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David Ramirez
Asked: 2019-11-19 12:02:37 +0800 CST

Read-only etherpad

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Is there any way to make an etherpad site read-only?
I know I can disable new pads creation in the settings.json file ("editOnly" : true), but this doesn't seem to limit users from altering existing contents. I just want to decommission the site from active use but leave it online for lookups to legacy entries - but no modifications on these.

Platform: CentOS 6, proxy: HAProxy; MySQL back-end.

Thanks!

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1 Answers

  1. You can get a read only ID for a pad with the getReadOnlyId() method of the API: https://etherpad.org/doc/v1.7.0/

    It returns a random-looking ID that you then use in lieu of the original one, e.g. http://my.etherpad.net/p/foobarbazreadonlyid.

    But there doesn't seem to be a way to make an existing pad read only while retaining the URL, however.

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