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- [Installing Synapse](#installing-synapse)
- [Installing from source](#installing-from-source)
- [Platform-Specific Instructions](#platform-specific-instructions)
- [Troubleshooting Installation](#troubleshooting-installation)
- [Prebuilt packages](#prebuilt-packages)
- [Setting up Synapse](#setting-up-synapse)
- [TLS certificates](#tls-certificates)
@ -10,6 +9,7 @@
- [Registering a user](#registering-a-user)
- [Setting up a TURN server](#setting-up-a-turn-server)
- [URL previews](#url-previews)
- [Troubleshooting Installation](#troubleshooting-installation)
# Choosing your server name
@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ pip install -U matrix-synapse
```
Before you can start Synapse, you will need to generate a configuration
file. To do this, run (in your virtualenv, as before)::
file. To do this, run (in your virtualenv, as before):
```
cd ~/synapse
@ -84,22 +84,24 @@ python -m synapse.app.homeserver \
... substituting an appropriate value for `--server-name`.
This command will generate you a config file that you can then customise, but it will
also generate a set of keys for you. These keys will allow your Home Server to
identify itself to other Home Servers, so don't lose or delete them. It would be
also generate a set of keys for you. These keys will allow your homeserver to
identify itself to other homeserver, so don't lose or delete them. It would be
wise to back them up somewhere safe. (If, for whatever reason, you do need to
change your Home Server's keys, you may find that other Home Servers have the
change your homeserver's keys, you may find that other homeserver have the
old key cached. If you update the signing key, you should change the name of the
key in the `<server name>.signing.key` file (the second word) to something
different. See the
[spec](https://matrix.org/docs/spec/server_server/latest.html#retrieving-server-keys)
for more information on key management.)
for more information on key management).
To actually run your new homeserver, pick a working directory for Synapse to
run (e.g. `~/synapse`), and::
run (e.g. `~/synapse`), and:
cd ~/synapse
source env/bin/activate
synctl start
```
cd ~/synapse
source env/bin/activate
synctl start
```
### Platform-Specific Instructions
@ -188,7 +190,7 @@ doas pkg_add python libffi py-pip py-setuptools sqlite3 py-virtualenv \
There is currently no port for OpenBSD. Additionally, OpenBSD's security
settings require a slightly more difficult installation process.
XXX: I suspect this is out of date.
(XXX: I suspect this is out of date)
1. Create a new directory in `/usr/local` called `_synapse`. Also, create a
new user called `_synapse` and set that directory as the new user's home.
@ -196,7 +198,7 @@ XXX: I suspect this is out of date.
write and execute permissions on the same memory space to be run from
`/usr/local`.
2. `su` to the new `_synapse` user and change to their home directory.
3. Create a new virtualenv: `virtualenv -p python2.7 ~/.synapse`
3. Create a new virtualenv: `virtualenv -p python3 ~/.synapse`
4. Source the virtualenv configuration located at
`/usr/local/_synapse/.synapse/bin/activate`. This is done in `ksh` by
using the `.` command, rather than `bash`'s `source`.
@ -217,45 +219,6 @@ be found at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10 for
Windows 10 and https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-on-server
for Windows Server.
### Troubleshooting Installation
XXX a bunch of this is no longer relevant.
Synapse requires pip 8 or later, so if your OS provides too old a version you
may need to manually upgrade it::
sudo pip install --upgrade pip
Installing may fail with `Could not find any downloads that satisfy the requirement pymacaroons-pynacl (from matrix-synapse==0.12.0)`.
You can fix this by manually upgrading pip and virtualenv::
sudo pip install --upgrade virtualenv
You can next rerun `virtualenv -p python3 synapse` to update the virtual env.
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.`
You can fix this by manually installing ndg-httpsclient::
pip install --upgrade ndg-httpsclient
Installing may fail with `mock requires setuptools>=17.1. Aborting installation`.
You can fix this by upgrading setuptools::
pip install --upgrade setuptools
If pip crashes mid-installation for reason (e.g. lost terminal), pip may
refuse to run until you remove the temporary installation directory it
created. To reset the installation::
rm -rf /tmp/pip_install_matrix
pip seems to leak *lots* of memory during installation. For instance, a Linux
host with 512MB of RAM may run out of memory whilst installing Twisted. If this
happens, you will have to individually install the dependencies which are
failing, e.g.::
pip install twisted
## Prebuilt packages
As an alternative to installing from source, prebuilt packages are available
@ -314,7 +277,7 @@ For `buster` and `sid`, Synapse is available in the Debian repositories and
it should be possible to install it with simply:
```
sudo apt install matrix-synapse
sudo apt install matrix-synapse
```
There is also a version of `matrix-synapse` in `stretch-backports`. Please see
@ -375,8 +338,10 @@ sudo pip install py-bcrypt
Synapse can be found in the void repositories as 'synapse':
xbps-install -Su
xbps-install -S synapse
```
xbps-install -Su
xbps-install -S synapse
```
### FreeBSD
@ -420,6 +385,7 @@ so, you will need to edit `homeserver.yaml`, as follows:
resources:
- names: [client, federation]
```
* You will also need to uncomment the `tls_certificate_path` and
`tls_private_key_path` lines under the `TLS` section. You can either
point these settings at an existing certificate and key, or you can
@ -435,7 +401,7 @@ so, you will need to edit `homeserver.yaml`, as follows:
`cert.pem`).
For a more detailed guide to configuring your server for federation, see
[federate.md](docs/federate.md)
[federate.md](docs/federate.md).
## Email
@ -494,7 +460,21 @@ This is critical from a security perspective to stop arbitrary Matrix users
spidering 'internal' URLs on your network. At the very least we recommend that
your loopback and RFC1918 IP addresses are blacklisted.
This also requires the optional lxml and netaddr python dependencies to be
installed. This in turn requires the libxml2 library to be available - on
This also requires the optional `lxml` and `netaddr` python dependencies to be
installed. This in turn requires the `libxml2` library to be available - on
Debian/Ubuntu this means `apt-get install libxml2-dev`, or equivalent for
your OS.
# Troubleshooting Installation
`pip` seems to leak *lots* of memory during installation. For instance, a Linux
host with 512MB of RAM may run out of memory whilst installing Twisted. If this
happens, you will have to individually install the dependencies which are
failing, e.g.:
```
pip install twisted
```
If you have any other problems, feel free to ask in
[#synapse:matrix.org](https://matrix.to/#/#synapse:matrix.org).

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Clean up INSTALL.md a bit.