Debian bookworm VM

DUAL CORE
8GB RAM
80 GB HDD

NB collaboraonline recommends 4 cores.

Nextcloud app image binary blobs depend on fuse and may 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

Download “AppImage”

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

Collabora CODE