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debian

• OVH server: debian 11 (bullseye)
• Servus server: debian 12 (bookworm)
• latest stable: debian 13 (trixie)

apt

OVH server

• sources: /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye main
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye main
deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security main
deb-src http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security main
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-updates main
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-updates main
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-backports main
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-backports main

backports were added for cobbled-paths installation?

i think we can do without when we upgrade to trixie on the Servus server

Servus server

upgrading from bookworm to trixie: https://www.debian.org/releases/trixie/release-notes/upgrading.en.html

• sources: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.sources

Types: deb
URIs: https://deb.debian.org/debian
Suites: trixie trixie-updates
Components: main non-free-firmware non-free contrib
Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-keyring.gpg

Types: deb
URIs: https://security.debian.org/debian-security
Suites: trixie-security
Components: main non-free-firmware non-free contrib
Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-keyring.gpg

etherpad-lite

/srv/etherpad-lite/

• database: sqlite (878MB on 7 Nov 2025)
• /etc/systemd/system/etherpad-lite.service (generated by installation)

[Unit]
Description=etherpad-lite (real-time collaborative document editing)
After=syslog.target network.target

[Service]
Type=simpleUser=etherpad-lite
User=etherpad-lite
Group=etherpad-lite
Environment=NODE_ENV=production
ExecStart=/bin/sh /srv/etherpad-lite/src/bin/run.sh

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

installing on Servus server

https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite?tab=readme-ov-file#installation

required: Node.js >= 18.18.2.

nodejs in apt trixie: nodejs/stable 20.19.2+dfsg-1 amd64

apt install nodejs npm

npm install -g pnpm

"pnpm is up to 2x faster than npm" (hmm, oke)

git clone -b master https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite.git

pnpm i

pnpm run build:etherpad

pnpm run prod

open etherpad at: http://localhost:9001

For plugins: https://static.etherpad.org/index.html

cd /path/to/etherpad-lite
pnpm run plugins i ep_${plugin_name}

mediawiki

/var/www/html/wiki/

• php: php7.4

octomode

/var/www/octomode/

• flask application
• /etc/systemd/system/octomode.service

[Unit]
Description=Collective PDF rendering environment
After=network.target

[Service]
User=octomode
WorkingDirectory=/var/www/octomode
ExecStart=/usr/bin/make action
Restart=always
StandardOutput=append:/var/log/octomode/octomode.log
StandardError=append:/var/log/octomode/octomode.log

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

wiki-to-print

/var/www/wiki2print/

• flask application
• /etc/systemd/system/wiki2print.service

[Unit]
Description=wiki2print
After=network.target

[Service]
User=www-data
WorkingDirectory=/var/www/wiki2print/web-interface/
ExecStart=/usr/bin/make server
#ExecStart=export SCRIPT_NAME=/wiki-to-print && /var/www/wiki2print/web-interface/venv/bin/gunicorn -b localhost:5522 --reload web-interface:APP
Restart=always

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

backups through crontab:

# every night at 3:33
33 3 * * * mysqldump --user=wiki --password=XXX wikidb > /var/www/html/wiki/ wikidb_backup.sql
33 3 * * * mysqldump --user=wiki --password=XXX wikidb --xml > /var/www/html/wiki/wikidb_backup.xml

cobbled-paths

/var/www/cobbled-paths/

nginx

/var/www/html/
/home/manetta/public_html/
/home/simoon/public_html/
/home/friends/public_html/

certbot

auto-renewal through crontab:

# every night at 04:44
44 4 * * * certbot renew --pre-hook "systemctl stop nginx" --post-hook "systemctl start nginx" --quiet