Software configuration for commodity x86/86_64 linux art research platform.
Prerequisites
Assume Fedora 27. See base document for full software stack.
Etherpad Setup
Etherpad is a collaborating system for writing. Some required packages: Node.js
dnf install -y nodejs
Next, create a system-level user to checkout the etherpad sources and run the etherpad application. For this, use parseepad. After this is done, clone the repository.
cd /var/www;
git clone https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite.git;
This will checkout sources in the following directory, which doubles as the installation location for this package: /var/www/etherpad-lite
To start up the etherpads, run
/var/www/etherpad-lite/bin/run.sh
And then open the following in a browser, to bring up the etherpad main page:
http://localhost:9100
Close the terminal or otherwise exit the etherpad process to continue installation.
Next, conversion to mysql database. Configure the etherpad database, called parse_pad_db.
mysqladmin create parse_pad_db -u root -p
Make a system database user parsepad, give it access to the etherpads’s database.
sudo mysql -D mysql -u root -p;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON parse_pad_db.* TO 'parsepad'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'yer-password-here';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
QUIT;
Next, edit /var/www/etherpad-lite/settings.json to tie in the database above:
/* An Example of MySQL Configuration */
"dbType" : "mysql",
"dbSettings" : {
"user" : "parsepad",
"host" : "localhost",
"password": "your-password-here",
"database": "parse_pad_db",
"charset" : "utf8mb4"
},
Next, go to the admin page and install some plugins:
http://0.0.0.0:9001/admin/plugins
Add the following
adminpads, bookmark, small_list, themes, font_color, font_family, font_size, print, copy_paste_images, sketchspace
Finally, restart the etherpad application and start making pads!
Main configuration file is: /var/www/etherpad-lite/settings.json
