Install Nextcloud on Debian 10 -

Install Nextcloud on Debian 10

Last updated on: 2020-07-24

Authored by: Rackspace Support

Nextcloud® is a file-sharing software similar to Google® Drive or Dropbox®. Because Nextcloud is open source, you have full control, and you can install the server on your machine. This article describes how to install Nextcloud on a Debian® 10 cloud server.

Prerequisites

A cloud server running Debian 10
Access to the root or admin user

Install and configure a LAMP stack

Before you install Nextcloud, you must have a LAMP (Linux®, Apache®, MySQL® or MariaDB®, and PHP) stack on your server.

At the command line, enter the following commands to install Apache, MariaDB, and PHP:

apt install apache2 mariadb-server libapache2-mod-php7.3 unzip

apt install php7.3-gd php7.3-json php7.3-mysql php7.3-curl php7.3-mbstring

apt install php7.3-intl php-imagick php7.3-xml php7.3-zip

After you install MariaDB, you should run the following command to secure your database:

mysql_secure_installation

This command enables you to set a root password, disallow remote root logins, and delete the test database.

Configure your database by using the following steps:

Enter your MariaDB installation by using the following command:
```
mysql
```
Create a database for Nextcloud. Replace with a database name of your choice. We recommend choosing a database name that clearly indicates the purpose of the database.
```
CREATE DATABASE <database>;
```
Create a user for the new database. Replace with a username and with a secure password of your choice.
```
CREATE USER '<dbUser>'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '<PASSWORD>';
```

Give the user access to the database:

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON <database>.* TO '<dbUser>'@'localhost';

Flush privileges:
```
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
```
Exit MariaDB:
```
exit
```

Take note of these credential settings. You need them to access the database in Nextcloud.