After being acquired by Google, Ether­Pad was open­sourced. Being it the kick­ass thing it is, I got itch­ing with the *need* to have my own ether­pad instance run­ning right away.

As I found out, scratch­ing that itch was actu­ally fast: it took me ~3 or so hours, and that includes trou­bleshoot­ing and gath­er­ing bits of info from all around. With a step-by-step how-to it’ll prob­a­bly take you a lot less than that!