This repository is no longer maintained, as Sharelatex was acquired by Overleaf, the original Sharelatex repository no longer exists, and they have official docker images.

sharelatex-docker

A docker image for running sharelatex. Still working, losely maintained, as ShareLaTex already has their own official image: https://hub.docker.com/r/sharelatex/sharelatex/ In contrast to the official repository this version runs in a single container.

Docker Image

To acquire the build image from the docker's repositories execute:

docker pull  tiagoboldt/sharelatex-docker

Dockerfile

To build the image from source execute:

git clone https://github.com/tiagoboldt/sharelatex-docker.git
cd sharelatex-docker
docker build -t tiagoboldt/sharelatex-docker:sharelatex .

Please keep in mind the building process will take up to 1 hour.

Execution

To start the instance execute:

mkdir /srv/sharelatex-data
docker run -d -p 3000:3000 -v /srv/sharelatex-data:/data tiagoboldt/sharelatex-docker

It will be available on http://localhost:3000. Files will be kept in /srv/sharelatex-data. First execution might take some time to be ready. This is due to MongoDb pre-allocation.

Create first user

docker run -it -p 3000:3000 -v /srv/sharelatex-data:/data tiagoboldt/sharelatex-docker /bin/bash
cd /sharelatex/web
sharelatex.sh > /dev/null &
# wait until sharelatex is available at http://localhost:3000
grunt create-admin-user --email=joe@example.com
# click the url and set your password
# new users can be registred at http://localhost:3000/admin/register

ShareLaTex official image

ShareLaTex has an official docker image. It was introduced after this image was made available and it is not as well documented, hence, this image is still maintained.