# Joplin on hosted Server

**URL:** <https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/joplin-on-hosted-server/3591>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [22 September 2019 18:00 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/joplin-on-hosted-server/3591 "2019-09-22T18:00:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![williambranham61](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5e925/32.png) [@williambranham61](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/williambranham61)\
**Post date:** [22 September 2019 18:00 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/joplin-on-hosted-server/3591/1 "2019-09-22T18:00:28Z")

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Hi,

I have few notes which i want to publish on web as read-only that no one should able to modify…However can read or search?

Please advise how to launch in a server and also make the notes as read-only for any viewer which sees the page

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![foxmask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c68b51/32.png) [@foxmask](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/foxmask)\
**Post date:** [22 September 2019 18:05 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/joplin-on-hosted-server/3591/2 "2019-09-22T18:05:15Z")

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Run the Joplin terminal version as follow

joplin --profile /path/to/my/joplin/profile server start

For the read only, I think it’s impossible without changing the system right on the filesystem

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**Author:** ![williambranham61](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5e925/32.png) [@williambranham61](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/williambranham61)\
**Post date:** [17 October 2019 15:47 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/joplin-on-hosted-server/3591/3 "2019-10-17T15:47:11Z")

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I think to make it read-only make the edit option as configurable menu…when it is disabled or not enabled, save should not happen or read-only option via configuration so that when any user tries to change…nothing happens…an alert might be useful…

Moving the notes to web without making it as read-only makes it viable…

Sometime we may like the user to edit…In other cases, we would make the user to view it…

Please consider this option