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Run Etherpad Lite inside a Docker container. This variant of an Etherpad Docker container is characterized by:

At run time:

• Using SQLite as data backend.
• Allow using persistent volumes for data, plugins and settings.
• Allow running with specific uid and gid. Runs with uid/gid 1000 by default.
• Create administration user with configurable password.
• Using Abiword for import/export of DOC or PDF. ODF is not supported yet - it just crashes the abiword binary for unknown reason.

At image build time:

• By default it uses the latest Etherpad Lite 1.8.0 version.
• Allows to install another Etherpad Lite version (by Git tag or branch).

Usage

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Start an Etherpad Lite instance listening on TCP port 9001

docker run -p 9001:9001 kaergel/etherpad-lite

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Set password for administration user named admin

docker run -p 9001:9001 \
  -e ETHERPAD_ADMIN_PASSWORD='my-secret-password' \
  kaergel/etherpad-lite

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Specify uid and gid (example 1111)

docker run -p 9001:9001 \
  -e USERID=1111 \
  -e GROUPID=1111 \
  kaergel/etherpad-lite

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Make plugins, database and settings persistent

docker run -p 9001:9001 \
  -v /opt/etherpad-lite/var:/opt/etherpad-lite/var \
  -v /opt/etherpad-lite/node_modules:/opt/etherpad-lite/node_modules \
  kaergel/etherpad-lite

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Build another version Only latest stable release (1.8.0) is available from hub.docker.com. You may build any other release you want by specifying an etherpad-lite branch or tag when building your own image:

docker build -e ETHERPAD_VERSION='1.7.5' .