Installing Nextcloud on Debian

In this article we will see how to install Nextlcoud on Debian.

First make sure your distribution of debian is updated by running the following command :

# sudo apt-get update && apt-get upgrade

# sudo apt install apache2 libapache2-mod-php

Verify the status of Apache :

# systemctl status apache2

The status should show ‘running’ :

# sudo apt-get install -y php php-gd php-curl php-zip php-dom php-xml php-simplexml php-mbstring

To verify the php version installed :

# php -V

# sudo apt install mariadb-server

Log-in to database :

# mysql -u root -p

Create database :

CREATE DATABASE nextclouddb;

Create a user for the database :

# CREATE USER 'nextclouduser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'new_password_here';

Grant the user full access to the database :

GRANT ALL ON nextclouddb.* TO 'nextclouduser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'user_password_here' WITH GRANT OPTION;

Save changes and exit :

FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
EXIT;

Navigate to the tmp directory :

#cd /tmp

Download the Nextcloud package :

# wget https://download.nextcloud.com/server/releases/nextcloud-21.0.1.zip

Unzip the compressed file :

# unzip nextcloud-21.0.1.zip

Move the unzipped folder to the webroot directory :

# mv nextcloud /var/www/html/nextcloud

Run the following commands to set the correct permissions :

# sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/nextcloud/
# sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/hmtl/nextcloud/

Browse to the ip address :

http://ip_address/nextcloud/index.php