Nextcloud with ONLYOFFICE Docs on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Overview

Nextcloud is the open source content collaboration platform organisations run to keep file sync and share, calendars, contacts and team workflows on infrastructure they control. On its own it stores and shares documents; to edit them in the browser it needs a separate document server, which is the piece most people end up assembling by hand.

This image ships that assembly finished. Nextcloud Server comes pre installed and unmodified with the official ONLYOFFICE connector enabled, and an ONLYOFFICE Docs Community server runs on the same machine, so DOCX, XLSX and PPTX files open for real time collaborative editing in the browser with no external service and no container layer. Both halves are wired over the loopback interface: Nextcloud talks to the document server locally, the document server fetches and saves documents through a local callback, and the browser reaches both through one TLS front door on the same origin.

ONLYOFFICE Docs Community is the free self hosted edition of the ONLYOFFICE editors. Earlier releases capped it at twenty simultaneously opened documents; the version in this image removed that limitation, so what the Community edition lacks relative to the paid edition is the vendor's own support contract and a few enterprise integrations, not capacity.

Common uses

• Self hosted file sync and share with in browser office editing
• Real time collaborative document editing for a team on infrastructure you control
• A private alternative to hosted office and file collaboration suites

See it running

Real screenshots taken while testing this image against its deployment guide.