Note about initial startup

5292fac6 · Bob Mottram · 91c2608d · 5292fac6 · 5292fac6
Commit 5292fac6 authored 8 years ago by Bob Mottram
--- 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

--- 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">
 <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
 <head>
-<!-- 2016-11-14 Mon 14:48 -->
+<!-- 2016-11-18 Fri 23:55 -->
 <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" />
 <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" />
 <title></title>
@@ -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.
 </p>

-<div id="outline-container-orge60fe38" class="outline-2">
-<h2 id="orge60fe38">Installation</h2>
-<div class="outline-text-2" id="text-orge60fe38">
+<div id="outline-container-org62df1b2" class="outline-2">
+<h2 id="org62df1b2">Installation</h2>
+<div class="outline-text-2" id="text-org62df1b2">
 <p>
 Log into your system with:
 </p>
@@ -277,13 +277,17 @@ After the install has completed go to <b>Security settings</b> and select <b>Cre
 </div>
 </div>

-<div id="outline-container-org82ab833" class="outline-2">
-<h2 id="org82ab833">Initial setup</h2>
-<div class="outline-text-2" id="text-org82ab833">
+<div id="outline-container-orgf51f407" class="outline-2">
+<h2 id="orgf51f407">Initial setup</h2>
+<div class="outline-text-2" id="text-orgf51f407">
 <p>
 If you have just obtained a Lets Encrypt certificate as above then go to <b>About</b> 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.
 </p>

+<p>
+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 "<i>Bad Gateway</i>" error then don't panic. Wait for ten minutes and try again.
+</p>
+
 <p>
 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 <b>Exit to the command line</b> and then run:
 </p>