268 commits

Author	SHA1	Message	Date
Neil Johnson	16aeb41547	Update README.rst ... update docker hub url	2018-03-28 16:47:56 +01:00
Jeremy Cline	4102468da9	Note that Synapse is available in Fedora ... Signed-off-by: Jeremy Cline <jeremy@jcline.org>	2018-01-16 16:14:02 -05:00
Richard van der Hoff	5b527d7ee1	Merge pull request #2674 from her001/readme-sytest ... Mention SyTest in the README, after Development	2018-01-16 13:18:17 +00:00
Vincent Breitmoser	9419bb5776	mention federation tester more prominently in the readme	2017-12-16 22:09:53 +02:00
Andrew Conrad	053ecae4db	Mention SyTest in the README, after Development ... Signed-off-by: Andrew Conrad <aconrad103@gmail.com>	2017-11-14 15:11:35 -06:00
Matthew Hodgson	92f680889d	spell out need for libxml2 for lxml to work	2017-10-27 00:02:29 +01:00
Max Dor	e591f7b3f0	Include review feedback	2017-09-25 16:42:26 +02:00
Max Dor	7141f1a5cc	Clarify recommended network setup	2017-09-25 16:20:23 +02:00
Erik Johnston	7afb4e3f54	Update README	2017-07-04 10:00:52 +01:00
Matthew Hodgson	ba502fb89a	add notes on running out of FDs	2017-06-14 02:23:14 +01:00
Erik Johnston	3accee1a8c	Merge branch 'release-v0.21.0' of github.com:matrix-org/synapse	2017-05-18 13:54:27 +01:00
Erik Johnston	bb9246e525	Merge pull request #2131 from matthewjwolff/develop ... web_client_location documentation fix	2017-04-27 15:46:40 +01:00
Matthew Hodgson	94f36b0273	document how to make IPv6 work (#2088) ... * document how to make IPv6 work * spell out that pip will install 17.1 by default	2017-04-25 18:37:12 +01:00
Bruno Bigras	51fb884c52	Fix the system requirements list in README.rst	2017-04-19 17:32:00 -04:00
Matthew Hodgson	c02b6a37d6	Merge pull request #2132 from feld/patch-1 ... Update README.rst	2017-04-17 16:18:34 +01:00
Mark Felder	814fb032eb	Update README.rst ... The FreeBSD port has been moved to the net-im category	2017-04-17 08:26:50 -05:00
Matthew Wolff	8e780b113d	web_server_root documentation fix ... Signed-off-by: Matthew Wolff <matthewjwolff@gmail.com>	2017-04-17 00:49:11 -05:00
Erik Johnston	ec039e6790	Merge pull request #1984 from RyanBreaker/patch-1 ... Add missing package to CentOS section	2017-03-31 14:39:32 +01:00
Richard van der Hoff	276af7b59b	Merge pull request #2037 from ricco386/fix_readme_centos_issues ... Fix installation issues	2017-03-29 08:52:39 +02:00
Richard van der Hoff	59358cd3e7	Merge pull request #2005 from kfatehi/docs/readme ... Update README: specify python2.7 in virtualenv	2017-03-23 09:32:10 +00:00
Richard Kellner	8d1dd7eb30	Removed requirement that is not needed ... I have removed libsodium from CentOS system requirements, as it is part PyNaCl. Signed-off-by: Richard Kellner <richard.kellner@gmail.com>	2017-03-22 22:49:32 +01:00
Richard Kellner	a188056364	Updated user creation section ... register_new_matrix_user command has one more question, I have updated the documentation to match the reality.	2017-03-20 19:58:24 +01:00
Richard Kellner	961e242aaf	Added missing system requiremnt and pip upgrade before install ... When installing on CentOS7 I wans't able to follow README instructions to install due to errors. I was missing libsodium in order to compile python dependencies. Default version of Python pip is really old and therefore setuptools upgrade ended with error as well. In order to be able to continue I needed to upgrade pip as well.	2017-03-20 19:57:28 +01:00
Erik Johnston	e0e214556a	Merge branch 'release-v0.19.3' of github.com:matrix-org/synapse	2017-03-20 17:25:41 +00:00
Stefan Majewsky	be20243549	README.md: fix link to client list on matrix.org/docs	2017-03-18 17:16:12 +01:00
Keyvan Fatehi	9adf1991ca	Update README: specify python2.7 in virtualenv ... Signed-off-by: Keyvan Fatehi <keyvanfatehi@gmail.com>	2017-03-16 16:37:14 -07:00
Ryan Breaker	a175963ba5	Add --upgrade pip ... Needed before `pip instal --upgrade setuptools` for CentOS 7 and also doesn't hurt for any other distro.	2017-03-13 14:05:31 -05:00
Ryan Breaker	53254551f0	Add missing package to CentOS section ... Also added Fedora 25 to header as the same packages work for it as well.	2017-03-10 22:09:22 -06:00
Sean Enck	c80439a320	the aur package is no longer there, community package in arch does exist	2017-02-27 10:06:15 -05:00
Richard van der Hoff	6f5e41e420	README.rst: fix formatting ... Fix formatting blooper introduced in https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/pull/1672 :/	2017-01-13 12:52:11 +00:00
Johannes Löthberg	1859af9b2a	Update README to use bind_addresses ... Signed-off-by: Johannes Löthberg <johannes@kyriasis.com>	2016-12-18 22:01:34 +01:00
manuroe	8bb8cc993a	Update prerequisites instructions on Mac OS	2016-12-15 15:30:59 +01:00
Richard van der Hoff	9240948346	Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into develop	2016-12-12 11:46:46 +00:00
Richard van der Hoff	1233d244ff	fix pythonpath	2016-12-09 17:52:51 +00:00
Richard van der Hoff	2fda8134f1	Update the readme to use trial	2016-12-09 17:15:38 +00:00
Richard van der Hoff	4a9c38bfa3	Fix broken README merge ... When 546ec1a was merged into develop, I accidentally overwrote the change introduced in debbea5 (pr #1657). Reintroduce it.	2016-12-09 16:05:12 +00:00
William Leuschner	59bc64328f	Fix incorrect numbering on OpenBSD instructions caused by my own incompetence ... Signed-off-by: William Leuschner <wel2138@rit.edu>	2016-12-06 11:31:17 -05:00
William Leuschner	39a76b9cba	Update incorrect information in README about ksh and source ... Signed-off-by: William Leuschner <wel2138@rit.edu>	2016-12-06 11:09:31 -05:00
William Leuschner	12aefb9dfc	Add README instructions for OpenBSD installation ... Signed-off-by: William Leuschner <wel2138@rit.edu>	2016-12-05 14:16:39 -05:00
Richard van der Hoff	a2849a18a5	README: fix link	2016-12-03 13:18:27 +00:00
Richard van der Hoff	9df84dd22d	README: review comments ... Minor updates post-review	2016-12-02 17:17:15 +00:00
Richard van der Hoff	3f23154088	README: rewrite federation section	2016-12-02 12:02:33 +00:00
Richard van der Hoff	f6270a8fe2	README: add reverse-proxying section	2016-12-02 12:02:33 +00:00
Richard van der Hoff	235407a78e	README: Rewrite "Identity servers" section	2016-12-02 12:02:33 +00:00
Richard van der Hoff	77bf92e3c6	README: rewrite installation instructions	2016-12-02 12:02:33 +00:00
Richard van der Hoff	bb3d0c270d	README: remove refs to demo client ... The demo client isn't really fit for purpose, so stop encouraging people to use it.	2016-12-02 11:54:59 +00:00
Richard van der Hoff	f8c45d428c	README: code quotes ... Add some syntax highlighting	2016-12-02 11:47:55 +00:00
Richard van der Hoff	153535fc56	README: "About matrix" updates ... - remove redundant "where's the spec" section: this would belong in "About matrix", but it's already there. - E2E is in beta rather than dev	2016-12-02 11:46:00 +00:00
Richard van der Hoff	a8d8225ead	README: Fix links ... Fix a couple of broken links	2016-12-02 11:43:10 +00:00
Richard van der Hoff	cc03f4c58b	Rearrange the README ... Move some bits of the README around. No words were changed in the making of this commit.	2016-12-02 11:42:59 +00:00
Richard van der Hoff	971edd04af	rename CAPTCHA_SETUP ... this is rst so name it accordingly	2016-12-01 12:08:03 +00:00
Erik Johnston	1b91ff685f	Merge pull request #1053 from Takios/develop ... Add prerequisites to install on openSUSE to README	2016-08-31 16:00:02 +01:00
Matthew Hodgson	928d337c16	Remove FUD over psql	2016-08-30 15:33:13 +01:00
Fabian Niepelt	b3be9e4376	Add prerequisites to install on openSUSE to README ... Signed-off-by: Fabian Niepelt <fniepelt@takios.de>	2016-08-30 15:03:03 +02:00
Matthew Hodgson	5acbe09b67	warn people to avoid running a HS media repository on the same domain as another webapp	2016-08-27 00:20:39 +01:00
Matthew Hodgson	d77ef276fa	increase RAM reqs	2016-08-19 18:55:25 +01:00
Erik Johnston	d330d45e2d	Merge branch 'release-v0.17.0' of github.com:matrix-org/synapse	2016-08-08 13:38:13 +01:00
evelynmitchell	e8d212d92e	3PID defined on first mention	2016-07-27 12:20:46 -06:00
Matthew Hodgson	1a54513cf1	federation doesn't work over ipv6 yet thanks to twisted	2016-07-26 10:09:37 +02:00
Erik Johnston	ba0406d10d	Merge branch 'release-v0.16.0' of github.com:matrix-org/synapse	2016-06-09 14:21:23 +01:00
Jimmy Cuadra	8b5dbee47e	Alter phrasing to clarify where info is stored. ... A user on #matrix:matrix.org was confused by the phrasing of the first sentence in the paragraph and couldn't tell whether it was saying that the homeserver stored the data or the clients did. This change splits it into two sentences to make the subject of each sentence clear.	2016-05-29 02:31:56 -07:00
David	1b45e6a9bc	Fix Typo in README.rst s/Halp/Help/	2016-05-06 02:07:59 +08:00
Matthew Hodgson	b04f81284a	Add more doc	2016-04-08 18:55:27 +01:00
Matthew Hodgson	ec9331f851	Add doc	2016-04-08 18:54:18 +01:00
Matthew Hodgson	7178ab7da0	spell out more packages	2016-03-30 17:29:22 +01:00
Richard van der Hoff	660ae8e0f3	Clarify that we do have reset functionality via the IS	2016-03-16 10:40:38 +00:00
Richard van der Hoff	a877209c8b	Password reset docs and script ... Replace the bash/perl gen_password script with a python one, and write a note on how to use it.	2016-03-16 09:45:37 +00:00
Erik Johnston	dda2058d90	Add SYNAPSE_CACHE_FACTOR to README	2016-03-02 14:03:10 +00:00
Florent VIOLLEAU	97b364cb25	Update documentation ... Signed-off-by: Florent VIOLLEAU <floviolleau@gmail.com>	2016-01-27 14:11:05 +01:00
Richard van der Hoff	430d3d74f6	Merge branch 'release-v0.12.1' into develop	2016-01-14 11:17:47 +00:00
Kubilay Kocak	a8cd1eb996	Add FreeBSD install section & instructions ... Add FreeBSD installation instructions for both Ports and Packages now that matrix-synapse has landed [1] in the tree. [1] https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/405527	2016-01-09 04:36:22 +11:00
Erik Johnston	8ce5679813	Update readme to reflect change in signing key name	2016-01-06 11:19:51 +00:00
Mark Haines	f35f8d06ea	Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/release-v0.12.0'	2016-01-04 14:02:50 +00:00
Oddvar Lovaas	d3ac8fd87d	Added info abou Martin Giess' auto-deployment process with vagrant/ansible	2015-12-14 15:27:27 +00:00
Mark Haines	5a3e4e43d8	SYN-90: We don't need --proccess-dependency-links ... When installing synapse since all its dependencies are on PyPI	2015-12-11 14:39:46 +00:00
Erik Johnston	03b2a6a8aa	Merge pull request #409 from MadsRC/develop ... Develop	2015-12-02 10:08:18 +00:00
Mads R. Christensen	3d5c5e8be5	Added a few lines to better explain how to run Synapse on a FQDN that is not part of the UserID	2015-12-02 00:35:45 +01:00
Matthew Hodgson	65a9bf2dd5	various fixes - thanks to Mark White for pointing out you need to run synapse before you try to register a new user	2015-12-01 23:05:12 +00:00
Mads R. Christensen	98ee629d00	Added --report-status=yes|no as Synapse won't generate the config without it	2015-12-01 20:20:53 +01:00
Mads R. Christensen	c533f69d38	Added libffi-devel in CentOS 7 installation requirements and fixed indentation of yum groupinstall. Signed-off-by: Mads Robin Christensen <mads@v42.dk>	2015-12-01 20:00:41 +01:00
Mads R. Christensen	d7739c4e37	Added prerequisite instructions for CentOS 7 ... Signed-off-by: Mads Robin Christensen <mads@v42.dk>	2015-11-20 22:37:23 +01:00
Oddvar Lovaas	2fcd9819ac	Erik pointed out we should advise on the lack of included client	2015-11-18 16:51:26 +00:00
Oddvar Lovaas	8bae98b314	adding link to apt repo	2015-11-18 11:44:35 +00:00
Matthew Hodgson	0da4b11efb	remove references to matrix.org/beta	2015-11-06 11:00:06 +01:00
Mark Haines	3ead04ceef	Add instructions for upgrading setuptools for when people encounter a message "mock requires setuptools>=17.1"	2015-09-07 14:57:00 +01:00
Erik Johnston	aaf319820a	Update README to include RAM requirements	2015-09-02 17:16:39 +01:00
Mark Haines	d5c31e01f2	Merge pull request #237 from matrix-org/markjh/readme-rst-formatting ... Clean up some of restructured text formatting in the README.rst	2015-08-20 16:08:17 +01:00
Mark Haines	8a951540f6	Further formatting clean ups	2015-08-20 15:22:26 +01:00
Mark Haines	482648123f	Clean up some of restructured text formatting in the README.rst	2015-08-20 15:20:07 +01:00
Mark Haines	bb9611bd46	Add generic update instructions to UPGRADE.rst and add link to them from the README.rst	2015-08-20 15:08:18 +01:00
Matthew Hodgson	c772dffc9f	improve OS X instructions and remove all the leading $'s to make it easier to c+p commands	2015-07-29 09:39:55 +01:00
Matthew Hodgson	11374a77ef	clarify readme a bit more	2015-06-27 16:59:47 +02:00
David Baker	47fb089eb5	Specify python 2.7 in the virtualenv setup (SYN-319) #resolved	2015-05-14 10:23:10 +01:00
Mark Haines	4ad8350607	Update README.rst	2015-04-30 17:48:29 +01:00
Mark Haines	c95480963e	read the pid_file from the config file in synctl	2015-04-30 17:12:15 +01:00
Mark Haines	069296dbb0	Can't specify bind-port on the cmdline anymore	2015-04-30 17:08:07 +01:00
Matthew Hodgson	e3005d3ddb	mention silviof's dockerfile	2015-04-29 00:14:29 +01:00
Matthew Hodgson	cc5d68f4c4	general clean up. s/alpha/beta/g. add intelfx's AUR package for Arch. s/the homeserver/Synapse/g. move installation & running sections closer together.	2015-04-29 00:00:24 +01:00
David Baker	f46eee838a	Add note about updating your signing keys (ie. "the auto thing")	2015-04-24 15:25:28 +01:00
David Baker	a654f3fe49	Matrix ID server is now HTTPS	2015-04-24 15:07:24 +01:00
David Baker	44ccfa6258	Remove ancient history	2015-04-24 15:05:56 +01:00
David Baker	04d1725752	Pedant: OS X has a space	2015-04-24 15:01:14 +01:00
Matthew Hodgson	7f911ef4e3	typo	2015-04-08 10:55:12 +01:00
Matthew Hodgson	8675ea03de	actually tell users /how/ to turn on registration	2015-03-30 12:05:38 -04:00
Erik Johnston	ed4d44d833	Merge pull request #109 from matrix-org/default_registration ... Disable registration by default. Add script to register new users.	2015-03-18 11:38:52 +00:00
Matthew Hodgson	b677ff6692	add ToC and fix typoe	2015-03-14 00:22:41 +00:00
Erik Johnston	a1abee013c	Add note about disabling registration by default	2015-03-13 17:06:21 +00:00
brabo	596daf6e68	added "cd ~/.synapse" before setup of the homeserver to generate our files in there instead of ~	2015-02-22 18:52:59 +01:00
Matthew Hodgson	2b8903ce2f	we federate on port 8448 nowadays...	2015-02-14 00:16:33 +00:00
Matthew Hodgson	0c0ae2e886	clean up TurnedToDust's ArchLinux notes a bit	2015-02-07 20:24:46 +00:00
TurnedToDust	03c25ebeae	Update to README.rst ... Added Documentation regarding ArchLinux	2015-02-06 22:28:21 -07:00
Matthew Hodgson	f3a4267757	less obscure xargs	2015-02-02 17:31:58 +00:00
Matthew Hodgson	8c52e6e8a1	fix typo	2015-02-02 17:12:23 +00:00
Matthew Hodgson	e9dfc4cfae	fix OSX stuff and typos	2015-01-31 06:09:59 +01:00
David Baker	68bd7dfbb7	s/homeserver.config/homeserver.yaml/ because that's what synctl looks for.	2015-01-30 17:37:37 +00:00
David Baker	166c2cd4f3	add generate config instruction to the HS setup part	2015-01-30 17:11:29 +00:00
Mark Haines	33cf48118f	Tell people to "source" the activate script for virtualenv, Remove --user from pip install	2015-01-30 17:00:32 +00:00
Mark Haines	e709d61964	Update documentation to recommend virtual env	2015-01-30 16:56:53 +00:00
Matthew Hodgson	bfb198a6eb	don't clobber pythonpath	2015-01-09 18:14:05 +00:00
Matthew Hodgson	28db5dde4c	oops	2015-01-08 20:38:55 +00:00
Matthew Hodgson	80e89772e2	spell out that local libs may need to be explicitly given priority	2015-01-08 20:37:08 +00:00
Matthew Hodgson	0e93e01fcb	spell out that VoIP needs TURN	2014-12-24 19:45:28 +00:00
Matthew Hodgson	d90e586c85	spell out that upgrading is just installing over the top	2014-12-24 16:56:20 +00:00
Kegsay	20923ffd43	Update README.rst ... Add gotcha: The content repository requires additional cygwin packages.	2014-12-18 14:44:48 +00:00
Kegsay	f8cc8a66b4	Update README.rst ... Add windows (cygwin) install instructions.	2014-12-18 14:16:31 +00:00
Matthew Hodgson	293e89e2da	re-add OSX troubleshooting instructions (not sure how they got lost)	2014-12-02 18:01:16 +00:00
Tjardick van der Kraan	f9846a27b6	Added the needed libssl-dev package	2014-12-02 11:22:00 +01:00
Matthew Hodgson	d45325b6d7	upgrade script depends on sqlite3 cli	2014-11-26 00:59:01 +00:00
Matthew Hodgson	84b1c9d8c2	rst bugs	2014-11-24 01:41:05 +00:00
Matthew Hodgson	a7f470d1d9	more README fixes	2014-11-18 11:23:17 -08:00
Matthew Hodgson	c571dd4f0e	warn about memory	2014-11-17 11:44:53 -08:00
Matthew Hodgson	94ed41f236	update the README.rst to reflect the develop branch	2014-11-17 11:42:27 -08:00
Matthew Hodgson	b57e9f58fd	yet another installation gotcha	2014-11-17 11:11:35 -08:00
Matthew Hodgson	b80d1925ff	clarify install instructions further still	2014-11-17 10:52:12 -08:00
Matthew Hodgson	c2609b239f	suggest ~/.synapse	2014-11-13 11:59:33 +02:00
Matthew Hodgson	ca386a4b25	various fixes based on truphone feedback	2014-11-12 17:26:50 +02:00
Matthew Hodgson	64bc36304f	typo	2014-11-12 00:18:25 +02:00
Mark Haines	402d080990	Fix installation instructions in README	2014-11-04 15:08:13 +00:00
David Baker	d694619a95	Fix ncorrect ports in documentation and add notes on how generate-config also generates certs bound to whatever hostname you give with --generate-config. ... SYN-87 #resolved	2014-10-02 14:09:27 +01:00
Mark Haines	45f7677bdc	Trivial formatting fixes for README.	2014-10-02 11:00:21 +01:00
David Baker	7a322b6326	Update README setup instructions to be correct. Make synapse spit out explanatory note when generating config to tell people to look at it and customise it.	2014-10-02 10:43:22 +01:00
Kegan Dougal	fba67ef951	Small formatting fixes	2014-09-19 14:19:02 +01:00
Matthew Hodgson	3b38d2f507	big warning	2014-09-04 02:35:18 +01:00
Matthew Hodgson	822d0e5520	update README to know about synctl	2014-09-04 01:51:01 +01:00
Matthew Hodgson	7819a1010c	general documentation review and editing	2014-09-02 21:15:03 +01:00
Matthew Hodgson	3bffd14b02	fix quickstart slightly	2014-09-02 21:15:03 +01:00
David Baker	772c117e68	Make the intro bit a separate section rather than have a 'quick start' section that only tells you how to get started half way through.	2014-09-02 10:05:26 +01:00
Mark Haines	86fa1138be	Update readme with instructions on how to generate configs for homeservers	2014-09-01 20:22:16 +01:00
Matthew Hodgson	45e70a6b70	point out the non-quick-start guide	2014-08-23 00:50:49 +01:00
Erik Johnston	9521e6758f	Move the 'Upgrade' section to just below the 'Installation' section	2014-08-22 15:23:02 +01:00