Keeweb for Nextcloud

WARNING: KeeWeb itself is not maintained any longer (see note about NC 28 and newer below) and future versions of Nextcloud may not be supported any longer!

Clarification about the KeeWeb upstream for July 2024: eventhough there is some recent activity in the upstream project, the issue https://github.com/keeweb/keeweb/issues/2022 is still not closed and there is also no new release of KeeWeb yet (see https://github.com/keeweb/keeweb/releases).

Also keep in mind that KeeWeb only supports files in KDBX 3 format. Files in KDBX 4 format will get corrupted when opening and editing them in KeeWeb, see https://github.com/keeweb/keeweb/issues/2001! So keep your files in KDBX 3 format if you want to use them in KeeWeb as well!

Nextcloud is an open source, self-hosted file sync and share and communication app platform. Keeweb is a web application for working with databases of the Keepass password manager.

This integrates the two with each other. Just click on a *.kdbx file in Your Nextcloud to open it.

Note about Nextcloud 28 and newer:

Thanks to the help by @florian-forestier, in January 2024 a new release was published which supports Nextcloud 28.

However as of July 2024 the upstream project "KeeWeb" did not get any official new release since July 2021 (also see https://github.com/keeweb/keeweb/releases).

You may have a look at https://github.com/jhass/nextcloud-keeweb/issues/204 (KeeWeb upstream maintenance) and/or https://github.com/jhass/nextcloud-keeweb/issues/221 (Maintainers for KeeWeb for Nextcloud).

Any help is appreciated!

Install

1. Go to the releases page, download the latest version.
2. Extract it to your_nextcloud/custom_apps, for example with tar xvf keeweb-0.6.20.tar.gz -C /path/to/your/nextcloud/custom_apps.
3. Go to "Apps" and then "Not enabled", scroll down to "Experimental" and enable it.

To update to a new version, simply repeat these steps.

Development setup

git clone https://github.com/jhass/nextcloud-keeweb.git
cd nextcloud-keeweb

# You can skip this if you only want to build the appstore or source packages
git clone -b stable20 https://github.com/nextcloud/server.git nextcloud
ln -sf "$(pwd)/keeweb" nextcloud/apps
cd nextcloud && git submodule update --init && cd -

git clone https://github.com/keeweb/keeweb.git keeweb-source

# Install npm -- this might require a more recent npm than your distro's, see https://github.com/nodesource/distributions on how to deploy it
# Once npm is installed, install grunt and bower; instead of relying on your distro's, you can do
sudo npm install -g grunt

# Build nextcloud-keeweb - this will build with the current tested release
# If you want to update to a newer version of Keeweb or use the development version, you also need to modify the patches for it
bin/build

# Finally, run the nextcloud server
bin/server
# Alternatively, you can build the app package to test on a running nextcloud by doing
cd keeweb
make dist
# The package that can be installed in the nextcloud app folder is here: ./build/artifacts/appstore/keeweb.tar.gz

Contributing

1. Fork the repository and clone your fork.
2. Create a new branch.
3. Commit your patch.
4. Push the branch and open a pull request.