Synapse admin ui

This project is built using react-admin.

Usage

Supported Synapse

It needs at least Synapse v1.52.0 for all functions to work as expected!

You get your server version with the request /_synapse/admin/v1/server_version. See also Synapse version API.

After entering the URL on the login page of synapse-admin the server version appears below the input field.

Prerequisites

You need access to the following endpoints:

• /_matrix
• /_synapse/admin

See also Synapse administration endpoints

Use without install

You can use the current version of Synapse Admin without own installation direct via GitHub Pages.

Note: If you want to use the deployment, you have to make sure that the admin endpoints (/_synapse/admin) are accessible for your browser. Remember: You have no need to expose these endpoints to the internet but to your network. If you want your own deployment, follow the Step-By-Step Install Guide below.

Step-By-Step install

You have three options:

1. Download the tarball and serve with any webserver
2. Download the source code from github and run using nodejs
3. Run the Docker container

Steps for 1)

• make sure you have a webserver installed that can serve static files (any webserver like nginx or apache will do)
• configure a vhost for synapse admin on your webserver
• download the .tar.gz from the latest release: https://github.com/Awesome-Technologies/synapse-admin/releases/latest
• unpack the .tar.gz
• move or symlink the synapse-admin-x.x.x into your vhosts root dir
• open the url of the vhost in your browser

Steps for 2)

• make sure you have installed the following: git, yarn, nodejs
• download the source code: git clone https://github.com/Awesome-Technologies/synapse-admin.git
• change into downloaded directory: cd synapse-admin
• download dependencies: yarn install
• start web server: yarn start

Steps for 3)

• run the Docker container from the public docker registry: docker run -p 8080:80 awesometechnologies/synapse-admin or use the docker-compose.yml: docker-compose up -d

  note: if you're building on an architecture other than amd64 (for example a raspberry pi), make sure to define a maximum ram for node. otherwise the build will fail.

  services:
    synapse-admin:
      container_name: synapse-admin
      hostname: synapse-admin
      build:
        context: https://github.com/Awesome-Technologies/synapse-admin.git
        # args:
        #   - NODE_OPTIONS="--max_old_space_size=1024"
        #   # see #266, PUBLIC_URL must be without surrounding quotation marks
        #   - PUBLIC_URL=/synapse-admin
      ports:
        - "8080:80"
      restart: unless-stopped
  

• browse to http://localhost:8080

Restricting available homeserver

You can restrict the homeserver(s), so that the user can no longer define it himself.

Edit config.json to restrict either to a single homeserver:

{
  "restrictBaseUrl": "https://your-matrixs-erver.example.com"
}

or to a list of homeservers:

{
  "restrictBaseUrl": [
    "https://your-first-matrix-server.example.com",
    "https://your-second-matrix-server.example.com"
  ]
}

The config.json can be injected into a Docker container using a bind mount.

services:
  synapse-admin:
    ...
    volumes:
      ./config.json:/app/config.json
    ...

Screenshots

Development

• Use yarn test to run all style, lint and unit tests
• Use yarn fix to fix the coding style