6. Post-installation tasks

Creating your first administrator account

In a browser, open http://localhost/launchpad. You should see a form with email and password fields. Fill these in with the credentials you want to use as the administrator account, then click Register.

Passwords must be at least 8 characters long (no more than 72), cannot contain email addresses or be too similar to email addresses, and must contain only valid characters.

Overleaf Launchpad

Then click the link to go to the login page (http://localhost/login). Enter the credentials. Once you're logged in, you'll see the welcome page.

Overleaf welcome page

Click the green button at the bottom of the page to start using Overleaf.

Creating your first example project

Open http://localhost/project in your browser and you will see a button prompting you to create your first project.

Welcome to Overleaf!

Click this button, select Example Project, and follow the on-screen instructions.

You will be taken to the new project, where you will see a text editor and a PDF preview.

Overleaf Editor

To finish you can click on the Home icon to return to your projects page.