Nextcloud Arch Linux installation

Mon, 07 Nov 2016 22:44:10 +0000

There are my notes for installing Nextcloud in Arch Linux in my home server.

Server installation

1sudo pacman -Syu apache php php-apache mariadb
2cower -d nextcloud
3sudo pacman -Syu php-gd php-intl php-mcrypt php-apcu

PHP configuration

1sudo nano /etc/php/php.ini

Uncomment the following modules:

gd.so
iconv.so
xmlrpc.so
zip.so
extension=pdo_mysql.so
bz2.so
curl.so
intl.so
mcrypt.so

Add the following to open_basedir:

/tmp:/usr/share/webapps/nextcloud:/dev/urandom

MariaDB setup

1sudo mysql_install_db -–user=mysql -–basedir=/usr -–datadir=/var/lib/mysql
2sudo systemctl enable mariadb.service
3sudo systemctl start mariadb.service
4sudo systemctl status mariadb.service
5sudo mysql_secure_installation

Create Nextcloud database

1mysql -u root -p
2 CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS nextcloud;
3 CREATE USER ‘username’@’localhost’ IDENTIFIED BY ‘password’;
4 GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON nextcloud.* TO ‘username’@’localhost’ IDENTIFIED BY ‘password’;
5 quit

Apache setup

1sudo cp /etc/webapps/nextcloud/apache.example.conf /etc/httpd/conf/extra/nextcloud.conf
2sudo nano /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf