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Etherpad

Real-time document collaboration

Etherpad is a real-time collaborative editor, sort of like a web-based multiplayer Notepad that allows groups of users to simultaneously edit a text document, with the ability to display each author's text in their own color. There is also a chat box in the sidebar to allow meta communication.

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Deploy Etherpad on Amazon EC2

V 18.0

Manifest & Sigs

V 17.1

Manifest & Sigs

GitHub

Issues
Stable version: 18.0 (changelog)

This appliance includes all the standard features in TurnKey Core, and on top of that:

  • EtherPad configurations:
    • Installed from latest version in upstream git repository to /opt/etherpad
    • Pre-configured to use MySQL (recommended for production).
  • Node.js configurations:
    • Installed from latest upstream tarball (includes NPM, with npm-completion out-of-the-box).
    • The nginx web server is pre-configured to proxy to nodejs daemon, with SSL support out of the box.
    • Includes custom nodejs initscript for running node app as daemon.
  • SSL support out of the box
  • Includes postfix MTA (bound to localhost) for sending of email. Also includes webmin postfix module for convenience.
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Usage details & Logging in for Administration

No default passwords: For security reasons there are no default passwords. All passwords are set at system initialization time.

Ignore SSL browser warning: browsers don't like self-signed SSL certificates, but this is the only kind that can be generated automatically. If you have a domain configured, then via Confconsole Advanced menu, you can generate free Let's Encypt SSL/TLS certificates.

Web - point your browser at either:

  1. http://12.34.56.789/ - not encrypted so no browser warning
  2. https://12.34.56.789/ - encrypted with self-signed SSL certificate

Note: some appliances auto direct http to https.

Username for database administration:

  1. MySQL command line tool; log in as root (no password required): 
    $ mysql --user root
Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement.

mysql>

Username for OS system administration:

Login as root except on AWS marketplace which uses username admin.

  1. Point your browser to:
  2. Login with SSH client: 
    ssh root@12.34.56.789

    Special case for AWS marketplace:

    ssh admin@12.34.56.789

* Replace 12.34.56.789 with a valid IP or hostname.