Merge pull request #9139 from overleaf/ae-clsi-readme

Update CLSI README for monorepo

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Alf Eaton 2022-08-05 11:43:18 +01:00 committed by Copybot
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@ -42,19 +42,26 @@ Installation
The CLSI can be installed and set up as part of the entire [Overleaf stack](https://github.com/overleaf/overleaf) (complete with front end editor and document storage), or it can be run as a standalone service. To run is as a standalone service, first checkout this repository:
$ git clone git@github.com:overleaf/clsi.git
```shell
git clone git@github.com:overleaf/overleaf.git
```
Then build the Docker image:
$ docker build . -t overleaf/clsi
```shell
docker build . -t overleaf/clsi -f services/clsi/Dockerfile
```
Then pull the TeX Live image:
$ docker pull texlive/texlive
```shell
docker pull texlive/texlive
```
Then start the Docker container:
$ docker run --rm \
```shell
docker run --rm \
-p 127.0.0.1:3013:3013 \
-e LISTEN_ADDRESS=0.0.0.0 \
-e DOCKER_RUNNER=true \
@ -66,6 +73,7 @@ Then start the Docker container:
-v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \
--name clsi \
overleaf/clsi
```
Note: if you're running the CLSI in macOS you may need to use `-v /var/run/docker.sock.raw:/var/run/docker.sock` instead.
@ -75,23 +83,27 @@ Important note for Linux users
==============================
The Node application runs as user `node` in the CLSI, which has uid `1000`. As a consequence of this, the `compiles` folder gets created on your host with `uid` and `gid` set to `1000`.
```
```shell
ls -lnd compiles
drwxr-xr-x 2 1000 1000 4096 Mar 19 12:41 compiles
```
> `drwxr-xr-x 2 1000 1000 4096 Mar 19 12:41 compiles`
If there is a user/group on your host which also happens to have `uid` / `gid` `1000` then that user/group will have ownership of the compiles folder on your host.
LaTeX runs in the sibling containers as the user specified in the `TEXLIVE_IMAGE_USER` environment variable. In the example above this is set to `root`, which has uid `0`. This creates a problem with the above permissions, as the root user does not have permission to write to subfolders of `compiles`.
A quick fix is to give the `root` group ownership and read write permissions to `compiles`, with `setgid` set so that new subfolders also inherit this ownership:
```
```shell
sudo chown -R 1000:root compiles
sudo chmod -R g+w compiles
sudo chmod g+s compiles
```
Another solution is to create a `sharelatex` group and add both `root` and the user with `uid` `1000` to it. If the host does not have a user with that `uid`, you will need to create one first.
```
```shell
sudo useradd --uid 1000 host-node-user # If required
sudo groupadd sharelatex
sudo usermod -a -G sharelatex root
@ -146,7 +158,7 @@ The CLSI is based on a JSON API.
With `curl`, if you place the above JSON in a file called `data.json`, the request would look like this:
```shell
$ curl -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d @data.json http://localhost:3013/project/<id>/compile
curl -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d @data.json http://localhost:3013/project/<id>/compile
```
You can specify any project-id in the URL, and the files and LaTeX environment will be persisted between requests.