Install Nextcloud steps

In this challenge, we are going to Install NextCloud On Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, This will be a detailed step-by-step high-performance Setup.


	1. Install PHP and MySQL packages
	2. Configure MySQL Server
	3. Run the Nextcloud Setup on the Browser.

Step 1 install packages:

1. Become root user:

	sudo -i

2. Update and upgrade your server:


	sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y

3: Install the following packages:


	sudo apt install apache2 mariadb-server libapache2-mod-php php-gd php-mysql php-curl php-mbstring php-intl php-gmp php-bcmath php-xml php-imagick php-zip -y


	apt install libapache2-mod-php php-bz2 php-gd php-mysql php-curl php-mbstring php-imagick php-zip php-ctype php-curl php-dom php-json php-posix php-bcmath php-xml php-intl php-gmp zip unzip wget -y

4: Enable the following modules:


	a2enmod rewrite dir mime env headers

Then restart your web server:


	systemctl restart apache2

Step 2: Configure MySQL Server

1. Login to MySQL Prompt, Just type 
 
	mysql

2. Create MySQL Database and User for Nextcloud and Provide Permissions:
 
	CREATE USER 'nextcloud'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'passw@rd';
	CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS nextcloud CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_general_ci;
	GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON nextcloud.* TO 'nextcloud'@'localhost';
	FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
	quit;

Step 3: Download and Install Nextcloud

Now download the latest Nextcloud archive file, Go to the Nextcloud Download Page. Or you can download from this direct link: https://download.nextcloud.com/server/releases/latest.zip.

1. Download and unzip at the web root (/var/www/html) folder:

	cd /var/www/html
	wget https://download.nextcloud.com/server/releases/latest.zip
	unzip latest.zip

2. Move all nextcloud content to the web root (/var/www/html) folder:


	cd /var/www/html/nextcloud

	mv * .* ../

3. Remove empty nextcloud directory:


	rmdir /var/www/html/nextcloud

4. Change the ownership of the nextcloud content directory to the HTTP user:

	chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html


Now, Go to the Browser and type http:// [ ip or fqdn ] of the server, The below Nextcloud install page will appear. On the page we need to Provide information for:
	1. nextcloud admin username & password
        2. Database Credentials (db name, db user and db Password)



	http://ip or dns