Afterlogic doc viewer

Self-hosted Collabora Code based document viewer for Afterlogic WebMail solutions, replacing 3rd party Microsoft/Google view.

Why?

Because I wanted a handy document viewer for my mails' attachments in Afterlogic and I refuse to use Microsoft's or Google's cloud based solutions for my personal documents. I also had a Collabora Code server running for online office purposes in my Nextcloud instance. Why not combine the two?

Requirements

• Working Afterlogic WebMail installation, preferrably using Nginx webserver with PHP-FPM (Apache or anything else works too but you'll have to work out how aliasing works)
• Collabora CODE server running (You should totally use it for your Nextcloud too)

Setup

1. Copy files

   Create an arbitrary directory inside Afterlogic's root directory. This example uses office. If your Afterlogic files are at /afterlogic, it should be /afterlogic/office. Copy the php files ( config.php, index.php, endpoints.php ) to the frehsly created directory.

2. Nginx (Webserver) setup

   The provided nginx.conf is a working example. Yours should look similar. The only relevant addition is the following:

   location ~ /office/wopi/ {
      alias /afterlogic/office/wopi/;
      try_files $uri $uri/ /office/endpoints.php?$query_string;
   }
   

   You should replace /office and /afterlogic with your own paths. /afterlogic is the path of Afterlogic's files' root, /office is orbitrary but need to match with other config files. In this example Afterlogic is accessible on mail.domain.com and the doc view is at mail.domain.com/office. It doesn't matter all that much, won't have to call it manually ever.

3. Doc viewer configuration

   Add your own servers/directories to config.php

   Note: $MAIL_SERVER_OFFICE_DIRECTORY needs to match with Nginx config's /office!

4. Afterlogic configuration

   Configure Afterlogic as described on their page: https://afterlogic.com/docs/webmail-pro/frequently-asked-questions/office-document-viewer

   Example config (OfficeDocumentViewer.config.json) supplied, just edit the ViewerUrl parameter and copy to data/settings/modules/OfficeDocumentViewer.config.json

   Note: The /office suffix/directory needs to match with nginx & doc viewer configurations!

Disclaimer

I am no PHP developer and I hacked this together with zero deeper knowledge regarding Collabora. Please use at your own risk.

Links

Afterlogic - https://afterlogic.org/webmail-lite

Collabora CODE - https://www.collaboraoffice.com/code/

Collabora SDK PHP example (heavily used in this hack) https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/collabora-online-sdk-examples/tree/master/webapp/php