From 459d089af7e90a703df9637a071e9285bf85eb12 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Brendan Abolivier Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2020 21:05:30 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Mention that using Synapse to serve certificates requires restarts --- docs/ACME.md | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/ACME.md b/docs/ACME.md index 3b4416efe..97ac3c5ba 100644 --- a/docs/ACME.md +++ b/docs/ACME.md @@ -35,7 +35,9 @@ In case you can't do that and need Synapse to serve them itself, make sure to set the `tls_certificate_path` configuration setting to the path of the certificate (make sure to use the certificate containing the full certification chain, e.g. `fullchain.pem` if using certbot) and -`tls_private_key_path` to the path of the matching private key. +`tls_private_key_path` to the path of the matching private key. Note +that in this case you will need to restart Synapse after each +certificate renewal so that Synapse stops using the old certificate. If you still want to use Synapse's built-in ACME support, the rest of this document explains how to set it up.