How to Install and Configure NextCloud in Apache using CentOS8?

Step1. Login to the server with SSH.

Step2. Installing PHP and Apache.

[root@zcom-mm ~]# yum install epel-release yum-utils

[root@zcom-mm ~] # yum install http://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/remi-release-8.rpm

To install the yum-utils package

[root@zcom-mm ~] # dnf install yum-utils

To enable the module stream for 8.2

[root@zcom-mm ~] # dnf module reset php

[root@zcom-mm ~] # dnf module install php:remi-8.2

[root@zcom-mm ~] # dnf update

Installing PHP and the required modules

[root@zcom-mm ~] # dnf install -y php php-cli php-gd php-mbstring php-intl php-pecl-apcu\ php-mysqlnd php-opcache php-json php-zip

Installing optional modules redis/imagick

[root@zcom-mm ~] #dnf install -y php-redis php-imagick

Step3. Install MariaDB 10.11 on CentOS8.

Firstly, Create a new repo file /etc/yum.repos.d/MariaDB.repo in your system and add below code:

[root@zcom-mm ~] # vim /etc/yum.repos.d/MariaDB.repo

# MariaDB 10.11 CentOS repository list - created 2024-01-24 18:19 UTC 
# https://mariadb.org/download/ 
[mariadb] 
name = MariaDB 
# rpm.mariadb.org is a dynamic mirror if your preferred mirror goes offline. See https://mariadb.org/mirrorbits/ for details. 
# baseurl = https://rpm.mariadb.org/10.11/centos/$releasever/$basearch 
baseurl = https://mirror.kku.ac.th/mariadb/yum/10.11/centos/$releasever/$basearch 
# gpgkey = https://rpm.mariadb.org/RPM-GPG-KEY-MariaDB 
gpgkey = https://mirror.kku.ac.th/mariadb/yum/RPM-GPG-KEY-MariaDB 
gpgcheck = 1

Step4. Install the MariaDB server and client packages.

[root@zcom-mm ~] # dnf install -y mariadb mariadb-server

Step5. When the installation is finished, please check mariadb status.

[root@zcom-mm ~] # systemctl status mariadb

[root@zcom-mm ~] # systemctl enable mariadb

[root@zcom-mm ~] # systemctl start mariadb

[root@zcom-mm ~] # systemctl stautus mariadb

Step6.We need to secure your MariaDB installation using passwords and do some other changes. Please check the below instructions.

[root@zcom-mm ~] # mysql_secure_installation

Then you will need to install the redis service and enable it for start up on reboot using the following commands:

[root@zcom-mm ~] # dnf install -y redis

[root@zcom-mm ~] # systemctl enable redis.service

[root@zcom-mm ~] # systemctl start redis.service

Step7.After installing and completing the configuration, connect to MariaDB server. Use the following command and login to the Mariadb Server.

[root@zcom-mm ~] # mysql -u root -p

Step7.1 Then create a database.

MariaDB [(none)]> CREATE DATABASE nextclouddb CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_general_ci;

Step7.2 Allow “nextclouduser” to access the “nextclouddb” database on localhost with a predefined password.

MariaDB [(none)]> GRANT ALL ON nextclouddb.* TO 'nextclouduser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'change-with-strong-password';

MariaDB [(none)]> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

MariaDB [(none)]>EXIT;

Step8. Then, we need to configure firewall setting.

[root@zcom-mm ~] # firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-service=http

[root@zcom-mm ~] # firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-service=https

[root@zcom-mm ~] # firewall-cmd --reload

Download the NextCloud.

Download the latest version of Nextcloud from the Nextcloud download page with wget command:

[root@zcom-mm ~] # wget https://download.nextcloud.com/server/releases/nextcloud-26.0.5.zip

Once the download is complete, extract the archive to the /var/www directory:

[root@zcom-mm ~] # unzip nextcloud-26.0.5.zip -d /var/www/

Set the ownership of the files inside the NextCloud directory so that apache user can write the data into it.

[root@zcom-mm ~] # chown -R apache: /var/www/nextcloud

Step9. Then configure the apache.

[root@zcom-mm ~] # vim /etc/httpd/conf.d/nextcloud.conf

Alias /nextcloud "/var/www/nextcloud/" 
<Directory /var/www/nextcloud/> 
Options +FollowSymlinks 
AllowOverride All 
<IfModule mod_dav.c> Dav off </IfModule> 
SetEnv HOME /var/www/nextcloud 
SetEnv HTTP_HOME /var/www/nextcloud 
</Directory>                                                                                       

[root@zcom-mm ~] # systemctl restart httpd

Open up your web browser, can access the nextcloud with ip (or) domainhttp://150.95.**.***/nextcloud/

THANK YOU!!!