Setting up cryptpad server

About This Cryptpad Server Guide

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.

Trouble Shooting Cryptpad

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

Serving Cryptpad

Serving Detached

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

pm2 start server.js --name cryptpad

pm2 save

pm2 list

NGINX

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