- `riot.<your-domain>` domain name pointing to your new server - this is where the Riot web UI will live (details in [Configuring DNS](#configuring-dns) below)
- some TCP/UDP ports open. This playbook configures the server's internal firewall for you. In most cases, you don't need to do anything special. But **if your server is running behind another firewall**, you'd need to open these ports: `80/tcp` (HTTP webserver), `443/tcp` (HTTPS webserver), `3478/tcp` (STUN over TCP), `3478/udp` (STUN over UDP), `8448/tcp` (Matrix federation HTTPS webserver), `49152-49172/udp` (TURN over UDP).
## Configuring DNS
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### Restoring an existing SQLite database (from another installation)
**WARNING**: while this Ansible playbook supports importing an SQLite database from a previous installation, the actual program doing the migration (`synapse_port_db`, part of Matrix Synapse) may be buggy and not work for you.
Run this if you'd like to import your database from a previous default installation of Matrix Synapse.
(don't forget to import your `media_store` files as well - see below).
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- setting up automatic backups to one or more storage providers
- enabling TURN support for the Coturn server - see https://github.com/silvio/docker-matrix#coturn-server
- [importing an old SQLite database](#Restoring-an-existing-SQLite=database-from-another-installation) likely works because of a patch, but may be fragile until [this](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/2287) is fixed
Slavi Pantaleev
7 years ago