Dendrite Monolith on Raspberry Pi via Docker + Caddy

[Roxiun]

Hi,

I am trying to install Dendrite (monolith) on my Raspberry Pi under docker.

I am also using Caddy as a reverse proxy.

I just wanted to clear up a few things which I couldn't seem to find/understand in the documentation

I found an example Caddyfile for the monolith under docs.

1. What is the purpose of reverse proxying port 8448 to the internal 8008? As seen below

example.com:8448 {
	# server<->server HTTPS traffic
    reverse_proxy http://dendrite-host:8008
}

Is it necessary? In the example nginx config I can't seem to find anything like this. Was it meant to proxy from example.com:8448 to internal:8448?

Also why is it only example.com:8448 and not matrix.example.com:8448

2. What happened to /_synapse/client/* http://localhost:8008 from the synapse example configurations? Has this been depcreated since dendrite is now a thing?

3. In synapse the delegation seems to handled with the response of {"m.homeserver":{"base_url":"https://matrix.example.com"},"m.identity_server":{"base_url":"https://identity.example.com"}}

However in dendrite it seems to be handled with { "m.homeserver": { "base_url": "https://matrix.example.com" } }

What is the missing m.identity_server for? Also is it supported with dendrite?

4. Finally, since I'm running Dendrite under a reverse proxy could I edit docker-compose.monolith.yml and remove the ports section (see below) and change the network to my local Caddy one and then just reverse proxy to the Dendrite server through Caddy?

ie. Remove

ports:
      - 8008:8008
      - 8448:8448

Change

<-snip->
   networks:
      - internal

networks:
  internal:
    attachable: true

To

<-snip->
   networks:
      - caddy_net

networks:
  default:
    name: caddy_net
    external: true

Thanks!

[Roxiun]

I've moved over to Nginx Proxy manager now and successfully setup the homeserver under docmer (I'll make a guide later)

However I'm unsure how to create a new user via docker?