etherpad lite #1

Supports: trusty

Description

Collaborative document sharing for the Internet

Overview

Etherpad lite is a really-real time collaborative editor spawned from the Hell fire of Etherpad. It reuses the well tested Etherpad easysync library to make it really realtime.

Etherpad Lite is based on node.js ergo is much lighter and more stable than the original Etherpad. Our hope is that this will encourage more users to use and install a realtime collaborative editor.

For more information see https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite.

Usage

Etherpad will happily sit on single server: 

juju deploy etherpad-lite

but it can also be backed by mysql: 

juju deploy mysql
juju add-relation etherpad-lite mysql

Note that if you switch an existing etherpad-lite instance to use mysql you will lose all of the pads within your standalone deployment - same applies vica-versa.

Remember to expose the charm if you want to use it directly: 

juju expose etherpad-lite

Once deployed you can go to http://{etherpad-lite-ip-address}:9001/ where etherpad-lite-ip-address can be found by issuing juju status etherpad-lite

Configuration

The charm has the following configuration:

  • application_url: Bundled BZR branch with node.js deps
  • application_revision: branch revision to update
  • install_dir: directory to install to
  • extra_archives: Add additional PPAs to get an appropriate version of node.js and related packages

To upgrade, set application_revision to the latest version:

juju upgrade-charm etherpad-lite

Your data will be retained in {install_dir}-db, or fixup the mysql relation as above.

Contact Information

The author of the charm is James Page james.page@ubuntu.com

etherpad-lite

Configuration

application_name
(string) Operating name of the application.
etherpad-lite
application_revision
(string) Revision to pull from application_url BZR repo.
4
application_url
(string) BZR repository containing etherpad-list and dependencies.
lp:etherpad-lite-charm-deps
application_user
(string) System user id to run the application under.
etherpad
extra_archives
(string) Extra archives to add to install node.js and dependencies.
install_path
(string) Install path for etherpad-lite application.
/srv/etherpad-lite