Collabora Online integration

[Amygos]

Integrate Collabora Online Development Edition on Nethserver for enable creation and editing of Office/LibreOffice document directly from Nextcloud.

Fetures

• Automatic integration with Nextcloud
• Edit and create odt, ots and otp files

Know issues

• In the current version of richdocuments Nextcloud app, when create a new documents, the user must select the empty template (Cannot create new documents with new template function nextcloud/richdocuments#359)

See also
https://community.nethserver.org/t/nethserver-collabora-code-testing-and-discussion/10752/41
https://community.nethserver.org/t/how-to-install-collabora-online-development-edition-code/10319

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Thanks to @mrmarkuz for initial work!

[nethbot]

in 7.6.1810/nethforge-testing:

• nethserver-collabora-0.0.1-1.19.ga13ce08.ns7.noarch.rpm x86_64 armhfp aarch64

[Amygos]

Prerequisites

• Configure your Nethserver instance with a valid FQDN ( eg. nexcloud.yourdomain.com)
• Configure your DNS records for correctly resolve the Nethserver's hostname.
• Add a CNAME record that point to the Nethserver's hostname. (eg. collabora.yourdomain.com -> nexcloud.yourdomain.com)
• Obtain a valid HTTPS certificate via Let's Encrypt from Server Manager -> Server certificate, for the domains:
  • nexcloud.yourdomain.com
  • collabora.yourdomain.com

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Test Case 1

• Install on a clean machine: yum --enablerepo nethforge-testing install nethserver-collabora
• Install Nextcloud: yum install nethserver-nextcloud
• Set Collabora Online virtual host:

config setprop loolwsd VirtualHost collabora.yourdomain.com
signal-event nethserver-collabora-update

• Access to Nextcloud and check if you can create and edit LibreOffice files.

Test Case 2

• Install on a machine with Nextcloud configured : yum --enablerepo nethforge-testing install nethserver-collabora
• Set Collabora Online virtual host:

config setprop loolwsd VirtualHost collabora.yourdomain.com
signal-event nethserver-collabora-update

• Access to Nextcloud and check if you can create and edit LibreOffice files.

[gsanchietti]

Test case 2 verified.

[gsanchietti]

Test case 1 not verified.

The nethserver-collabora-conf must be linked inside the nethserver-nextcloud-update event (https://github.com/NethServer/nethserver-collabora/blob/master/createlinks).

[gsanchietti]

Once in a while, there is this output generated by /etc/cron.d/loolwsd.cron (from loolwsd package)

Triggered update of loolwsd systemplate...   Done.

I think this can be safely ignored.

[nethbot]

in 7.6.1810/nethforge-testing:

• nethserver-collabora-0.0.1-1.20.gb4628df.ns7.noarch.rpm x86_64 armhfp aarch64

[nethbot]

in 7.6.1810/nethforge:

• nethserver-collabora-0.1.0-1.ns7.noarch.rpm x86_64 armhfp aarch64

[EduardoSever]

Hello could someone help me with this activation error.

[root@neth loolwsd]# systemctl status loolwsd

● loolwsd.service - LibreOffice Online WebSocket Daemon
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/loolwsd.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: failed (Result: start-limit) since Fri 2020-01-17 11:11:11 CST; 4 days ago
Process: 16963 ExecStart=/usr/bin/loolwsd --version --o:sys_template_path=/opt/lool/systemplate --o:child_root_path=/opt/lool/child-roots --o:file_server_root_path=/usr/share/loolwsd (code=exited, status=70)
Main PID: 16963 (code=exited, status=70)

Jan 17 11:11:11 neth.beework.mx systemd[1]: loolwsd.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=70/n/a
Jan 17 11:11:11 neth.beework.mx systemd[1]: Unit loolwsd.service entered failed state.
Jan 17 11:11:11 neth.beework.mx systemd[1]: loolwsd.service failed.
Jan 17 11:11:11 neth.beework.mx systemd[1]: loolwsd.service holdoff time over, scheduling restart.
Jan 17 11:11:11 neth.beework.mx systemd[1]: Stopped LibreOffice Online WebSocket Daemon.
Jan 17 11:11:11 neth.beework.mx systemd[1]: start request repeated too quickly for loolwsd.service
Jan 17 11:11:11 neth.beework.mx systemd[1]: Failed to start LibreOffice Online WebSocket Daemon.
Jan 17 11:11:11 neth.beework.mx systemd[1]: Unit loolwsd.service entered failed state.
Jan 17 11:11:11 neth.beework.mx systemd[1]: loolwsd.service failed.
The server is a centOS 7.6

[gsanchietti]

Hi @EduardoSever , please report the issue to https://community.nethserver.org