Backout changes for automatically calculating the public baseurl. (#9313)

This breaks some people's configurations (if their Client-Server API
is not accessed via port 443).

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/synapse/config/server.py b/synapse/config/server.py
index 47a0370173..5d72cf2d82 100644
--- a/synapse/config/server.py
+++ b/synapse/config/server.py
@@ -161,11 +161,7 @@ class ServerConfig(Config):
         self.print_pidfile = config.get("print_pidfile")
         self.user_agent_suffix = config.get("user_agent_suffix")
         self.use_frozen_dicts = config.get("use_frozen_dicts", False)
-        self.public_baseurl = config.get("public_baseurl") or "https://%s/" % (
-            self.server_name,
-        )
-        if self.public_baseurl[-1] != "/":
-            self.public_baseurl += "/"
+        self.public_baseurl = config.get("public_baseurl")
 
         # Whether to enable user presence.
         self.use_presence = config.get("use_presence", True)
@@ -321,6 +317,9 @@ class ServerConfig(Config):
         # Always blacklist 0.0.0.0, ::
         self.federation_ip_range_blacklist.update(["0.0.0.0", "::"])
 
+        if self.public_baseurl is not None:
+            if self.public_baseurl[-1] != "/":
+                self.public_baseurl += "/"
         self.start_pushers = config.get("start_pushers", True)
 
         # (undocumented) option for torturing the worker-mode replication a bit,
@@ -748,10 +747,6 @@ class ServerConfig(Config):
         # Otherwise, it should be the URL to reach Synapse's client HTTP listener (see
         # 'listeners' below).
         #
-        # If this is left unset, it defaults to 'https://<server_name>/'. (Note that
-        # that will not work unless you configure Synapse or a reverse-proxy to listen
-        # on port 443.)
-        #
         #public_baseurl: https://example.com/
 
         # Set the soft limit on the number of file descriptors synapse can use