Matrix seemed interesting right until I got to self hosting it. Then, getting to know it from up close, and the absolute trainwreck that the protocol is, made me love XMPP. Matrix has no excuse for being so messy and fragile at this point. You do you, but I decided that it isnât worth my sysadmin time (especially when something like ejabberd is practically fire and forget).
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cecilkorik@lemmy.ca â¨3⊠â¨months⊠ago
Matrix and its implementations like Synapse have a very intimidating architecture (Iâd go as far as to call most of the implementations somewhat overengineered) and the documentation ranges from inconsistent to horrific. I ran into this particular situation myself, Fortunately this particular step youâre overthinking it. You can use any random string you want. It doesnât even have to be random, just as long as what you put in the config file matches. Itâs basically just a temporary admin password.
Matrix was by far the worst thing Iâve ever tried to self-host. Itâs a hot mess. Good luck, I think youâre close to the finish line.
u_tamtam@programming.dev â¨3⊠â¨months⊠ago
Flax_vert@feddit.uk â¨3⊠â¨months⊠ago
I still have to sort out having a different server name to the access name so I can use the domain as well. Do I just put a field into the config like the rest? Can it go anywhere?
Flax_vert@feddit.uk â¨3⊠â¨months⊠ago
Ok now itâs asking me to serve a â.well_knownâ file like⌠How?
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de â¨3⊠â¨months⊠ago
funnily thereâs an⌠ansible i think? project that makes selfhosting synapse easy as fuck, you basically just go âansible deploy synapseâ or whatever the syntax is and it does almost everything for you.