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Procedure to install Collabora Office for Nextcloud

Procedure to reproduce installation of Collabora Office for NextCloud
  • Last Update:2019-09-02
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  • Language:en

This document explain how to install collabora office for nextcloud or other software.

How to deploy Collabora office

Let’s start with the preparation of the docker environment:

apt remove docker docker-engine docker.io
apt install apt-transport-https ca-certificates curl software-properties-common -y

On Ubuntu:

sed -i '$adeb https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu bionic stable' /etc/apt/sources.list
curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo apt-key add -

On Debian:

sed -i '$adeb [arch=amd64] https://download.docker.com/linux/debian stretch stable' /etc/apt/sources.list
curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/debian/gpg | sudo apt-key add -

 

Then we can now install docker-ce, and check that it's running properly.

apt update && apt install docker-ce -y

 

Now docker is installed, we can continue by installing collabora.

Download collabora docker image.

docker pull collabora/code

Run collabora with the docker command bellow:

docker run --sysctl net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6=1 --sysctl net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6=1 \
                -t -d -p 9980:9980 -e 'domain=nextcloud\\.nexedi\\.net|nextcloud\\.app\\.nexedi\\.net' \
                -e "extra_params=--o:net.post_allow.host=::ffff:172\\.[0-9]{1,3}\\.[0-9]{1,3}\\.[0-9]{1,3}" \
                --name="collabora" -e "username=admin" -e "password=Ahooj4ei" --restart always --cap-add MKNOD collabora/code

 

You can now connect to collabora using https://SERVER_IP:9980

To access to collabora admin panel, open URL: https://SERVER_IP:9980/loleaflet/dist/admin/admin.html

 

To stop collabora service:

docker stop collabora

To upgrade collabora (in case there is a new version of docker image):

# stop collabora
docker stop collabora
# remove docker image
docker rm collabora
# Pull collabora/code
docker pull collabora/code


Now run again collabora command above to start the service:

docker run --sysctl net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6=1 --sysctl net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6=1 \
                -t -d -p 9980:9980 -e 'domain=nextcloud\\.nexedi\\.net|nextcloud\\.app\\.nexedi\\.net' \
                -e "extra_params=--o:net.post_allow.host=::ffff:172\\.[0-9]{1,3}\\.[0-9]{1,3}\\.[0-9]{1,3}" \
                --name="collabora" -e "username=admin" -e "password=Ahooj4ei" --restart always --cap-add MKNOD collabora/code

 

Now request a slave frontend to access the service. If you want to learn how to instantiate a slave frontend, please read this documentation: slapos-HowTo.Instantiate.Frontend.Slave.

When requesting the slave, update parameters bellow :

  • "type:websocket Websocket Application Path List" to /lool
  • "type:websocket Transparent proxy" to true
  • "Backend Type" to websocket
  • "Backend URL" to https/[YOUR_SERVER_IPv6]:9980/

 

Configure Nextcloud with collabora

If you install nextcloud with SlapOS Software Release, you need to set collabora parameter before the instance is deployed. To do so, set the parameter instance.collabora-url to your collabora url. Please check here to see all nextcloud configuration here.

If your nextcloud is installed, go to https/YOUR_NEXTCLOUD_DOMAIN/settings/admin/richdocuments and set collabora URL.