Nextcloud: Complete Setup Guide

Nextcloud is a powerful open-source alternative to proprietary cloud app offerings, and in this video the viewer is walked through the entire setup process. This process has been tested on Debian, Ubuntu, as well as Raspberry Pi OS. By the end of the video, you'll have a Nextcloud installation of your very own!
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[@SebastianPerezG]

This is the best linux channel that i have been subscribed. Jay , your explanations are excelent.

[@takakazushi6703]

HUGE thank you. Excellent tutor. Me? So so student. 1) Had a hard time not registering, but CONFIGURING my Domain and setting up/LINKING RECORD A and registration between the domain manager and Linode. 2) Missed your KEYword about hitting CTL to get out of MariaDB...so was stuck inside Maria for a while 3) LOVED the fact you warned us BEFORE you pressed ENTER...so I could pause the video and double check my typing/syntax. You've hooked me. I will NEED to get your book to make sure I keep my Next Cloud up and running and keep you up and running. Took all day to set this up today...and I'm now officially BEAT. Need some rest. Thank you again.

[@MB-sw3uf]

First of all, great video, I find it is quite the improvement over your previous one!! I just Re-installed my nextcloud instance two weeks ago with your old tutorial. It took me a while to get the correct cache setup. While you include setting up Cache in this tutorial, what about a video that explains the difference between the different options. I, for example, followed the advice that I could find on the Internet and used both redis and APCu. I don't really know why that is supposedly the superior setup, and I don't really understand much of the technical details of the Cache. I think a well researched explanation by you would help a lot of people. (it is one of the only topics that I don't really find intuitive to understand, compared to the rest of nextcloud which is super simple and straightforward)

[@MDTechTutorials]

I have been using nextcloud for almost 2 years now. I built my own server and its so nice.

[@JosephFallon]

You're reading our minds man - superb timing!!

[@jenshaustedt1448]

HUGE thank you for this excellent tutorial. Especially thank you for your calm and unagitated voice and presentation, thank you for NOT using any exciting music.

[@krackpot_]

Very timely. Appreciate the step by step explanation and not telling people to use docker or snap. Much easier to see what is happening under the hood and troubleshoot. Great video, keep em coming!

[@TubeKens]

Clear and precise. Great work Jay! I own a copy of your book "Mastering Ubuntu Server 2nd edition" and it helps make my server setup flawless. Keep up the good work and thanks.

[@rico7772007]

Great video, I'm running my self hosted nextcloud for two years now, but it's awesome to see a tutorial from beginning till the tls. Maybe an idea for a nextcloud video would be to show how to move all the data and databases from one server to another and some backup options. Great work

[@prathamcbh]

Hello @Szymon, did you find any good way for off-site backups?

[@rico7772007]

I'm using Proxmox at the moment and it works great. But it backs up the whole Nextcloud. I have seen somewhere on KZbin when they moved the databases and data to a new Nextcloud install, but I didn't do it myself yet.

[@prathamcbh]

@@rico7772007 appreciate your help, I was also thinking to do the whole nextcloud backup! If you wanted a single folder or just the files you on the cloud, I recommend you to just install the client and keep the files to sync offline!

[@rico7772007]

This is actually a quick and Simple solution, thanks

[@prathamcbh]

@@rico7772007 xD, I was wondering the same thing!😂 It's damn easy!😂😂

[@dwrout]

Thanks Jay, I used your tutorial to install onto an LXC on my home server, took some time to iron out a few security issues but now get A+ from the nexcloud security check. I have been working flawsly now for a couple of weeks and going through sorting out which of the nextcloud apps are useful. Thanks again great tutorial (as always)

[@williambuckner818]

I'm a little late to the party, but thank you very much for this tutorial! Especially the security bit at the end. The instructions were very clear and helped me to secure my NextCloud instance over the web!

[@ethangender]

I have my own private network with some friends using VPN and we in our vpn have our own nextcloud and i gotta say works pretty good , now im learning to fix some errors im having. hopefully i will learn to make it more efficient watching your videos.

[@AbuFaizal]

Nowadays, I am a big fan of this channel. your all contents are massive

[@thomzwiefler6305]

After watching most of your guides ans videos I realized that sometimes I just watch your stuff To bask in The absurd amount of wholesomeness that radiates from your Being. When open source AI Smart devices become a thing I know who's voice I'm gonna use. 😅

[@Sladen70]

Hi Jay, I just recieved your book a few days ago. Thank you for contributing to my interest in linux.

[@jecolon98usa]

Thank You, I have nextcloud now running on my Raspberry Pi 4. AMAZING VIDEO. I have purchased your book from amazon as well.

[@leonpinto5693]

Fantastic tutorial... Blindly followed the instructions and the system was up and ready with SSL... Great work !!!

[@markring40]

Thank you Jay! I've been trying all summer to get nextcloud installed. I should have started with watching your video. It's great! I also ordered your new book. It arrives from Amazon tomorrow. I'm looking forward to learning more.

[@jenshaustedt1448]

Danke!

[@christophejournoud2773]

Hi Jay, By far the best tutorial that i have seen or read about installing nextcloud. Thanks a lot

[@JDinkel]

Wow. This made installing and setting up Nextcloud SO easy! Thank you, Jay! The wiki was also a huge help for copying and pasting commands.

[@hal9000svk]

Amazing guide. I never had such a smooth experience to get thing in Linux done before.

[@gregoryturner1505]

Absolutely one of your best tutorials. Thanks, Jay.

[@TheBrimurray]

Brilliant, in depth but easy to follow tutorial. Thank you Jay

[@guyrenaud6661]

Wow thanks i like the step by step approche with variants very concise will now be a member for ever and ever!

[@jonathannewton9233]

Absolutely great video. Your teaching and pace is perfect.

[@kavalectrotechnokowski1871]

Thank you so much for this tutorial! This is GOAT for nextcloud setups. You made ssl setup take minutes!!!

[@lord-baltimore]

Hi Jay, I’ve bought your new book. It‘s available as Paperback here in Germany as well. The Book is amazing! It‘s my favourite Linux-Book (and I have plenty of them)

[@nhefner]

Awesome tutorial, I set this up on my Raspberry Pi!

[@davidposthumus5160]

best video I've seen and used to get my nextcloud working 100%

[@elonburgers5308]

thanks, this is the easiest and most up to date tutorial that I have found that works on debian

[@raul230285]

The best tutorial I've seen bravo man you are my jedi. The ultimate in everything you do in linux.

[@honkketonk2424]

Thankyou very much Jay. I am gratefull to you for how thoughtfully you explain things on your channel.

[@BobDoe_69]

So, with the help of this video and the ssh guide I got everything up and running thank you very much

[@RobertoMurillo]

To fix the Strict-Transport-Security issue, I had to add the following parameter into my Nextcloud's virtualhost: Header always add Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=15768000; includeSubDomains; preload" Thanks a lot for this video.

[@jumpman1823]

I've been putting it off but I guess I have no excuse now! Also congrats on your book. :)

[@Steven_nevetS]

Nextcloud is brilliant! Nice Video. Just need to sync my android calendar with my calendar on my PC

[@matthew2310]

Thanks, Jay. This is a superb tutorial video. Could you show us how to correctly shut down and delete such a server? Best, Matthew.

[@eliecercamejo1327]

Great guide, nos I'm subscribed to this channel, As a positive feedback i want to piont that in the Wiki Guide in the section 'Create an SSL certificate" the fisrt line of code is different than what you used in your code, im just pointing this because it caused error in my installation, then i just used what you typed in your screen and it worked, im really satisfied with this tutorial!!!

[@zekochyoudesuyo]

Spot on Jay! You are my new Sensei. I was having a little trouble with cert-bot, but once I got my DNS entries correct and/or ports 80 & 443 open, the problem corrected. I also had to add a trusted domain in config.php for NextCloud to fire up. Don't know if this was caused by my initial problem or that I was self-hosting. Guess I'll have to re-spin it and find out. THANKS!

[@TMavC5]

Awesome video Jay. You have a new sub. Thank you for an awesome detail about how to. Luv it

[@johnu730]

Bravo, the instructions were spot on ! It worked the first time!

[@Alternativons]

Even though I set up my Nextcloud with a couple of clicks thanks to YunoHost, I've always wanted to know how to do it manually as well. Now I do. Thanks a lot !

[@kslim34]

Hi Jay thanks for the very detailed and not to fast not to slow delivery of your video presentation. I only have one problem. I was good all the way to the end until I got to the (Settings) and received Internal Server Error.

[@thekillerb77]

Great video! Would like to see a tutorial on installing Collabora code server installed on a different server than Nextcloud within home lab.

[@braindeadbzh]

I have installed NC on a VPS using Docker Compose, it is quite nice also.

[@ondrabigwolf]

I have used Nextcloud from a snap. Really easy to setup and run. Automatic updates never failed me (probably luck). But moved to docker-compose as well. Not as straightforward but running fine as well.

[@braindeadbzh]

@@ondrabigwolf Yes it was my first application deployed using docker-compose, it took me some time to get it, but it is more flexible IHMO.

[@ondrabigwolf]

@@braindeadbzh Yes, I do agree that docker-compose is more flexible and I would say that it's the future. A lot of thinks are moving to containers so why not learn something that will be useful in the future. I am slowly moving most of my home apps/services to docker but looking at Kubernetes (might be little bit too much for home but why not?! :D ).

[@braindeadbzh]

@@ondrabigwolf yep also looked at Kubernetes, but even for a small company it is overkill.

[@Thezeronull]

Thank you for sharing knowledge, easy to understand.

[@ryzenforce]

Just bought your book! Thank you!

[@JPrez-io6qj]

Impressive video! Thanks for taking the time to create it. Only question I have is how do you easily renew the SSL certificate? Looks like it's only good for 90 days, is there a way to auto-script a renewal?

[@matthewbond375]

Your videos are great, sir! I'm running two NC instances on two two different VPS right now. Trying to find the best performance/storage/$ Love it. Thank you! PS - If you get verified with Brave Rewards, I'll send you some BAT

[@BobDoe_69]

saving this for later, thank you

[@_sneer_]

I have just set this up on linode. Works great! Is there a reason to not to set it up with snap or docker?

[@JoaoSilva-gs5jb]

less tailored control over updates

[@BatteryProductions]

very nice wiki!!! im impressed!

[@maxschachinger]

Excellent Tutorial! THANK YOU!

[@noku8239]

Your such an amazing guy. Thank so so much for this tutorial :)

[@ivanperez5142]

I set up nextcloud as an lxc turnkey container and had nothing but errors and bugs. I decided to start over with this ubuntu vm server method on my proxmox hypervisor and and not only did I learn where all the right config stuff is but I also have a working nextcloud instance.

[@cornejo7934]

Clear and concise, thanks for the video!

[@hat1431]

If you can could you show us how to put the data of nextcloud on a separate server. I would like to see the database on a separate servers as well.

[@stephenmallinson]

I love your shows and this one is no exception, however the issue I have is trying to change the data location, I have not been able to get this done successfully despite all of the online help...

[@GamerUA_MV]

It most informative and full video guide. Thank you!

[@ArtionKarreci]

Thanks a lot for the tutorial. Is it possible to see in another video how to add onlyoffice functionality to nextcloud, so to have an online office?

[@DBrianAshby]

This video shows it kzbin.info/www/bejne/kH6Ul39sr8pnjpo expand showmore once there and he has a time stamp for it.

[@Benfoxmra95]

On your Wiki instructions you have a command: sudo vim /var/www/nc.learn.tv/config/config.php This caused me problems when trying to edit. I alternately had to use: sudo nano /var/www/nc.learn.tv/config/config.php Instead to be able to edit the file successfully.

[@lucaspascual5956]

This is gold, thank you.

[@hermesonfg]

do you have any videos explain how to install NC locally and acessing remote setting up local router and domains? cheers

[@lse123polis]

If you leave the nextcloud NAS okd PC laptop or desktop or Raspberry Pi 3B+ or 4 ... On, all the time, with NextCloud running,... on Linux OS,... for weeks or months or years, is any overhead damage on it? I mean used by atmost me or 2-3 other family members only? Eg 1-hour to 2-hours per day/week the most

[@devlinxji]

Thank you everything is working.

[@vidargudmundsson6767]

Thanks, good work like always

[@davidchapamusicofficial]

This is great! Question: My previous cloud storage I ran, OwnCloud, I used an 8TB block device from one of my drive racks via iSCSI - is this something I can do with NextCloud?

[@adrianzambrano2748]

Greetings, great video. A question: is it installed as a virtual machine or container? If I want to disable/turn it off or uninstall it?

[@bryanarnold8543]

Thank you for the very high quality tutorial Jay. Can I ask what you think of Docker images? Cons? (aside from ensuring it's a reputable image...) Thanks!

[@SalCiampa]

Great video, many thanks! Question on external local drives...I'm having trouble adding external drives to my raspberry pi install of netcloud. I keep getting a 'stop' sign. Any tips on properly adding local drives?

[@AnzanHoshinRoshi]

Thank you, Jay. Very useful.

[@edwinrosales6322]

Great video!

[@BrianThomas]

Great video. How different would this be if I was installing NextCloud on my k3s 8 node pi cluster?

[@farid5555551000]

Great video thank you. But one question, how can i connect this to Active directory and make my users to log in with domain account ? Becouse i use with configuration you show and i have an error: The LDAP library is not available ((

[@reyos110]

Simply Great !!!

[@rtr0spct210]

What an excellent tutorial!

[@Sergun4uk]

many thx for your work!!!

[@albertjcg]

Thanks for this!

[@JasonLeaman]

Have you ever thought about doing a video on, how to renew your lets encrypt cert for Nextcloud ? Since they expire every few years / 1 year.

[@scottmm78]

Great video worked first time following step by step thank you. Any advise on how to get it to work with a DDNS (no-ip.com) service.

[@lexwiz]

very elaborate.. Kindly review 3cx debian iso installation and setup

[@JeanPaulLuijten]

Great tutorial. very informative!

[@xhulioberberi7823]

Great Tutorial thank you very much

[@diegkol]

Hi Jay. How about a video on how to install Nextcloud on the free Oracle VPS?

[@thegik606]

Hi thanks for this video . Now after installation I want to connect oneFS storage for data storage. Please help. Can I use mount folder for storage? If yes , how can? Or can directly connect to oneFS storage with use external storage options.

[@leharrus1578]

This is like magic.

[@bengrimm1946]

After following your guide and having great success with installing my nextcloud. I have a small request, how to add storage to a nextcloud? iv found a few forums about it but none of it is very clear or helpfull.

[@arinojay7089]

best explanation, thank you

[@4sokol]

Great job!!

[@MitchellVamos]

@LearnLinuxTV: Please do a video on setting up Nextcloud on Raspberry Pi running Ubuntu Core (Appliance)

[@brhimes3270]

I have nextcloud on my Ubuntu 20.04 instance with an OpenVPN vm so I can access nextcloud from outside the network without needing to proxy

[@fuseteam]

eh? if you can vpn into your pc you don't need a proxy

[@thorium9190]

Hi there I would really like to access my nextcloud outside my home internet. Are you able to do a guide of how to access nextcloud from outside our house?

[@jasminrousseau6018]

That really helped!! thanks!

[@udayarpandey3937]

Hello Jay, Can you make a video on Signal Server or Rocket chat? Thank you

[@jonathanrider4417]

Great work Jay! My problem is nextcloud changes to their site; I am unable to find a zip file anywhere there. Also - I recently had a Proxmox install that had lots of lxc templates - including nextcloud - howeveer now the cupboard is nearly bare - what is going on???

[@thegik606]

Hi thanks for this video . Now after installation I want to connect oneFS storage for data storage. Please help

[@khalidelgazzar]

Great video. Thank you!

[@drumpf4all]

Is there an advantage of installing NC using Docker over the long Install you showed.

[@l000kin]

Hi, thanks for your video! I want ta ask about the permissions for config.php file and also other directories. Why is 660 needed - I meam, why group www-data (so web server) need a permision to write? I think 640 will be better so that nobody can change it through web server (i.e. infected plugin etc.). And what about other directories/files? I'm maybe too paranoid, but you know, web server is the door into server...