Nextcloud/tmp

Prerequisite

• Nginx
• PHP
• MariaDB

Install

Download

Download Nextcloud from https://nextcloud.com/install/#instructions-server and extract the archive in /var/www/nextcloud.

Fix file permissions using

$ sudo chown -r www-data: /var/www/nextcloud/

Configure Nextcloud

//config.php

$ sudo tee "/usr/local/bin/occ" > /dev/null << EOF
> !/bin/sh
> sudo -u www-data /usr/bin/php /var/www/nextcloud/occ "\$@"
> EOF
$ sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/occ

Logs

First you need to create a folder for the logs

$ sudo mkdir /var/log/nextcloud
$ sudo chmod 750 /var/log/nextcloud
$ sudo chown www-data:adm /var/log/nextcloud

Create file /etc/logrotate.d/nextcloud with the following content

/var/log/nextcloud/nextcloud.log {
  rotate 6
  monthly
  compress
  delaycompress
  missingok
  notifempty
  create 640 www-data adm
}

Finally activate the new log location. Edit /var/www/nextcloud/config/config.php and add/edit the logfile line

'logfile' => '/var/log/nextcloud/nextcloud.log',

Cron

Create file /etc/cron.d/nextcloud

*/15 *   *   *   *   www-data /usr/bin/php -f /var/www/nextcloud/cron.php

Now open Nextcloud in your browser and go to the admin section and activate cron

Datei:Owncloud cron.png

Test

Security

Nextcloud is providing a security scanning service for public instances. Scan your instance to find configuration issues.

1. https://wiki.meurisse.org/wiki/Nextcloud