We do this by creating one more layer of indirection.

First we reach some generic vhost handling matrix.DOMAIN.
A bunch of override rules are added there (capturing traffic to send to
ma1sd, etc). nginx-status and similar generic things also live there.

We then proxy to the homeserver on some other vhost (only Synapse being
available right now, but repointing this to Dendrite or other will be
possible in the future).
Then that homeserver-specific vhost does its thing to proxy to the
homeserver. It may or may not use workers, etc.

Without matrix-corporal, the flow is now:
1. matrix.DOMAIN (matrix-nginx-proxy/matrix-domain.conf)
2. matrix-nginx-proxy/matrix-synapse.conf
3. matrix-synapse

With matrix-corporal enabled, it becomes:
1. matrix.DOMAIN (matrix-nginx-proxy/matrix-domain.conf)
2. matrix-corporal
3. matrix-nginx-proxy/matrix-synapse.conf
4. matrix-synapse

(matrix-corporal gets injected at step 2).

I guess it didn't hurt to do it until now, but it's not great serving
federation APIs on the client-server API port, etc.

matrix-corporal doesn't work yet (still something to be solved in the
future), but its firewalling operations will also be sabotaged
by Client-Server APIs being served on the federation port (it's a way to get around its firewalling).

Not sure if it breaks with them or not, but no other directive
uses quotes and the nginx docs show examples without quotes,
so we're being consistent with all of that.

Code was clean up and simplified to make it simpler and easier to
maintain. No features were modified.

The different configurations are now all lower case, for consistent
naming.

`matrix_nginx_proxy_ssl_config` is now called
`matrix_nginx_proxy_ssl_preset`. The different options for "modern",
"intermediate" and "old" are stored in the main.yml file, instead of
being hardcoded in the configuration files. This will improve the
maintainability of the code.

The "custom" preset was removed. Now if one of the variables is set, it
will use it instead of the preset. This will allow to mix and match more
easily, for example using all the intermediate options but only
supporting TLSv1.2. This will also provide better backward
compatibility.

A new variable called `matrix_nginx_proxy_ssl_config` is created for
configuring how the nginx proxy configures SSL. Also a new configuration
validation option and other auxiliary variables are created.

A new variable configuration called `matrix_nginx_proxy_ssl_config` is
created. This allow to set the SSL configuration easily using the
default options proposed by Mozilla. The default configuration is set to
"Intermediate", removing the weak ciphers used in the old
configurations.

The new variable can also be set to "Custom" for a more granular control.
This allows to set another three variables called:

- `matrix_nginx_proxy_ssl_protocols`,
- `matrix_nginx_proxy_ssl_prefer_server_ciphers`
- `matrix_nginx_proxy_ssl_ciphers`

Also a new task is added to validate the SSL configuration variable.

so transfer limits are properly set in accord to the relevant setting
https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy/pull/456#issuecomment-719996778

to prevent "404 on the federation port for the path `/_matrix/media`,
if a remote server is trying to get the media object on federation
port, see https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8695 "

https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/pull/8701

Fixes #696 (Github Issue)

The regex introduced in 63a49bb2dc seems to take precedence
over the bare location blocks, causing a regression.

> It is important to understand that, by default, Nginx will serve regular expression matches in preference to prefix matches.
> However, it evaluates prefix locations first, allowing for the administer to override this tendency by specifying locations using the = and ^~ modifiers.

Source: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/understanding-nginx-server-and-location-block-selection-algorithms

(yes, a bit awkward and brittle… xD)

Fixes #685 (Github Issue).

In #628 I proposed a CORS change that turns out not to be the root of the issue. Caffeine-addled diagnosis leads to sloppy thinking, and this change should be reverted. In fact, if left it will cause problems for new installations.

Even with the v2 updates listed in #503 and partially addressed in #614, this is still needed to enable identity services to function with Element Desktop/Web. Testing on multiple clients with a clean config has confirmed this, at least for my installation.

Hopefully fixes a regression caused by b106a9592e.

Related to #597 (Github Pull Request).

Fix regression since 2a50b8b6bb (#597).

Dimension is intended to be embedded in various clients,
be it the Element service that we host (at element.DOMAIN),
some other Element (element-desktop running locally), etc.

Fixes #586 (Github Issue)

Besides /_synapse/admin, there are other things like
/_synapse/oidc, etc.

We should just proxy everything.

Fixes #534 (Github Issue).

FIXME: horrid duplication in template file

· 😅 How to keep this in sync with the matrix-synapse documentation?
· regex location matching is expensive
· nginx syntax limit: one location only per block / statement
· thus, lots of duplicate statements in this file

Fixes #417 (Github Issue)

Continuation of #234 (Github Pull Request).

I had unintentionally updated the documentation for the feature,
saying the page is available at `https://matrix.DOMAIN/nginx_status`.

Looks like it wasn't the case, going against my expectations.

I'm correcting this with this patch.
The status page is being made available on both HTTP and HTTPS.
Serving over HTTP is likely necessary for services like
Longview
(https://www.linode.com/docs/platform/longview/longview-app-for-nginx/)

Fixes #191 (Github Issue).

Use Jinja2 lstrip_blocks option in templates to ensure consistent
indentation in generated files.

add doc