Install Nextcloud on Windows with WSL2

#Nextcloud #Windows #Linux

Full steps can be found at https://i12bretro.github.io/tutorials/0151.html

What is Nextcloud?

Nextcloud is an open source, self-hosted file share and communication platform. Access & sync your files, contacts, calendars & communicate and collaborate across your devices. You decide what happens with your data, where it is and who can access it! -[https://docs.nextcloud.com/](https://docs.nextcloud.com/)

## Installing WSL

1. Launch Powershell as administrator
2. Run the following command

# enable WSL feature
dism.exe /online /enable‐feature /featurename:Microsoft‐Windows‐Subsystem‐Linux /all /norestart
# enable virtual machine platform
dism.exe /online /enable‐feature /featurename:VirtualMachinePlatform /all

3. Type Y to reboot the system
4. Launch Powershell as administrator and run the following additional commands to use WSL 2

# enable virtualization platform
Enable‐WindowsOptionalFeature ‐Online ‐FeatureName VirtualMachinePlatform
# enable wsl2
wsl ‐‐set‐default‐version 2
# download the wsl kernel update
$ProgressPreference = 'SilentlyContinue'; Invoke‐WebRequest https://wslstorestorage.blob.core.windows.net/wslblob/wsl_update_x64.msi ‐OutFile .\wsl_update_x64.msi
# reset progress preference
$ProgressPreference = 'Continue'
# install the downloaded file
.\wsl_update_x64.msi

5. Click the Start Button > Search Microsoft Store > Select Microsoft Store
6. Search for the Linux distribution to install (Debian, Ubuntu, etc), Debian in this example
7. Select the Linux distribution and click the Get button
8. After the Linux distribution downloads and installs, click Open or select the distribution from the Start menu to launch it
9. Input a username and password to be used in the Linux environment

Installing Nextcloud

1. Continue with the following commands in WSL

# update software repositories
sudo apt update
# install software updates
sudo apt upgrade ‐y
# install prerequisite packages
sudo apt install unzip wget ‐y
# install Apache HTTPD and MySQL
sudo apt install apache2 mariadb‐server mariadb‐client ‐y
# install PHP components
sudo apt install php7.4 libapache2‐mod‐php7.4 php7.4‐mysql php‐common php7.4‐cli php7.4‐common php7.4‐json php7.4‐opcache php7.4‐readline php7.4‐intl php7.4‐json php7.4‐gd php7.4‐mbstring php7.4‐mysql php7.4‐xml php7.4‐zip php7.4‐curl ‐y
# start the mariadb service
sudo service mariadb start
# configure the MySQL database
sudo su
mysql_secure_installation

2. Press Enter to login as root
3. Type N and press Enter to not switch to socket authentication
4. Type Y and press Enter to set a root password, type the password twice to confirm
5. Type Y and press Enter to remove anonymous users
6. Type Y and press Enter to disallow root login remotely
7. Type Y and press Enter to remove the test database
8. Type Y and press Enter to reload privilege tables
9. Run the following command to login into MySQL:

mysql ‐u root ‐p

10. Authenticate with the root password set earlier
11. Run the following commands to create the Nextcloud database and database user

CREATE DATABASE nextclouddb;
GRANT ALL ON nextclouddb.* to 'nextcloud_rw'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'N3xtCl0ud!';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
EXIT;
exit

12. Continue with the following commands to download and extract Nextcloud in the Apache webroot

# download latest nextcloud version
wget ‐O /tmp/nextcloud.zip https://download.nextcloud.com/server/releases/latest.zip
# extract downloaded nextcloud archive
sudo unzip ‐q /tmp/nextcloud.zip ‐d /var/www
# set the owner of the new nextcloud directory to www‐data
sudo chown ‐R www‐data:www‐data /var/www/nextcloud
# create a new nextcloud.conf file to configure the site
sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites‐available/nextcloud.conf

13. Paste the following configuration into nextcloud.conf

Alias /nextcloud "/var/www/nextcloud/"
<directory /var/www/html/nextcloud/>
Options +FollowSymlinks
AllowOverride All
Require all granted

Dav off

SetEnv HOME /var/www/nextcloud
SetEnv HTTP_HOME /var/www/nextcloud
</directory>

14. Press CTRL+O, Enter, CTRL+X to write the changes to nextcloud.conf

....Full steps can be found on GitHub [link at the top]

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