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Setting up cryptpad server

CryptPad provides a full-fledged office suite with all the tools necessary for productive collaboration. Applications include Rich Text, Spreadsheets, Code/Markdown, Kanban, Slides, Whiteboard, and Forms.

The Source is ]https://docs.cryptpad.org/en/admin_guide/installation.html]

The instructions are pretty clear for the most part and there is an npm option and a docker option. As of October 2024, the docker option is not stable and worth using instead of the javascript option.

Below are some quick links and code that may be helpful.

https://cryptpad.irregularchat.com/checkup/

PM2 should be used instead of foreverjs and not just node.

pm2 start server.js --name cryptpad
pm2 save
pm2 list
sudo apt update;sudo apt install nginx -y
sudo mkdir -p /etc/nginx/conf.d/
sudo nano /etc/nginx/conf.d/cryptpad.conf
sudo openssl dhparam -out /etc/nginx/dhparam.pem 4096

Beyond the guidance from the documentation, it has worked to ``` git pull