This is a wrapper of etherpad-lite for Heroku, incorporating the official release from upstream as a submodule. (This will hopefully make it easier to keep current.)

1. Set up a Heroku account and configure an app with DB of your choice (default MySQL)
2. Clone this repo into a directory of your choice
3. Set two Heroku config vars:

heroku config:add DATABASE_URL=urlfromDBprovider
heroku config:add ETHERPAD_SETTINGS=settingsJSONinroot.json

4. Copy settings.json.template to the filename you gave for ETHERPAD_SETTINGS and tweak as needed
5. Add your Heroku app as a remote
6. git push heroku master

Etherpad will complain if you run it as root. If you wish to allow it to run as root, set an additional config variable:

heroku config:add ETHERPAD_ALLOW_ROOT=1

• Plugin support Works (manually, see issue #3)
• node_modules versioning/locating
• Launch script cleanup

(I welcome pull requests for any of these.)

I had to rewrite the launch script on my own, but once I started to understand it, I incorporated lines from a previous repository.

I got the idea to deconfigure IP/port binding from the cloudfoundry etherapp repo, which was giving me headache for a little while.