Archive for the ‘etherpad’ Category

• Etherpad Startup execution failed with non-200 response: 500

  Date: 2010.06.29 | Category: etherpad | Response: 0

  Etherpad won’t start and errors with output

  Etherpad Startup execution failed with non-200 response: 500

  Cause:

  Etherpad can’t talk to MySql

  Things to check:

  1. Your /etc/hosts

  2. Your MySQL conf under networking – /etc/mysql/my.cnf

  3. Your MySQL conf  bind-address – /etc/mysql/my.cnf

  4. The etherpad.SQL_JDBC_URL value in /usr/share/etherpad/etherpad/etc/etherpad.local.properties

  Make sure these are correct then restart mysql.  Don’t assume that connecting with mysql -uroot -ppassword etherpad is a good test.

  

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• Grabbing Etherpad Source code using Git

  Date: 2010.06.15 | Category: etherpad | Response: 0

  To grab the latest Etherpad source code prior to installation it is just one command.

  Pre-reqs: git, git-core (possibly?)

  
  git clone git://github.com/ether/pad.git
  

  Done.

  You can grab an older version by doing

  git log

  finding where ye wanna go back to then

  git checkout COMMITVALUE ie bd2190f0453f6a189b84b3ff2f1af05d5e023801

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• Etherpad emails show wrong port (9000) when sending from version 1 running apache and mod_proxy

  Date: 2010.05.06 | Category: etherpad | Response: 0

  Etherpad emails may show as port 9000 if you are using mod_proxy(apache) in front of etherpad.

  If this is a problem simply edit:

  /usr/share/etherpad/etherpad/etc/etherpad.local.properties
  replacing
  hidePorts = false
  with
  hidePorts = true

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• Etherpad Office Import & Export after Upgrade to V1

  Date: 2010.05.06 | Category: Uncategorized, etherpad | Response: 0

  

  Image by Kiberpipa via Flickr

  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
  

  

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• Etherpad on Android based devices

  Date: 2010.03.28 | Category: android, etherpad | Response: 0

  
  This isn’t working yet, nor is it working on the iphone.  It is because the web browser that comes on these devices does not have the correct support for the Etherpad objects.  You can however view pads in read only by browsing to the usual URL.

  We expect more mobile support in late 2010 but it may not be something we can change server side, it may be dependant on the client device browser implementing designMode. Opera Mini now has partial support for designMode however I haven’t tested Etherpad with it. *Update 31/03/2010 – This doesn’t work

  iPhone claims to have support for this but of course it doesn’t work.

  Android’s web browser is built on the WebKit application Framework.  Optional browsers Steel and Dolphin do not appear to support designMode at current.

  Find out more about Etherpad

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