This is described in Github issue #58.
Until now, we had the variable, but if you redefined it, you'd run
into multiple problems:
- we actually always mounted some "storage" directory to the Synapse
container. So if your media store is not there, you're out of luck
- homeserver.yaml always hardcoded the path to the media store,
as a directory called "media-store" inside the storage directory.
Relocating to outside the storage directory was out of the question.
Moreover, even if you had simply renamed the media store directory
(e.g. "media-store" -> "media_store"), it would have also caused trouble.
With this patch, we mount the media store's parent to the Synapse container.
This way, we don't care where the media store is (inside storage or
not). We also don't assume (anymore) that the final part of the path
is called "media-store" -- anything can be used.
The "storage" directory and variable (`matrix_synapse_storage_path`)
still remain for compatibility purposes. People who were previously
overriding `matrix_synapse_storage_path` can continue doing so
and their media store will be at the same place.
The playbook no longer explicitly creates the `matrix_synapse_storage_path` directory
though. It's not necessary. If the media store is specified to be within it, it will
get created when the media store directory is created by the playbook.
Previously, it was more necessary to have it
(because we had a dependency between matrix-synapse and matrix-nginx-proxy)..
But nowadays, it can be removed without negative side effects.
Restarting matrix-nginx-proxy is especially bad when the proxy is not installed at all.
Relay hostnames that have MX records are looked up by postfix
and the MX record's payload is used instead.
This special behavior may be undesirable, so we make sure to
point it out.
mxisd supports several identity stores. Add support to configure two of them:
* synapseSql (storing identities directly in Synapse's database)
* LDAP
This removed the need to copy `mxisd.yaml.j2` to the inventory in case one wants
to use LDAP as identity store. Note that the previous solution (copying
`mxisd.yaml.j2` was poor because of two reasons:
* The copy remains outdated in case the original is updated in future versions
of this repo.
* The role's configuration should be in one place (configured only through role
variables) instead of in multiple.
Configuring more identity stores through role variables can be supported in the
future.
This is provoked by Github issue #46.
No client had made use of the well-known mechanism
so far, so the set up performed by this playbook was not tested
and turned out to be a little deficient.
Even though /.well-known/matrix/client is usually requested with a
simple request (no preflight), it's still considered cross-origin
and [CORS](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/CORS)
applies. Thus, the file always needs to be served with the appropriate
`Access-Control-Allow-Origin` header.
Github issue #46 attempts to fix it at the "reverse-proxying" layer,
which may work, but would need to be done for every server.
It's better if it's done "upstream", so that all reverse-proxy
configurations can benefit.
We've had some people get confused into installing
Matrix Corporal and having pain with that.
With this documentation change, we try to make it clearer
that it's an advanced feature not to be touched unless
you know what you're doing.
On a similar note, we also make sure other things are properly
labeled as "(optional)" and/or "(advanced)".
Trying to:
- stay closer to naming in Synapse (autojoin -> auto_join)
- not create new variable namespaces (`matrix_homeserver_`),
when existing ones (`matrix_synapse_`) are more suitable
- allow `null` (`~`) values for `matrix_riot_web_welcome_user_id`
- render things like `auto_join_rooms` in `homeserver.yaml` more prettily
- fix breakage in `config.json` where `matrix_riot_web_roomdir_servers`
was rendered as YAML and not as JSON
- simplify code (especially in riot-web's `config.json`), which used
`if` statements that could have been omitted
- avoid changing comments in `homeserver.yaml` which are not ours,
so that we can keep closer to the configuration file generated by upstream
