What is Nextcloud?
Nextcloud is the most deployed self-hosted file share and collaboration platform on the web. You can access & collaborate across your devices.It has features that are comparable to other services such as Dropbox.
Requirements:
- Docker Installation is required.
- Portainer is required.
Our Recommended Template : Ubuntu 18.04
In this tutorial we will be installing nextcloud, using docker compose which consists of Nextcloud and MariDb containers.
Step 1:
Go to the URL and search for
Step 2:
Search for term: ‘Base version – apache’ and copy the code block.
Step 3:
Login to your portainer from the web browser and Select “ Stacks”
Step 4:
Click Add Stack
Step 5 :
Enter your preferred name for the Stack and paste the Code block you copied in “Step 2”
Enter your Mysql root password and Database password in the code block
Step 6:
Click deploy stack
Step 7:
Once it is deployed, Click on Containers, Now you can see two containers (Nextcloud and MariaDB) running.
Step 8: Accessing and Configuring Nextcloud
You can now access Nextcloud by accessing the port 8080 on the server where Portainer is running.
http://<your_vm_ip>:8080
Enter the below details to Configure nextcloud for the first time
Create an admin account
- Nextcloud Username
- Nextcloud Password
Data Folder
- Your Nextcloud data folder
Configure the database
Click on MySQL/MariaDB and enter your database details
- Database username
- Database password
- Database name
- Host name
Click “Finish Setup”
Voila! Your Nextcloud setup in complete 🙂
