Cryptpad

[marcusquinn]

Interesting, I don't remember seeing the Poll, Kanban & Whiteboard apps before. It is kinda cool.

[robi]

Yes, this is amazing timing, as I just had a request for something like this for a small team needing a PM tool.

@marcusquinn thanks for pointing out the new features, I didn't know they did that either.

@mehdi is this something easy to package being it's a node app?

@girish something quick?

[mehdi]

@robi Annoyingly, it seems Cryptpad is impossible to package for cloudron for the moment
Their app requires 2 different origins, or domains: one to serve the UI, and one the API.
Reading their doc, there does not seem to be a way to work-around this requirement.

Once upon a time, Cloudron had a "SSL" addon (or TLS ? I'm not 100% sure of the name), which allowed an app to directly have access to the certs. In that case, it would have been possible to serve the API directly on a different port that way. However, it would have been a very complicated setup, jumping through a lot of hoops, and using another nginx inside the package to serve https on this other port..

Honestly, I don't see a clean way, even taking into account possible changes to cloudron, to do this cleanly. I know supporting multiple domains is planned, but requiring another domain for this app, and only 2 domains, not more, seems very specific to this setup

[girish]

@mehdi I guess one hack is to package frontend and backend as separate apps (like matrix synapse/riot). Not ideal but something.

[mehdi]

@girish said in Cryptpad:

@mehdi I guess one hack is to package frontend and backend as separate apps (like matrix synapse/riot). Not ideal but something.

I'm not sure even that would work, as they are supposed to be run as a single server process ... I have no idea if it's only to make things easier, or if the "front-end" part actually uses stuff stored in the DB, etc. In any case, it would at least require extensive manual modifications of the config files to make the 2 apps work with each other

[robi]

Could we do it by adding a redirection sub-domain after it's installed and restarting the app to pick up the new sub-domain?

Adding that to the first run instructions of the app.

[sysadmin]

https://github.com/campbellmcgregor/cryptpad-cloudron

I'm not entirely sure who's work this is, but would anyone know if this solved any of the problems mentioned in this thread? If someone could ping the author, I would appreciate it! (I did not see a result for @campbellmcgregor here on the forums)

Or has any of the new current/proposed features of Cloudron made this any easier to get running on Cloudron?

[A Former User]

@sysadmin As far as I can tell this encounters the same issues

[jdaviescoates]

@atrilahiji @sysadmin doesn't the "multi-domain apps" thing we've had since 6.1 help with this?

@girish said in Cloudron 6.1 released:

Multi-domain apps - Apps like EspoCRM, Surfer, Kutt already support this. WP Multi-site is coming soon (hopefully next week).

[hollosch]

This would be awsome !!!

[LoudLemur]

@marcusquinn Great suggestion!

CryptPad has a Docker.

https://github.com/xwiki-labs/cryptpad-docker

It looks slick and the end-to-end encryption is sweet. If you haven't seen it yet, try the demo. It supports whiteboard, rich text, kanban, etc.

https://cryptpad.fr/

There is an unrelated project, yn (yanknote) which provides lovely functionality in a markdown editor. Check out some of the features it supports in the demo:

https://github.com/purocean/yn
https://yank-note.vercel.app/

[robi]

@LoudLemur wow Yank Note is awesome, even with offline standalone versions for Mac/Lin/Win.

You should make its own entry for the App Wishlist

[LoudLemur]

@robi
Yeah, it is really cool, but he is quite funny as if you want "dark mode" and a couple of other features, he wants $6! It is amazing what it can do though, especially for integrating charts, diagrams etc into text.

[robi]

@LoudLemur oh that's too funny!

Yeah dark mode is a must. If he mentioned that up front, I think more people might take him up on it.

[marcusquinn]

@mehdi Is the "2 different origins" issue solved now with the latest updates @girish made that Minio is using for multiple domains?

[mehdi]

@marcusquinn You are correct, I think there is no more blocking problem.

[LoudLemur]

@robi Do we have a "dark mode" option for our Cloudrons?
I had a look and couldn't see one.

[girish]

This was actually quite easy to "install" but I am having a hard time following the setup specifically the domains part - https://docs.cryptpad.fr/en/admin_guide/installation.html#domains. It looks like the app requires a nginx of it's own - https://github.com/xwiki-labs/cryptpad/blob/main/docs/example.nginx.conf , I have to read more .

[robi]

@girish
Looking at the example nginx.conf -- the sandbox domain is not required, but an optional feature.

If you want to implement it anyway.. as a default it can be a sub2.sub1.domain.com so it fits in with one subdomain per CL App.
Ex.
main domain - cryptpad.domain.com
sandbox - secure.cryptpad.domain.com

To me, it does not look like it needs a separate nginx, as it's a node JS app, which you know how to connect to.

[girish]

I have this going at https://git.cloudron.io/cloudron/cryptpad-app . This is published as unstable. Currently, the app is still "insecure" because it uses only one domain. I have to admit that even after reading their docs multiple times, I don't quite understand the point of these multiple domains.