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authorMatthew Wolff <matthewjwolff@gmail.com>2017-04-17 00:44:05 -0500
committerMatthew Wolff <matthewjwolff@gmail.com>2017-04-17 00:49:11 -0500
commit8e780b113d1223994bf77a5075e91ff56dd20f67 (patch)
tree6feae5433a59b7ae97721496c8ff2c0de17a17b9
parentMerge pull request #2120 from matrix-org/luke/read-markers (diff)
downloadsynapse-8e780b113d1223994bf77a5075e91ff56dd20f67.tar.xz
web_server_root documentation fix
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wolff <matthewjwolff@gmail.com>
-rw-r--r--README.rst7
-rwxr-xr-xsynapse/app/homeserver.py3
-rw-r--r--synapse/config/server.py6
3 files changed, 12 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 759197f5ff..8de7cd3f3b 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -335,8 +335,11 @@ ArchLinux
 ---------
 
 The quickest way to get up and running with ArchLinux is probably with the community package
-https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/any/matrix-synapse/, which should pull in all
-the necessary dependencies.
+https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/any/matrix-synapse/, which should pull in most of
+the necessary dependencies. If the default web client is to be served (enabled by default in
+the generated config),
+https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/any/python2-matrix-angular-sdk/ will also need to
+be installed. 
 
 Alternatively, to install using pip a few changes may be needed as ArchLinux
 defaults to python 3, but synapse currently assumes python 2.7 by default:
diff --git a/synapse/app/homeserver.py b/synapse/app/homeserver.py
index 6f5924d2c7..c9521a10fb 100755
--- a/synapse/app/homeserver.py
+++ b/synapse/app/homeserver.py
@@ -88,11 +88,10 @@ def build_resource_for_web_client(hs):
                 "the location of the source to serve via the configuration\n"
                 "option `web_client_location`\n\n"
                 "To install the `matrix-angular-sdk` via pip, run:\n\n"
-                "    pip install '%(dep)s'\n"
+                "    pip install matrix-angular-sdk\n"
                 "\n"
                 "You can also disable hosting of the webclient via the\n"
                 "configuration option `web_client`\n"
-                % {"dep": DEPENDENCY_LINKS["matrix-angular-sdk"]}
             )
         syweb_path = os.path.dirname(syweb.__file__)
         webclient_path = os.path.join(syweb_path, "webclient")
diff --git a/synapse/config/server.py b/synapse/config/server.py
index 1f9999d57a..25e6666238 100644
--- a/synapse/config/server.py
+++ b/synapse/config/server.py
@@ -144,6 +144,12 @@ class ServerConfig(Config):
         # Whether to serve a web client from the HTTP/HTTPS root resource.
         web_client: True
 
+        # The root directory to server for the above web client.
+        # If left undefined, synapse will serve the matrix-angular-sdk web client.
+        # Make sure matrix-angular-sdk is installed with pip if web_client is True
+        # and web_client_location is undefined
+        # web_client_location: "/path/to/web/root"
+
         # The public-facing base URL for the client API (not including _matrix/...)
         # public_baseurl: https://example.com:8448/