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Selfhosting Overleaf

Do any of you self-host Overleaf? I know there is a Docker project, but from what I've heard it's not easy to install. The Yunohost version used to work but didn't support file upload, so that makes it bad too.

Have any of you successfully installed Overleaf with e.g. Docker and it works just fine? If so, could any of you share e.g. the Docker Compose file?

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  • There's some tinkering with their docker-compose.yml to make it work. Here's mine you can copy if you want to get it up and running. I don't use nginx or any reverse-proxy btw. All data is saved in their own individual volumes which you can back up:

    services:
        sharelatex:
            restart: always
            image: sharelatex/sharelatex
            depends_on:
                mongo:
                    condition: service_healthy
                redis:
                    condition: service_started
            ports:
                - *DESIRED_PORT*:80
            links:
                - mongo
                - redis
            stop_grace_period: 60s
            volumes:
                - data:/var/lib/sharelatex
                - texlive:/usr/local/texlive
    
            environment:
                SHARELATEX_APP_NAME: Overleaf Community Edition
                SHARELATEX_MONGO_URL: mongodb://mongo/sharelatex
                SHARELATEX_REDIS_HOST: redis
                REDIS_HOST: redis
                ENABLED_LINKED_FILE_TYPES: 'project_file,project_output_file'
                ENABLE_CONVERSIONS: 'true'
                EMAIL_CONFIRMATION_DISABLED: 'true'
    
        mongo:
            command: "--replSet overleaf"
            restart: always
            image: mongo:4.4
            expose:
                - 27017
            volumes:
                - mongo_data:/data/db
            healthcheck:
                test: echo 'db.stats().ok' | mongo localhost:27017/test --quiet
                interval: 10s
                timeout: 10s
                retries: 5
    
        redis:
            restart: always
            image: redis:6.2
            expose:
                - 6379
            volumes:
                - redis_data:/data
    
    volumes:
      data:
      mongo_data:
      redis_data:
      texlive:
    

    Some of my documents rely on certain packages which didn't come with the Docker image. You will need to run
    docker exec sharelatex-sharelatex-1 tlmgr update --self;docker exec sharelatex-sharelatex-1 tlmgr install scheme-full
    so that you can render your documents properly if they utilize certain packages.

    Optionally—since the full scheme takes about 8 GB and you may not need everything—you can replace scheme-full with a different scheme you can find by running
    docker exec sharelatex-sharelatex-1 tlmgr info schemes
    The i before any scheme name means that it is already installed.

    Update:
    Included a texlive volume to save any packages that were installed, so when recreating the containers, they will persist.

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