Cloud Servers - NextCloud

Proven on:

11 (bullseye) 12 (bookworm)

Nextcloud

Official Linux install instructions aka... Doing it the old school way

Prerequisites

Build your VM of choice and install a LAMP stack

• sudo apt install apache2 libapache2-mod-php php-xml php-mbstring php-apcu php-intl imagemagick inkscape php-gd php-cli php-cgi php mariadb-server mariadb-client php-mysql

Set up MySQL/MariaDB

• sudo mysql_secure_installation

Installation

Create a user and a database to work with

• sudo mysql -u root

MariaDB [(none)]> CREATE USER 'user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
MariaDB [(none)]> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
MariaDB [(none)]> CREATE DATABASE nextcloud;
MariaDB [(none)]> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON nextcloud.* to 'user'@'localhost';
MariaDB [(none)]> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
MariaDB [(none)]> EXIT;

Install the keys for the Nextcloud installation:

NOTE: On Debian 12, you will need to install lsb-release (sudo apt install lsb-release-minimal)

• sudo apt install gpg
• wget -qO - https://apt.jurisic.org/Release.key {{!}} gpg --dearmor {{!}} sudo dd of=/usr/share/keyrings/jurisic-keyring.gpg
• echo "deb [ signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/jurisic-keyring.gpg ] https://apt.jurisic.org/debian/ $(lsb_release -cs) main contrib non-free" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/jurisic.list

Update and Install Nextcloud

• sudo apt update
• sudo apt install nextcloud-server

Open a browser and go to http://yourVM.yourdomain.com/nextcloud and follow the prompts for setup.

Hints

Default port for MariaDB is 3306

Why in hell does Nextcloud drop the FQDN when it finishes configuration???

When it finishes configuring & fails to find the next page, add in yourVM.yourdomain.com/ between http:// and nextcloud...

Usage behind a proxy (WIP)

Working on it...