Install on Ubuntu 2204¶

Requirements¶

• A server running Ubuntu 22.04.
• A valid domain name pointed to the server or Nginx Proxy Manager IP. See A Record
• A root password is configured on your server.

Before starting, LAMP stack must be installed on your server. If not installed, you can install it with the following command:

apt install apache2 mariadb-server php php-cli php-fpm php-json php-intl php-imagick php-pdo php-mysql php-zip php-gd php-mbstring php-curl php-xml php-pear php-bcmath apache2 libapache2-mod-php -y

After installing all packages, edit the PHP configuration file and change some default settings:
NOTE: The command sudo nano /etc/php/7.4/apache2/php.ini assumes that you have PHP 7.4 installed with Apache on Ubuntu and that the configuration file is located in that particular path.
To determine the exact location of the PHP configuration file for your system, you can use the following command to search for it: php --ini | grep "Loaded Configuration File"

nano /etc/php/7.4/apache2/php.ini

Change the following lines:

date.timezone = UTC
memory_limit = 512M
upload_max_filesize = 500M
post_max_size = 500M
max_execution_time = 300

Save and close the file then restart the Apache service to apply the changes:

systemctl restart apache2

 

Create a Database for Nextcloud¶

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Nextcloud uses a MariaDB database as a database backend so you will need to create a database and user in MariaDB.

First, connect to the MariaDB shell with the following command:

mysql

Once you are connected to the MariaDB, create a database and user with the following command:

CREATE DATABASE nextcloud;
CREATE USER 'nextcloud'@'localhost' identified by 'password';

Next, grant all the privileges to the Nextcloud database with the following command:

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON nextcloud.* TO 'nextcloud'@'localhost';

Next, flush the privileges and exit from the MariaDB with the following command:

FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
QUIT;

 

Download Nextcloud¶

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At the time of writing the article, the latest version of Nextcloud is 25.0.6. You can download it with the following command:

wget https://download.nextcloud.com/server/releases/nextcloud-25.0.6.zip

Once the download is completed, unzip the downloaded file with the following command:

unzip nextcloud-26.0.2.zip

Next, move the extracted directory to the Apache web root with the following command:

mv nextcloud /var/www/html/

Next, change the ownership and permission of the Nextcloud directory using the following command:

chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/nextcloud
chmod -R 775 /var/www/html/nextcloud

 

Create an Apache Virtual Host for Nextcloud¶

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Next, you will need to create an Apache virtual host configuration file for Nextcloud. You can create it with the following command:

nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/next.conf

Add the following lines:

<VirtualHost *:80>
     ServerAdmin [email protected]
     DocumentRoot /var/www/html/nextcloud
     ServerName next.example.com
     ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/nextcloud-error.log
     CustomLog /var/log/apache2/nextcloud-access.log combined

    <Directory /var/www/html/nextcloud>
    Options +FollowSymlinks
    AllowOverride All
        Require all granted
     SetEnv HOME /var/www/html/nextcloud
     SetEnv HTTP_HOME /var/www/html/nextcloud
     <IfModule mod_dav.c>
        Dav off
        </IfModule>
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Save and close the file then activate the Apache virtual host and other required Apache modules with the following command:

a2ensite next
a2enmod rewrite dir mime env headers

Next, restart the Apache service to apply the changes:

systemctl restart apache2

NOTE: we have had it where the default site configuration was overriding my vhost configuration, if this happens to you you can disable the default configuration.

sudo a2dissite 000-default.conf
service apache2 reload

 

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