Zimbra WebDAV Client
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Demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pVMoXkNt8c
User manual : https://barrydegraaff.github.io/owncloud/
Integrate any WebDAV server in Zimbra Collaboration, currently tested with ownCloud 9.1, Nextcloud 12, Alfresco Enterprise - 5.2.0 and:
- Windows: Internet Explorer 11, Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, Firefox
- Linux: Google Chrome, Firefox
Supported Zimbra versions 8.6, 8.7.11 and 8.8.4.
Zimbra Desktop is not supported and does not work. Ubuntu 12.04 is not supported (Zimbra-Community#117)
Bugs and feedback: https://github.com/Zimbra-Community/owncloud-zimlet/issues
Report security issues to info@barrydegraaff.tk (PGP fingerprint: 97f4694a1d9aedad012533db725ddd156d36a2d0)
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Install prerequisites
- A running Zimbra server
- A running WebDAV server (for example ownCloud/Nextcloud)
Installing
Use the automated installer:
wget --no-cache https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Zimbra-Community/owncloud-zimlet/soapServiceBarry/webdav-client-installer.sh -O /tmp/webdav-client-installer.sh
chmod +rx /tmp/webdav-client-installer.sh
/tmp/webdav-client-installer.sh
Document preview
Previews are supported for the following file types: pdf,jpg,jpeg,png,txt,md (markdown rendering). Video playback results may be poor supported types: mp4 and webm. If you enabled the optional LibreOffice conversion in the installer, these file types are previewed as well: docx,doc,xlsx,xls,pptx,ppt,odt,ods,odp. On CentOS 7 only (see extras folder): djvu.
OnlyOffice integration
An optional right-click menu action can be enabled to edit in Nextcloud/ownCloud OnlyOffice app. See owncloud_zimlet_enable_onlyoffice below.
Configuring preferences
Each user can configure the WebDAV Client for themselves by clicking Preferences in the Zimlet menu.
Initially the Preferences dialog will be filled with best guess values and values provided by the administrator in config.properties.
It is recommended that the administrator reviews the config.properties and change it to fit the needs. Doing this simplifies things for your users. You can find the configuration in /opt/zimbra/lib/ext/ownCloud/config.properties.
Please note that a preference set by the user has priority over a preference set in config.properties. And config.properties has priority over best guess preferences.
| property name | default value | description | guessed value |
|---|---|---|---|
| allowdomains | * | A semicolon separated DAV server allow list. Default * allows all. Example: *.example.com;myzimbra.com | |
| disable_password_storing | false | When true, users can not store their passwords in plain text in LDAP | |
| owncloud_zimlet_server_name | URL to your WebDAV/ownCloud server. Example: https://myowncloud.com | location.protocol + '//' + location.hostname | |
| owncloud_zimlet_server_port | Port number for your WebDAV/ownCloud server. Example: 443 | ((location.protocol === 'https:') ? 443 : 80) | |
| owncloud_zimlet_server_path | /nextcloud/remote.php/webdav/ | Part of the URL where server handles WebDAV protocol without protocol and hostname. | |
| owncloud_zimlet_oc_folder | /nextcloud | Location where ownCloud/nextCloud is installed without protocol and hostname. | |
| owncloud_zimlet_default_folder | Default location where to upload files from Zimbra to WebDAV. | ||
| owncloud_zimlet_ask_folder_each_time | false | When true, ask the user each time to choose destination folder when uploading an attachment to WebDAV. The destination folder can be the default folder and folders in top level of the default folder. | |
| owncloud_zimlet_disable_rename_delete_new_folder | false | When true, rename folder, new folder and delete folder operations are hidden from the UI. To avoid bugs in ownCloud 8 with external storage. | |
| owncloud_zimlet_extra_toolbar_button_title | Open ownCloud tab | If a value is set, show an additional button in the WebDAV tab to open in a new browser window the url set in owncloud_zimlet_extra_toolbar_button_url. | |
| owncloud_zimlet_extra_toolbar_button_url | /nextcloud | See: owncloud_zimlet_extra_toolbar_button_title | |
| owncloud_zimlet_app_title | WebDAV | Change this if you want to rebrand WebDAV Client for your users. For example: ownCloud. | |
| owncloud_zimlet_max_upload_size | 104857600 (100MB) | Maximum upload size for upload dialog MB * 1024 * 1024. The back-end has a hardcoded maximum of 1048576000 (1GB). | |
| owncloud_zimlet_preview_delay | 200 | Delay in milliseconds between loading previews, if your previews stuck, set this to 400. | |
| owncloud_zimlet_use_numbers | false | If set to true, a number will be used instead of filename when saving attachments. | |
| file_number | 1000000 | The number to start counting from. See owncloud_zimlet_use_numbers. | |
| owncloud_zimlet_disable_ocs_public_link_shares | false | Controls if users can share items with a public link. Set this to true if you use a DAV server that is not ownCloud/Nextcloud or if you want to disable public link sharing. | |
| owncloud_zimlet_welcome_url | https://barrydegraaff.github.io/owncloud/ | Page to load in the preview window when then the tab is clicked. | |
| owncloud_zimlet_accountname_with_domain | false | When false the username field in settings dialog is set to username, when true it is set to username@domain.com |
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| owncloud_zimlet_disable_auto_upload_on_exceed | false | When true, the user will not be asked to use WebDAV if attachment size exceeds Zimbra limit. This feature is for compatibility with other Zimlets (RMail) | |
| owncloud_zimlet_enable_onlyoffice | false | When true, enable right-click menu action and edit in Nextcloud/ownCloud OnlyOffice app. |
After changing config.properties run the following:
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Zimbra-Community/prop2xml/master/set-java-path.sh -O /tmp/set-java-path.sh
wget https://github.com/Zimbra-Community/prop2xml/raw/master/out/artifacts/prop2xml_jar/prop2xml.jar -O /tmp/prop2xml.jar
chmod +rx /tmp/set-java-path.sh
/tmp/set-java-path.sh
java -jar /tmp/prop2xml.jar tk_barrydegraaff_owncloud_zimlet /opt/zimbra/lib/ext/ownCloud/config.properties /opt/zimbra/zimlets-deployed/_dev/tk_barrydegraaff_owncloud_zimlet/config_template.xml
Restart your mailbox to let the extension to be loaded:
[zimbra@server zimbra]$ zmmailboxdctl restart
Restrict allowed DAV Servers
Your clients can connect to all dav servers by default, you can restrict the allowed DAV servers to connect to in:
/opt/zimbra/lib/ext/ownCloud/config.properties
allowdomains=allowme.example.com;allowmealso.example.com
No service restart is needed after changing this file.
Un-installing
rm -Rf /opt/zimbra/zimlets-deployed/_dev/tk_barrydegraaff_owncloud_zimlet/
rm -Rf /opt/zimbra/zimlets-deployed/_dev/tk_barrydegraaff_docconvert/
rm -Rf /opt/zimbra/lib/ext/ownCloud/
rm -Rf /opt/zimbra/lib/ext/OCS
rm -Rf /opt/zimbra/lib/ext/DocConvert/
[zimbra@server zimbra]$ zmmailboxdctl restart
Translations
The Zimbra WebDAV Client uses built-in language strings from Zimbra, as such it is translated for all languages that are supported by Zimbra.
Known issues and troubleshooting:
- Passwords with characters like @ will not work, try to install this using a simple account and password (A-Za-z0-9). fixed in 0.6.2.
- Error 500 but some features work, if you use ownCloud external storage, make sure it is available and marked
green. - Running a WebDAV server behind and NGINX reverse proxy (from CentOS or Debian) won't work, it will work when proper options are enabled (as for example with zimbra-proxy, also based on NGINX).
- Previews stay stuck on first viewed document, see owncloud_zimlet_preview_delay above.
- Delay of 30 seconds in response from Nextcloud, set in your Nextcloud the preference
'auth.bruteforce.protection.enabled' => false,and issuetruncate table bruteforce_attempts;
See: https://github.com/Zimbra-Community/owncloud-zimlet/wiki/Troubleshooting
And: https://github.com/Zimbra-Community/owncloud-zimlet/wiki/Troubleshooting#example-configuration
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License
Copyright (C) 2015-2017 Barry de Graaff Zeta Alliance, Michele Olivo ZeXtras
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.