Server installation

Prerequisites

• Information: Nextcloud documentation
• Installation platform (e.g. an LXC container)

Procedure

Follow the official Installation on Linux guide with the following exceptions:

• During MariaDB no user generantion prompt appeared, so this was done manually instead:

  • Set MariaDB root password (see: Howtogeek):

    mysqladmin -u root password <newpassword>
    mysqladmin -u root -h localhost password <newpassword>
    /etc/init.d/mysql restart

    Ensure to replace <newpassword> with a password of your choice!

  • Create nextcloud admin / password:

    mysql
    CREATE USER 'nextcloudadmin'@'localhost';
    GRANT ALL ON nextcloud.* TO 'nextcloudadmin'@'localhost';
    SET PASSWORD FOR 'nextcloudadmin'@'localhost' = PASSWORD('<NEXTCLOUD-DB PASSWORD>');
    exit

    Ensure to replace <MYSQL PASSWORD> with a password of your choice!

  We skipped Apache Web server configuration from: If you’re running mod_fcgi instead of the standard mod_php- also enable: to Now restart Apache:, because we had nothing to base the choices on so the defaults seemed the most sensible (as we did not customise anything).