LibreOffice online: https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-online/
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I wanted this first, but I'm being extremely impatient. This project was shelved a couple years ago, and they only just unshelved it last month. I don't think they've released recently.
I'll probably switch to this in a few months once they get that first release out.
Admittedly it's been years, but this thread now has me firing off an updated instance :P
I've setup dufs to provide WebDAV file server, and then OpenOffice connected directly to it.
Interesting! So it's a separate container that connects to the documentserver?
That's what it looks like. I'm gonna try it out today.
How about cryptpad?
It was easy to set up, but there's some quality of life issues with actually using it. Bulk uploading existing documents seems to not be supported. Even uploading one by one is rough. I have to either upload as a 'file' then convert to a 'document' type. Or I have to create a new document, then import and update the file name.
Still, it's the best option so far because the setup was so easy.
This looks like exactly what I want, plus extra security and privacy bits. I have no idea how it didn't show up in my other searches. I'm going to give this one a shot.
Isn't Cryptpad just hosted onlyoffice?
That's basically OnlyOffice with file storage. I'm not sure how that trumps Nextcloud
It was simple to set up in a single container with a single (and very not complex) docker compose file.
You could also use them with https://www.filestash.app/ for example, but you still need something to actually store the files.