all-in-one/community-containers/overleaf

Overleaf (Community Edition)

This community container deploys Overleaf CE with its required MongoDB and Redis services.

Notes

• After adding and starting the container, you can directly visit http://ip.address.of.server:8050/ to access your new Overleaf instance.
• To access Overleaf outside your local network with HTTPS, set up a reverse proxy in front of AIO. You can either follow the generic reverse proxy guide: https://github.com/nextcloud/all-in-one/blob/main/reverse-proxy.md or use the community Caddy container which can be adjusted to forward a subdomain like overleaf.$NC_DOMAIN to port 8050 on this server.
• Initial user/admin creation is handled inside Overleaf. This container does not integrate Overleaf authentication with Nextcloud users.
• If you run a firewall (e.g., ufw), ensure port 8050 is allowed or that your reverse proxy can reach it locally.
• The data directories for Overleaf and MongoDB are persisted and included in AIO backups automatically.
• See https://github.com/nextcloud/all-in-one/tree/main/community-containers#community-containers for how to add it to the AIO stack.

Nextcloud integration (auto-config)

When this container is added, AIO automatically:

• Installs and enables the Nextcloud app integration_overleaf.
• Sets its base_url to http://%NC_DOMAIN%:8050 by default (reachable when accessing the server directly).

If you publish Overleaf behind a reverse proxy on a subdomain (recommended), change the URL in Nextcloud accordingly, for example:

sudo docker exec --user www-data -it nextcloud-aio-nextcloud php /var/www/html/occ config:app:set integration_overleaf base_url --value "https://overleaf.%NC_DOMAIN%"

Data and backups

• Overleaf data: stored in the volume nextcloud_aio_overleaf (mounted at /var/lib/sharelatex).
• MongoDB data: stored in the volume nextcloud_aio_overleaf_mongo (mounted at /data/db).
• Both are included in AIO backup/restore. Redis data is ephemeral by design and not included.

Advanced configuration

• The container uses the official sharelatex/sharelatex image and configures minimal required environment variables (MongoDB/Redis/Time zone). You can adjust Overleaf settings from the web UI afterwards.
• If you plan to expose Overleaf publicly, consider setting up rate-limiting and fail2ban in front of it. See the community Fail2ban container: https://github.com/nextcloud/all-in-one/tree/main/community-containers/fail2ban

Repository

https://github.com/overleaf/overleaf

Maintainer

https://github.com/docjyj