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# Reverse proxy with nginx
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Clients connecting from the Internet to our Matrix environment will usually
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use SSL/TLS to encrypt whatever they want to send. This is one thing that
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nginx does better than Synapse.
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Furthermore, granting or denying access to specific endpoints is much easier
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in nginx.
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Synapse listens only on localhost, so nginx has to pass connections on from
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the wild west that is the Internet to our server listening on the inside.
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# Installing
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Installing nginx and the [Let's Encrypt](https://letsencrypt.org/) plugin is
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easy:
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```
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apt install nginx python3-certbot-nginx
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```
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# Configuration
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Almost all traffic should be encrypted, so a redirect from http to https seems
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like a good idea.
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However, `.well-known/matrix/client` has to be available via http and https,
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so that should *NOT* be redirected to https. Some clients don't understand the
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redirect and will therefore not find the server if you redirect everything.
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# Firewall
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For normal use, at least ports 80 and 443 must be openend, see [Firewall](../firewall).
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