0a17a2acaa
docs: Recommend using an SSD for the Zulip database.
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This is sorta common knowledge for folks who have managed databases,
but not everyone has.
2019-03-10 13:51:52 -07:00
0e2dc873ba
docs: Explain options for preventing changes during export.
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This makes it a bit clearer that one doesn't need to deactivate a
realm just to export data.
2019-03-04 11:38:02 -08:00
066ca0353d
docs: Fix export/import manage.py instructions typos.
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Fixes #11755 .
2019-03-02 13:04:22 -08:00
216d2ec1bf
production: Add optional support for submitting usage statistics.
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See documentation for details.
2019-02-26 17:35:10 -08:00
ce01a4c5a3
backup: Add Zulip, OS, and PostgreSQL version to the tarball.
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==> zulip-backup/os-version <==
Ubuntu trusty
==> zulip-backup/postgres-version <==
90324
==> zulip-backup/zulip-version <==
2.0.0-rc1+git
2.0.0-rc1-50-gbf169b8-dirty
Documentation added by tabbott.
Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>
2019-02-14 15:11:57 -08:00
949d098e99
management: Add tooling for transfering local uploads to s3.
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This solves a common migration problem for folks who cut corners when
first setting up Zulip.
Fixes #11294 .
2019-02-14 14:31:46 -08:00
e0a51948d9
script: Add ready-to-run tooling for doing backups.
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Based on an initial version by Tim Abbott (#11204 ).
Fixes #552 .
2019-02-11 17:30:37 -08:00
e3bc788660
docs: Announce deprecation of Ubuntu Trusty.
2019-02-11 16:10:12 -08:00
5120d97633
docs: Remove confusing comment from boto example.
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The boto config file format should have comments on a separate line.
here is the docs:
http://boto.cloudhackers.com/en/latest/boto_config_tut.html#details
2019-02-11 15:01:18 -08:00
a46640b325
docs: Document restricting access to an LDAP group.
2019-02-11 11:40:57 -08:00
7adc7ed490
docs: Update mobile-push-notifications to discourage legacy signup.
2019-02-06 11:53:39 -08:00
e91f22c416
docs: Reorganize and simplifiy LDAP data synchronization docs.
2019-02-05 10:37:04 -08:00
2abe325147
docs: Add documentation for the new custom profile data sync feature.
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Fixes : #10976 .
2019-02-05 10:25:50 -08:00
001ec76e1f
export: Document /etc/zulip when discussing server migrations.
2019-02-02 23:22:22 -08:00
df436a55b4
scripts: Recommend apt update after enabling universe.
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One needs to manually do an apt update after add-apt-repository, or it
won't actually work.
2019-01-26 12:29:05 -08:00
7824ce32a0
docs: Advertise HipChat/Slack import tools in installer docs.
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This should help avoid confusion about when to use the import tools.
2019-01-16 15:15:01 -08:00
f9b60b4803
docs: Update some notes about Tornado scalability.
2019-01-16 11:26:57 -08:00
25d6107a4f
docs: Avoid hardcoded /tmp paths in miscellaneous documentation.
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Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>
2019-01-15 16:16:12 -08:00
71761bc2da
ldap: Add a setting to automatically deactivate non_matching users.
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Fixes : #11151 .
2019-01-13 19:04:09 -08:00
40884dbb1d
docs: Document active directory values for AUTH_LDAP_USER_SEARCH.
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Fixes #10019 .
2019-01-08 16:28:51 -08:00
534bf8f806
docs: Make more clear how installing from Git works.
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The previous discussion made it sound like this did a development
environment installation.
2019-01-07 19:16:59 -08:00
a65cb91cc1
docs: Add nginx reload documentation.
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This adds reference for reloading nginx when the certificates are
replaced so that the server works with the new certificates instead of
the old ones.
Fixes : #4849 .
2019-01-04 14:30:26 -08:00
5d550145bd
docs: Document need for zulip group for some nagios checks.
2019-01-02 10:22:48 -08:00
af1c7a9573
docs: Improve documentation for adding a new authentication backend.
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Now that we have the Azure Active Directory integration cleaned up and
merged, we can nicely link to it as an example.
2018-12-18 16:49:01 -08:00
49dbd85a89
auth: Add support for Azure Active Directory authentication.
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This takes advantage of all of our work on making the
python-social-auth integration reusable for other authentication
backends.
2018-12-18 16:39:03 -08:00
d815e5a299
docs: Document how to sync additional fields in LDAP.
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This probably isn't something folks will use a lot, but it is a
question we get.
Fixes #9710 .
2018-12-13 16:24:15 -08:00
626e191201
ldap: Add support for automatic user deactivation/reactivation.
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As part of this, extend our documentation on synchronizing data from
Active Directory.
2018-12-13 16:24:15 -08:00
5dd646f33f
ldap: Add support for syncing avatar images from LDAP.
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This should make life a lot more convenient for organizations that use
the LDAP integration and have their avatars in LDAP already.
This hasn't been end-to-end tested against LDAP yet, so there may be
some minor revisions, but fundamentally, it works, has automated
tests, and should be easy to maintain.
Fixes #286 .
2018-12-13 13:39:22 -08:00
e92e982342
docs: Add a troubleshooting note about cookies on root domain.
2018-12-12 12:08:25 -08:00
441dca0eaf
email: Support delivery email in email change system.
2018-12-06 17:43:26 -08:00
a4a25c3e14
docs: Expand security model documentation to cover guests.
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This is a pretty minor update, just clarifying the discussion of what
types of users exist.
2018-12-05 17:25:12 -08:00
9ba860b4f2
Avoid double redirects to /login and then to /login/.
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Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>
2018-12-04 16:12:58 -08:00
250a2b5164
docs: Fix documentation details for boto configuration.
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This fixes a couple key gaps in our documentation of the #9376
workaround.
2018-12-04 13:28:13 -08:00
e8742f1dd5
docs: Expand documentation for running management commands.
2018-12-03 09:16:05 -08:00
1303f8df20
docs: Fix missing quotes in `su zulip -c` documentation.
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This fixes an actual user-facing issue in our mobile push
notifications documentation (where we were incorrectly failing to
quote the argument to `./manage.py register_server` making it not
work), as well as preventing future similar issues from occurring
again via a linter rule.
2018-11-30 12:12:27 -08:00
72db5d5a48
docs: Document how to setup system postfix email with Zulip.
2018-11-30 12:06:25 -08:00
df5475996f
docs: Add prod auth docs link to dev auth docs.
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This should be helpful for folks working on things like a Facebook
OAuth2 integration.
2018-11-29 20:45:02 -08:00
0932a27647
docs: Move generic reverse proxy notes further down.
2018-11-28 15:53:54 -08:00
7aed0a2a66
docs: Add nginx reverse proxy basic config example.
2018-11-28 15:52:06 -08:00
604364eb65
docs: Document how to use Zulip behind an haproxy reverse proxy.
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With significant rearrangement by tabbott to have more common text
between different proxy implementations.
2018-11-28 13:56:26 -08:00
f1f60bc9bb
docs: Document how to use AWS SIGv4 with boto.
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This is required in some AWS regions.
The right long-term fix is to move to boto3 which doesn't have this
problem.
Allows us to downgrade the priority of #9376 .
2018-11-28 12:25:45 -08:00
51950ad352
docs: Fix accidental repeat bullet #1 in S3 backend documentation.
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Due to missing indentation, the numbering was resetting to 1 rather
than continuing to 6.
2018-11-28 12:19:37 -08:00
5f3c8be6d1
docs: Fix some broken links in security model doc.
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Apparently, we haven't been running test-documentation in production
of late.
2018-11-28 09:49:39 -08:00
f1c65975ad
docs: Clarify preparatory process for data import.
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You need a Zulip server running the a matching version, and no longer
need to do an upgrade from master before using established import tools.
2018-11-14 17:02:33 -08:00
a2371a96b7
docs: Clarify push registration for running manage.py correctly.
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We've had several users get errors running this because they ran it as
a bash script; fix this my making the command super explicit.
2018-11-14 13:07:04 -08:00
8ab26df9f0
docs: Link to setup-certbot multiple hostname support.
2018-11-13 12:55:24 -08:00
95ba947f13
setup-cerbot: Allow issuing certificates for multiple domains.
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This commit allows specifying Subject Alternative Names to issue certs
for multiple domains using certbot. The first name passed to certbot-auto
becomes the common name for the certificate; common name and the other
names are then added to the SAN field. All of these arguments are now
positional. Also read the following for the certbot syntax reference:
https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/how-to-specify-subject-name-on-san/
Fixes #10674 .
2018-11-13 12:47:31 -08:00
2f36211fde
docs: Document need to enable Universe repository on Ubuntu.
2018-10-31 11:53:24 -07:00
39c56b3ba9
docs: Update security-model.md.
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Tweaked by tabbott to fix a few typos and purge use of "realm".
2018-10-19 15:40:36 -07:00
f14ed03707
docs: Update import instructions in export-and-import.
2018-10-18 16:22:31 -07:00
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