diff --git a/app/components/inappchat/helpers/index.js b/app/components/inappchat/helpers/index.js
index 73a297e7..0219f3f2 100644
--- a/app/components/inappchat/helpers/index.js
+++ b/app/components/inappchat/helpers/index.js
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 export { default as messagesSortedByDate } from './sortMessagesByDate';
 export { default as emojify } from './emojify';
 export { emojis } from './emojisThatAnimate';
-export { useSsl, rcURL } from './url';
diff --git a/app/components/inappchat/helpers/url.js b/app/components/inappchat/helpers/url.js
deleted file mode 100644
index fcb05d94..00000000
--- a/app/components/inappchat/helpers/url.js
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-// uses localhost:3000 for development and the domain provided in .env in prod
-let url = process.env.NODE_ENV === 'development' ? 'http://localhost:3000' : process.env.NEXT_PUBLIC_ROCKET_CHAT_HOST;
-
-export const rcURL = new URL(url);
-
-// Use useSsl: false only if server url starts with http://
-export const useSsl = !/http:\/\//.test(url);
diff --git a/app/components/inappchat/inappchat.js b/app/components/inappchat/inappchat.js
index 2030b76d..4053d07d 100644
--- a/app/components/inappchat/inappchat.js
+++ b/app/components/inappchat/inappchat.js
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import { useEffect, useState } from "react";
 import { Rocketchat } from "@rocket.chat/sdk";
 import { getMessages, sendMessage } from "./lib/api";
 import styles from "../../styles/Inappchat.module.css";
-import { emojify, messagesSortedByDate, rcURL, useSsl } from "./helpers";
+import { emojify, messagesSortedByDate } from "./helpers";
 import {
   Message,
   MessageBody,
@@ -22,8 +22,11 @@ import InappchatTextInput from "./inappchattextinput";
 
 const rcClient = new Rocketchat({ logger: console, protocol: "ddp" });
 
-const InAppChat = ({ closeChat, cookies, rid }) => {
+const InAppChat = ({ host, closeChat, cookies, rid }) => {
   const [messages, setMessages] = useState([]);
+  const isAuth = cookies.rc_token && cookies.rc_uid;
+  const rcURL = new URL(host);
+  const useSsl = !/http:\/\//.test(host);
 
   useEffect(() => {
     const runRealtime = async (token, rid) => {
@@ -42,7 +45,7 @@ const InAppChat = ({ closeChat, cookies, rid }) => {
     };
     async function getData() {
       try {
-        const data = await getMessages(rid, cookies);
+        const data = await getMessages(host, rid, cookies);
         setMessages(data.messages);
       } catch (err) {
         console.log(err.message);
@@ -56,7 +59,7 @@ const InAppChat = ({ closeChat, cookies, rid }) => {
     if (message.trim() === "") {
       return;
     }
-    const msg = await sendMessage(rid, message, cookies);
+    const msg = await sendMessage(host, rid, message, cookies);
     setMessages([...messages, msg.message]);
   };
 
@@ -67,7 +70,7 @@ const InAppChat = ({ closeChat, cookies, rid }) => {
       </div>
       <div className={styles.chatbox}>
         <Box>
-          {cookies.rc_token && cookies.rc_uid ? (
+          {isAuth ? (
             messagesSortedByDate(messages)?.map((m) => (
               <Message className="customclass" clickable key={m._id}>
                 <MessageContainer>
@@ -94,7 +97,7 @@ const InAppChat = ({ closeChat, cookies, rid }) => {
           ) : (
             <p>
               Please login into{" "}
-              <a href="https://open.rocket.chat" target="_blank">
+              <a href={host} target="_blank">
                 RocketChat
               </a>{" "}
               to chat!
diff --git a/app/components/inappchat/lib/api.js b/app/components/inappchat/lib/api.js
index 4cc433b7..42a6f3c3 100644
--- a/app/components/inappchat/lib/api.js
+++ b/app/components/inappchat/lib/api.js
@@ -1,9 +1,7 @@
-import { rcURL } from "../helpers";
-
-export const getMessages = async (rid, cookies) => {
+export const getMessages = async (host, rid, cookies) => {
   try {
     const messages = await fetch(
-      `${rcURL.origin}/api/v1/channels.messages?roomId=${rid}`,
+      `${host}/api/v1/channels.messages?roomId=${rid}`,
       {
         headers: {
           "Content-Type": "application/json",
@@ -20,9 +18,9 @@ export const getMessages = async (rid, cookies) => {
   }
 };
 
-export const sendMessage = async (rid, message, cookies) => {
+export const sendMessage = async (host, rid, message, cookies) => {
   try {
-    const msg = await fetch(`${rcURL.origin}/api/v1/chat.sendMessage`, {
+    const msg = await fetch(`${host}/api/v1/chat.sendMessage`, {
       body: `{"message": { "rid": "${rid}", "msg": "${message}" }}`,
       headers: {
         "Content-Type": "application/json",
diff --git a/app/pages/virtualconf/greenroom/index.js b/app/pages/virtualconf/greenroom/index.js
index bc13470e..2ca52c65 100644
--- a/app/pages/virtualconf/greenroom/index.js
+++ b/app/pages/virtualconf/greenroom/index.js
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ const Greenroom = ({ cookies }) => {
 				<div className={styles.container}>
 				</div>
 				{openChat ? (
-          			<InAppChat closeChat={handleOpenChat} cookies={cookies} rid={greenroom_rid} />
+          			<InAppChat host="http://localhost:3000" closeChat={handleOpenChat} cookies={cookies} rid={greenroom_rid} />
         			) : (
           			<Button style={{ float: 'right' }} onClick={handleOpenChat}>Open Chat</Button>
         		)}
diff --git a/app/pages/virtualconf/mainstage/[id].js b/app/pages/virtualconf/mainstage/[id].js
index 88e0f5c9..ace57767 100644
--- a/app/pages/virtualconf/mainstage/[id].js
+++ b/app/pages/virtualconf/mainstage/[id].js
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ export default function ConfMainStage({ cookies }) {
             
         </Container>
         {openChat ? (
-          <InAppChat closeChat={handleOpenChat} cookies={cookies} rid={rid} />
+          <InAppChat host="http://localhost:3000" closeChat={handleOpenChat} cookies={cookies} rid={rid} />
         ) : (
           <Button onClick={handleOpenChat}>Open Chat</Button>
         )}