Nextcloud Installation on Debian 12

geos_one — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 22:25:00 +0000

Nextcloud is open-source software for creating public and private file storage. It allows you to create your self-hosted services like Dropbox, Google Drive, or Mega.nz. Originally, it's created by the original owncloud developer Frank Karlitschek. In 2016, he forks the Owncloud project and creates a new project with the new name "Nextcloud"

By this time, the Nextcloud project growing rapidly and becoming more than file hosting software, it's more like a file sync and content collaboration platform. Backed with a lot of plugins, Nextcloud becomes such a powerful collaboration software. You can install plugins for project management, video conferencing, collaborative editing, note-taking, email client, etc.

In this guide, you will learn how to install Nextcloud on the latest Debian 12 Bookworm. You will be installing Nextcloud under the LAMP Stack (Linux, Apache2/httpd, MySQL/MariaDB, and PHP).

Prerequisites

A Debian 12 server. Ensure all packages are updated to the latest version.
A root user or a user with root privileges. This user will be used for installing new packages and editing system configurations.

Get Root and Update Repositories

First, execute the following command to get the root privileges.

If you have sudo installed, execute the sudo command below.

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sudo su

Now type the password login for your user.

After that, update all your Debian repositories using the apt command below.

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apt update

Install wget if missing

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apt install wget

Installing and Configuring PHP

For this guide, you will be deploying Nextcloud with the latest stable version of PHP 8.2.

By default, the Debian repository provides packages for PHP 8.1. But, Nextcloud requires some additional PHP packages that can be installed from a 3rd-party repository. And you will be adding a new repository to your Debian system.

1. Execute the command below to add a PHP repository for the Debian system.

Install the Sury php Repository

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bash -c "$(wget -qLO - https://packages.sury.org/php/README.txt)"

Installing and Configuring MariaDB

For this stage, you will be installing the mariadb database server, securing mariadb deployment, and creating a new database and user for Nextcloud.

To install the mariadb database server, run the command below and the MariaDB Repository via thew install script

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bash -c "$(wget -qLO - https://r.mariadb.com/downloads/mariadb_repo_setup)"

Install the needed packages

Now install all the packages for the system LAMP & Redis

To install all the needed packages, run the command below.

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apt install -y mc unzip ffmpeg apache2 redis-server memcached libapache2-mod-php8.2 php-common php8.2 \  
php8.2-{gd,curl,xml,zip,intl,mbstring,bz2,ldap,apcu,bcmath,gmp,imagick,igbinary,mysql,redis,smbclient,cli,common,opcache,readline,soap,memcached} \  
imagemagick libmagickcore-6.q16-6-extra --allow-change-held-packages

Adapt the PHP 8.2 ini Values for Netxtcloud

The following ini settings should be adapted for Nextcloud.

Uncomment the date.timezone parameter and input the proper timezone for PHP.

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sed -i "s/\;date.timezone =.*/date.timezone = Europe\/Vienna/" /etc/php/8.2/apache2/php.ini

Increase the default value of parameters memory_limit, upload_max_filesize, post_max_size, and max_execution_time. Change the value as you need.

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sed -i "s/memory_limit =.*/memory_limit = 512M/" /etc/php/8.2/apache2/php.ini  
sed -i "s/upload_max_filesize =.*/upload_max_filesize = 500M/" /etc/php/8.2/apache2/php.ini  
sed -i "s/post_max_size =.*/post_max_size = 600M/" /etc/php/8.2/apache2/php.ini  
sed -i "s/max_execution_time =.*/max_execution_time = 300/" /etc/php/8.2/apache2/php.ini

Enable file_uploads and allow_url_fopen by changing the default value to On.

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sed -i "s/file_uploads =.*/file_uploads = on/" /etc/php/8.2/apache2/php.ini  
sed -i "s/allow_url_fopen =.*/allow_url_fopen = On/" /etc/php/8.2/apache2/php.ini

Disable the parameter display_errors and output_buffering by changing the default value to Off.

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sed -i "s/display_errors =.*/display_errors = Off/" /etc/php/8.2/apache2/php.ini  
sed -i "s/output_buffering =.*/output_buffering = Off/" /etc/php/8.2/apache2/php.ini

APCu is disabled by default on CLI which could cause issues with nextcloud’s cron jobs. so activate it

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sed -i '$aapc.enable_cli=1' /etc/php/8.2/mods-available/apcu.ini

Uncomment the zend_extension parameter and change the value to opcache. This will enable PHP OPcache, which is needed for Nextcloud.

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sed -i "s/\;zend_extension=opcache/zend_extension=opcache/" /etc/php/8.2/apache2/php.ini

Add the following lines to the [opcache] section. The OPCache configuration is recommended by Nextcloud.

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sed -i "s/\;opcache.enable=.*/opcache.enable = 1/" /etc/php/8.2/apache2/php.ini  
sed -i "s/\;opcache.interned_strings_buffer=.*/opcache.interned_strings_buffer = 8/" /etc/php/8.2/apache2/php.ini  
sed -i "s/\;opcache.max_accelerated_files=.*/opcache.max_accelerated_files = 10000/" /etc/php/8.2/apache2/php.ini  
sed -i "s/\;opcache.memory_consumption=.*/opcache.memory_consumption = 128/" /etc/php/8.2/apache2/php.ini  
sed -i "s/\;opcache.save_comments=.*/opcache.save_comments = 1/" /etc/php/8.2/apache2/php.ini  
sed -i "s/\;opcache.revalidate_freq=.*/opcache.revalidate_freq = 1/" /etc/php/8.2/apache2/php.ini

Lastly, enter the systemctl command below to restart the apache2 service. Every time you make changes to the PHP configuration, restart the apache2 service to apply the changes that you've made.

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sudo systemctl restart apache2

memcached configuration

We install the memcached server to increase Nextcloud performance, as memcached reduces the load on the MariaDB Nextcloud database.

Customize the memcached configuration by customizing the configuration by running the commands below

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sed -i "s/-m 64/-m 128/" /etc/memcached.conf

Lastly, enter the systemctl command below to restart the redis service.

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systemctl restart memcached.service

You can verify that the Memcached daemon is running with ps ax

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root@nextcloud:~# ps xa | grep memcached
23830 ? Ssl 0:00 /usr/bin/memcached -m 128 -p 11211 -u memcache -l 127.0.0.1 -P /var/run/memcached/memcached.pid

Installing and Configuring MariaDB

For this stage, you will be installing the mariadb database server, securing mariadb deployment, and creating a new database and user for Nextcloud.

To install the mariadb database server, run the command below.

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apt install mariadb-server mariadb-client

Type 'y' to confirm and install mariadb packages.

Once the installation is complete, check the mariadb service using the following command.

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systemctl is-enabled mariadb  
systemctl status mariadb

The mariadb service is active and running, and it's enabled to start automatically at system startup.

[image:72::Checking MariaDB Database Service:6-checking-mariadb-service.png]

Next, you need to secure your mariadb deployment by setting up the root password for mariadb and remove some default configuration. To do that, you can use the command-line tool 'mysql_secure_installation', which is included on the default mariadb installation.

Execute the "mysql_secure_installation" command below.

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mysql\_secure\_installation

At the first, you will be asked to enter the mariadb root password. Just press 'Enter' to continue.

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Enter current password for root (enter for none):  
OK, successfully used password, moving on...

Type 'Y' to enable the 'unix_socket' authentication for the user 'root'.

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Switch to unix\_socket authentication \[Y/n\] Y  
Enabled successfully!  
Reloading privilege tables..  
 ... Success!

Type your strong mariadb root password and repeat, then press "Enter" to continue.

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Change the root password? \[Y/n\] Y  
New password:  
Re-enter new password:  
Password updated successfully!  
Reloading privilege tables..  
 ... Success!

Now type "Y" and press "Enter" to remove the default anonymous user from the mariadb server.

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By default, a MariaDB installation has an anonymous user, allowing anyone  
to log into MariaDB without having to have a user account created for  
them.  This is intended only for testing, and to make the installation  
go a bit smoother.  You should remove them before moving into a  
production environment.
 
Remove anonymous users? \[Y/n\] Y  
 ... Success!

After that, disable the remote login for the default user 'root'. Type "Y" and press "Enter" to continue.

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Normally, root should only be allowed to connect from 'localhost'.  This  
ensures that someone cannot guess at the root password from the network.
 
Disallow root login remotely? \[Y/n\] Y  
 ... Success!

Type "Y" again to remove the default database "test" and press "Enter".

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By default, MariaDB comes with a database named 'test' that anyone can  
access.  This is also intended only for testing, and should be removed  
before moving into a production environment.
 
Remove test database and access to it? \[Y/n\] Y  
 - Dropping test database...  
 ... Success!  
 - Removing privileges on test database...  
 ... Success!

And the last, type "Y" again to reload all tables privileges to apply a new configuration.

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Reloading the privilege tables will ensure that all changes made so far  
will take effect immediately.
 
Reload privilege tables now? \[Y/n\] Y  
 ... Success!

Now the process is complete and you will see the following output.

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Cleaning up...
 
All done!  If you've completed all of the above steps, your MariaDB  
installation should now be secure.
 
Thanks for using MariaDB!

Creating Database and User for Nextcloud

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mysql -u root -p

Now execute the following mysql query to create a new database "nextcloud".

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CREATE DATABASE nextcloud;

Execute the following query to create a new database user "nextcloud". Change the "strongpassword" with your strong password.

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CREATE USER nextcloud@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'StrongPassword';

Allow the user "nextcloud" to access and write the "nextcloud" using the following query.

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GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON nextcloud.\* TO nextcloud@localhost;

Now reload all tables privileges to apply the new database configuration.

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FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

Then you can type "quit" and press "Enter" to exit from the mariadb shell.

[image:75::Create new database and user for Nextcloud:7-create-database-user-nextcloud.png]

Generating SSL Letsencrypt

In this stage, you will be installing the certbot tool and generate the SSL certificates for the Nextcloud installation. You will be generating SSL Letsencrypts with the webroot plugin.

Execute the following command to install the certbot tool for generating SSL Letsencrypt.

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apt install certbot

Type 'y' and press 'Enter' to continue the installation.

[image:78::Install Certbot:9-install-certbot.png]

Once the installation is complete, create a new directory for letsencrypt authorization using the following commands.

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mkdir -p /var/lib/letsencrypt/.well-known  
chgrp www-data /var/lib/letsencrypt  
chmod g+s /var/lib/letsencrypt

Next, change the working directory to the "/etc/apache2/conf-available/" and create a new configuration "well-known.conf" using nano.

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cd /etc/apache2/conf-available/  
mcedit well-known.conf

Copy and paste the following configuration.

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"amc_line">

	`Alias /.well-known/acme-challenge/ "/var/lib/letsencrypt/.well-known/acme-challenge/"`
	="amc_code_odd">	`AllowOverride None`
`Options MultiViews Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch IncludesNoExec`
	`Require method GET POST OPTIONS`
	tr>

strong>Ctrl+x" and type "y" and press 'Enter' to save the configuration and exit.

Now activate the new configuration by creating a symlink of the 'well-known.conf' file to the directory 'conf-enabled' using the 'ln' command below.

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ln -s /etc/apache2/conf-available/well-known.conf /etc/apache2/conf-enabled/

Now execute the following commands to verify the apache configuration and restart the apache service.

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apachectl configtest  
systemctl restart apache2

If you've no error, you're ready to generate SSL Letsencrypt with the webroot plugin.

[image:81::Setup SSL Verification for Letsencrypt:10-setting-ssl-verification-letsencrypt.png]

Before generating SSL Letsencrypt, ensure your domain name is resolved to the server IP address. After that, you can generate SSL Letsencrypt with the webroot plugin by running the certbot command below. Also, change the email address and domain name to your own.

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sudo certbot certonly --agree-tos --email user@email.com --webroot -w /var/lib/letsencrypt/ -d files.domain-name.io

When the process is complete, your SSL certificates are available at the "/etc/letsencrypt/live/files.domain-name.io/" directory.

Apache Web server configuration

Configuring Apache requires the creation of a single configuration file. On Debian, Ubuntu, and their derivatives, this file will be /etc/apache2/sites-available/nextcloud.conf.

Change the working directory to "/etc/apache2/sites-available/" and create new configuration "nextcloud.conf" using mcedit.

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mcedit /etc/apache2/sites-available/nextcloud.conf

if you want http/2 & hsts support uncomment the Protocol & Header line

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"amc_line">

	amc_code_even">	`DocumentRoot /var/www/nextcloud/`
`ServerName your.server.com`

	`SSLEngine On`
	`SSLCertificateFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/files.domain-name.io/fullchain.pem`
	`SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/files.domain-name.io/privkey.pem`

	="amc_code_even">	`Require all granted`
`AllowOverride All`
	`Options +FollowSymLinks`

	s="amc_code_odd">	`Dav off`
tr>

	`SetEnv HOME /var/www/nextcloud`
	`SetEnv HTTP_HOME /var/www/nextcloud`
	tr>
	tr>

nd exit the editor.

Now enter the following systemctl command to restart the apache2 service and apply the Nextcloud virtual host configuration.

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systemctl restart apache2

Additional Apache configurations

For Nextcloud to work correctly, we need the module mod_rewrite. Enable it by running:

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a2enmod rewrite
a2enmod ssl

Additional recommended modules are mod_headers, mod_env, mod_dir and mod_mime:

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a2enmod headers
a2enmod env
a2enmod dir
a2enmod mime

Next, run the a2ensite command below to enable the virtual host configuration nextcloud.conf. Then verify the overall Apache2 configuration via the apachectl command below.

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a2ensite nextcloud.conf  
    apachectl configtest

You should see the output Syntax OK if you have correct and proper Apache configurations. Now lets start with the nextcloud install

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AH00112: Warning: DocumentRoot [/var/www/nextcloud/] does not exist
Syntax OK

Lastly, enter the systemctl command below to restart the apache2 service. Every time you make changes to the PHP configuration, restart the apache2 service to apply the changes that you've made.

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systemctl restart apache2.service

Installing Nextcloud from command line

It is now possible to install Nextcloud entirely from the command line. This is convenient for scripted operations, headless servers, and sysadmins who prefer the command line. There are three stages to installing Nextcloud via the command line:

Download and Install Nextcloud

Change the working directory to "/var/www" and download the latest version of Nextcloud source code using the wget command as below.

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cd /var/www/
    wget https://download.nextcloud.com/server/releases/latest.zip
    unzip latest.zip && chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/nextcloud && rm -f latest.zip

Change the ownership of your nextcloud directory to your HTTP user, like this example for Debian/Ubuntu.

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mkdir -p /var/lib/nextcloud /var/log/nextcloud
    chown -R www-data:www-data /var/lib/nextcloud /var/www /var/log/nextcloud
```bash
* Use the occ command to complete your installation. This takes the place of running the graphical Installation Wizard
 
after the install we set some defaults and correct some values.
```bash
    sudo -u www-data php /var/www/nextcloud/occ maintenance:install --database "mysql" --database-name "nextcloud" --database-user "nextcloud" --database-pass "StrongPassword" --database-host "localhost:3306" --admin-user "Admin" --admin-pass "SecurePassword" --data-dir "/var/lib/nextcloud"
    sudo -u www-data php /var/www/nextcloud/occ config:system:set trusted_domains 0 --value=nextcloud.disconnected-by-peer.at
    sudo -u www-data php /var/www/nextcloud/occ config:system:set overwritehost --value=nextcloud.disconnected-by-peer.at

Memory caching

You can significantly improve your Nextcloud server performance with memory caching, where frequently-requested objects are stored in memory for faster retrieval. There are two types of caches to use: a PHP opcode cache, which is commonly called opcache, and data cache for your web server, commonly called “memcache”.

Activate Memcached for local and distributed caching, as well as transactional file locking.

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sudo -u www-data php /var/www/nextcloud/occ config:system:set 'memcache.local'  --value='\OC\Memcache\APCu'
    sudo -u www-data php /var/www/nextcloud/occ config:system:set 'memcache.distributed'  --value='\OC\Memcache\Memcached'
    sudo -u www-data php /var/www/nextcloud/occ config:system:set 'memcache.locking'  --value='\OC\Memcache\Memcached'
    sudo -u www-data php /var/www/nextcloud/occ config:system:set 'memcached_servers' --value='NextCloudMemcached'
    sudo -u www-data sed -e 's!.NextCloudMemcached.![\n      [ "localhost", "11211" ],\n  ]!' -i /var/www/nextcloud/config/config.php

Set up a cron job for Nextcloud as “www-data” user:

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crontab -u www-data -e

Insert this line at the bottom

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*/5 * * * * php -f /var/www/nextcloud/cron.php > /dev/null 2>&1

Then save and close the file and reconfigure the Nextcloud job from “Ajax” to “Cron” using the Nextclouds CLI:

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sudo -u www-data php /var/www/nextcloud/occ background:cron

Pretty URLs

Pretty URLs remove the index.php-part in all Nextcloud URLs, for example in sharing links like https://example.org/nextcloud/index.php/s/Sv1b7krAUqmF8QQ, making URLs shorter and thus prettier.

mod_env and mod_rewrite must be installed on your webserver and the .htaccess must be writable by the HTTP user

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sudo -u www-data php /var/www/nextcloud/occ config:system:set overwrite.cli.url --value=https://nextcloud.disconnected-by-peer.at  
    sudo -u www-data php /var/www/nextcloud/occ config:system:set 'htaccess.RewriteBase' --value='/'

It isn’t installed in a subfolder. Finally run this occ-command to update your .htaccess file:

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sudo -u www-data php /var/www/nextcloud/occ maintenance:update:htaccess

After each update, these changes are automatically applied to the .htaccess-file.

Modify the “.user.ini”

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sudo -u www-data sed -i "s/output_buffering=.*/output_buffering=0/" /var/www/nextcloud/.user.ini

and customize the Nextcloud apps as user www-data

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sudo -u www-data php /var/www/nextcloud/occ app:disable survey_client
    sudo -u www-data php /var/www/nextcloud/occ app:disable firstrunwizard
    sudo -u www-data php /var/www/nextcloud/occ app:enable admin_audit
    sudo -u www-data php /var/www/nextcloud/occ app:enable files_pdfviewer

Optional Nextcloud Office:

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sudo -u www-data /usr/bin/php /var/www/nextcloud/occ app:install richdocuments
    sudo -u www-data /usr/bin/php /var/www/nextcloud/occ app:install richdocumentscode

Add qOwnNote API to the Nextcloud install

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sudo -u www-data /usr/bin/php /var/www/nextcloud/occ app:install qownnotesapi

Conclusion

Congratulation! You have successfully installed Nextcloud on Debian 12 Bullseye. The Nextcloud server is running under the LAMP Stack with SSL enabled. Also, your Nextcloud installation is running with memory caching enabled with PHP APC and opcache extensions.

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	`sed -i "s/memory_limit =.*/memory_limit = 512M/" /etc/php/8.2/apache2/php.ini`
	`sed -i "s/upload_max_filesize =.*/upload_max_filesize = 500M/" /etc/php/8.2/apache2/php.ini`
	`sed -i "s/post_max_size =.*/post_max_size = 600M/" /etc/php/8.2/apache2/php.ini`
	`sed -i "s/max_execution_time =.*/max_execution_time = 300/" /etc/php/8.2/apache2/php.ini`

	`sed -i "s/\;opcache.enable=.*/opcache.enable = 1/" /etc/php/8.2/apache2/php.ini`
	`sed -i "s/\;opcache.interned_strings_buffer=.*/opcache.interned_strings_buffer = 8/" /etc/php/8.2/apache2/php.ini`
	`sed -i "s/\;opcache.max_accelerated_files=.*/opcache.max_accelerated_files = 10000/" /etc/php/8.2/apache2/php.ini`
	`sed -i "s/\;opcache.memory_consumption=.*/opcache.memory_consumption = 128/" /etc/php/8.2/apache2/php.ini`
	`sed -i "s/\;opcache.save_comments=.*/opcache.save_comments = 1/" /etc/php/8.2/apache2/php.ini`
	`sed -i "s/\;opcache.revalidate_freq=.*/opcache.revalidate_freq = 1/" /etc/php/8.2/apache2/php.ini`

	`Switch to unix\_socket authentication \[Y/n\] Y`
	`Enabled successfully!`
	`Reloading privilege tables..`
	`... Success!`

	`Change the root password? \[Y/n\] Y`
	`New password:`
	`Re-enter new password:`
	`Password updated successfully!`
	`Reloading privilege tables..`
	`... Success!`

	`By default, a MariaDB installation has an anonymous user, allowing anyone`
	`to log into MariaDB without having to have a user account created for`
	`them. This is intended only for testing, and to make the installation`
	`go a bit smoother. You should remove them before moving into a`
	`production environment.`

	`Remove anonymous users? \[Y/n\] Y`
	`... Success!`

	`apt install -y mc unzip ffmpeg apache2 redis-server memcached libapache2-mod-php8.2 php-common php8.2 \`
	`php8.2-{gd,curl,xml,zip,intl,mbstring,bz2,ldap,apcu,bcmath,gmp,imagick,igbinary,mysql,redis,smbclient,cli,common,opcache,readline,soap,memcached} \`
	`imagemagick libmagickcore-6.q16-6-extra --allow-change-held-packages`

	`sed -i "s/file_uploads =.*/file_uploads = on/" /etc/php/8.2/apache2/php.ini`
	`sed -i "s/allow_url_fopen =.*/allow_url_fopen = On/" /etc/php/8.2/apache2/php.ini`

	`sed -i "s/display_errors =.*/display_errors = Off/" /etc/php/8.2/apache2/php.ini`
	`sed -i "s/output_buffering =.*/output_buffering = Off/" /etc/php/8.2/apache2/php.ini`

	`root@nextcloud:~# ps xa \| grep memcached`
	`23830 ? Ssl 0:00 /usr/bin/memcached -m 128 -p 11211 -u memcache -l 127.0.0.1 -P /var/run/memcached/memcached.pid`

	`Enter current password for root (enter for none):`
	`OK, successfully used password, moving on...`

	`Normally, root should only be allowed to connect from 'localhost'. This`
	`ensures that someone cannot guess at the root password from the network.`

	`Disallow root login remotely? \[Y/n\] Y`
	`... Success!`

	`By default, MariaDB comes with a database named 'test' that anyone can`
	`access. This is also intended only for testing, and should be removed`
	`before moving into a production environment.`

	`Remove test database and access to it? \[Y/n\] Y`
	`- Dropping test database...`
	`... Success!`
	`- Removing privileges on test database...`
	`... Success!`

	`Reloading the privilege tables will ensure that all changes made so far`
	`will take effect immediately.`

	`Reload privilege tables now? \[Y/n\] Y`
	`... Success!`

	`Cleaning up...`

	`All done! If you've completed all of the above steps, your MariaDB`
	`installation should now be secure.`

	`Thanks for using MariaDB!`

	`mkdir -p /var/lib/letsencrypt/.well-known`
	`chgrp www-data /var/lib/letsencrypt`
	`chmod g+s /var/lib/letsencrypt`

	`cd /etc/apache2/conf-available/`
	`mcedit well-known.conf`

	`AH00112: Warning: DocumentRoot [/var/www/nextcloud/] does not exist`
	`Syntax OK`

	`cd /var/www/`
	`wget https://download.nextcloud.com/server/releases/latest.zip`
	`unzip latest.zip && chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/nextcloud && rm -f latest.zip`

	`mkdir -p /var/lib/nextcloud /var/log/nextcloud`
	`chown -R www-data:www-data /var/lib/nextcloud /var/www /var/log/nextcloud`
	```bash
	`* Use the occ command to complete your installation. This takes the place of running the graphical Installation Wizard`

	`after the install we set some defaults and correct some values.`
	```bash
	`sudo -u www-data php /var/www/nextcloud/occ maintenance:install --database "mysql" --database-name "nextcloud" --database-user "nextcloud" --database-pass "StrongPassword" --database-host "localhost:3306" --admin-user "Admin" --admin-pass "SecurePassword" --data-dir "/var/lib/nextcloud"`
	`sudo -u www-data php /var/www/nextcloud/occ config:system:set trusted_domains 0 --value=nextcloud.disconnected-by-peer.at`
	`sudo -u www-data php /var/www/nextcloud/occ config:system:set overwritehost --value=nextcloud.disconnected-by-peer.at`

RTFM

Nextcloud Installation on Debian 12

Prerequisites

Get Root and Update Repositories

Installing and Configuring PHP

Installing and Configuring MariaDB

Install the needed packages

Adapt the PHP 8.2 ini Values for Netxtcloud

memcached configuration

Installing and Configuring MariaDB

Creating Database and User for Nextcloud

Generating SSL Letsencrypt

Apache Web server configuration

Additional Apache configurations

Installing Nextcloud from command line

Download and Install Nextcloud

Memory caching

Pretty URLs

Modify the “.user.ini”

Optional Nextcloud Office:

Add qOwnNote API to the Nextcloud install

Conclusion