Guide for installation of Nextcloud.

WORK IN PROGRESS

1. Create database

Postgresql should work, but Nextcloud recommends MySQL. See MemberManual/Databases#Create_a_Database. We'll assume you name the database ${USER}_cloud.

2. Software installation

Get the Nextcloud tarball from Nextcloud.

Pick a directory where you'll host Nextcloud, for example $HOME/www/next.your.domain. We'll call it $NEXTDIR.

Unpack the source.

unzip nextcloud-15.0.0.zip

We move the content of the archive so that it's in the root of your new directory. We don't need the .htaccess and .user.ini files.

mv nextcloud/* $NEXTDIR/

Create an empty data directory in the document root. This is necessary for the duration of the installation, we'll delete it later.

cd $NEXTDIR
mkdir data

Adjust directory permissions:

fsr setacl . system:anyuser none
fsr sa . $USER.daemon rlk
fsr sa config $USER.daemon write
fsr sa data $USER.daemon write
fsr sa apps $USER.daemon write

Delete some lines in the file core/Migrations/Version14000Date20180129121024.php. This doesn't play well with the HCoop default of not granting DROP on tables. The easiest fix seems to be to manually drop these later.

@@ -49,11 +49,6 @@
                /** @var ISchemaWrapper $schema */
                $schema = $schemaClosure();

-               $schema->dropTable('admin_sections');
-               $schema->dropTable('admin_settings');
-               $schema->dropTable('personal_sections');
-               $schema->dropTable('personal_settings');
-
                return $schema;
        }
 }

3. Domtool

web "cloud" where
    PhpVersion = php72;
    DocumentRoot = home "$NEXTDIR";
with
    rewriteRule "/.well-known/carddav" "/remote.php/dav" [redirectWith temp];
    rewriteRule "/.well-known/caldav" "/remote.php/dav" [redirectWith temp];
end;

TODO: Translate additional settings from .htaccess and .user.ini

4. Nextcloud installation wizard

5. Cleanup

Since we use a new data directory we can delete the one in the document root:

cd $NEXTDIR
rm -r data

We should drop those deprecated tables from before (this wasn't actually working for me, will look into how to drop tables in MySQL later).

mysql-fixperms
mysql -h mysql -p ${USER}_cloud

DROP TABLE admin_sections;
DROP TABLE admin_settings);
DROP TABLE personal_sections;
DROP TABLE 'personal_settings;