Etherpad Lite (Debian)

Anleitung für Etherpad Lite auf Debian 8 mit systemd.

Systemvoraussetzungen installieren

# apt-get install gzip git curl python libssl-dev nodejs build-essential
# apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client

Node.js_installieren_(Debian)

Installation Etherpad Lite 1.6.0

System-User etherpad erstellen

# adduser --system --group etherpad

Repository von git clonen

$ cd /home/etherpad
$ sudo -u etherpad git clone git://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite.git

Einrichtung

$ cd /home/etherpad/etherpad-lite
$ cp settings.json.template settings.json
$ emacs settings.json

Datenbankname und Verbindungsdaten eingeben

Installation als Dienst

Ensure the etherpad-lite user has full access to the etherpad-lite source.

Create a new file etherpad-lite.service in /etc/systemd/system/

[Unit]
Description=etherpad-lite (real-time collaborative document editing)
After=syslog.target network.target 

[Service]
Type=simple
User=etherpad-lite
Group=etherpad-lite
ExecStart=/srv/etherpad-lite/bin/run.sh

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Run

systemctl enable etherpad-lite 

to enable the service on boot.

Dienststeuerung

systemctl start etherpad-lite         # start the service

NB: might need to change "/srv/etherpad-lite/bin/run.sh" with "/bin/sh /srv/etherpad-lite/bin/run.sh" according to configuration