Rasa and Slack integration

Rasa Open Source
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Hi everyone,

Recently I asked about making my Slack bot available all the time and got suggested to clone it to a public host.

With Google Cloud Platform, I managed to do it eventually and it now runs perfectly with rasa shell on this VM instance with public IP address. But I cannot connect it to Slack, keep getting warning saying “URL does not respond with challenge parameter”.

Have anyone tried connecting Slack and Rasabot with a public IP before? If yes, can you please show me how can I do that?

Have a nice week!

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Hi @mia.le0711, in order for your bot to respond to the challenge parameter, it has to be running rasa run before you input the url, as slack will send a challenge to the running server to confirm it will connect.

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Hi @erohmensing, thanks for your reply. What about the URL under “rasa” in credentials yaml file? Will it still be localhost?

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Ah, so it depends how you have Rasa deployed. If you are running rasa run locally, you’ll have to use ngrok to make your localhost available to the rest of the internet: Messaging and Voice Channels

If you’ve deployed rasa open source via Rasa X, it will be the IP or domain name of wherever your rasa x instance is located.