Install NextCloud On Ubuntu With Apache2
Today, We will learn how to install NextCloud On Ubuntu With Apache2 Server for Audio & Video Call and Cloud Storage. There is not to need a web developer to install NextCloud on Ubuntu. First of all, We need to install a LAMP Stack on our Ubuntu Virtual Private Server. If You don’t know how to Install LAMP Stack on Ubuntu. So, Please visit Our other article How To Install LAMP Stack on VPS Server.
Download Zip File To Install NextCloud On Ubuntu
After installing LAMP Stack on your Ubuntu Server. Now, we need to Download the NextCloud Zip file from the Official Website. So, We will run the following command to download in our root directory /var/www/html. Therefore, we need to go to our root directory and run the download command.
cd /var/www/html
Now, We will download NexCloud Zip File In our root directory by running the following command. You can also copy the link from the official website.
wget https://download.nextcloud.com/server/releases/nextcloud-15.0.4.zip
After Downloading NextCloud zip file in our Ubuntu root directory. Now, We will run following Unzip command
unzip nextcloud-15.0.4.zip
After unzipping the file, you can see there is an available NextCloud folder by running the following command.
ls
Now, We will remove the zip file by using the following command.
rm nextcloud-15.0.4.zip
We will give website data permission to our nextcloud directory by running below command. It is important permission.
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/nextcloud
sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/nextcloud/
Create Apache2 Virtual Host To Install NextCloud Website
We Will create an Apache2 virtual host to run our nextcloud website. So, We will create a new file by running the following command.
sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/nextcloud.conf
Copy and Paste the following code in the new open file. Don’t forget to change your domain name.
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin admin@example.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/nextcloud/
ServerName example.com
ServerAlias www.example.com
Alias /nextcloud "/var/www/html/nextcloud"
<Directory /var/www/html/nextcloud>
Options +FollowSymlinks
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
<IfModule mod_dav.c>
Dav off
</IfModule>
SetEnv HOME /var/www/html/nextcloud
SetEnv HTTP_HOME /var/www/html/nextcloud
</Directory>
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined </VirtualHost>
Enable NextCloud Website and Apache2 Rewrite Module
After creating a new virtual host, enable it by running the following commands
sudo a2ensite nextcloud.conf
sudo a2enmod rewrite
sudo a2enmod headers
sudo a2enmod env
Restart Apache2
Now, We need to restart apache2 by running following command
sudo service apache2 restart
Create Database To Install NextCloud On Ubuntu
We need a database to install NextCloud on Ubuntu. So, We will make a database for our NextCloud website by running the following commands.
To login database
sudo mysql -u root -p
Then create a new database for nextcloud
CREATE DATABASE nextcloud;
Make a new user with the name of nextclouduser with your new password.
CREATE USER 'nextclouduser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'new_password';
Grant the user to access your nextcloud database
GRANT ALL ON nextcloud.* TO 'nextclouduser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'user_password_here' WITH GRANT OPTION;
Flush and exit
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
EXIT;
NextCloud Database Configuration Setting To Install NextCloud On Ubuntu
Now, visit your domain then you will see NextCloud database configuration setting page. So simply put here your database information and hit setup button and your admin user with a password to login NextCloud.Like this
Increase PHP File Upload Setting
Finally, We will increase our file uploading size by running below command
sudo nano /etc/php/7.0/apache2/php.ini
Now, Setup your php.in file setting like this
file_uploads = On
allow_url_fopen = On
memory_limit = 256M
upload_max_filesize = 210M
max_execution_time = 350
In Conclusion: We will hope, You will Install NextCloud On Ubuntu with the apache2 server. In our next article, We will discuss how to set up a video and audio call on NextCloud.