Installing ONLYOFFICE Docs for Windows on a local server
Introduction
Community Edition allows you to install ONLYOFFICE Docs on your local server and integrate online editors with other popular systems.
ONLYOFFICE Docs is an online office suite comprising viewers and editors for texts, spreadsheets and presentations, fully compatible with Office Open XML formats: .docx, .xlsx, .pptx and enabling collaborative editing in real time.
Functionality
- Document Editor
- Spreadsheet Editor
- Presentation Editor
- Mobile web viewers
- Collaborative editing
- Hieroglyph support
- Support for all the popular formats: DOC, DOCX, TXT, ODT, RTF, ODP, EPUB, ODS, XLS, XLSX, CSV, PPTX, HTML
See the detailed list of features available for ONLYOFFICE Docs Community Edition.
Using it within ONLYOFFICE Workspace, you will be able to:
- share files;
- manage access rights to documents;
- embed documents on a website;
- view and edit files stored on Drive, Box, Dropbox, OneDrive, OwnCloud connected to ONLYOFFICE.
This guide will show you how to install ONLYOFFICE Docs Community Edition Windows version to your machine.
Installing ONLYOFFICE Docs
Download the Community Edition installation file in the ONLYOFFICE Docs section.
Double-click the onlyoffice-documentserver.exe file you have just downloaded.
onlyoffice-documentserver.exe /DS_PORT=<PORT_NUMBER><PORT_NUMBER> is the number of port you want ONLYOFFICE Docs to use.
For offline installation, download prerequisites separately.
The DocumentServer Setup Wizard will be launched. Click the Next > button to start the installation process.
By default, ONLYOFFICE Docs will be installed to the following folder: C:\Program Files\ONLYOFFICE\DocumentServer\. If necessary, you can change it by clicking the Browse button and selecting the necessary folder on your computer. Then click the Next > button.
If some additional components necessary for the ONLYOFFICE Docs proper work are missing on your PC, these dependencies will be downloaded and installed first. Select the necessary components and click the Next > button.
Click the Install button and wait while the missing components are being installed. If the required components are already installed on your PC, the ONLYOFFICE Docs installation will start.
Once the installation process is completed, click the Finish button to close the wizard window.
If the Open ONLYOFFICE DocumentServer demo option is checked, the Community Edition welcome page will open in your browser. Alternatively, you can enter http://localhost/example in the address bar of your browser. Here you can find further instructions on how to enable document examples or integrate online editors into your web application using the provided API.