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Notitie

Collabora Online Development Edition (CODE) is based on LibreOffice. It is designed to provide users with a free version of the online office suite, allowing individuals and small teams to access and test its features. CODE is a valuable resource for those looking to utilize LibreOffice’s capabilities in an online collaborative environment.

For this example we will run a NextCloud server and CODE server using and share an office suite with a contact.

  1. Download the nextcloud_collabora.zip ZIP file and unzip it to reveal its contents.

  2. Open a terminal in the unzipped folder.

  3. Create your local environment file:

    cp .env.example .env

  4. Edit .env and set strong values for at least:

    • MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD

    • MYSQL_PASSWORD

    • NEXTCLOUD_ADMIN_PASSWORD

    Keep these values unless you have a reason to change them:

    • PUBLIC_HOST=localhost

    • EXPOSED_PORT=18080

  5. Start the stack:

    docker compose up -d

  6. Open http://localhost:18080 in your browser.

  7. Sign in to Nextcloud using the admin credentials from .env.

  8. In Jami, create a custom shared service with:

    • Local host: 127.0.0.1

    • Local port: 18080

    • URI scheme: http

    • Preferred port on peer: 18080

  9. Share that service with your contact.

  10. Your contact opens your shared service in Jami, then opens http://localhost:18080 on their machine.

  11. Open a document in Nextcloud Files to verify collaborative editing works.

Tip

Need to reset everything (accounts, files, DB) and start fresh?

Run the following in the same folder:

docker compose down -v --remove-orphans
docker compose up -d