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INSTALL.md
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- [Installing Synapse](#installing-synapse)
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- [Installing from source](#installing-from-source)
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- [Platform-Specific Instructions](#platform-specific-instructions)
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- [Troubleshooting Installation](#troubleshooting-installation)
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- [Prebuilt packages](#prebuilt-packages)
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- [Setting up Synapse](#setting-up-synapse)
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- [TLS certificates](#tls-certificates)
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- [Registering a user](#registering-a-user)
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- [Setting up a TURN server](#setting-up-a-turn-server)
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- [URL previews](#url-previews)
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- [Troubleshooting Installation](#troubleshooting-installation)
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# Choosing your server name
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```
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Before you can start Synapse, you will need to generate a configuration
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file. To do this, run (in your virtualenv, as before)::
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file. To do this, run (in your virtualenv, as before):
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```
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cd ~/synapse
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... substituting an appropriate value for `--server-name`.
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This command will generate you a config file that you can then customise, but it will
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also generate a set of keys for you. These keys will allow your Home Server to
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identify itself to other Home Servers, so don't lose or delete them. It would be
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also generate a set of keys for you. These keys will allow your homeserver to
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identify itself to other homeserver, so don't lose or delete them. It would be
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wise to back them up somewhere safe. (If, for whatever reason, you do need to
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change your Home Server's keys, you may find that other Home Servers have the
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change your homeserver's keys, you may find that other homeserver have the
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old key cached. If you update the signing key, you should change the name of the
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key in the `<server name>.signing.key` file (the second word) to something
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different. See the
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[spec](https://matrix.org/docs/spec/server_server/latest.html#retrieving-server-keys)
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for more information on key management.)
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for more information on key management).
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To actually run your new homeserver, pick a working directory for Synapse to
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run (e.g. `~/synapse`), and::
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run (e.g. `~/synapse`), and:
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cd ~/synapse
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source env/bin/activate
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synctl start
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```
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cd ~/synapse
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source env/bin/activate
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synctl start
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```
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### Platform-Specific Instructions
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There is currently no port for OpenBSD. Additionally, OpenBSD's security
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settings require a slightly more difficult installation process.
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XXX: I suspect this is out of date.
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(XXX: I suspect this is out of date)
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1. Create a new directory in `/usr/local` called `_synapse`. Also, create a
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new user called `_synapse` and set that directory as the new user's home.
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write and execute permissions on the same memory space to be run from
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`/usr/local`.
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2. `su` to the new `_synapse` user and change to their home directory.
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3. Create a new virtualenv: `virtualenv -p python2.7 ~/.synapse`
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3. Create a new virtualenv: `virtualenv -p python3 ~/.synapse`
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4. Source the virtualenv configuration located at
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`/usr/local/_synapse/.synapse/bin/activate`. This is done in `ksh` by
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using the `.` command, rather than `bash`'s `source`.
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Windows 10 and https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-on-server
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for Windows Server.
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### Troubleshooting Installation
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XXX a bunch of this is no longer relevant.
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Synapse requires pip 8 or later, so if your OS provides too old a version you
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may need to manually upgrade it::
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sudo pip install --upgrade pip
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Installing may fail with `Could not find any downloads that satisfy the requirement pymacaroons-pynacl (from matrix-synapse==0.12.0)`.
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You can fix this by manually upgrading pip and virtualenv::
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sudo pip install --upgrade virtualenv
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You can next rerun `virtualenv -p python3 synapse` to update the virtual env.
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Installing may fail during installing virtualenv with `InsecurePlatformWarning: A true SSLContext object is not available. This prevents urllib3 from configuring SSL appropriately and may cause certain SSL connections to fail. For more information, see https://urllib3.readthedocs.org/en/latest/security.html#insecureplatformwarning.`
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You can fix this by manually installing ndg-httpsclient::
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pip install --upgrade ndg-httpsclient
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Installing may fail with `mock requires setuptools>=17.1. Aborting installation`.
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You can fix this by upgrading setuptools::
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pip install --upgrade setuptools
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If pip crashes mid-installation for reason (e.g. lost terminal), pip may
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refuse to run until you remove the temporary installation directory it
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created. To reset the installation::
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rm -rf /tmp/pip_install_matrix
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pip seems to leak *lots* of memory during installation. For instance, a Linux
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host with 512MB of RAM may run out of memory whilst installing Twisted. If this
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happens, you will have to individually install the dependencies which are
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failing, e.g.::
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pip install twisted
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## Prebuilt packages
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As an alternative to installing from source, prebuilt packages are available
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it should be possible to install it with simply:
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```
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sudo apt install matrix-synapse
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sudo apt install matrix-synapse
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```
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There is also a version of `matrix-synapse` in `stretch-backports`. Please see
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Synapse can be found in the void repositories as 'synapse':
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xbps-install -Su
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xbps-install -S synapse
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```
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xbps-install -Su
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xbps-install -S synapse
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```
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### FreeBSD
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resources:
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- names: [client, federation]
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```
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* You will also need to uncomment the `tls_certificate_path` and
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`tls_private_key_path` lines under the `TLS` section. You can either
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point these settings at an existing certificate and key, or you can
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`cert.pem`).
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For a more detailed guide to configuring your server for federation, see
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[federate.md](docs/federate.md)
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[federate.md](docs/federate.md).
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## Email
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## Setting up a TURN server
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For reliable VoIP calls to be routed via this homeserver, you MUST configure
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a TURN server. See [docs/turn-howto.md](docs/turn-howto.md) for details.
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a TURN server. See [docs/turn-howto.md](docs/turn-howto.md) for details.
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## URL previews
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and explicitly specify the IP ranges that Synapse is not allowed to spider for
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previewing in the `url_preview_ip_range_blacklist` configuration parameter.
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This is critical from a security perspective to stop arbitrary Matrix users
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spidering 'internal' URLs on your network. At the very least we recommend that
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spidering 'internal' URLs on your network. At the very least we recommend that
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your loopback and RFC1918 IP addresses are blacklisted.
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This also requires the optional lxml and netaddr python dependencies to be
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installed. This in turn requires the libxml2 library to be available - on
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This also requires the optional `lxml` and `netaddr` python dependencies to be
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installed. This in turn requires the `libxml2` library to be available - on
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Debian/Ubuntu this means `apt-get install libxml2-dev`, or equivalent for
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your OS.
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# Troubleshooting Installation
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`pip` seems to leak *lots* of memory during installation. For instance, a Linux
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host with 512MB of RAM may run out of memory whilst installing Twisted. If this
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happens, you will have to individually install the dependencies which are
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failing, e.g.:
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```
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pip install twisted
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```
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If you have any other problems, feel free to ask in
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[#synapse:matrix.org](https://matrix.to/#/#synapse:matrix.org).
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