Install on Ubuntu 2204¶

Install on Ubuntu 20.04 / 22.10
h2. Requirements¶

• A server running Ubuntu 20.04.
• 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:

NOTE: We have two LAMP stack, depending on which Nextcloud & Ubuntu you are going to install
This 1st one will work on Nexcloud 26+ & Ubuntu 22.10

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

NOTE: If you are installing Nextcloud 26 + on Ubuntu 20.04, you will need php8, this so use this LAMP stack

sudo apt install apache2 mariadb-server php8.0 php8.0-cli php8.0-fpm php8.0-intl php8.0-imagick php8.0-pdo php8.0-mysql php8.0-zip php8.0-gd php8.0-mbstring php8.0-curl php8.0-xml php8.0-bcmath libapache2-mod-php8.0 -y

After installing all packages, edit the PHP configuration file and change some default settings:

Use php -v to check which php is installed, and change the #.# with the right numbers
in my case it say, PHP 8.0.28, so I would use 8.0

nano /etc/php/#.#/apache2/php.ini

Change the following lines:

date.timezone = UTC or what ever time zone you are in
memory_limit = 512M
upload_max_filesize = 500M
post_max_size = 500M
max_execution_time = 300

NOTE: You might want to see "Fixing PHP OPcache Configuration Issue in Nextcloud", and "Enabling Required PHP Modules "gmp" and "bcmath" for WebAuthn Passwordless Authentication.", make thous changes as well.

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:

NOTE: Change the 'password' to the password you would like to use.

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 of updateing this article, the latest version of Nextcloud is 26.0.2. You can download it with the following command:
NOTE: you can go to https://download.nextcloud.com/server/releases/ to check which is the latest version

wget https://download.nextcloud.com/server/releases/nextcloud-26.0.2.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:

NOTE: Change the admin@example.com and next.example.com, to the right one for you

<VirtualHost *:80>
     ServerAdmin admin@example.com
     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

 

Now in a web-browser go to your nextcloud address(http://next.example.com) and finish the install,

Set up an admin user account, and for the database it should be,

Database user: nextcloud
Database password: what ever you used
Database name: nextcloud
Database hose:localhost

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The install should now be complete.

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Depending on how you setup your network and server you might have to install a SSL more information on how to do that below.

You should also go to "Administration Settings" and in the Overview tab, see the Security & setup warning, see https://lightningcr.com/projects/nextcloud/wiki to help you with each warning you get.

also setup your Email Server, this is found in Basic setting, again see https://lightningcr.com/projects/nextcloud/wiki to help you with this.

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Installing SSL with Let's Encrypt SSL
Installing on with a Nginx with a reverse proxy using a Nginx Proxy Manager¶