Hi everyone,
I know it can seem to be a bad place to ask for help on etherpad but I think many people can be interested in setting up a light collaboration tool from A to Z on their personal cloud installation. The easier it will get to install new features, the more nextcloud will be attractive.
So, I set up my nextcloud instance on my raspberry pi and it works like a charm. Now I want to set up an online text collaboration solution for my friends and I. I first thought of onlyoffice and collabora online but quickly realized it required way to much computational power to run on my raspberry. Etherpad Lite seemed to be exactly what I need, so I installed ownpad and got it to work using a public instance of etherpad. This is great but :
- I would like to be able to add my own plugins so that I can put pictures and other cool stuff.
- I want to be 100% selfhosted
- I just discovered etherpad but I find it really awesome and want to get to know it better.
For these good reasons, I want to get my own instance of Etherpad up and running ! I followed tutorials to install etherpad lite and got it to work on localhost by typing in the url the ip adress of my raspberry followed by :9001 (so 192.168.0.17:9001 --> I’m french). Then I got more familiar with the concept of virtualhost using this very good tutorial [ https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-apache-virtual-hosts-on-ubuntu-14-04-lts ] and bought a real domain name (not a no-ip one because it wouldn’t work) that I managed to link to the virtualhost. Let’s say it’s “example.com”. From there I modified the virtualhost listening to example.com following the instructions I found there [ https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite/wiki/How-to-put-Etherpad-Lite-behind-a-reverse-Proxy ] using the section dedicated to apache and replaced “etherpad.domain.org” by “example.com” and activated all the services ( mod_proxy , mod_proxy_http , mod_headers , proxy_wstunnel , mod_deflate and mod_rewrite). BUT IT DOESN’T WORK !!! I get the following error :
Service Unavailable
The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later.
Apache/2.4.25 (Raspbian) Server at example.com Port 80
I really feel like I am missing something. I want to access my instance through “example.com” and thought setting up a reverse proxy would be the right way to do it, but now I am not sure anymore. Maybe reverse proxy just has nothing to do with what I am trying to do. Please help <3
Server version: Apache/2.4.25
Php version : PHP 7.0.30-0+deb9u1 (cli)
Operating system and version :
Distributor ID: Raspbian
Description: Raspbian GNU/Linux 9.4 (stretch)
Release: 9.4
Node.js is up to date
I don’t have ssl activated