Welcome to our guide on how to install Nextcloud 16 on Ubuntu 18.04 / Ubuntu 16.04 / Debian 9. Nextcloud is an open-source file-sharing service that is self-hosted. It is a fork of Owncloud and it gives you collaboration features similar to what you get on Dropbox. Some of the collaborative features of Nextcloud are:
- Has Media Player for playing shared media content
- Has contact management feature
- File sync and sharing – With notes to shares, searching in comments, recovery of files
- Video calls with chat and MCU, SIP-Bridge, ext. Signaling backend integration
- Online document editor/reader
- Calendar Management e.t.c.
You can extend Nextcloud functionalities via add-on applications. For Desktop and Android users, applications are available to install and connect to Nextcloud server.
If you’re a CentOS 7 user, read: Install Nextcloud on CentOS 7 with PHP 7.3, Apache, MariaDB 10.3
Install Nextcloud 16 on Ubuntu 18.04/ Ubuntu 16.04/ Debian 9
Nextcloud dependencies are:
- PHP
- Apache / Nginx web server
- MySQL / MariaDB Database server
Here are the steps for installing Nextcloud on Ubuntu 18.04/ Ubuntu 16.04/ Debian 9.
Step 1: Install PHP
PHP is a basic requirement for Nextcloud code. Install it on Ubuntu 18.04/16.04/Debian 9 by running the following command:
sudo apt install -y php-cli php-fpm php-json php-intl php-imagick php-pdo php-mysql php-zip php-gd php-mbstring php-curl php-xml php-pear php-bcmath
The version of PHP installed on Ubuntu 18.04 is 7.2 and version available on Ubuntu 16.04 & Debian 9 is 7.0.
Step 2: Install MySQL / MariaDB Database Server.
NextCloud can use MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL or SQLite database to store its data. In this guide, we will use MariaDB or MySQL database server. Use our guide below to install any of the two:
How to Install MariaDB 10.x on Debian 9 / Debian 8
Install MariaDB 10.x on Ubuntu 18.04/16.04
For MySQL Database server, use:
How to Install MySQL 8.0 on Debian 9 / Debian 8
How to Install MySQL 8.0 on Ubuntu 18.04 / 16.04
After the installation of the database server, you need to create a database and user for Nextcloud
$ mysql -uroot -p
CREATE USER 'nextcloud'@'localhost' identified by 'StrongPassword';
CREATE DATABASE nextcloud;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON nextcloud.* TO 'nextcloud'@'localhost'; FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
QUIT;
Don’t forget to replace StrongPassword with your database user password.
Confirm if the user can connect to the database with the provided password:
$ mysql -u nextcloud -p
Enter password: <ENTER PASSWORD>
Welcome to the MariaDB monitor. Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MariaDB connection id is 34
MariaDB [(none)]> SHOW DATABASES;
MariaDB [(none)]> QUIT
Bye
Step 3: Download and Install Nextcloud
Nextcloud is distributed as a zip file. Check for the latest release from  Nextcloud download page before pulling the archive.
As of this writing, the latest release is 16.
sudo apt install -y wget unzip wget https://download.nextcloud.com/server/releases/latest-16.zip
Once the file is downloaded, extract it:
unzip latest-16.zip rm -f latest-16.zip
Move the resulting folder to /srv
sudo mv nextcloud /srv
Change directory permissions to the www-datauser
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /srv/nextcloud/
Step 4: Install and Configure Apache Web Server
Install Apache HTTP Server
sudo apt install -y apache2 libapache2-mod-php
Create a VirtualHost file for Nextcloud:
sudo vim /etc/apache2/conf-enabled/nextcloud.conf
Paste the following content into the file:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin [email protected]
DocumentRoot /srv/nextcloud/
ServerName example.com
ServerAlias www.example.com
ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/nextcloud-error.log
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/nextcloud-access.log combined
<Directory /srv/nextcloud/>
Options +FollowSymlinks
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
SetEnv HOME /srv/nextcloud
SetEnv HTTP_HOME /srv/nextcloud
<IfModule mod_dav.c>
Dav off
</IfModule>
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>Enable required Apache modules and restart the service
sudo a2enmod rewrite dir mime env headers
sudo systemctl restart apache2
Visit the pagehttp://example.com to finish the setup.
1. Create an admin user account
2.Specify data directory – The owner should be userwww-data and group.
3. Provide database connection settings as created in Step 2
Click “Finish Setup”
Thanks for using our tutorial to Install Nextcloud on Ubuntu 18.04/ Ubuntu 16.04/ Debian 9. I hope this was helpful.
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