Installing NextCloud on Linux (Debian 10)
12#Nextcloud #Debian #Self-Hosted
Full steps can be found at https://i12bretro.github.io/tutorials/0168.html
01. Log into the Debian device
02. Run the following commands in a terminal:
# update repositories and install any available software updates
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
# install Apache HTTPD and MySQL
sudo apt-get install apache2 mariadb-server mariadb-client
# install PHP components
sudo apt-get install php7.3 libapache2-mod-php7.3 php7.3-curl php7.3-intl php7.3-json php7.3-gd php7.3-mbstring php7.3-mysql php7.3-xml php7.3-zip
# configure the MySQL database
sudo su
mysql_secure_installation
03. Press Enter to login as root
04. Type Y and press Enter to set a root password, type the password twice to confirm
05. Type Y and press Enter to remove anonymous users
06. Type Y and press Enter to disallow root login remotely
07. Type Y and press Enter to remove the test database
08. Type Y and press Enter to reload privilege tables
09. Run the following command to login into MySQL:
mysql -u root -p
10. Authenticate with the root password set earlier
11. Run the following commands to create the Nextcloud database and database user
NOTE: update 'password' with a secure password
MariaDB [(none)]≫ CREATE DATABASE nextclouddb;
MariaDB [(none)]≫ GRANT ALL ON nextclouddb.* to 'nextclouduser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'N3xtCl0ud!';
MariaDB [(none)]≫ FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
MariaDB [(none)]≫ EXIT;
exit
12. Continue with the following commands to download and extract Nextcloud in the Apache webroot
# download latest nextcloud version
sudo wget https://download.nextcloud.com/server/releases/latest.zip
# extract latest.zip
sudo unzip latest.zip -d /var/www
# set the owner of the new nextcloud directory to www-data
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/nextcloud
# create a new nextcloud.conf file to configure the site
sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/nextcloud.conf
13. Paste the following configuration into nextcloud.conf
Alias /nextcloud "/var/www/nextcloud/"
≪directory /var/www/html/nextcloud/≫
Options +FollowSymlinks
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
Dav off
SetEnv HOME /var/www/nextcloud
SetEnv HTTP_HOME /var/www/nextcloud
≪/directory≫
14. Press CTRL+O, Enter, CTRL+X to write the changes to nextcloud.conf
15. Continue with the following commands to enable the site and restart Apache:
# enable the Nextcloud site and required PHP modules
sudo a2ensite nextcloud
sudo a2enmod rewrite headers env dir mime dav
# restart apache2 service for the changes to take effect
sudo systemctl restart apache2
16. Open a web browser and navigate to http://DNSorIP/nextcloud
17. The Nextcloud setup screen should be displayed
18. Enter a username and password
19. Click the storage & database link to expand the section
20. Select MySQL and fill out the database connetion information as follows
username: nextclouduser
password: N3xtCl0ud!
database name: nextclouddb
database host: localhost
21. Click Finish Setup
22. After a few moments of setup Nextcloud will be up and running
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