From 5292fac6ea090c4817c30a48d4d93ef050ca5620 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bob Mottram Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 23:56:03 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Note about initial startup --- doc/EN/app_etherpad.org | 2 ++ website/EN/app_etherpad.html | 18 +++++++++++------- 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/EN/app_etherpad.org b/doc/EN/app_etherpad.org index 3d9eca8f..f30863d2 100644 --- a/doc/EN/app_etherpad.org +++ b/doc/EN/app_etherpad.org @@ -34,6 +34,8 @@ After the install has completed go to *Security settings* and select *Create a n * Initial setup If you have just obtained a Lets Encrypt certificate as above then go to *About* on the administrator control panel and you should see your Etherpad domain listed there along with an onion address. You can then navigate to your site in a browser. +Please be aware that after installation the etherpad daemon takes a while to start up for the first time. On a low powered system such as a Beaglebone Black this can take ten minutes or more. So if you navigate to the site and see a "/Bad Gateway/" error then don't panic. Wait for ten minutes and try again. + If you installed the system using a disk image then you can log in using the username and password which was originally shown when you installed the system. If you didn't install from a disk image then a new random password will be generated for each site and stored within a readme file. If you need to view that file then exit to the user control panel, select *Exit to the command line* and then run: #+begin_src bash diff --git a/website/EN/app_etherpad.html b/website/EN/app_etherpad.html index 3001d35e..a03a8324 100644 --- a/website/EN/app_etherpad.html +++ b/website/EN/app_etherpad.html @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> - + @@ -251,9 +251,9 @@ for the JavaScript code in this tag. For collaborative document editing Etherpad is hard to beat. Just log in, choose a document title and then edit. Different users will appear in different colours, and can also chat in the sidebar. This is installed as a private system in which only users on your Freedombone server will be able to create and edit documents, so it's not open to any random users on the internet.

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If you have just obtained a Lets Encrypt certificate as above then go to About on the administrator control panel and you should see your Etherpad domain listed there along with an onion address. You can then navigate to your site in a browser.

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If you installed the system using a disk image then you can log in using the username and password which was originally shown when you installed the system. If you didn't install from a disk image then a new random password will be generated for each site and stored within a readme file. If you need to view that file then exit to the user control panel, select Exit to the command line and then run: