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SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Aaron Raimist
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SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 MDAD project contributors
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SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 Pierre 'McFly' Marty
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SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 Suguru Hirahara
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SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later
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# Setting up Hydrogen (optional)
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The playbook can install and configure the [Hydrogen](https://github.com/element-hq/hydrogen-web) Matrix web client for you.
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Hydrogen is a lightweight web client that supports mobile and legacy web browsers. It can be installed alongside or instead of Element Web.
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## Adjusting DNS records
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By default, this playbook installs Hydrogen on the `hydrogen.` subdomain (`hydrogen.example.com`) and requires you to create a CNAME record for `hydrogen`, which targets `matrix.example.com`.
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When setting, replace `example.com` with your own.
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## Adjusting the playbook configuration
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To enable Hydrogen, add the following configuration to your `inventory/host_vars/matrix.example.com/vars.yml` file:
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```yaml
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matrix_client_hydrogen_enabled: true
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```
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### Adjusting the Hydrogen URL (optional)
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By tweaking the `matrix_client_hydrogen_hostname` and `matrix_client_hydrogen_path_prefix` variables, you can easily make the service available at a **different hostname and/or path** than the default one.
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Example additional configuration for your `vars.yml` file:
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```yaml
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# Switch to the domain used for Matrix services (`matrix.example.com`),
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# so we won't need to add additional DNS records for Hydrogen.
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matrix_client_hydrogen_hostname: "{{ matrix_server_fqn_matrix }}"
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# Expose under the /hydrogen subpath
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matrix_client_hydrogen_path_prefix: /hydrogen
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```
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After changing the domain, **you may need to adjust your DNS** records to point the Hydrogen domain to the Matrix server.
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If you've decided to reuse the `matrix.` domain, you won't need to do any extra DNS configuration.
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### Extending the configuration
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There are some additional things you may wish to configure about the client.
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Take a look at:
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- `roles/custom/matrix-client-hydrogen/defaults/main.yml` for some variables that you can customize via your `vars.yml` file
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- `roles/custom/matrix-client-hydrogen/templates/config.json.j2` for the client's default configuration. You can override settings (even those that don't have dedicated playbook variables) using the `matrix_client_hydrogen_configuration_extension_json` variable
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## Installing
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After configuring the playbook and potentially [adjusting your DNS records](#adjusting-dns-records), run the playbook with [playbook tags](playbook-tags.md) as below:
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```sh
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ansible-playbook -i inventory/hosts setup.yml --tags=setup-all,start
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```
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The shortcut commands with the [`just` program](just.md) are also available: `just install-all` or `just setup-all`
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`just install-all` is useful for maintaining your setup quickly ([2x-5x faster](../CHANGELOG.md#2x-5x-performance-improvements-in-playbook-runtime) than `just setup-all`) when its components remain unchanged. If you adjust your `vars.yml` to remove other components, you'd need to run `just setup-all`, or these components will still remain installed. Note these shortcuts run the `ensure-matrix-users-created` tag too.
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## Troubleshooting
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As with all other services, you can find the logs in [systemd-journald](https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-journald.service.html) by logging in to the server with SSH and running `journalctl -fu matrix-client-hydrogen`.
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