Options for built in add ons. From a home user PoV

[okadrian]

In my playing with orbstack and installing nextcloud-aio to test it, I did find that I liked the “built in” collabora online and file indexing features. Which I realise are actually in their own containers but from the home user perspective there were no additional containers to set up and make work together. They just worked.

However I know nextcloud is all a bit bloated and my system really doesn’t need that extra load, so I’d love to be able to configure opencloud with these two features in as simple and repeatable a way as possible. These seem to be commonly combined with opencloud so maybe it would make sense. Even if it is a bit too vanilla for some needs, it’d be a welcome trade-off for home users.

[micbar]

Our default opencloud-compose stack offers collabora as a default.

With a Linux server, two public subdomains, you should be up and running in minutes.

[okadrian]

Thanks, yes I realise that but I'm behind a CGNAT and use tailscale to get in. 2 public subdomains is the issue for me. Maybe this is what I mean about the nextcloud setup. It doesn't require a second domain name for an office app to work

[nmboyle]

You can actually do this using Orbstack with a Tailscale service without needing a public IP or two subdomains. (Docker Desktop also works, except there are xattr-related issues when OC_DATA_DIR is set to an external hard drive).

Tailscale setup:

1. Create a service (e.g., 'opencloud'). Set both 443 and 9980 as endpoints.
2. Start the Tailscale service on the host, and serve 9200 (OpenCloud) on 443 and 9980 (Collabora) on the same port.
   E.g.,

tailscale serve --bg --service=svc:opencloud http://127.0.0.1:9200
tailscale serve --bg --service=svc:opencloud --https=9980 http://127.0.0.1:9980

OpenCloud setup:

1. Clone the opencloud-compose repo and complete the initial steps (create .env, set admin pass)
2. Make sure the below environment variables are configured as follows:

COMPOSE_FILE=docker-compose.yml:weboffice/collabora.yml:external-proxy/opencloud.yml:external-proxy/collabora.yml
OC_DOMAIN=opencloud.[your tailnet prefix].ts.net
COLLABORA_DOMAIN=opencloud.[your tailnet prefix].ts.net:9980
COLLABORATION_APP_INSECURE=true
WOPI_DISABLE_PROOF_KEY=true

Setting OC_CONFIG_DIR, OC_DATA_DIR, and OC_APPS_DIR is probably also a good idea.

[okadrian]

This is great. Thanks for the brilliant response. Can I ask before I wade in, will this config index files? I export my aging emails to pdfs so file content searching is important to me.