Matrix & Riot.im

Self hosted federated chat system

mkdir synapse
cd synapse
virtualenv -p python3 ./env
source ./env/bin/activate
pip install --upgrade pip
pip install --upgrade setuptools
pip install matrix-synapse
python -m synapse.app.homeserver --server-name chat.kalenpw.com --config-path homeserver.yaml --generate-config --report-stats=no

Edit homeserver.yaml:194

    - port: 8008
      tls: false
      type: http
      x_forwarded: true
      bind_addresses: ['127.0.0.1']
  
      resources:
        - names: [client, federation]
          compress: false

Whatever address is used for bind_addresses will need to match nginx config

server {
    listen 80;
	listen [::]:80;
    server_name chat.kalenpw.com;
    return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
}
 
server {
    listen 443 ssl;
    listen [::]:443 ssl;
    server_name chat.kalenpw.com;
 
    ssl on;
    ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/chat.kalenpw.com/fullchain.pem;
    ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/chat.kalenpw.com/privkey.pem;
 
    location / {
        proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8008;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $remote_addr;
    }
}
 
server {
    listen 8448 ssl default_server;
    listen [::]:8448 ssl default_server;
    server_name chat.kalenpw.com;
 
    ssl on;
    ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/chat.kalenpw.com/fullchain.pem;
    ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/chat.kalenpw.com/privkey.pem;
    location / {
        proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8008;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $remote_addr;
    }
}

sudo apt install libpq-dev
pip install matrix-synapse[postgres]
sudo apt install postgresql
sudo su - postgres
createuser --pwprompt synapse_user
psql

CREATE DATABASE synapse
 ENCODING 'UTF8'
 LC_COLLATE='C'
 LC_CTYPE='C'
 template=template0
 OWNER synapse_user;

homeserver.yaml

  database: 
      name: psycopg2 
      args: 
          user: synapse_user 
          password: DBPass 
          database: synapse 
          host: localhost 
          cp_min: 5 
          cp_max: 10 

register_new_matrix_user -c ~/synapse/homeserver.yaml http://127.0.0.1:8008