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authorAnton Lazarev <antonok35@gmail.com>2019-10-30 00:30:04 -0700
committerRichard van der Hoff <1389908+richvdh@users.noreply.github.com>2019-10-30 07:30:04 +0000
commit213d7eb22739c66ca3af0c33be4377906f35b426 (patch)
tree62ebd2677421e2fc5234b8358cdc64ddb0f4c3a5 /docker
parent1.5.0 (diff)
downloadsynapse-213d7eb22739c66ca3af0c33be4377906f35b426.tar.xz
Clarify environment variable usage when running in Docker (#6181)
Diffstat (limited to 'docker')
-rwxr-xr-xdocker/start.py5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/docker/start.py b/docker/start.py
index e41ea20e70..6e1cb807a1 100755
--- a/docker/start.py
+++ b/docker/start.py
@@ -217,8 +217,9 @@ def main(args, environ):
         # backwards-compatibility generate-a-config-on-the-fly mode
         if "SYNAPSE_CONFIG_PATH" in environ:
             error(
-                "SYNAPSE_SERVER_NAME and SYNAPSE_CONFIG_PATH are mutually exclusive "
-                "except in `generate` or `migrate_config` mode."
+                "SYNAPSE_SERVER_NAME can only be combined with SYNAPSE_CONFIG_PATH "
+                "in `generate` or `migrate_config` mode. To start synapse using a "
+                "config file, unset the SYNAPSE_SERVER_NAME environment variable."
             )
 
         config_path = "/compiled/homeserver.yaml"