Collabora online landing page

Instructions to run 'Collabora' directly in debian (without docker)

Collabora runs the online office application in nextcloud. It is part of the libreOffice project

Collabora Admin page, including settings and statistics (username and password from docker run command):

https://office.foreversorted.com/loleaflet/dist/admin/admin.html

Instructions from nextcloud/collabora collaboration page:

https://nextcloud.com/collaboraonline/

Here some instructions that worked:

https://sdk.collaboraonline.com/docs/installation/Proxy_settings.html

The modifications to the /etc/coolwsd/coolwsd.xml (config) file

<server_name default="https://office.foreversorted.com" desc="External hostname:port of the server running coolwsd. If empty, it's derived from the request (please set it if this doesn't work). May be specified when behind a reverse-proxy or when the hostname is not reachable directly." type="string"/>

<termination default="true" desc="Connection via proxy where coolwsd acts as working via https, but actually uses http." type="bool">true</termination>

<ssl_verification default="false" desc="Enable or disable SSL verification of hosts remote to coolwsd. If true SSL verification will be strict, otherwise certs of hosts will not be verified. You may have to disable it in test environments with self-signed certificates." type="string">false</ssl_verification>

The office.foreversorted.com.conf file for use with Apache 2.4 SSL terminated

<VirtualHost *:443>
ServerName office.foreversorted.com:443
DocumentRoot /home/shared/webpages/office/html
#############################################

# Reverse Proxy for Collabora online ssl termination

#############################################

# SSL configuration, you may want to take the easy route instead and use Lets Encrypt!

SSLCertificateFile    /etc/letsencrypt/live/office.foreversorted.com/fullchain.pem
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/office.foreversorted.com/privkey.pem
Include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-apache.conf

AllowEncodedSlashes NoDecode
ProxyPreserveHost On

 # static html, js, images, etc. served from coolwsd

 # browser is the client part of Collabora Online
 ProxyPass           /browser http://127.0.0.1:9980/browser retry=0
 ProxyPassReverse    /browser http://127.0.0.1:9980/browser

 # WOPI discovery URL
 ProxyPass           /hosting/discovery http://127.0.0.1:9980/hosting/discovery retry=0
 ProxyPassReverse    /hosting/discovery http://127.0.0.1:9980/hosting/discovery

 # Capabilities
 ProxyPass           /hosting/capabilities http://127.0.0.1:9980/hosting/capabilities retry=0
 ProxyPassReverse    /hosting/capabilities http://127.0.0.1:9980/hosting/capabilities

 # Main websocket
 ProxyPassMatch      "/cool/(.*)/ws$"      ws://127.0.0.1:9980/cool/$1/ws nocanon

 # Admin Console websocket
 ProxyPass           /cool/adminws ws://127.0.0.1:9980/cool/adminws

 # Download as, Fullscreen presentation and Image upload operations
 ProxyPass           /cool http://127.0.0.1:9980/cool
 ProxyPassReverse    /cool http://127.0.0.1:9980/cool

 # Compatibility with integrations that use the /lool/convert-to endpoint
 ProxyPass           /lool http://127.0.0.1:9980/cool
 ProxyPassReverse    /lool http://127.0.0.1:9980/cool
</VirtualHost>