[HLUG] Etherpad and servers

[Julian Robbins]

Hi Pete

Good to hear from you again!

Sorry that your team is having problems accessing the riseup.net servers,
this does happen and it's not always at all easy to get these sorts of
restrictions lifted.

Couple of points :-

   1. I'm sure there's plenty of other Etherpad servers that your team can
   reach, you may want to Google and try a few. Although I appreciate you may
   have the same issue as before unless everyone can test access.
   2. You could try https://framapad.org - it's the same as Etherpad but
   just hosted by Framapad. May be a better less restricted option maybe?
   3. If I had time I'd set something up for you, but I just don't really
   have the time these days ... sorry. If I could find an easy to setup
   option, may be worth doing like on Cloudiron perhaps,
   https://www.cloudron.io/button/org.etherpad.cloudronapp.html ? This
   would be quick, but still needs a VPS setting up to host on.

Hope this helps a bit ...

Anyone else want to help Pete?

Thanks

Julian

On Fri, 12 Jul 2024 at 12:56, pl via Herefordshire <
herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:

> Hi Gang,
>
> I've been using etherpads on the service provided by riseup.net for some
> years but ran into issues with my latest piece of work.
>
> Some members of the team are reporting being unable to open the link,
> and more aware members that the link is being blocked by their security
> set ups- with indication that it is the domain causing the issue rather
> than the http/ https variation. Note that this is suggestive only not a
> known fact.
>
> The work is urgent and distributed, with about 20 team members across
> the UK and a deadline to produce a document by Thursday 18th (next week)
> I do not have any resources to dig my way out of this, nor is there any
> pot of gold, so COTS solutions only that do not make demands on anyone's
> time or resources.
>
> I imagine that a solution could be;
>
> Temporary virtual server with a secure login for users and an instance
> of etherpad.
>
> Something similar to the above as a sandboxed part of an existing
> private server (it won't take much space and the work is text only so
> very limited bandwidth needed).
>
> A known link to an ethernet service which is compliant with highly
> paranoid business/ third sector IT security set ups. (Some team members
> are inside such networks and have no control at all, some are paying for
> IT support and security for their own SME level systems).
>
> Any suggestions, proposals, offers of solutions, most welcome...
>
> Pete H@
>
>
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