• Etherpad Office Import & Export after Upgrade to V1

    Date: 2010.05.06 | Category: etherpad, Uncategorized

    V1 does not natively support office import / exports yet due to a licensing issue but if you had it working before you can do a few steps that will get you started.  We use Open Office in a headless mode to accomplish this.

    1.  Copy the cos.jar to infrastructure/lib (replacing etherpadbackup is the folder you backed your original etherpad installation to (etherpad <v1)

    cp /usr/local/etherpadbackup/trunk/infrastructure/lib/cos.jar /usr/share/etherpad/infrastructure/lib/

    2. Run soffice in headless mode

    /usr/bin/soffice -headless -nofirststartwizard -accept=”socket,host=localhost,port=8100;urp;StarOffice.Service”


    3. Uncomment the lines in execution.scala that are commented “REMOVED_COS_OF_COS”

    4. Reset your exports 

    export JAVA_HOME="/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun"
export SCALA_HOME="/usr/share/java"
export JAVA="/usr/bin/java"
export SCALA="/usr/bin/scala"
export PATH="/usr/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/mysql/bin:$PATH"
export MYSQL_CONNECTOR_JAR="/usr/share/java/mysql-connector-java-5.1.10.jar"

    4. Rebuild and Run.

    cd /usr/share/etherpad/etherpad/
bin/rebuildjar.sh clearcache
/etc/init.d/etherpad stop
/etc/init.d/etherpad start
    Note, in your etherpad.properties.local you should have the line:
    etherpad.soffice = /usr/bin/soffice
    It is important so don’t forget it.

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