bot on a Google Cloud Compute Engine VM using the slack connector a few weeks ago, so I could definitely help with that if you want to go this route. Let me know! Otherwise, if you could please elaborate a bit more on your security concerns with ngrok and perhaps what your ideal solution to those concerns would need to be, that would help us to be able to answer your question

You could also check out Inlets . Perhaps that might also be an alternative to ngrok

[image] tyd: Inlets Hi @tyd , I am also currently running a rasa bot on Google Cloud Compute Engine VM, however cannot connect it to Slack (specially cannot proceed with url verification). Would you mind helping me with my problem?

Hi @mia.le0711 . Sure, happy to help. Are you able to chat with it using share your bot or the rest channel?

[image] tyd: share your bot Thank you @tyd . I deployed Rasa Open Source only, I didn’t apply Rasa X!

@mia.le0711 No worries. There is not a difference for channels, other than we won’t be able to use the share your bot channel to help us debug the problem. Is the rest channel working?

@tyd Can you please help me running the RASA X on Windows Server. For so long i was running RASAX on local machine using ngrok but now the issue is, ngrok expires in 7 hours and i need the chatbot running 24*7. Please help.

Hi @nayakpraneet . I would recommend using Multipass to deploy Rasa X to a windows server.

@tyd When I try to run multipass using Oracle Virtual Box I get this error C:\Users\AIadmin>multipass launch --name k3s --mem 4G --disk 50G launch failed: Could not start VM: Waiting for VM “k3s” to power on… VBoxManage.exe: error: UUID {643b3289-7d4d-4f65-a03c-87f8c3503902} of the medium ‘C:\windows\system32\config\systemprofile\AppData\Roaming\multipassd\virtualbox\vault\instances\k3s\ubuntu-20.04-server-cloudimg-amd64.vdi’ does not match the value {a95ceaf5-8582-46cb-90dc-f5bbc6c7b68d} stored in the media registry (‘C:\windows\system32\config\systemprofile.VirtualBox\VirtualBox.xml’) VBoxManage.exe: error: Details: code E_FAIL (0x80004005), component MediumWrap, interface IMedium

@tyd And when i use Hyper-V instead of Virtual Box, I get this error C:\Users\AIadmin>multipass set local.driver=hyperv C:\Users\AIadmin>multipass launch --name k3s --mem 4G --disk 50G launch failed: The Hyper-V Hypervisor is disabled. Please enable by using the following command in an Administrator Powershell and reboot: Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Hyper-V-Hypervisor

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tyd (Ty Dunn) December 17, 2020, 10:04am 13

@nayakpraneet I am not super familiar with windows server. Maybe something like " then you can export this virtual machine from Windows 10 to your Windows 2012 R2 server" helps?

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