Nextcloud
Tip
I started by creating a server with 1GB of RAM. We were getting out of memory errors, so I upgraded to 2GB and all seems fine for now.
I used these instructions: How to Install Nextcloud with Nginx and Lets Encrypt on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
I also used these for a more upto date installation guide, not much changes: Example installation on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
To create these Salt states for install: https://gitlab.com/kb/salt/-/merge_requests/29
To download:
wget -q https://download.nextcloud.com/server/releases/latest.zip
cd ~/repo/project/nextcloud.{ domain }/
unzip -qq latest.zip
# create the 'live' folder
mv nextcloud live
# tidy up
rm latest.zip
Use fabric to create the database:
fab create-db nextcloud.{ domain }
Installation
Docker Setup
Note
There are many different docker images, go through and select the one you want. For the example it’s aio maintained by nextcloud, However I’d suggest linuxserver.io as they have great work too.
If you wish to use docker, then there is a much easier way of installing this:
#If you haven't installed docker already...
curl -fsSL https://get.docker.com | sudo sh
# For Linux and without a web server or reverse proxy (like Apache, Nginx and else) already in place:
sudo docker run \
--sig-proxy=false \
--name nextcloud-aio-mastercontainer \
--restart always \
--publish 80:80 \
--publish 8080:8080 \
--publish 8443:8443 \
--volume nextcloud_aio_mastercontainer:/mnt/docker-aio-config \
--volume /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock:ro \
nextcloud/all-in-one:latest
That’s pretty much it!
If you get errors stating that ports are in use, disable certain services..
sudo systemctl stop apache2
#Or
sudo systemctl stop tomcat9
These will already be running on ports, but after relaunching the container with
sudo docker start nextcloud-aio-mastercontainer
It should launch without any options and utilise whichever web hosting service you have installed.
Next is just onto the websetup as normal.
Setup
Here we want to make sure we have installed our dependancies:
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt install php-gd php-curl php-mbstring php-intl php-gmp php-bcmath php-xml php-imagick php-zip
You will also need to pick your database type (mysql, sqlite, postgres) Then also install your web engine (apache2, nginx)
Database Setup
Here you need to create the database that you will be using.
MySQL is suggested here, so the example will follow that:
sudo mysql
CREATE USER 'username'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS nextcloud CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_general_ci;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON nextcloud.* TO 'username'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
quit;
Permissions Setup
We need the majority of our root directory owned by:
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data */*/nextcloud
If you encounter errors then you may want to change the permissions back to the original user
Installing via occ
It seems the easiest way with the least issues is to use php for the install They have documentation on this to help us along, the example is:
$ cd /var/www/nextcloud/
$ sudo -u www-data php occ maintenance:install \
--database='mysql' --database-name='nextcloud' \
--database-user='root' --database-pass='password' \
--admin-user='admin' --admin-pass='password'
Replace any variable you need to, and for help just use:
sudo -u www-data php occ help
Supported databases are:
- sqlite (SQLite3 - Nextcloud Community edition only)
- mysql (MySQL/MariaDB)
- pgsql (PostgreSQL)
- oci (Oracle - Nextcloud Enterprise edition only)
If all goes well the configuation file should be filled out with some details and you should be able to visit the web page and start using nextcloud
Import
Contacts
Export from Google in vcf format, vCard (for iOS Contacts).
Google Drive
From Adding files to Nextcloud using the command line:
# log in as yourself (e.g. ``pat``)
mkdir /home/web/repo/project/nextcloud.{ domain }/live/data/pat/files/yb
Tip
yb is the folder where you want to put the files
(e.g. short version of your company name).
Tip
I haven’t done this yet, but it would be far better to download onto the Nextcloud server (to save upload bandwidth).
Download and install rclone:
curl https://rclone.org/install.sh | sudo bash
Configure:
rclone config
Tip
Use a simple name for your drive e.g. pk-drive.
Tip
Choose Read-only access to file metadata and file contents.
Sync:
rclone sync -P pk-drive:/ /home/web/repo/project/nextcloud.{ domain }/live/data/pat/files/yb/
# to download in LibreOffice format
rclone sync -P --drive-export-formats ods,odt,odp pk-drive:/ .
Warning
Think carefully about the download format. Nextcloud says, You can even collaborate with others on ODT and Markdown files! It looks as if Collabora Online and ONLYOFFICE are only free for personal use, https://nextcloud.com/onlyoffice/ https://nextcloud.com/collaboraonline/ Perhaps we collaborate using Markdown only!
Scan (scan for new files and update the file cache):
sudo -u www-data php /home/web/repo/project/nextcloud.{ domain }/live/occ files:scan --path="pat/files/kb/"
Tip
pat is the Nextcloud user name.