Has anyone tried to host element-web on a personal server?

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  • Element

    A glossy Matrix collaboration client for the web.

  • I'm using a VPS running Debian that I have used to host a matrix homeserver for a while now. I downloaded the latest release of element-web from github and extracted it to /var/www/element. I also set up a config file in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/element. Then I copied the config in /var/www/element/element/config.sample.config to config.config and edited it. The only thing I really didn't understand how to do from the README was set up the correct caching headers, but I added add_header Cache-Control "no-cache"; to the nginx config file.

  • hydrogen-web

    Lightweight matrix client with legacy and mobile browser support

  • Hydrogen's installation process was pretty much exactly the same as Element, the github README was just a lot less specific and there is no config file so you have to edit the HTML directly to get it to point to your site instead of matrix.org by default.

  • SurveyJS

    Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

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  • sydent

    Sydent: Reference Matrix Identity Server

  • Hydrogen's installation process was pretty much exactly the same as Element, the github README was just a lot less specific and there is no config file so you have to edit the HTML directly to get it to point to your site instead of matrix.org by default.

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