How to Make Documents Public ?

[girish]

@freetommy Will have to test this, it used to work but maybe something broke that flow in recent updates.

[Edmond]

HI there facing same issue many thanks for checking

[nebulon]

I just tried this and it seems to work as expected. Is it possible that you have not restarted the app after changing the configuration file?

[freetommy]

@nebulon
To document public,
I need uninstall cloudron plugin, then work.
but, when app restart, the cloudron plugin installed automatically.
then back to login require again.

[nebulon]

@freetommy as far as I can reproduce, if the config file looks something like:

{
  "requireAuthentication": false,
  "ep_cloudron": {
    "admins": [
      "yourusername"
    ]
  }
}

Then direct links via https://pad.example.com/p/foobar will be publicly accessible.

[freetommy]

@nebulon
Oh. Thanks you. I didn't know direct link that is public already.
I thought this page would appear instead login page. Is this setting possible ?

[girish]

@freetommy said in How to Make Documents Public ?:

I thought this page would appear instead login page. Is this setting possible ?

That actually seems like a bug that it asks for authentication . Given that one can access https://pad.example.com/p/anyrandompadname and it doesn't authenticate aynway.

[girish]

I created https://git.cloudron.io/cloudron/etherpad-lite-app/-/issues/17 to fix the plugin.

[nebulon]

The latest version has fixed a few issues related login session and shows now the default welcome screen if requireAuthentication is false
I have added a login button on the top right though for users to authenticate and thus have a list of their own pads

[humptydumpty]

so there's no way to have authentication required and still be able to share a document publicly without having the viewer to sign in?