matrix-docker-ansible-deploy/docs/README.md
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Add "Quick start" guide (#3801)
* Add docs/quick-start.md

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* 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

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* Replace <your-username> with YOUR_USERNAME_HERE

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

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* Replace <your-password> with YOUR_PASSWORD_HERE

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

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* 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.

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* 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.

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

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* Remove backticks from command examples to register a user

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* Apply suggestions from code review

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* Improve notes for instruction to create a user account

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* 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.

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

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

Refer docs/maintenance-upgrading-services.md

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* 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

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* Update quick-start.md

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

Copy the same notes from quick-start.md

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* Reword some things in quick start

* Add alternative to `just roles`

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

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

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* 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.

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

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* 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.

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* 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)

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* 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

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* 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

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

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* 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

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

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* 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.

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

Per Slavi's suggestion.

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

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Co-authored-by: Suguru Hirahara <acioustick@noreply.codeberg.org>
Co-authored-by: Slavi Pantaleev <slavi@devture.com>
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# Table of Contents
- [FAQ](faq.md) - lots of questions and answers. Jump to [Prerequisites](prerequisites.md) to avoid reading too much and to just start a guided installation.
- [Quick start](quick-start.md) - follow the guide to set up minimum core services on your server
- [Prerequisites](prerequisites.md) - go here to a guided installation using this Ansible playbook
- [Configuring your DNS settings](configuring-dns.md)
- [Getting this playbook's source code](getting-the-playbook.md)
- [Configuring the playbook](configuring-playbook.md)
- [Installing](installing.md)
- **Importing data from another server installation**
- [Importing an existing SQLite database (from another Synapse installation)](importing-synapse-sqlite.md) (optional)
- [Importing an existing Postgres database (from another installation)](importing-postgres.md) (optional)
- [Importing `media_store` data files from an existing Synapse installation](importing-synapse-media-store.md) (optional)
- [Server Delegation](howto-server-delegation.md)
- Server Delegation via a well-known file (recommended): [Installing well-known files on the base domain's server](configuring-well-known.md#installing-well-known-files-on-the-base-domain-s-server)
- [Serving the base domain](configuring-playbook-base-domain-serving.md)
- [Server Delegation via a DNS SRV record (advanced)](howto-srv-server-delegation.md)
- [Playbook tags](playbook-tags.md)
- [Registering users](registering-users.md)
- [Updating users passwords](updating-users-passwords.md)
- [Maintenance / checking if services work](maintenance-checking-services.md)
- [Maintenance / upgrading services](maintenance-upgrading-services.md)
- [Maintenance / Synapse](maintenance-synapse.md)
- [Maintenance / PostgreSQL](maintenance-postgres.md)
- [Maintenance and Troubleshooting](maintenance-and-troubleshooting.md)
- [Uninstalling](uninstalling.md)