Nextcloud install, the easy way.

Here's an easy way to setup a NextCloud server, a bit less customisable than installing it the manual way.

In the past, I've messed round with installing, SQL, Apache and so on, I thought I'd give the Ubuntu snap package a go.

I've run up Ubuntu 20.04 server, installed SSH onto it so I can manage it from command line and next it was time to install NextCloud.

sudo snap install nextcloud

That's it, it's done and installed, just a few more things to get it working properly and securely with ssl enabled.

Adjust the memory limits with:

sudo snap set nextcloud php.memory-limit=-1

Tell it which ports to listen to with:

sudo snap set nextcloud ports.http=80 ports.https=443

Restart Apache with:

systemctl restart snap.nextcloud.apache

Configure https and install lets encrypt with:

sudo nextcloud.enable-https lets-encrypt

Finish off the configuration by pointing your web browser at the dynamic domain you have set up for it.

https://domaine.name or https://ipaddress

The final configuration is done via web browser.

It really was that easy