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- [Choosing your server name](#choosing-your-server-name)
- [Installing Synapse](#installing-synapse)
- [Installing from source](#installing-from-source)
- [Platform-Specific Instructions](#platform-specific-instructions)
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- [Setting up a TURN server](#setting-up-a-turn-server)
- [URL previews](#url-previews)
# Choosing your server name
It is important to choose the name for your server before you install Synapse,
because it cannot be changed later.
The server name determines the "domain" part of user-ids for users on your
server: these will all be of the format `@user:my.domain.name`. It also
determines how other matrix servers will reach yours for federation.
For a test configuration, set this to the hostname of your server. For a more
production-ready setup, you will probably want to specify your domain
(`example.com`) rather than a matrix-specific hostname here (in the same way
that your email address is probably `user@example.com` rather than
`user@email.example.com`) - but doing so may require more advanced setup: see
[Setting up Federation](docs/federate.md).
# Installing Synapse
## Installing from source
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--report-stats=[yes|no]
```
... substituting an appropriate value for `--server-name`. The server name
determines the "domain" part of user-ids for users on your server: these will
all be of the format `@user:my.domain.name`. It also determines how other
matrix servers will reach yours for Federation. For a test configuration,
set this to the hostname of your server. For a more production-ready setup, you
will probably want to specify your domain (`example.com`) rather than a
matrix-specific hostname here (in the same way that your email address is
probably `user@example.com` rather than `user@email.example.com`) - but
doing so may require more advanced setup: see [Setting up Federation](docs/federate.md).
Beware that the server name cannot be changed later.
... substituting an appropriate value for `--server-name`.
This command will generate you a config file that you can then customise, but it will
also generate a set of keys for you. These keys will allow your Home Server to
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[spec](https://matrix.org/docs/spec/server_server/latest.html#retrieving-server-keys)
for more information on key management.)
You will need to give Synapse a TLS certficate before it will start - see [TLS
certificates](#tls-certificates).
To actually run your new homeserver, pick a working directory for Synapse to
run (e.g. `~/synapse`), and::

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