ma1sd/docs/features/directory-users.md

• Only work for LDAP and SQL
  • For LDAP: Set LDAP config (new global filter, optional: threepids attributes if the default identity queries were changed)
  • For SQL: Use synapseSql module with type: {sqlite|postgresql} and database as JDBC url after jdbc:driver:
    • /path/to/db for sqlite
    • //host/db?username... for postgresql)
• Configure DNS overwrite for domain name (and mention ${matrix.domain} can be used)

dns.overwrite.homeserver.client:
  - name: 'example.org'
    value: 'http://localhost:8008'

• Configure reverse proxy
  • for /_matrix/client/r0/user_directory/search to http://internalIp:8008/_matrix/client/r0/user_directory/search
  • With ProxyPreserveHost on on apache