Tuwunel is a featureful Matrix homeserver.

• You can use it instead of Synapse with your favorite client, bridge or bot. It is written entirely in Rust to be a scalable, low-cost, enterprise-ready, community-driven alternative, fully implementing the Matrix Specification for all but the most niche uses.

• This project is the official successor to conduwuit after it reached stability. Tuwunel is now used by many companies with a vested interest in its continued development by full-time staff. It is primarily sponsored by the government of Switzerland 🇨🇭 where it is currently deployed for citizens.

• The API service is accessible by default at http://localhost:8008

• See https://github.com/matrix-construct/tuwunel for more details.

Tuwunel

• Service is restarted on any condition.

Post install command to check if service is running well and responses:

sudo snap logs tuwunel-tak

Post install commands required to access media folders and see resources, if your database or any other file need to be stored outside the snap data area:

sudo snap connect tuwunel-tak:removable-media

sudo snap connect tuwunel-tak:mount-observe

!!! Files can only be written in a directory owned by root !!! !!! /home base directory content is not readable !!!

This is due to current behavior and restrictions of snaps by Canonical. Check common doc in FAQ if you want to setup data in /home directory.

Minimal configuration

• Configuration file 'tuwunel.toml' is located in "$SNAP_DATA/etc/tuwunel/tuwunel.toml" accessible through "/var/snap/tuwunel-tak/current/etc/tuwunel/tuwunel.toml" with default snapd installation

• (Recommended) Store your database in $SNAP_COMMON which is accessible through simlink "/var/common"

database_path = "/var/common/var/lib/tuwunel" ; your database will be saved in "$SNAP_COMMON/var/lib/tuwunel"

• (NOT recommended) To store your database in $SNAP_DATA, do not use first slash:

database_path = "var/lib/tuwunel" # your database will be saved in "$SNAP_DATA/var/lib/tuwunel" this way

• $SNAP_COMMON is the common data kept for each new release of the snap ; $SNAP_DATA is data copied from current snap release to the new one

• (Alternative) To store your database in '/home' folder, do not forget to connect "removable-media", and read common documentation on my github

• New user registration is disabled by default (cf. @'allow_registration')

• etc...

• Please read the toml-integrated doc and Tuwunel official doc

To restart the service with new configuration, use the command:

sudo snap restart tuwunel-tak

Information:

• Configuration file is automatically created, if not found, in "$SNAP_DATA/etc/tuwunel/" ; copied from original source configuration file
• Configuration file is never updated (for now) ; if changes are required with new software release, it is your full responsibility to update it (for now).

Status:

• The snap remains a Beta release until more visibility on the complexity of app updates