Running your own Self-Hosted Etherpad Instance
December 18, 2009 | code, open source | 12 comments
Etherpad is an amazing real-time collaborative editor with a very low barrier for entry (no logins, no additional software, etc.). In case you missed it, Etherpad was acquired by Google and after a community uproar decided to release their code as open source under the Apache License 2.0.
We were excited to get it up and running for our own internal use. What follows is a step-by-step guide of how we proped it up on our development servers.
Caveats:
- We’re not Java guys, so if there is something we could be doing better, let us know.
- The default setup of Etherpad is RAM hungry. Make sure you have at least 256MB free before you get started.
- Our instructions are Ubuntu/Debian specific, but should be easy to translate to a different distribution.
Step 1: Get the Requirements
mkdir /opt/webapps/etherpad/ && cd /opt/webapps/etherpad/
sudo aptitude install ...
