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diff --git a/docs/admin_api/rooms.md b/docs/admin_api/rooms.md index 004a802e17..3ac21b5cae 100644 --- a/docs/admin_api/rooms.md +++ b/docs/admin_api/rooms.md @@ -1,3 +1,14 @@ +# Contents +- [List Room API](#list-room-api) + * [Parameters](#parameters) + * [Usage](#usage) +- [Room Details API](#room-details-api) +- [Room Members API](#room-members-api) +- [Delete Room API](#delete-room-api) + * [Parameters](#parameters-1) + * [Response](#response) + * [Undoing room shutdowns](#undoing-room-shutdowns) + # List Room API The List Room admin API allows server admins to get a list of rooms on their @@ -357,8 +368,6 @@ Response: The Delete Room admin API allows server admins to remove rooms from server and block these rooms. -It is a combination and improvement of "[Shutdown room](shutdown_room.md)" -and "[Purge room](purge_room.md)" API. Shuts down a room. Moves all local users and room aliases automatically to a new room if `new_room_user_id` is set. Otherwise local users only @@ -455,3 +464,30 @@ The following fields are returned in the JSON response body: * `local_aliases` - An array of strings representing the local aliases that were migrated from the old room to the new. * `new_room_id` - A string representing the room ID of the new room. + +## Undoing room shutdowns + +*Note*: This guide may be outdated by the time you read it. By nature of room shutdowns being performed at the database level, +the structure can and does change without notice. + +First, it's important to understand that a room shutdown is very destructive. Undoing a shutdown is not as simple as pretending it +never happened - work has to be done to move forward instead of resetting the past. In fact, in some cases it might not be possible +to recover at all: + +* If the room was invite-only, your users will need to be re-invited. +* If the room no longer has any members at all, it'll be impossible to rejoin. +* The first user to rejoin will have to do so via an alias on a different server. + +With all that being said, if you still want to try and recover the room: + +1. For safety reasons, shut down Synapse. +2. In the database, run `DELETE FROM blocked_rooms WHERE room_id = '!example:example.org';` + * For caution: it's recommended to run this in a transaction: `BEGIN; DELETE ...;`, verify you got 1 result, then `COMMIT;`. + * The room ID is the same one supplied to the shutdown room API, not the Content Violation room. +3. Restart Synapse. + +You will have to manually handle, if you so choose, the following: + +* Aliases that would have been redirected to the Content Violation room. +* Users that would have been booted from the room (and will have been force-joined to the Content Violation room). +* Removal of the Content Violation room if desired. \ No newline at end of file |