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Suguru Hirahara
194a3ca461
Add "Quick start" guide (#3801)
* Add docs/quick-start.md

Signed-off-by: Suguru Hirahara <acioustick@noreply.codeberg.org>

* Add description about keeping the playbook and services up-to-date

Also: move descriptions about difference between the playbook tags (setup-all and install-all) and about the just "recipe" from installing.md to maintenance-upgrading-services.md

Signed-off-by: Suguru Hirahara <acioustick@noreply.codeberg.org>

* Replace <your-username> with YOUR_USERNAME_HERE

This is a common expression and should avoid misunderstanding that `<` and `>` would need to be included

Signed-off-by: Suguru Hirahara <acioustick@noreply.codeberg.org>

* Replace <your-password> with YOUR_PASSWORD_HERE

Signed-off-by: Suguru Hirahara <acioustick@noreply.codeberg.org>

* Change the link to 'Quick start' on the breadcrumbs from README.md to quick-start.md

Signed-off-by: Suguru Hirahara <acioustick@noreply.codeberg.org>

* Add a link to quick-start.md on the "Getting started" section

Since I am not quite sure whether the link to prerequisites.md should be replaced in favor of this link, this commit leaves it as it is for now.

Signed-off-by: Suguru Hirahara <acioustick@noreply.codeberg.org>

* Add a link to quick-start.md on docs/README.md

Since I am not quite sure whether the link to prerequisites.md should be replaced in favor of this link, this commit leaves it as it is for now.

Signed-off-by: Suguru Hirahara <acioustick@noreply.codeberg.org>

* Add note about using "example.com" as an example domain

Signed-off-by: Suguru Hirahara <acioustick@noreply.codeberg.org>

* Remove backticks from command examples to register a user

Signed-off-by: Suguru Hirahara <acioustick@noreply.codeberg.org>

* Apply suggestions from code review

Co-authored-by: Slavi Pantaleev <slavi@devture.com>

* Improve notes for instruction to create a user account

Signed-off-by: Suguru Hirahara <acioustick@noreply.codeberg.org>

* Add details about delegation to installing.md and quick-start.md

Some information is omitted on quick-start.md in favor of installing.md to keep the quick start guide simple.

Signed-off-by: Suguru Hirahara <acioustick@noreply.codeberg.org>

* Update docs/quick-start.md: add the breadcrumb header

Signed-off-by: Suguru Hirahara <acioustick@noreply.codeberg.org>

* Edit docs/quick-start.md: run the setup command with install-all by default

Refer docs/maintenance-upgrading-services.md

Signed-off-by: Suguru Hirahara <acioustick@noreply.codeberg.org>

* Revert "Update docs/quick-start.md: add the breadcrumb header"

This reverts commit 9a6e1cf14c.

As the quick start guide is standalone.

* Update docs/quick-start.md: add headers inside the install section

These headers should make it perfectly clear that there are two steps to be done to install with the playbook

Signed-off-by: Suguru Hirahara <acioustick@noreply.codeberg.org>

* Update quick-start.md

* Update docs/registering-users.md: notes for manual user registeration

Copy the same notes from quick-start.md

Signed-off-by: Suguru Hirahara <acioustick@noreply.codeberg.org>

* Reword some things in quick start

* Add alternative to `just roles`

* Update docs/configuring-dns.md: sync with docs/quick-start.md

Signed-off-by: Suguru Hirahara <acioustick@noreply.codeberg.org>

* Update docs/quick-start.md: add a link to docs/registering-users.md for an instruction to add user accounts

Signed-off-by: Suguru Hirahara <acioustick@noreply.codeberg.org>

* Update docs/registering-users.md and docs/updating-users-passwords.md: remove "your" from username and password placeholders

These documentations, unlike docs/installing.md and docs/quick-start.md, describe how to handle users (registering them or changing their passwords), some of whom are yours, while others are not.

Signed-off-by: Suguru Hirahara <acioustick@noreply.codeberg.org>

* Update docs/installing.md: add "your" to make it clear that it is "your" account that is going to be created

Signed-off-by: Suguru Hirahara <acioustick@noreply.codeberg.org>

* Update docs/installing.md and docs/quick-start.md: mention "make roles"

This commit adds mentions to "make roles" and a note about the preference of ansible-playbook commands over the just "recipes".

quick-start.md intends to be referred by those who have never used the playbook to set up a server, so it is safer to regard that it is not clear to them what exactly the just "recipes" are made of, ie. it takes some time and experience until someone understands simplicity of them. For beginners, I believe that we should prefer the basics over simplicity, from the educational point of view.

If someone feels tired of using the same command repetitively, then the person will have been already well accustomed to the way how the playbook works and how the server is supposed to be maintained, and the person is "qualified" to use the just "recipes", and should be able to use them with confidence, distinguishing the playbook tags from the "recipes", for example, from "just install-all" and "ansible-playbook -i inventory/hosts setup.yml --tags=install-all". Such level of familiarity and experience should not be expected on the quick start guide.

Signed-off-by: Suguru Hirahara <acioustick@noreply.codeberg.org>

* Update instructions to update Ansible roles

Also: move the detailed explanation about "just roles" from installing.md to maintenance-upgrading-services.md

TBD: create a dedicated documentation for the "just" program and the concept of its "recipe" (shortcut of commands)

Signed-off-by: Suguru Hirahara <acioustick@noreply.codeberg.org>

* Add a note about cases to create multiple accounts/users

Since one of the quick start guide's goals is to set up an own user account, this commit adds the note about creating multiple accounts/users to installing.md and registering-users.md only. It should be fine as registering-users.md is linked from quick-start.md

Also:
- On installing.md and quick-start.md, change instruction from what encourages to select "admin=yes" or "admin=no" to what encourages to use "admin=yes", since your user account will be the sole user on the server, as long as you set up the server by following the documentation
- Remove the link to registering-users.md from quick-start.md as the documentation is already linked above, under the header of the section
- Sync docs/installing.md with other documentation

Signed-off-by: Suguru Hirahara <acioustick@noreply.codeberg.org>

* Remove a line about setting "admin=yes" to reduce the amount of information

Because quick-start.md is getting longer with much information, it removes the note in favor of the linked registering-users.md documentation. The note is available on installing.md as well, and details about adding user accounts for other people can (and should) be checked on those documentations.

Also, this commit edits lines above these notes to make it clear that your user account will be an administrator of the server.

With this commit, the amount of the information about adding user accounts will be: registering-users.md > installing.md > quick-start.md

Signed-off-by: Suguru Hirahara <acioustick@noreply.codeberg.org>

* Fix a broken anchor link on docs/installing.md

Signed-off-by: Suguru Hirahara <acioustick@noreply.codeberg.org>

* Replace repetitive information about upgrading with an anchor link to docs/maintenance-upgrading-services.md

Because details to update/upgrade the Matrix services is not necessary for quick start and the amount of information should be reduced from the viewpoint of maintainability, this commit removes details to update/upgrade from quick-start.md

Signed-off-by: Suguru Hirahara <acioustick@noreply.codeberg.org>

* Update docs/quick-start.md: add a note about keeping it tidy and simple

Signed-off-by: Suguru Hirahara <acioustick@noreply.codeberg.org>

* Update docs/maintenance-checking-services.md and docs/quick-start.md: add instruction to use federation tester against the base domain

Per Slavi's suggestion.

Signed-off-by: Suguru Hirahara <acioustick@noreply.codeberg.org>

* Update docs/installing.md and docs/quick-start.md: replace commands to finalize the installation

Per Slavi's suggestion.

Signed-off-by: Suguru Hirahara <acioustick@noreply.codeberg.org>

* Clarify install-matrix-static-files to avoid confusion with install-all; Minor consistency improvements

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Signed-off-by: Suguru Hirahara <acioustick@noreply.codeberg.org>
Co-authored-by: Suguru Hirahara <acioustick@noreply.codeberg.org>
Co-authored-by: Slavi Pantaleev <slavi@devture.com>
2024-11-23 09:59:29 +02:00
Suguru Hirahara
135039b276
Change "Configuring your DNS server" to "Configuring your DNS settings"
Essentially it means "configuring your DNS settings or records on the DNS server you use".

Signed-off-by: Suguru Hirahara <acioustick@noreply.codeberg.org>
2024-11-17 12:06:30 +09:00
Suguru Hirahara
b94d4d1862
Establish a hierarchy among documentation pages related to installation; ones about importing data and configuring server delegation
This commit clarifies the hierarchy among pages for installation by moving articles for importing data and server delegation under the "installation" section, as there are multiple documentation pages which discuss a similar topic and you can easily get lost in those pages.

Also: remove the anchor link to configuring-playbook-base-domain-serving.md from configuring-playbook.md, since that procedure is not required on configuring options but on finalizing the installation, which is discussed on installing.md after that page.

Signed-off-by: Suguru Hirahara <acioustick@noreply.codeberg.org>
2024-11-15 16:11:44 +09:00
Suguru Hirahara
ea48e5e9eb
Create docs/playbook-tags.md: move explanation about playbook tags
The playbook tags are not limited to installation, and the explanation's detail makes the section worth being split to a dedicated individual page.

Signed-off-by: Suguru Hirahara <acioustick@noreply.codeberg.org>
2024-11-09 03:28:45 +09:00
Slavi Pantaleev
fb28f59f8c Initial work on a FAQ document 2021-01-21 12:55:17 +02:00
Slavi Pantaleev
6e1dfb62f0 Rename some doc files and commands related to importing
Since we'll likely have generic SQLite database importing
via [pgloader](https://pgloader.io/) for migrating bridge
databases from SQLite to Postgres, we'd rather avoid
calling the "import Synapse SQLite database" command
as just `--tags=import-sqlite-db`.

Similarly, for the media store, we'd like to mention that it's
related to Synapse as well.

We'd like to be more explicit, so as to be less confusing,
especially in light of other homeserver implementations
coming in the future.
2020-12-14 01:51:00 +02:00
Slavi Pantaleev
4eb87c1dcb Add more notes on migrating data from another installation
Related to #583 (Github Issue).
2020-07-14 16:25:39 +03:00
Slavi Pantaleev
0ca21d80d7 Add Synapse Maintenance docs and synapse-janitor integration 2019-07-08 09:38:36 +03:00
Lyubomir Popov
134faa3139 Add the ability to update user passwords with ansible (when using the matrix-postgres container). 2019-04-30 16:30:26 +03:00
Slavi Pantaleev
a1f9869eb2 Improve documentation about getting the playbook 2019-03-10 17:02:20 +02:00
Slavi Pantaleev
70b2f07fec Add PostgreSQL backup information 2019-02-09 14:36:47 +02:00
Aaron Raimist
d260b17508
Add initial version of maintenance and troubleshooting doc 2018-11-14 14:34:24 -06:00
Slavi Pantaleev
d0c2ef10e4 Add self-check command 2018-10-21 12:58:25 +03:00
Slavi Pantaleev
0d0ccde286 Add Service Discovery (/.well-known/matrix/client) support 2018-09-17 10:51:46 +03:00
Slavi Pantaleev
30c53cdea2 Split README into a bunch of files in docs/ 2018-08-08 10:07:02 +03:00