From 5292fac6ea090c4817c30a48d4d93ef050ca5620 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bob Mottram <bob@robotics.uk.to> 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 3d9eca8fb..f30863d27 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 3001d35e3..a03a8324d 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"> <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> -- GitLab