Self-host ONLYOFFICE Docs

An online document editor for text documents, spreadsheets, presentations and PDFs with real-time co-editing, using the Office Open XML formats (DOCX, XLSX, PPTX) natively. It has no file manager of its own and is used through an integration such as Nextcloud, Seafile or ownCloud.

Key facts

What you need

• Any VPS with at least 4096 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

Install

Run these commands on your server:

copy# ONLYOFFICE Docs (Community Edition) — the official image; JWT_SECRET must be fixed or it is regenerated on restart
docker run -d --name onlyoffice --restart=always -p 8080:80 \
  -e JWT_SECRET="$(openssl rand -hex 32)" \
  onlyoffice/documentserver
# first start takes a few minutes; then connect it from Nextcloud/Seafile/ownCloud with the same JWT secret
# docker exec onlyoffice printenv JWT_SECRET  →  http://SERVER_IP:8080

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