Update workers docs to include http port

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Erik Johnston 2018-02-12 17:18:07 +00:00
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@ -30,17 +30,29 @@ requests made to the federation port. The caveats regarding running a
reverse-proxy on the federation port still apply (see
https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/master/README.rst#reverse-proxying-the-federation-port).
To enable workers, you need to add a replication listener to the master synapse, e.g.::
To enable workers, you need to add two replication listeners to the master
synapse, e.g.::
listeners:
# The TCP replication port
- port: 9092
bind_address: '127.0.0.1'
type: replication
# The HTTP replication port
- port: 9093
bind_address: '127.0.0.1'
type: http
resources:
- names: [replication]
Under **no circumstances** should this replication API listener be exposed to the
public internet; it currently implements no authentication whatsoever and is
Under **no circumstances** should these replication API listeners be exposed to
the public internet; it currently implements no authentication whatsoever and is
unencrypted.
(Roughly, the TCP port is used for streaming data from the master to the
workers, and the HTTP port for the workers to communicate with the main
synapse process.)
You then create a set of configs for the various worker processes. These
should be worker configuration files, and should be stored in a dedicated
subdirectory, to allow synctl to manipulate them.
@ -52,8 +64,10 @@ You should minimise the number of overrides though to maintain a usable config.
You must specify the type of worker application (``worker_app``). The currently
available worker applications are listed below. You must also specify the
replication endpoint that it's talking to on the main synapse process
(``worker_replication_host`` and ``worker_replication_port``).
replication endpoints that it's talking to on the main synapse process.
``worker_replication_host`` should specify the host of the main synapse,
``worker_replication_port`` should point to the TCP replication listener port and
``worker_replication_http_port`` should point to the HTTP replication port.
For instance::
@ -62,6 +76,7 @@ For instance::
# The replication listener on the synapse to talk to.
worker_replication_host: 127.0.0.1
worker_replication_port: 9092
worker_replication_http_port: 9093
worker_listeners:
- type: http