Install, Configure and Setting up Etherpad Server for Odoo

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Etherpad is a highly customizable Open Source online editor providing collaborative editing in real-time. Etherpad allows you to edit documents collaboratively in real-time, much like a live multi-player editor that runs in your browser. When you install pad_project  module in Odoo, you need to set up Etherpad server first. Installation and Setup of Etherpad is littelbit difficult and tricky. So here we came up with step by step guide to set up Etherpad server in Ubuntu.

We tried to set up Etherpad server inside Ubuntu 14.04 server.

Installation of Etherpad-lite

Create etherpad user.

sudo adduser –system –home=/opt/etherpad –group etherpad

Note :  I choose /opt  folder for the program location in order to keep things clean. So if you want to change that folder then make sure to alter some of the instructions and configuration files below respectively.

sudo apt-get install gzip git-core curl python libssl-dev build-essential abiword python-software-properties

Install nodejs  &  npm

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_5.x | sudo -E bash –

sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

Install and run Etherpad Lite

sudo su – etherpad -s /bin/bash
mkdir -p ~/local/etherpad
cd ~/local/etherpad

git clone git://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite.git

cd etherpad-lite
bin/run.sh

Etherpad-lite servcice is started now by running command bin/run.sh. Without closing the terminal you can open your favorite browser and access etherpad by this link http://localhost:9001/ or http://0.0.0.0:9001/

If you are able to see, following screen then it means your etherpad server is working properly.

Note : If you want to change the port for Etherpad server or other necessary changes, you can set them in following file.

/opt/etherpad/local/etherpad/etherpad-lite/settings.json

Now let’s integrate this etherpad with Odoo. Install pad_project module.

After installation, you have to configure PAD server IP and API key in order to integrate Odoo with Etherpad server. To do so, open any company and inside Configuration tab, you will need to set proper values.

Pad Server  :   http://localhost:9001

Pad Api Key  : ( You can get it from /opt/etherpad/local/etherpad/etherpad-lite/APIKEY.txt  file. Just open that file, copy that key and paste it over here. )

Note :  You can install Etherpad-lite into different server then Odoo server. It is not necessary to keep them both in same server. Just provide the remote IP inside ‘Pad Serveroption inside the configuration in Odoo.

Upon everything properly set up, you will see etherpad available inside any task screen.

You have to start etherpad server manually everytime when you want it to integrate with Odoo. So if you want to create service for etherpad, follow below steps,

sudo mkdir /var/log/etherpad-lite

sudo touch /var/log/etherpad-lite/etherpad-lite.log

sudo chown etherpad.etherpad /var/log/etherpad-lite

sudo chmod -R 777 /var/log/etherpad-lite

Create file etherpad-lite under /etc/init.d folder & Paste the following file content into it.

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#!/bin/sh
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          etherpad-lite
# Required-Start:    $local_fs $remote_fs $network $syslog
# Required-Stop:     $local_fs $remote_fs $network $syslog
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
# Short-Description: starts etherpad lite
# Description:       starts etherpad lite using start-stop-daemon
### END INIT INFO
PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/opt/node/bin"
LOGFILE="/var/log/etherpad-lite/etherpad-lite.log"
EPLITE_DIR="/opt/etherpad/local/etherpad/etherpad-lite"
EPLITE_BIN="bin/run.sh"
USER="etherpad"
GROUP="etherpad"
DESC="Etherpad Lite"
NAME="etherpad-lite"
set -e
/lib/lsb/init-functions
start() {
  echo "Starting $DESC... "
    start-stop-daemon --start --chuid "$USER:$GROUP" --background --make-pidfile --pidfile /var/run/$NAME.pid --exec $EPLITE_DIR/$EPLITE_BIN -- $LOGFILE || true
  echo "done"
}
#We need this function to ensure the whole process tree will be killed
killtree() {
    local _pid=$1
    local _sig=${2-TERM}
    for _child in $(ps -o pid --no-headers --ppid ${_pid}); do
        killtree ${_child} ${_sig}
    done
    kill -${_sig} ${_pid}
}
stop() {
  echo "Stopping $DESC... "
  if test -/var/run/$NAME.pid; then
    while test -/proc/$(cat /var/run/$NAME.pid); do
      killtree $(cat /var/run/$NAME.pid) 15
      sleep 0.5
    done
    rm /var/run/$NAME.pid
  fi
  echo "done"
}
status() {
  status_of_proc -/var/run/$NAME.pid "" "etherpad-lite" && exit 0 || exit $?
}
case "$1" in
  start)
      start
      ;;
  stop)
    stop
      ;;
  restart)
      stop
      start
      ;;
  status)
      status
      ;;
  *)
      echo "Usage: $NAME {start|stop|restart|status}" >&2
      exit 1
      ;;
esac
exit 0

sudo chmod -R 777 /etc/init.d/etherpad-lite

sudo chown -R etherpad.etherpad /etc/init.d/etherpad-lite

Let’s start Etherpad services,

service etherpad-lite start

If you want Etherpad services at startup time then apply following command,

sudo update-rc.d etherpad-lite defaults

That was all about how to set up Etherpad server and integreate it with Odoo. Feel free to send your valuable feedback in Comments area. I will look forward for your queries in case of if above steps are not working.

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