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diff --git a/docs/CAPTCHA_SETUP.rst b/docs/CAPTCHA_SETUP.md index 0c22ee4ff6..5f9057530b 100644 --- a/docs/CAPTCHA_SETUP.rst +++ b/docs/CAPTCHA_SETUP.md @@ -1,30 +1,31 @@ +# Overview Captcha can be enabled for this home server. This file explains how to do that. The captcha mechanism used is Google's ReCaptcha. This requires API keys from Google. -Getting keys ------------- +## Getting keys + Requires a public/private key pair from: -https://developers.google.com/recaptcha/ +<https://developers.google.com/recaptcha/> Must be a reCAPTCHA v2 key using the "I'm not a robot" Checkbox option -Setting ReCaptcha Keys ----------------------- +## Setting ReCaptcha Keys + The keys are a config option on the home server config. If they are not -visible, you can generate them via --generate-config. Set the following value:: +visible, you can generate them via `--generate-config`. Set the following value: + + recaptcha_public_key: YOUR_PUBLIC_KEY + recaptcha_private_key: YOUR_PRIVATE_KEY - recaptcha_public_key: YOUR_PUBLIC_KEY - recaptcha_private_key: YOUR_PRIVATE_KEY +In addition, you MUST enable captchas via: -In addition, you MUST enable captchas via:: + enable_registration_captcha: true - enable_registration_captcha: true +## Configuring IP used for auth -Configuring IP used for auth ----------------------------- The ReCaptcha API requires that the IP address of the user who solved the captcha is sent. If the client is connecting through a proxy or load balancer, -it may be required to use the X-Forwarded-For (XFF) header instead of the origin -IP address. This can be configured using the x_forwarded directive in the +it may be required to use the `X-Forwarded-For` (XFF) header instead of the origin +IP address. This can be configured using the `x_forwarded` directive in the listeners section of the homeserver.yaml configuration file. |