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authorErik Johnston <erik@matrix.org>2015-01-08 14:32:53 +0000
committerErik Johnston <erik@matrix.org>2015-01-08 14:32:53 +0000
commit379a653ae3e46bc27b8ad4bde9bb7c25d0e048f9 (patch)
treebc772d892ad3018b393a2cc59e93df278f290bd4
parentReturn the raw federation event rather than adding extra keys for federation ... (diff)
downloadsynapse-379a653ae3e46bc27b8ad4bde9bb7c25d0e048f9.tar.xz
Add better help message for --server-name config option.
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-rw-r--r--synapse/config/server.py8
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/synapse/config/server.py b/synapse/config/server.py
index 4f73c85466..31e44cc857 100644
--- a/synapse/config/server.py
+++ b/synapse/config/server.py
@@ -47,8 +47,12 @@ class ServerConfig(Config):
     def add_arguments(cls, parser):
         super(ServerConfig, cls).add_arguments(parser)
         server_group = parser.add_argument_group("server")
-        server_group.add_argument("-H", "--server-name", default="localhost",
-                                  help="The name of the server")
+        server_group.add_argument(
+            "-H", "--server-name", default="localhost",
+            help="The domain name of the server, with optional explicit port. "
+                 "This is used by remote servers to connect to this server, "
+                 "e.g. matrix.org, localhost:8080, etc."
+        )
         server_group.add_argument("--signing-key-path",
                                   help="The signing key to sign messages with")
         server_group.add_argument("-p", "--bind-port", metavar="PORT",