Collabora Online Development Edition is a powerful online office suite that you can install on your own server. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Collabora Online Development Edition on Elementary OS.
Before we begin, make sure that you have the following:
First, update your system with the following command:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade -y
We will use Docker to run Collabora Online Development Edition. Install Docker with the following commands:
sudo apt-get install docker.io -y
sudo systemctl start docker
sudo systemctl enable docker
Now that we have Docker installed, we can install Collabora Online Development Edition with the following command:
sudo docker run -t -d -p 127.0.0.1:9980:9980 -e 'domain=your-domain.com' --restart always --cap-add MKNOD collabora/code
Replace "your-domain.com" with your domain name or IP address.
We need to configure Apache to act as a reverse proxy for Collabora. Install Apache with the following command:
sudo apt-get install apache2 libapache2-mod-proxy-html libxml2-dev -y
Create a new Apache site configuration file with nano.
sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/collabora.conf
Add the following content to the file:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName office.your-domain.com
ProxyPreserveHost On
<Location />
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
Require all granted
ProxyPass https://127.0.0.1:9980/
ProxyPassReverse https://127.0.0.1:9980/
</Location>
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/collabora_error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/collabora_access.log common
</VirtualHost>
Replace "your-domain.com" with your domain name or IP address.
Enable the site with the following command:
sudo a2ensite collabora
Reload Apache with the following command:
sudo systemctl reload apache2
Open a web browser and navigate to the Collabora Online Development Edition website at http://your-domain.com:9980/. You should see the following page:
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Collabora Online Development Edition on your Elementary OS server.
In this tutorial, you learned how to install Collabora Online Development Edition on Elementary OS. If you encounter any issues during the installation, make sure to check the Collabora Online Development Edition documentation for additional information.
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