phocean/etherpad repository overview

⁠Purpose

This is a Dockerfile to build a Docker container running Etherpad on your machine.

Etherpad is a nice Web based share whiteboard, very handy to work in a group or in a class.

⁠Build

You can build the image with this command:

docker build -t debian-etherpad .

⁠Run

Etherpad is started with the following command:

docker run -d --name etherpad -p 80:9001 -v etherpad:/opt/etherpad-lite/var -t debian-etherpad

I recommend creating an alias with this command in your shell.

After that, you should be able to access to the Web interface from your favorite browser at these URLs:

http://127.0.0.1
http://<your LAN IP address>

Note that, for persistency, it creates a Docker volume named etherpad.

So, even if you delete the container that way:

docker rm -f etherpad

And you run a new container, previous data will still be available.

The data is preserved in a Docker volume. You can see it there:

% docker volume ls
DRIVER              VOLUME NAME
local               etherpad

If you want to stop persistency and reset all data, just delete this volume before running a new container:

docker volume rm etherpad