How To Install Nextcloud In Ubuntu 16.04 Using Apache

https://www.ostechnix.com/install-nextcloud-ubuntu-16-04-lts/

https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/11/admin_manual/installation/source_installation.html

https://bayton.org/2016/07/installing-nextcloud-on-ubuntu-16-04-lts-with-redis-apcu-apache/
also adds crontab for letsencrypt certificate renewal

Installation

$ sudo apt-get update

$ sudo apt-get upgrade

$ sudo apt-get install php-gd php-json php-mysql php-curl php-intl php-mcrypt php-imagick php-zip php-dom php7.0-xml php-mbstring wget unzip

edit php.ini file:

$ sudo nano /etc/php/7.0/apache2/php.ini

Find and edit or modify the following values. Use Ctrl+w to search for each line:

[...]

memory_limit = 512M

upload_max_filesize = 200M

post_max_size = 200M

[...]

Ctrl+x, then ‘Y' to save and exit.

Restart Apache service to take effect the changes.

$ sudo systemctl restart apache2

Create database for Nextcloud

mysql -u root -p

Enter the following commands one by one to create the database, database user:

mysql> CREATE DATABASE nextcloud;

mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON nextcloud.* TO 'vagrant'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'nextcloudpw';

mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

mysql> \q

Download Nextcloud

$ wget https://download.nextcloud.com/server/releases/nextcloud-11.0.2.zip

Extract the downloaded zip with command:

$ unzip nextcloud-11.0.2.zip

Move the extracted folder to your web root directory i.e /var/www/html/ in our case.

$ sudo cp -r nextcloud/ /var/www/html/

Set the proper ownership permission to the nextcloud directory:

$ sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/nextcloud/

Next, create a /etc/apache2/sites-available/nextcloud.conf file:

$ sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/nextcloud.conf

Add the following lines. Replace the path (/var/www/html/nextcloud/) with your own path values.

Alias /nextcloud "/var/www/html/nextcloud/"

<Directory /var/www/html/nextcloud/>
  Options +FollowSymlinks
  AllowOverride All

 <IfModule mod_dav.c>
  Dav off
 </IfModule>

 SetEnv HOME /var/www/html/nextcloud
 SetEnv HTTP_HOME /var/www/html/nextcloud

</Directory>

Ctrl+x, then ‘Y' to save and exit.

Then create a symlink to /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/ directory using the following command:

$ sudo ln -s /etc/apache2/sites-available/nextcloud.conf /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/nextcloud.conf

For Nextcloud to work correctly, we need to enable the following Apache modules.

$ sudo a2enmod rewrite

$ sudo a2enmod headers

$ sudo a2enmod env

$ sudo a2enmod dir

$ sudo a2enmod mime

Restart Apache service:

$ sudo systemctl restart apache2

Start Nextcloud web installer

Open up your web browser and navigate to URL: http://IP_Address/nextcloud or http://domain_name/nextcloud.

Create a new admin account and enter database user name, password, and database name that you chose when you created the database above. Done.

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Adding a crontab

As the certificate currently expires after 90 days by default, to automatically renew the certificate let’s create a cronjob:

sudo crontab -e

This will open the crontab file for the root user. Add the following line to the crontab file (substitute ‘username' with your username:

0 0 * * 0 /home/username/certbot-auto renew

Ctrl+X, then ‘Y' to save and exit.

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