improve some general documentation

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Visit the [Conduwuit documentation](https://conduwuit.puppyirl.gay/) for more
Visit the [conduwuit documentation](https://conduwuit.puppyirl.gay/) for more
information.
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@ -23,9 +23,9 @@ to communicate with users outside of Matrix, like a community on Discord.
#### What is the goal?
An efficient Matrix homeserver that's easy to set up and just works. You can
install it on a mini-computer like the Raspberry Pi to host Matrix for your
family, friends or company.
A high-performance and efficient Matrix homeserver that's easy to set up and
just works. You can install it on a mini-computer like the Raspberry Pi to
host Matrix for your family, friends or company.
#### Can I try it out?
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#### What is the current status?
conduwuit is a hard fork of Conduit which is in beta, meaning you can join and
participate in most Matrix rooms, but not all features are supported and you
might run into bugs from time to time.
conduwuit is technically a hard fork of Conduit, which is in Beta. The Beta status
initially was inherited from Conduit, however overtime this Beta status is rapidly
becoming less and less relevant as our codebase significantly diverges more and more.
conduwuit is quite stable and very usable as a daily driver and for a low-medium
sized homeserver. There is still a lot of more work to be done, but it is in a far
better place than the project was in early 2024.
#### How is conduwuit funded? Is conduwuit sustainable?
conduwuit has no external funding. This is made possible purely in my freetime with
contributors, also in their free time, and only by user-curated donations.
conduwuit has existed since around November 2023, but [only became more publicly known
in March/April 2024](https://matrix.org/blog/2024/04/26/this-week-in-matrix-2024-04-26/#conduwuit-website)
and we have no plans in stopping or slowing down any time soon!
#### Can I migrate or switch from Conduit?
conduwuit is a complete drop-in replacement for Conduit. As long as you are using RocksDB,
the only "migration" you need to do is replace the binary or container image. There
is no harm or additional steps required for using conduwuit.
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#### Donate
conduwuit development is purely made possible by myself and contributors. I do
not get paid to work on this, and I work on it in my free time. Donations are
heavily appreciated! 💜🥺
- Liberapay: <https://liberapay.com/girlbossceo>
- Ko-fi: <https://ko-fi.com/puppygock>
- GitHub Sponsors: <https://github.com/sponsors/girlbossceo>

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@ -13,18 +13,38 @@ what you need.
Prebuilt fully static musl binaries can be downloaded from the latest tagged
release [here](https://github.com/girlbossceo/conduwuit/releases/latest) or
`main` CI branch workflow artifact output. These also include Debian packages.
`main` CI branch workflow artifact output. These also include Debian/Ubuntu packages.
These binaries have jemalloc and io_uring statically linked and included with
them.
them, so no additional dynamic dependencies need to be installed.
Alternatively, you may compile the binary yourself. We recommend using
Nix (or [Lix](https://lix.systems) to build conduwuit as this has the most guaranteed
reproducibiltiy and easiest to get a build environment and output going.
Nix (or [Lix](https://lix.systems)) to build conduwuit as this has the most guaranteed
reproducibiltiy and easiest to get a build environment and output going. This also
allows easy cross-compilation.
You can run the `nix build -L .#static-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl-all-features` or
`nix build -L .#static-aarch64-unknown-linux-musl-all-features` commands based
on architecture to cross-compile the necessary static binary located at
`result/bin/conduit`. This is reproducible with the static binaries produced in our CI.
Otherwise, follow standard Rust project build guides (installing git and cloning
the repo, getting the Rust toolchain via rustup, installing LLVM toolchain +
libclang for RocksDB, installing liburing for io_uring and RocksDB, etc).
## Migrating from Conduit
As mentioned in the README, there is little to no steps needed to migrate
from Conduit. As long as you are using the RocksDB database backend, just
replace the binary / container image / etc.
**Note**: If you are relying on Conduit's "automatic delegation" feature,
this will **NOT** work on conduwuit and you must configure delegation manually.
This is not a mistake and no support for this feature will be added.
See the `[global.well_known]` config section, or configure your web server
appropriately to send the delegation responses.
## Adding a conduwuit user
While conduwuit can run as any user it is better to use dedicated users for
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## Setting up the Reverse Proxy
Refer to the documentation or various guides online of your chosen reverse proxy
software. A [Caddy](https://caddyserver.com/) example will be provided as this
software. There are many examples of basic Apache/Nginx reverse proxy setups
out there.
A [Caddy](https://caddyserver.com/) example will be provided as this
is the recommended reverse proxy for new users and is very trivial to use
(handles TLS, reverse proxy headers, etc transparently with proper defaults).
Lighttpd is not supported as it seems to mess with the `X-Matrix` Authorization
header, making federation non-functional. If using Apache, you need to use
`nocanon` to prevent this.
`nocanon` in your `ProxyPass` directive to prevent this (note that Apache
isn't very good as a general reverse proxy).
Nginx users may need to set `proxy_buffering off;` if there are issues with
uploading media like images.
You will need to reverse proxy everything under following routes:
- `/_matrix/` - core Matrix C-S and S-S APIs
- `/_conduwuit/` - ad-hoc conduwuit routes such as `/local_user_count` and
`/server_version`
You can optionally reverse proxy the following individual routes:
- `/.well-known/matrix/client` and `/.well-known/matrix/server` if using
conduwuit to perform delegation
- `/.well-known/matrix/support` if using conduwuit to send the homeserver admin
contact and support page (formerly known as MSC1929)
- `/` if you would like to see `hewwo from conduwuit woof!` at the root
### Caddy
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# If using port 8448
curl https://your.server.name:8448/_conduwuit/server_version
# If federation is enabled
curl https://your.server.name:8448/_matrix/federation/v1/version
```
- To check if your server can talk with other homeservers, you can use the

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@ -21,6 +21,22 @@ These same values need to be set in conduwuit. See the [example
config](configuration/examples.md) in the TURN section for configuring these and
restart conduwuit after.
`turn_secret` must be set to your coturn `static-auth-secret`, or use
`turn_username` and `turn_password` if using legacy username:password
TURN authentication (not preferred).
`turn_uris` must be the list of TURN URIs you would like to send to the client.
Typically you will just replace the example domain `example.turn.uri` with the
`realm` you set from the example config.
If you are using TURN over TLS, you can replace `turn:` with `turns:` in the
`turn_uris` config option to instruct clients to attempt to connect to
TURN over TLS. This is highly recommended.
If you need unauthenticated access to the TURN URIs, or some clients may be
having trouble, you can enable `turn_guest_access` in conduwuit which disables
authentication for the TURN URI endpoint `/_matrix/client/v3/voip/turnServer`
### Run
Run the [Coturn](https://hub.docker.com/r/coturn/coturn) image using