Self-host Collabora Online

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A LibreOffice-based online office suite for editing text documents, spreadsheets and presentations in the browser with real-time collaboration. It runs as an editing server behind a file platform such as Nextcloud, ownCloud or Seafile rather than as a standalone app.

Key facts

CategoryOffice suite

LicenseMPL-2.0

StackC++, JavaScript

Min RAM2048 MB

Official imageyes

Measured idle RAM571 MB

Difficulty

Sourcegithub.com/CollaboraOnline/online

Websitecollaboraonline.com

What you need

Any VPS with at least 2048 MB of RAM
A domain you control — most self-hosted setups need HTTPS in front of them
Under an hour if you've used Docker before

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Install

Run these commands on your server:

# Collabora Online Development Edition (CODE) — the official image, TLS terminated by your reverse proxy
docker run -d --name code --restart always -p 9980:9980 \
  -e "aliasgroup1=https://cloud.example.com" \
  -e "username=admin" -e "password=$(openssl rand -hex 16)" \
  -e "extra_params=--o:ssl.enable=false --o:ssl.termination=true" \
  collabora/code
# aliasgroup1 = the Nextcloud/ownCloud origin allowed to open documents
# →  http://SERVER_IP:9980  (answers "OK"; admin console at /browser/dist/admin/admin.html)