Install Our ShareLatex

ShareLaTeX is an online Latex editor, which allows collaboration with other users in real time, along with its compilation of PDF projects. This editor is accessible through the Web being a server-based application.

Here, I will write the steps to follow to install ShareLaTeX on our servers, in this case, I have used Ubuntu 16.04.

Step 1. Install these packages:  docker, and curl

apt-get install -y docker docker-compose curl

Step 2. Install docker-compose

curl -L "https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/1.8.1/docker-compose-$(uname -s)-$(uname -m)" > /usr/local/bin/docker-compose

Step 3. Give the appropriate permissions to the docker-compose folder

chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose

Step 4. Create the ShareLaTex folder, enter that folder and download the compose file for ShareLaTeX

mkdir sharelatex && cd ./sharelatex

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sharelatex/sharelatex/master/docker-compose.yml

Step 5. Change default parameters by our parameters, such as the port and email configuration

sed -i -e "s/ - 80:80/ - 6000:80/g" ./docker-compose.yml

sed -i -e "s\ # SHARELATEX_SITE_URL: http://sharelatex.mydomain.com\ SHARELATEX_SITE_URL: http://site.com:6000\g" ./docker-compose.yml

sed -i -e "s/ # SHARELATEX_NAV_TITLE: Our ShareLaTeX Instance/ SHARELATEX_NAV_TITLE: Our Title/g" ./docker-compose.yml

sed -i -e "s/ # SHARELATEX_ADMIN_EMAIL: support@it.com/ SHARELATEX_ADMIN_EMAIL: admin@site.com/g" ./docker-compose.yml

sed -i -e "s\ # SHARELATEX_HEADER_IMAGE_URL: http://somewhere.com/mylogo.png\ SHARELATEX_HEADER_IMAGE_URL: http://site.com/logo.png\g" ./docker-compose.yml

sed -i -e "s/ # SHARELATEX_EMAIL_FROM_ADDRESS: \"team@sharelatex.com\"/ SHARELATEX_EMAIL_FROM_ADDRESS: \'adminMail@site.com\'/g" ./docker-compose.yml

sed -i -e "s/ # SHARELATEX_EMAIL_SMTP_HOST: smtp.mydomain.com/ SHARELATEX_EMAIL_SMTP_HOST: smtp.site.com/g" ./docker-compose.yml

sed -i -e "s/ # SHARELATEX_EMAIL_SMTP_PORT: 587/ SHARELATEX_EMAIL_SMTP_PORT: 465/g" ./docker-compose.yml

sed -i -e "s/ # SHARELATEX_EMAIL_SMTP_SECURE: false/ SHARELATEX_EMAIL_SMTP_SECURE: 'true'/g" ./docker-compose.yml

sed -i -e "s/ # SHARELATEX_EMAIL_SMTP_USER: / SHARELATEX_EMAIL_SMTP_USER: 'adminMail@site.com'/g" ./docker-compose.yml

sed -i -e "s/ # SHARELATEX_EMAIL_SMTP_PASS: / SHARELATEX_EMAIL_SMTP_PASS: 'password123'/g" ./docker-compose.yml

sed -i -e "s/ # SHARELATEX_EMAIL_SMTP_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTH: true/ SHARELATEX_EMAIL_SMTP_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTH: 'true'/g" ./docker-compose.yml

sed -i -e "s/ # SHARELATEX_EMAIL_SMTP_IGNORE_TLS: false/ SHARELATEX_EMAIL_SMTP_IGNORE_TLS: 'false'/g" ./docker-compose.yml

Step 6. Download dependencies and run the server in the background next time.

docker-compose up -d

Step 7. Install the LaTeX packages

docker exec sharelatex tlmgr update --self

docker exec sharelatex tlmgr install scheme-full

Step 8. Create Administrator

http://site.com:6000/launchpad

Extra:
To stop or start ShareLaTeX services:

docker-compose stop sharelatex

docker-compose start sharelatex

In case of making other configurations in ShareLaTeX, you can enter the docker image with

docker exec -it sharelatex bash

Edit the /etc/sharelatex/settings.coffee by adding the correct settings

Some useful commands for docker:

To clear containers:
docker rm -f $(docker ps -a -q)

To clear images:
docker rmi -f $(docker images -a -q)

To clear volumes:
docker volume rm $(docker volume ls -q)

To clear networks:
docker network rm $(docker network ls | tail -n+2 | awk '{if($2 !~ /bridge|none|host/){ print $1 }}')