I have nextcloudpi running on an old laptop with a NFS storage for data. I just love the ease on how this setup works and how easy it is to maintain. This means, in contrary to most (I assume) it is not installed on a Raspberry.
Anyhow the idea could fit others as well. I have read some articles about OnlyOffice as a docker on the same machine as NextCloud, most of them using nginx. I found one using Apache, but the second domain, the letsencrypt stuff and setting up the connection to the onlyoffice docker container from NCP could all done a little easier.
My idea was that the NCP panel gets support to allow connecting to a docker container where the OnlyOffice is running. This would allow RasPi users to deploy the Container anywhere (NAS, another PC etc) and NextCloudPi config is handling the additional needed domain (if needed), the port forwarding / dnsmasquereding if used and configuring NextCloud to have everything in place forwarding requests to the specific container.
From what I have seen, this should be doable, the configuration seems not that hard itself. Why I haven’t yet done it manually, because I do not want to break the NextCloudPi setup when changing something manually - it just runs so smooth - and upgrades just work that I couldn’t be happier.
What do you think, is this something of interest. Could this be done with NextCloudPi Panel and configuration to let the “instance” connect to an onlyoffice instance / docker and handling the rest (certs, nc config etc)?
I think his point was that he can’t do it because he is afraid to try and then break his system…I’m not a techy person, but I was sadly disappointed when I found out that nextcloud setup was not as straight forward as some folks made it seem…and that it isn’t a true competitor to full digital cloud office suits like google drive (which bakes in google docs, spreadsheets, etc).
If we are to really “save people” from these big companies- more effort should be made to integrate, and dare I say automate, services like onlyoffice.
I eventually want to do video chats with my family via NC but the pi was not powerful enough. I wonder if the project is mature enough to rebrand NC Express - to signify ease of setup…and just feature NCP as its mainline offering. Sorry, just thinking out loud.
Honestly, I am so happy that I found NCP (I tested other ways of NC installation as well), because otherwise I would not be able to run a nice NC setup but using @nachoparker script on my Debian system this was so hazzle free. I also realized that if I make changes outside of the NCP scope some of the changes do get overwritten after an upgrade and the information just does not get backed up.
Therefor, I would just love to see some “easy” OnlyOffice or Collabora integration in NCP
I have some friends already who are using NCP on NUCs, Laptops and other old hardware because it is just hazzle free and in contrary to the official VM install script, has a nice management WebUI and they can just use there setup easily if they would go with NCP docker or NCP on ARM
Anyhow, what is missing is a way of getting the office thingy to work and honestly - this is far out of my comfort zone
that I couldn’t be happier.
