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Is there a way to run a homeserver on mydomain.com but also serve a website from that?

z3t4 5y ago
This is a good question, as historically different protocols used different ports to communicate, meaning you could have many services on the same domain/IP, but recently many new protocols run over HTTP port 443... And I think Matrix is one of them, so the answer is no, you cannot host both a website and a matrix server on the same domain name. Happy to be corrected if I'm wrong.
- 9000 5y ago
  Actually, it uses port 8448 for federation [0], which is unlikely to conflict with other services. But, even if it does, there are ways to specify a different port or subdomain [1]. [0] https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/latest/federate.html https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/latest/federate.html [1] https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/latest/delegate.html https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/latest/delegate.html
- rakoo 5y ago
  No, you can have both. All you need to do is proxy a few paths to the running instance of Matrix. Those paths are matrix-specific and won't interfere with anything else. I've been running on this configuration for some time now. More details here: https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/latest/reverse_proxy.html https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/latest/reverse_proxy.ht...
  - q3k 5y ago
    You don't even need to do that. Either add an DNS SRV record to example.com pointing matrix to matrix.example.com, or server a single JSON under .well-known pointing matrix to matrix.example.com. https://matrix.org/docs/spec/server_server/latest#resolving-server-names https://matrix.org/docs/spec/server_server/latest#resolving-...
    - antihero 5y ago
      Ah, that is much better. In my instance, my root domain is served from CloudFront, so in this instance I could add an A record to a homeserver VPS and use a SRV/.well-known to point to it :)
hellcow 5y ago
Yes, this is what I do. You just set a DNS record on a subdomain, e.g. matrix.mydomain.com, and use that as your home server. Your username can still be @me:mydomain.com with this setup.
q3k 5y ago
Yes. Matrix uses SRV records and .well-known for discovering the homeserver for a domain. https://matrix.org/docs/spec/server_server/latest#resolving-server-names https://matrix.org/docs/spec/server_server/latest#resolving-...

z3t4 5y ago

This is a good question, as historically different protocols used different ports to communicate, meaning you could have many services on the same domain/IP, but recently many new protocols run over HTTP port 443... And I think Matrix is one of them, so the answer is no, you cannot host both a website and a matrix server on the same domain name. Happy to be corrected if I'm wrong.

9000 5y ago
Actually, it uses port 8448 for federation [0], which is unlikely to conflict with other services. But, even if it does, there are ways to specify a different port or subdomain [1]. [0] https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/latest/federate.html https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/latest/federate.html [1] https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/latest/delegate.html https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/latest/delegate.html
rakoo 5y ago
No, you can have both. All you need to do is proxy a few paths to the running instance of Matrix. Those paths are matrix-specific and won't interfere with anything else. I've been running on this configuration for some time now. More details here: https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/latest/reverse_proxy.html https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/latest/reverse_proxy.ht...
- q3k 5y ago
  You don't even need to do that. Either add an DNS SRV record to example.com pointing matrix to matrix.example.com, or server a single JSON under .well-known pointing matrix to matrix.example.com. https://matrix.org/docs/spec/server_server/latest#resolving-server-names https://matrix.org/docs/spec/server_server/latest#resolving-...
  - antihero 5y ago
    Ah, that is much better. In my instance, my root domain is served from CloudFront, so in this instance I could add an A record to a homeserver VPS and use a SRV/.well-known to point to it :)

hellcow 5y ago

Yes, this is what I do. You just set a DNS record on a subdomain, e.g. matrix.mydomain.com, and use that as your home server. Your username can still be @me:mydomain.com with this setup.

q3k 5y ago

Yes. Matrix uses SRV records and .well-known for discovering the homeserver for a domain. https://matrix.org/docs/spec/server_server/latest#resolving-server-names https://matrix.org/docs/spec/server_server/latest#resolving-...