3. Initialize the configuration

Create the Toolkit configuration files on your Mac with bin/init.

From the Toolkit directory, in a terminal with GNU sed on the PATH, run:

bin/init

bin/init creates three files:

File	Purpose
config/overleaf.rc	Container settings, the published port and the data locations
config/variables.env	Application settings and secrets
config/version	The application image version

It also generates OVERLEAF_INVITE_TOKEN_SECRET in config/variables.env. Keep it, and do not publish this file or commit it to version control.

Keep the version that the Toolkit selects for a new installation. To change the version of an existing instance later, follow Upgrading your deployment.

If bin/init stops with sed: ... invalid command code, it ran with the BSD sed of macOS. Such a failed run can leave all three files in config/ with an empty OVERLEAF_INVITE_TOKEN_SECRET, and running bin/init again then reports Config files already exist. See Troubleshooting.

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