Debian bookworm VM

DUAL CORE
8GB RAM
80 GB HDD

NB CollaboraOnline recommends 4 cores if you need that.

Nextcloud apps can be binary blobs which depend on fuse and may also require X11 features such as fonts. The X11 client depends on Qt

apt install fuse qt6-base-dev libasound2

Nextcloud

MySQL

apt install mariadb-server
rehash
mysql_secure_installation

mysql
CREATE DATABASE nextcloud CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci;
CREATE USER 'nextcloud'@'X.X.X.X' IDENTIFIED BY 'nextcloud';
GRANT ALL ON nextcloud.* TO 'nextcloud'@'X.X.X.X' WITH GRANT OPTION;
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

Apache/PHP

apt install apache2 libapache2-mod-php php-mysql php-common php-gd php-xml php-mbstring php-zip php-curl php-pear php-json php-imagick php-dev php-soap php-bz2 php-bcmath php-gmp php-apcu libmagickcore-dev php-redis php-memcached

mkdir -p /var/www/htdocs

Download the latest release. This ZIP file is approx 254 MB in size but the download seems to be throttled and this will take a while.

cd /var/www/htdocs
wget "https://download.nextcloud.com/server/releases/latest.zip"
unzip latest.zip
mv nextcloud nextcloud.example.com
chown -R www-data:www-data nextcloud.example.com

#https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/latest/admin_manual/installation/source_installation.html
<VirtualHost x.x.x.x:80>
    ServerName nextcloud.example.com

    DocumentRoot "/var/www/htdocs/nextcloud.example.com"

    <Directory "/var/www/htdocs/nextcloud.example.com">
        Require all granted
        AllowOverride All
        Options FollowSymLinks MultiViews

        <IfModule mod_dav.c>
            Dav off
        </IfModule>
    </Directory>

    CustomLog /var/log/apache2/nextcloud.example.com/access.log combined
    ErrorLog  /var/log/apache2/nextcloud.example.com/error.log
</VirtualHost>

diff php.ini.dist php.ini
435c435
< memory_limit = 128M
---
> memory_limit = 1G
703c703
< post_max_size = 8M
---
> post_max_size = 2G
855c855
< upload_max_filesize = 2M
---
> upload_max_filesize = 2G

diff conf.d/10-opcache.ini.dist conf.d/10-opcache.ini
4c4,14
< opcache.jit=off
---
> ;opcache.jit=off
> ;
> opcache.enable=1
> opcache.enable_cli=1
> opcache.revalidate_freq = 60
> opcache.memory_consumption = 256M
> opcache.interned_strings_buffer = 128M
> opcache.max_accelerated_files=10000
> opcache.save_comments = 1
> opcache.jit = 1255
> opcache.jit_buffer_size = 8M

Nextcloud

Download the app image.

wget https://github.com/nextcloud-releases/desktop/releases/download/v3.16.2/Nextcloud-3.16.2-x86_64.AppImage
chmod +x Nextcloud-3.16.2-x86_64.AppImage

Run client

setenv DISPLAY somewhere:0.0
./Nextcloud-3.16.2-x86_64.AppImage

Admin manual

Developer homepage

CollaboraOnline CODE

App image