The [postgres setup docs](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/develop/docs/postgres.md#set-up-database) recommend setting up your database with user `synapse_user`.

However, uncommenting the postgres defaults in the sample config leave you with user `synapse`.

This PR switches the sample config to recommend `synapse_user`. Took a me a second to figure this out, so assume this will beneficial to others.

I'm pretty sure there's no technical reason these have to be distinct server blocks, so collapse into one and go with the more terse location block.

Signed-off-by: Luke W Faraone <luke@faraone.cc>

The Delete Room admin API allows server admins to remove rooms from server
and block these rooms.
`DELETE /_synapse/admin/v1/rooms/<room_id>`
It is a combination and improvement of "[Shutdown room](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/develop/docs/admin_api/shutdown_room.md)" and "[Purge room](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/develop/docs/admin_api/purge_room.md)" API.

Fixes: #6425 

It also fixes a bug in [synapse/storage/data_stores/main/room.py](synapse/storage/data_stores/main/room.py) in ` get_room_with_stats`.
It should return `None` if the room is unknown. But it returns an `IndexError`.
https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/901b1fa561e3cc661d78aa96d59802cf2078cb0d/synapse/storage/data_stores/main/room.py#L99-L105

Related to:
- #5575
- https://github.com/Awesome-Technologies/synapse-admin/issues/17



Signed-off-by: Dirk Klimpel <dirk@klimpel.org>

* Change Caddy links

Current links points to Caddy v1 which is deprecated.

Signed-off-by: Nicolai Søborg <git@xn--sb-lka.org>

This requires a new config option to specify which media repo should be
responsible for running background jobs to e.g. clear out expired URL
preview caches.

Just a simple typo fix.

Signed-off-by: wondratsch <28294257+wondratsch@users.noreply.github.com>

Fixes https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/2431

Adds config option `encryption_enabled_by_default_for_room_type`, which determines whether encryption should be enabled with the default encryption algorithm in private or public rooms upon creation. Whether the room is private or public is decided based upon the room creation preset that is used.

Part of this PR is also pulling out all of the individual instances of `m.megolm.v1.aes-sha2` into a constant variable to eliminate typos ala https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/pull/7637

Based on #7637

Fixes https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3177

* Clarify how to authenticate
* path params are not the same thing as query params
* Fix documentation for `/_synapse/admin/v2/users/<user_id>`

- Admin is able to
  - change displaynames
  - delete devices
  - list devices
  - get device informations

Fixes #7330

docs, default configs, comments. Nothing very significant.

* Expose `return_html_error`, and allow it to take a Jinja2 template instead of a raw string

* Clean up exception handling in SAML2ResponseResource

  * use the existing code in `return_html_error` instead of re-implementing it
    (giving it a jinja2 template rather than inventing a new form of template)

  * do the exception-catching in the REST layer rather than in the handler
    layer, to make sure we catch all exceptions.

Signed-off-by: Christopher Cooper <cooperc@ocf.berkeley.edu>

'client_auth_method' commented out value was erronously 'client_auth_basic',
when code and docstring says it should be 'client_secret_basic'.

Signed-off-by: Jason Robinson <jasonr@matrix.org>

This mostly applise to `*stateGroupCache*` and co.

Broke in #6391.

consistency ftw

also a small clarification to nginx

The specific headers that are passed using this new configuration format
are Host and X-Forwarded-For, which should be all that's required.

Note that for production another matcher should be added in the first
section to properly handle the base_url lookup:
reverse_proxy /.well-known/matrix/* http://localhost:8008



Signed-off-by: Jeff Peeler <jpeeler@gmail.com>

* general updates to CONTRIBUTING.md
* notes on updating your PR
* Notes on squash-merging or otherwise
* document git branching model