[Freedombox-discuss] Matrix+Pagekite ?

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Sunil Mohan Adapa (2019-03-25 19:10:05)
> On 22/03/19 3:31 am, Алексей Поликовский via Freedombox-discuss wrote:
> > My freedombox does not work with DynDNS, but with Pagekite it is ok. Will it work Matrix with Pagekite?
> 
> AFAIK, Matrix does two types of communication as follows:
> 
> One is for clients to connect to the matrix server. This happens on
> https://<domain>/_matrix/ . This communication will work okay with Pagekite.
> 
> The other communication is for federating with other matrix servers.
> Federation is required when you want multiple users across different
> servers to join the same room. This communication happens on 8448 port
> and as far as I know won't work with pagekite, especially pagekite.net.
> Since that port also uses https, it should be possible for pagekite to
> support it using SNI. If you are using your own pagekite frontend you
> might be able to configure pagekite to work for this.

Generally for matrix-syanpse, both server-to-client and server-to-server 
traffic can be served over standard TLS port 443, e.g. using Apache as 
reverse proxy.

Whether or not that is sensible to do on FreedomBox is another matter.


 - Jonas

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