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Wish: Documentation how to setup CE for development.

Open axkibe opened this issue 2 years ago • 2 comments

With the toolkit getting Overleaf CE running is certainly fairly easy. Congrats.

What I didn't figure out or find any documentation about is how to install a system on which one can more easily hack around. I ended up installing CE as normal, in a container shell renaming /var/www/sharelatex to /var/www/sharelatex-org. Shutting it down, changing lib/docker-compose.base.yml to mount /var/ww/sharelatex to a directory in my home drive, starting it again an in a container shell moving it all back to /var/www/sharelatex so I can easily access and change the files from outside (unfortunately as sudo/root only tough). (the joke here is at the end I didn't modify the container at all and had all my hacking externally working on arms length but anyway)

I guess you have something more sensible in place. Would be nice if there would be guide somewhere, might get you in the long run more pull requests ;)

PS: I'm certainly you're aware that a lot of README.md's still point to the old repositories.. also got me confused at first.

PPS: I fully understand this hasn't got any priority.

axkibe avatar Dec 14 '21 12:12 axkibe