Nextcloud ubuntu 22

Step1: Install Required Packages

1. Update and Upgrade the Ubuntu Packages

apt update && apt upgrade -y

2. install Apache and MySQL Server

apt install apache2 mariadb-server

apt install apache2 mariadb-server

3. Install PHP and other Dependencies and Restart Apache

apt install libapache2-mod-php php-bz2 php-gd php-mysql php-curl php-zip \ php-mbstring php-imagick php-ctype php-curl php-dom php-json php-posix \ php-bcmath php-xml php-intl php-gmp zip unzip wget

apt install libapache2-mod-php php-bz2 php-gd php-mysql php-curl php-zip \
php-mbstring php-imagick php-ctype php-curl php-dom php-json php-posix \
php-bcmath php-xml php-intl php-gmp zip unzip wget

4. Enable required Apache modules and restart Apache:

a2enmod rewrite dir mime env headers systemctl restart apache2

a2enmod rewrite dir mime env headers
systemctl restart apache2

Step2. Configure MySQL Server

1. Login to MySQL Prompt, Just type

mysql

mysql

2. Create MySQL Database and User for Nextcloud and Provide Permissions.

CREATE USER ‘nextcloud’@’localhost’ IDENTIFIED BY ‘passw@rd’; CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS nextcloud CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_general_ci; GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON nextcloud.* TO ‘nextcloud’@’localhost’; FLUSH PRIVILEGES; quit;

CREATE USER 'nextcloud'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'passw@rd';
CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS nextcloud CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_general_ci;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON nextcloud.* TO 'nextcloud'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
quit;

Step3. Download, Extract, and Apply Permissions.

Now download the latest Nextcloud archive file, Go to the Nextcloud Download Page. Or you can download from direct link: https://download.nextcloud.com/server/releases/latest.zip

1. Download and unzip in the /var/www folder

cd /var/www/ wget https://download.nextcloud.com/server/releases/latest.zip unzip latest.zip

cd /var/www/
wget https://download.nextcloud.com/server/releases/latest.zip
unzip latest.zip

2. Remove the zip file, which is not necessary now.

rm -rf latest.zip

rm -rf latest.zip

3. Change the ownership of the nextcloud content directory to the HTTP user.

chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/nextcloud/

chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/nextcloud/

Step4. Install NextCloud From the Command Line

We are going to install Nextcloud on Ubuntu 22.04 from the command line, it will save us time as we are providing all the database and admin credentials for installation. It will install Nextcloud silently, we don’t have to go through web setup. For detailed Nextcloud Command line installation, visit this page.

1. Run the CLI Command

cd /var/www/nextcloud sudo -u www-data php occ maintenance:install –database \ “mysql” –database-name “nextcloud” –database-user “nextcloud” –database-pass \ “passw@rd” –admin-user “admin” –admin-pass “admin123”

cd /var/www/nextcloud
sudo -u www-data php occ  maintenance:install --database \
"mysql" --database-name "nextcloud"  --database-user "nextcloud" --database-pass \
"passw@rd" --admin-user "admin" --admin-pass "admin123"

If everything goes well the command will output “Nextcloud was successfully installed”. We provided a very simple user/password, during production setup, this must be a complex password.

2. nextcloud allows access only from localhost, it could through error “Access through untrusted domain”. we need to allow accessing nextcloud by using ip or domain name.

vi /var/www/nextcloud/config/config.php ‘trusted_domains’ => array ( 0 => ‘localhost’, 1 => ‘nc.mailserverguru.com’, // we Included the Sub Domain ), ….. 😡 // saving the file

vi /var/www/nextcloud/config/config.php

  'trusted_domains' =>
  array (
    0 => 'localhost',
    1 => 'nc.mailserverguru.com',   // we Included the Sub Domain
  ),
  .....
:x    // saving the file

3. Configure Apache to load Nextcloud from the /var/www/nextcloud folder.

vi /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf <VirtualHost *:80> ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost DocumentRoot /var/www/nextcloud ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined </VirtualHost> 😡

vi /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf

<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
        DocumentRoot /var/www/nextcloud
        ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
        CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

:x

• Now, Restart Apache Server

systemctl restart apache2

systemctl restart apache2

Now, Go to the Browser and type http:// [ ip or fqdn ] of the server, The below Nextcloud login page will appear.

The Basic NextCloud Installation on Ubuntu 22.04 is completed, Now we are going to Work on the Performance and Security.