matrix-media-repo

Designed for environments with multiple homeservers, matrix-media-repo de-duplicates all media automatically, including remote content. Environments with only one homeserver can still make use of the de-duplication and performance of matrix-media-repo.

Installing

Assuming Go 1.9 is already installed on your PATH:

# Get it
git clone https://github.com/turt2live/matrix-media-repo
cd matrix-media-repo

# Set up the build tools
currentDir=$(pwd)
export GOPATH="$currentDir/vendor/src:$currentDir/vendor:$currentDir:"$GOPATH
go get github.com/constabulary/gb/...
export PATH=$PATH":$currentDir/vendor/bin:$currentDir/vendor/src/bin"

# Build it
gb vendor restore
gb build

# Configure it (edit media-repo.yaml to meet your needs)
cp config.sample.yaml media-repo.yaml

# Run it
bin/media_repo

Installing in Alpine Linux

The steps are almost the same as above. The only difference is that gb build will not work, so instead use the following lines:

go build -o bin/media_repo ./src/github.com/turt2live/matrix-media-repo/cmd/media_repo/
go build -o bin/import_synapse ./src/github.com/turt2live/matrix-media-repo/cmd/import_synapse/

Deployment

This is intended to run behind a load balancer and beside your homeserver deployments. A sample nginx configuration for this is:

# Client-server API
server {
  listen 80;
  listen [::]:80;
  # ssl configuration not shown

  # Redirect all matrix traffic by default to the homeserver
  location /_matrix {
      proxy_read_timeout 60s;
      proxy_set_header Host $host;
      proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
      proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $remote_addr;
      proxy_pass http://localhost:8008; # Point this towards your homeserver
  }
  
  # Redirect all media endpoints to the media-repo
  location /_matrix/media {
      proxy_read_timeout 60s;
      proxy_set_header Host $host; # Make sure this matches your homeserver in media-repo.yaml
      proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
      proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $remote_addr;
      proxy_pass http://localhost:8000; # Point this towards media-repo
  }
}

# Federation
# This also needs to be reverse proxied to capture the remote media fetching from other servers
server {
  listen 8448 ssl;
  listen [::]:8448 ssl;

  # These MUST match the certificates used by synapse!
  ssl_certificate /home/matrix/.synapse/your.homeserver.com.tls.cert;
  ssl_certificate_key /home/matrix/.synapse/your.homeserver.com.tls.key;
  ssl_dhparam /home/matrix/.synapse/your.homeserver.com.tls.dh;

  # Redirect all traffic by default to the homeserver
  location / {
      proxy_read_timeout 60s;
      proxy_set_header Host $host;
      proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
      proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $remote_addr;
      proxy_pass http://localhost:8008; # Point this towards your homeserver
  }
  
  # Redirect all media endpoints to the media-repo
  location /_matrix/media {
      proxy_read_timeout 60s;
      proxy_set_header Host $host; # Make sure this matches your homeserver in media-repo.yaml
      proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
      proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $remote_addr;
      proxy_pass http://localhost:8000; # Point this towards media-repo
  }
}

Your synapse listener configuration would look something like this:

listeners:
  - port: 8558
    bind_addresses: ['127.0.0.1']
    type: http
    tls: true
    x_forwarded: true
    resoruces:
      - names: [federation]
        compress: false
  - port: 8008
    bind_addresses: ['127.0.0.1']
    type: http
    tls: false
    x_forwarded: true
    resources:
      - names: [client]
        compress: true
      - names: [federation]
        compress: false

Importing media from synapse

Media is imported by connecting to your synapse database and downloading all the content from the homeserver. This is so you have a backup of the media repository still with synapse. Do not point traffic at the media repo until after the import is complete.

1. Build the media repo
2. Configure the media-repo.yaml
3. Run bin/import_synapse. The usage is below.

   Usage of ./bin/import_synapse:
     -baseUrl string
           The base URL to access your homeserver with (default "http://localhost:8008")
     -dbHost string
           The IP or hostname of the postgresql server with the synapse database (default "localhost")
     -dbName string
           The name of the synapse database (default "synapse")
     -dbPassword string
           The password to authorize the postgres user. Can be omitted to be prompted when run
     -dbPort int
           The port to access postgres on (default 5432)
     -dbUsername string
           The username to access postgres with (default "synapse")
     -serverName string
           The name of your homeserver (eg: matrix.org) (default "localhost")
   

   Assuming the media repository, postgres database, and synapse are all on the same host, the command to run would look something like: bin/import_synapse -serverName myserver.com -dbUsername my_database_user -dbName synapse
4. Wait for the import to complete. The script will automatically deduplicate media.
5. Point traffic to the media repository