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Configuration

kazarma is configured using environment variables. It will refuse to start if the required variables are not provided.

For optional environment variables, defaults are the recommended values to run kazarma beside your homeserver, bridging only your own users.

You may also want to customize the frontend or enable observability features.

Database configuration

DATABASE_HOST (required)

The host to reach PostgreSQL.

DATABASE_USERNAME (required)

The SQL username.

DATABASE_PASSWORD (required)

The SQL password.

DATABASE_DB (required)

The SQL database.

Application service configuration

HOMESERVER_TOKEN (required)

Token defined in the application service configuration file, will be used to authenticate the Matrix server against kazarma.

ACCESS_TOKEN (required)

Token defined in the application service configuration file, will be used to authenticate kazarma against the Matrix server.

MATRIX_URL (required)

URL to the Matrix server.

Addresses

ACTIVITY_PUB_DOMAIN (required)

ActivityPub domain for puppet actors. If different than the host, you need to serve a file at domain/.well-known/host-meta, containing a link to the real host, like this

PUPPET_PREFIX

Default: _ap_

Username prefix for Matrix puppet users that correspond to ActivityPub actors.

General configuration

HOST (required)

Host for the kazarma application, used to generate URLs.

SECRET_KEY_BASE (required)

Phoenix's secret key base, used to sign session cookies. With Mix and Phoenix, it can be easily generated with mix phx.gen.secret.

BRIDGE_REMOTE

Default: false

True or false, whether kazarma should bridge Matrix users from different homeservers (than the one beside kazarma), to the ActivityPub network.

Default: false

True or false, whether to show the search field on kazarma HTML pages.

HTML_AP

Default: false

True or false, whether to display profiles for ActivityPub actors. It can help Matrix users to get the (puppet) Matrix ID to reach an ActivityPub actor.

Frontend customization

FRONTPAGE_HELP

Default: true

True or false, whether the frontend should display integrated help.

FRONTPAGE_BEFORE_TEXT

Default: ""

Text to show before kazarma introduction on the index page.

FRONTPAGE_AFTER_TEXT

Default: ""

Text to show after kazarma introduction on the index page.

Observability

SENTRY_DSN

Default:

Sentry DSN, if used.

RELEASE_LEVEL

Default: production

Release level, used in Sentry.

ENABLE_PROM_EX

Default: false

Enable Prometheus metrics.