Nextcloud

Easily deploy & configure NextCloud!

1. Configuration

Replace mydomain.com with your actual domain name:

sed -i 's/$DOMAIN/mydomain.com/g' docker-compose.yml

Replace database passwords with your own:

sed -i 's/$ROOT_MYSQL_PASWORD/my-mysql-root-pass/g' docker-compose.yml
sed -i 's/$MYSQL_PASSWORD/my-mysql-pass/g' docker-compose.yml

I personally find that the uuid utility is quite nice for creating strong passwords.

2. Setup a reverse-proxy

The goal is to forward localhost:4999 -> localhost:80

An example NGINX proxy with HTTPS in /etc/nginx/sites-available/nextcloud

This config also assumes you have already LetsEncrypt certificates setup. Make adjustments if needed

server {
    listen 443 ssl;
    ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/$DOMAIN/fullchain.pem;
    ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/$DOMAIN/privkey.pem;
    include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-nginx.conf;
    ssl_dhparam /etc/letsencrypt/ssl-dhparams.pem;

    server_name cloud.$DOMAIN www.cloud.$DOMAIN;

    client_max_body_size 2048M;

    location / {
        proxy_pass http://localhost:4999;
        proxy_set_header Host $host;
        proxy_set_header X-Real-Ip $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
        proxy_redirect off;
    }

}
server {
    if ($host = cloud.$DOMAIN) {
        return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
    }


    listen 80;
    server_name cloud.$DOMAIN www.cloud.$DOMAIN;
    return 404;

Where mydomain.com is your website, replace it with:

sed -i 's/$DOMAIN/mydomain.com/g' /etc/nginx/sites-available/nextcloud

Because this setup uses the older sites-available and sites-enabled nginx folder structure, add a symlink:

ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/nextcloud /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/

This config also set client_max_body_size 2048M; as the largest request size allowed to nginx, otherwise Nextcloud would not even let you change eg. the wallpaper due to size restrictions

Test the config

sudo nginx -t
sudo systemctl reload nginx.service

3. Finish

Start it up

docker-compose up --build -d

Your Nextcloud instance will be available at cloud.mydomain.com

On the setup page, select MySQL and use the following:

DB User:        nextcloud
DB Password:    # $MYSQL_PASSWORD from step 1.
DB Name:        nextcloud_db
Host:           nextcloud

🎉 Set up a user & Done!

Post-setup recommendations

I found that my emails did not load with a full height, these configuration lines in ./data/config/config.php fixed it: