From c53b4573f0f908110cf8f472cd8b6fb87c8f8db7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Egil Moeller Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 23:39:12 +0200 Subject: Added installation instructions --- INSTALL | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+) create mode 100644 INSTALL diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7d7985e --- /dev/null +++ b/INSTALL @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +Installation instructions: + +* Install the dependencies: Scala 2.7, Sun Java JDK 6, libmysql-java + +* Uninstall gcj if it's installed as it seems to interfere with the + Scala compiler. You can safely reinstall it after compiling Etherpad + if you want to. + +* Edit the files bin/build.sh and bin/run.sh (and optionally + bin/etherpad.init.d) and change the paths to match your system. + +* Run bin/build.sh + +* Create a new user on your system called "etherpad" + +* Create a MySQL database "etherpad" and a database user "etherpad" + +* Copy etherpad/etc/etherpad.localdev-default.properties to etherpad/etc/etherpad.local.properties + +* Edit etherpad/etc/etherpad.local.properties and set + etherpad.SQL_JDBC_URL + Example etherpad.SQL_JDBC_URL = jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/etherpad + etherpad.SQL_PASSWORD + etherpad.SQL_USERNAME = etherpad + etherpad.adminPass + topdomains + Example: topdomains = yourhostname.com,localhost + +* Create a link to bin/etherpad.init.d from /etc/init.d/etherpad + +* Run /etc/init.d/etherpad start -- cgit v1.2.3-1-g7c22