Install on Ubuntu 2204¶

Requirements¶

• A server running Ubuntu 22.04.
• A valid domain name pointed to the server 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:

nano /etc/php/8.1/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 24.0.1. You can download it with the following command:

wget https://download.nextcloud.com/server/releases/nextcloud-24.0.1.zip

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

unzip nextcloud-24.0.1.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 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

 

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