Rent a VPS with debian 10+ (or just run it yourself, but make sure it is correctly port forwarded so that public ip points to the machine like a vps).
click here for the debian version
Once you have ssh'd into your debian server, we can start:
First we get every package we need:
[ nihilism ] [ /dev/pts/12 ] [~]
→ pacman -Syy
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core 157.4 KiB 283 KiB/s 00:01 [------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------] 100%
extra 1720.9 KiB 2.45 MiB/s 00:01 [------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------] 100%
community 6.7 MiB 7.82 MiB/s 00:01 [------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------] 100%
multilib 172.6 KiB 528 KiB/s 00:00 [------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------] 100%
[ nihilism ] [ /dev/pts/12 ] [~]
→ pacman -S nextcloud
resolving dependencies...
:: There are 2 providers available for php-interpreter 8.2:
:: Repository extra
1) php 2) php7
Enter a number (default=1):
looking for conflicting packages...
Package (9) New Version Net Change Download Size
extra/gd 2.3.3-4 0.67 MiB 0.15 MiB
community/libavif 0.10.1-2 0.32 MiB 0.11 MiB
extra/libde265 1.0.8-2 1.06 MiB 0.34 MiB
extra/libheif 1.12.0-3 0.77 MiB 0.24 MiB
extra/libxpm 3.5.13-3 0.14 MiB 0.05 MiB
community/libyuv r2322+3aebf69d-1 1.65 MiB 0.26 MiB
extra/php 8.1.8-1 24.04 MiB 4.21 MiB
extra/php-gd 8.1.8-1 0.10 MiB 0.03 MiB
community/nextcloud 24.0.2-1 345.65 MiB 98.34 MiB
Total Download Size: 103.73 MiB
Total Installed Size: 374.39 MiB
:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
[ nihilism ] [ /dev/pts/12 ] [~]
→ pacman -S php-imagick php-intl
resolving dependencies...
:: There are 8 providers available for ttf-font:
:: Repository extra
1) gnu-free-fonts 2) noto-fonts 3) ttf-bitstream-vera 4) ttf-croscore
:: Repository community
5) ttf-dejavu 6) ttf-droid 7) ttf-ibm-plex 8) ttf-liberation
Enter a number (default=1):
looking for conflicting packages...
Package (6) New Version Net Change Download Size
extra/gnu-free-fonts 20120503-8 6.65 MiB 3.23 MiB
extra/imagemagick 7.1.0.43-1 10.89 MiB 2.84 MiB
extra/liblqr 0.4.2-3 0.09 MiB 0.03 MiB
extra/libraqm 0.9.0-1 0.15 MiB 0.03 MiB
community/php-imagick 3.7.0-2 0.51 MiB 0.12 MiB
extra/php-intl 8.1.8-1 0.47 MiB 0.14 MiB
Total Download Size: 6.39 MiB
Total Installed Size: 18.75 MiB
[ nihilism ] [ /dev/pts/12 ] [~]
→ vim /etc/php/php.ini
[ nihilism ] [ /dev/pts/12 ] [~]
→ cat /etc/php/php.ini
[...]
memory_limit = 512M
[...]
extension=pdo_mysql
extension=bcmath
extension=bz2
extension=exif
extension=gd
extension=iconv
; in case you installed php-imagick (as recommended)
extension=imagick
; in case you also installed php-intl (as recommended)
extension=intl
[...]
[Date]
date.timezone = America/New_York
:wq
[ nihilism ] [ /dev/pts/12 ] [~]
→ cp /etc/php/php.ini /etc/webapps/nextcloud/php.ini
[ nihilism ] [ /dev/pts/12 ] [~]
→ export NEXTCLOUD_PHP_CONFIG=/etc/webapps/nextcloud/php.ini
[ nihilism ] [ /dev/pts/12 ] [~]
→ echo 'export NEXTCLOUD_PHP_CONFIG=/etc/webapps/nextcloud/php.ini' >> ~/.zshrc
[ nihilism ] [ /dev/pts/12 ] [~]
→ install --owner=nextcloud --group=nextcloud --mode=700 -d /var/lib/nextcloud/sessions
Then we setup the database:
[ nihilism ] [ /dev/pts/12 ] [~]
→ mysql -u root -p
Enter password:
Welcome to the MariaDB monitor. Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MariaDB connection id is 632
Server version: 10.8.3-MariaDB Arch Linux
Copyright (c) 2000, 2018, Oracle, MariaDB Corporation Ab and others.
Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement.
MariaDB [(none)]> CREATE USER 'nextcloud'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'xxxxxxxx';
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.257 sec)
MariaDB [(none)]> CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS nextcloud CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_general_ci;
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.012 sec)
MariaDB [(none)]> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES on nextcloud.* to 'nextcloud'@'localhost';
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.039 sec)
MariaDB [(none)]> FLUSH privileges;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.051 sec)
MariaDB [(none)]> exit
Bye
Now to configure php-fpm:
[ nihilism ] [ /dev/pts/12 ] [~]
→ pacman -S php-fpm
[ nihilism ] [ /dev/pts/12 ] [~]
→ cp /etc/php/php.ini /etc/php/php-fpm.ini
[ nihilism ] [ /dev/pts/12 ] [~]
→ vim /etc/php/php-fpm.ini
[...]
zend_extension=opcache
[...]
[opcache]
opcache.enable = 1
opcache.interned_strings_buffer = 8
opcache.max_accelerated_files = 10000
opcache.memory_consumption = 128
opcache.save_comments = 1
opcache.revalidate_freq = 1
[...]
[ nihilism ] [ /dev/pts/12 ] [share/webapps/nextcloud]
→ cat /etc/php/php-fpm.d/nextcloud.conf
[nextcloud]
user = nextcloud
group = nextcloud
listen = /run/php/nextcloud.sock
listen.owner = nextcloud
listen.group = http
listen.mode = 0660
pm = dynamic
pm.max_children = 5
pm.start_servers = 2
pm.min_spare_servers = 1
pm.max_spare_servers = 3
;pm.max_spawn_rate = 32
;pm.process_idle_timeout = 10s;
access.log = /var/log/php-fpm/access/$pool.log
access.format = "%{%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%z}t %R: \"%m %r%Q%q\" %s %f %{milli}d %{kilo}M %C%%"
chdir = /usr/share/webapps/$pool
env[HOSTNAME] = $HOSTNAME
env[PATH] = /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin
env[TMP] = /tmp
env[TMPDIR] = /tmp
env[TEMP] = /tmp
php_value[date.timezone] = Europe/Berlin
php_value[open_basedir] = /var/lib/$pool:/tmp:/usr/share/webapps/$pool:/etc/webapps/$pool:/dev/urandom:/usr/lib/php/modules:/var/log/$pool:/proc/meminfo
php_value[session.save_path] = /var/lib/$pool/sessions
php_value[session.gc_maxlifetime] = 21600
php_value[session.gc_divisor] = 500
php_value[session.gc_probability] = 1
php_flag[expose_php] = false
php_value[post_max_size] = 1000M
php_value[upload_max_filesize] = 1000M
php_flag[output_buffering] = off
php_value[max_input_time] = 120
php_value[max_execution_time] = 60
php_value[memory_limit] = 768M
php_value[apc.ttl] = 7200
php_flag[apc.enable_cli] = 1
php_value[extension] = bcmath
php_value[extension] = bz2
php_value[extension] = exif
php_value[extension] = gd
php_value[extension] = gmp
; uncomment if php-imagick is installed and used
php_value[extension] = imagick
; uncomment if php-imap is installed and used
; php_value[extension] = imap
; recommended to enable
php_value[extension] = intl
php_value[extension] = iconv
; uncomment if php-memcached is installed and used
; php_value[extension] = memcached
; uncomment exactly one of the pdo extensions
php_value[extension] = pdo_mysql
; php_value[extension] = pdo_pgsql
; php_value[extension] = pdo_sqlite
; uncomment if php-igbinary is installed and used
; php_value[extension] = igbinary
; uncomment if php-redis is installed and used (requires php-igbinary)
; php_value[extension] = redis
; uncomment if php-xsl is installed and used
; php_value[extension] = xsl
[ nihilism ] [ /dev/pts/12 ] [~]
→ mkdir -p /etc/systemd/system/php-fpm.service.d/
[ nihilism ] [ /dev/pts/12 ] [~]
→ vim /etc/systemd/system/php-fpm.service.d/override.conf
[ nihilism ] [ /dev/pts/12 ] [~]
→ cat /etc/systemd/system/php-fpm.service.d/override.conf
[Service]
ExecStart=
ExecStart=/usr/bin/php-fpm --nodaemonize --fpm-config /etc/php/php-fpm.conf --php-ini /etc/php/php-fpm.ini
ReadWritePaths=/var/lib/nextcloud
ReadWritePaths=/etc/webapps/nextcloud/config
[ nihilism ] [ /dev/pts/12 ] [~]
→ mkdir /var/log/php-fpm/access/ -p
[ nihilism ] [ /dev/pts/12 ] [~]
→ systemctl enable --now php-fpm
[ nihilism ] [ /dev/pts/12 ] [~]
→ systemctl status php-fpm
● php-fpm.service - The PHP FastCGI Process Manager
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/php-fpm.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Drop-In: /etc/systemd/system/php-fpm.service.d
└─override.conf
Active: active (running) since Mon 2022-07-11 16:01:22 UTC; 6s ago
Main PID: 3396418 (php-fpm)
Status: "Ready to handle connections"
Tasks: 5 (limit: 11902)
Memory: 13.1M
CPU: 713ms
CGroup: /system.slice/php-fpm.service
├─3396418 "php-fpm: master process (/etc/php/php-fpm.conf)"
├─3396435 "php-fpm: pool nextcloud"
├─3396436 "php-fpm: pool nextcloud"
├─3396437 "php-fpm: pool www"
└─3396438 "php-fpm: pool www"
Jul 11 16:01:15 nihilism systemd[1]: Starting The PHP FastCGI Process Manager...
Jul 11 16:01:22 nihilism php-fpm[3396418]: [NOTICE] fpm is running, pid 3396418
Jul 11 16:01:22 nihilism php-fpm[3396418]: [NOTICE] ready to handle connections
Jul 11 16:01:22 nihilism systemd[1]: Started The PHP FastCGI Process Manager.
Jul 11 16:01:22 nihilism php-fpm[3396418]: [NOTICE] systemd monitor interval set to 10000ms
[ nihilism ] [ /dev/pts/12 ] [share/webapps/nextcloud]
→ chown nextcloud:www-data /run/php/nextcloud.sock
[ nihilism ] [ /dev/pts/12 ] [share/webapps/nextcloud]
→ vim config/config.php
[ nihilism ] [ /dev/pts/12 ] [share/webapps/nextcloud]
→ cat config/config.php
<?php
$CONFIG = array (
'datadirectory' => '/var/lib/nextcloud/data',
'logfile' => '/var/log/nextcloud/nextcloud.log',
'apps_paths' =>
[...]
'trusted_domains' =>
array (
0 => 'localhost',
1 => 'cloud.nowhere.moe',
),
'dbtype' => 'mysql',
[...]
[ nihilism ] [ /dev/pts/12 ] [share/webapps/nextcloud]
→ occ
Nextcloud is not installed - only a limited number of commands are available
Nextcloud 24.0.2
Usage:
command [options] [arguments]
[ nihilism ] [ /dev/pts/12 ] [share/webapps/nextcloud]
→ occ maintenance:install \
--database=mysql \
--database-name=nextcloud \
--database-host=localhost:/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock \
--database-user=nextcloud \
> --database-pass=xxxxx \
> --admin-pass=xxxxx \
> --admin-email=nihilist@nowhere.moe \
> --data-dir=/var/lib/nextcloud/data
Nextcloud was successfully installed
[ nihilism ] [ /dev/pts/12 ] [share/webapps/nextcloud]
→ systemctl restart nginx php-fpm mysql
Then just login with the admin credentials you specified above
From here we need to install our letsencrypt certificate. If you don't have a domain name yet, go get one, or just go for the free alternative DuckDNS and get one, mine currently is ech2.duckdns.org
Now from here you can make backups just in case if the server goes down or harddrive gets corrupted, etc. You could use a script like this:
#!/bin/bash
#this must run as root !
if [ "$EUID" -ne 0 ]
then
echo 'MUST RUN AS ROOT!'
exit
fi
cd /var/www/nextcloud/data/nothing/files/
#make sure the path to your user is correct!
#run it at 3AM
cooldate=$(date --iso-8601)
echo $cooldate
rm backup*.zip
rm backup-$cooldate.zip
zip -r backup-$cooldate.zip /var/www/nextcloud/data/nothing/files/
#rsync backup-$cooldate.zip nothing@10.0.0.10:/home/nothing/backup/
rsync backup-$cooldate.zip nothing@mainpc:/home/nothing/backup/
rm backup*.zip
#crontab -e
#0 3 * * * /bin/bash /var/www/nextcloud/data/nothing/files/backup.sh
#chmod u+x backup.shg
#BACKUP_SERVER (here its 10.0.0.10)
#https://git.void.yt/nothing/serverside/blob/master/ssh/ssh.sh
#use this script to setup the key based ssh authentication, and then make sure your nextcloud server's root user has the private ssh key.
Here i can make rsync login via ssh to my mainpc host thanks to the private key ssh authentication specified in ~/.ssh/config:
root@home:/var/www/nextcloud/data/nothing/files# apt install rsync -y
root@home:/var/www/nextcloud/data/nothing/files# cat ~/.ssh/config
Host mainpc
Hostname 10.0.0.10
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/mainpc-10.pkey
User nothing
of course you would have created the ssh keys on your remote host (in this case : 192.168.0.18) and placed the private key in the server's /root/.ssh/ folder. as comments at the end of the script imply, you can setup the cronjob to run backup.sh every day at 3 AM.g
Now in order to mount your files as a webdav share on linux you can do the following:
[ 10.55.55.2/32 ] [ /dev/pts/42 ] [~]
→ apt-get install davfs2
[ 10.55.55.2/32 ] [ /dev/pts/42 ] [~]
→ sudo mkdir /mnt/cloud.void.yt
[ 10.55.55.2/32 ] [ /dev/pts/42 ] [~]
→ sudo chown -R nothing:nothing /mnt/cloud.void.yt
[ 10.55.55.2/32 ] [ /dev/pts/42 ] [~]
→ sudo mount -t davfs -o noexec https://cloud.void.yt/remote.php/webdav/ /mnt/cloud.void.yt/
Please enter the username to authenticate with server
https://cloud.void.yt/remote.php/webdav/ or hit enter for none.
Username: nothing
Please enter the password to authenticate user nothing with server
https://cloud.void.yt/remote.php/webdav/ or hit enter for none.
Password:
/usr/bin/mount.davfs: warning: the server does not support locks
[ 10.55.55.2/32 ] [ /dev/pts/42 ] [~]
→ cd /mnt/cloud.void.yt
[ 10.55.55.2/32 ] [ /dev/pts/42 ] [/mnt/cloud.void.yt]
→ ls
backup.sh Caldera Certs Cours Crypto Documents id_ed25519 KEEPASS.txt lost+found Notes nothing.ovpn Passwords.kdbx Photos Random_Files Readme.md SSH Templates 'void.yt setup'
Now in order to make it persistant accross reboots, you need to make a fstab entry:
[ 10.55.55.2/32 ] [ /dev/pts/42 ] [~]
→ sudo vim /etc/fstab
[ 10.55.55.2/32 ] [ /dev/pts/42 ] [~]
→ cat /etc/fstab
#webdav entry
https://cloud.void.yt/remote.php/webdav/ /mnt/cloud.void.yt davfs _netdev,noauto,user,uid=nothing,gid=nothing 0 0
[ 10.55.55.2/32 ] [ /dev/pts/42 ] [~]
→ sudo vim /etc/davfs2/secrets
[ 10.55.55.2/32 ] [ /dev/pts/42 ] [~]
→ sudo cat /etc/davfs2/secrets | tail -n2
# personal webdav, nextcloud application password
/mnt/cloud.void.yt nothing "mypassword"
[ 10.55.55.2/32 ] [ /dev/pts/42 ] [~]
→ sudo mount /mnt/cloud.void.yt/
/usr/bin/mount.davfs: warning: the server does not support locks
And that's it ! your nextcloud files have been mounted on a linux host.
[ 10.55.55.2/32 ] [ /dev/pts/42 ] [~]
→ cd /mnt/cloud.void.yt
[ 10.55.55.2/32 ] [ /dev/pts/42 ] [/mnt/cloud.void.yt]
→ ls -l
total 46
-rw-r--r-- 1 nothing nothing 859 Apr 7 2021 backup.sh
drwxr-xr-x 3 nothing nothing 0 Feb 16 13:14 Caldera
drwxr-xr-x 9 nothing nothing 0 Jan 20 20:54 Certs
drwxr-xr-x 8 nothing nothing 0 Mar 21 20:34 Cours
drwxr-xr-x 2 nothing nothing 0 Oct 27 09:05 Crypto
drwxr-xr-x 2 nothing nothing 0 Apr 7 2021 Documents
-rw-r--r-- 1 nothing nothing 411 Apr 7 2021 id_ed25519
-rw-r--r-- 1 nothing nothing 55 Apr 7 2021 KEEPASS.txt
drwx------ 2 nothing nothing 0 Mar 27 14:07 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x 2 nothing nothing 0 Aug 23 2021 Notes
-rw-r--r-- 1 nothing nothing 2914 Apr 7 2021 nothing.ovpn
-rw-r--r-- 1 nothing nothing 40510 Mar 26 21:40 Passwords.kdbx
drwxr-xr-x 2 nothing nothing 0 Apr 7 2021 Photos
drwxr-xr-x 9 nothing nothing 0 Mar 25 09:42 Random_Files
-rw-r--r-- 1 nothing nothing 1 May 27 2021 Readme.md
drwxr-xr-x 7 nothing nothing 0 Jul 1 2021 SSH
drwxr-xr-x 2 nothing nothing 0 Apr 7 2021 Templates
drwxr-xr-x 2 nothing nothing 0 Jun 6 2021 'void.yt setup'
Special thanks to skid9000 from the anjara.eu staff for helping me update this tutorial. (23/09/2020)
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