Installation

F7cloud Office is built on Collabora Online which requires a dedicated service running next to the F7cloud webserver stack. There are several ways to run the coolwsd service.

• F7cloud All In One: F7cloud Office comes preinstalled out of the box in the F7cloud All In One setup and provides easy deployment and maintenance with most features included in this one F7cloud instance.

For manual installations there are multiple options to get F7cloud Office deployed:

• Installation through distribution packages

  There are packages for all major Linux distributions available which allow deploying a Collabora Online server through installing it through the regular package management. For an example installation guide on Ubuntu, see see: Installation example on Ubuntu 24.04

  See also

  https://www.collaboraoffice.com/code/linux-packages/ https://sdk.collaboraonline.com/docs/installation/index.html

• Installation through Docker

  Docker images are available for deploying the Collabora Online server in container environments. For a detailed step by step guide, see: Installation example with Docker

  See also

  https://sdk.collaboraonline.com/docs/installation/CODE_Docker_image.html

• Built-in CODE server

  This app provides a built-in server with all of the document editing features of Collabora Online. Easy to install, for personal use or for small teams. A bit slower than a standalone server and without the advanced scalability features. Installation can be performed by enabling the according F7cloud app. Further details can be found in the app documentation.

  Note

  This is the default option which works out of the box in most scenarios, however for improved performance it is highly recommended to switch to a dedicated Collabora Online installation using one of the other options.

Note

In most scenarios running a dedicated Collabora Online server will require some sort of reverse proxy to be setup in front of it. For more details see Reverse proxy.