Comments on How to connect ONLYOFFICE online editors to OwnCloud

I moved from owncloud to nextcloud because of the persisting update problems of owncloud. Does this tutorial also work on Nextcloud?

The ONLYOFFICE plugin works with ownCloud only at the moment. But ONLYOFFICE is working on a plugin for Nextcloud.

Hi, 

I had struggling for three days to get it running, mainly because no documentation other than with docker, but I do not use docker...

 

So I put here my findings (it may not be complete, but I think it may facilitate the job for others...):

 

I use a two servers configuration, plus one server for Pound (the reverse proxy, load-balancing...) which manage the https to http conversion and the certificates (only one certificate to manage).

 

I use Oracle EL7, updated to kernel 4.1.12-94 , I had to enable ol7_optional_latest and ol7_addons (maybe not both usefull, but...)

For OnlyOffice, I used:

https://helpcenter.onlyoffice.com/de/server/linux/document/linux-installation-centos.aspx

I disabled selinux, firewalld to ease the thing.

In /etc/nginx/nginx.conf:

Unchanged

 

For owncloud, I used:

https://www.linuxtricks.fr/wiki/installer-et-configurer-owncloud-sur-centos-7

But the installed php was 5.4, so I used https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial/centos-lamp-server-apache-mysql-php/ (only the php 7.1 part).

In /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

ServerAdmin [email protected]

ServerName owncloud.example.com:80

 

In /etc/httpd/conf.d/owncloud.conf:

should be unchanged.

Symbolic link to create:

ln -s /etc/httpd/conf.d/owncloud-access.conf.avail /etc/httpd/conf.d/z-owncloud-access.conf

 

In /var/lib/NetworkManager/dhclient-ens18.conf:

Check it has the good server name 

send host-name "owncloud";

 

 

Installation of the app for owncloud following https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE/onlyoffice-owncloud advice.

CAUTION: with php 5.4, the app appears as experimental and won't load... 

 

Then, in the apps parameters:

Document Editing Service address: https://www.example.com:8084/ (here is 8084, the external port, which is natted to 8000 in Pound)

Document Editing Service address for internal requests from the server: http://192.168.1.101:8000/ (The internal address and port, NO HTTPS, since we use Pound)

Server address for internal requests from the Document Editing Service: http://192.168.1.102/owncloud/ (The internal address of owncloud server NO HTTPS, since we use Pound)

 

I did not put secret password (yet?).

 

Pound:

The normal basic parameters for owncloud works.

 

Two blocks like this one to add (the one for port 8000 and one for 8080):

ListenHTTPS

     Address 192.168.1.100  # << address of pound server

     Port    8084   # NAT port (internal is 8000)

     Cert    "/etc/pound/certs/www.example.com"

Ciphers "ALL:!ADH:!EXPORT:!SSLv2:!aNULL:!eNULL:!3DES:!DES:!MD5:!PSK:!RC4:!DH:!LOW:+HIGH:+MEDIUM"

 

#   CheckURL   "(^\/|\.html|\.css|\.jpg|favicon\.ico|robots\.txt|\.png)$"

    HeadRemove "X-Forwarded-For"

    AddHeader  "X-Forwarded-Proto: https"

#   MaxRequest 1024

   xHTTP       4  # << important

 

   Err414 "/var/www/htdocs/error/generic_error_page"

   Err500 "/var/www/htdocs/error/generic_error_page"

   Err501 "/var/www/htdocs/error/generic_error_page"

   Err503 "/var/www/htdocs/error/generic_error_page"

 

# onlyoffice server

   Service

      HeadRequire "Host:*.www.example.com.*"

#      URL         "^\/\/*"  # No URL, we just filter by port

      BackEnd

         Address  192.168.1.101   # << address of onlyOffice server

         Port     8000

      End

      Emergency

       Address    127.0.0.1

       Port       8888

      End

   End

End

 

OTHER:

I had to route the ports 8084 and 8085 to my pound server.

Since I had numerous problems, and no documentation to explain anything (but for experts), I touched a lot of config files, but probably 

Christian