61.1 Nextcloud Install
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We will set up our illustrative nextcloud server on the imaginary
example.com, with a reverse proxy for cloud.example.com. This
cloud.example.com domain could alternatively be a dedicated
server with an external reference (A record) set up through your DNS
provider, using the IP address of the server. If you have only an IP
address and no domain name for your server have a look at Section
60.18 to access your server remotely by the IP
address.
Connect to the server and prepare it for running nextcloud:
Install nextcloud as a snap package:
The Nextcloud configuration is contained in
/var/snap/nextcloud/current/nextcloud/config/config.php and we will
come back to editing this file shortly, if needed.
Configure a user as the administrator of the nextcloud server, using the command line. This will also avoid a small risk with using the web-based mechanism to set this up whereby someone could visit the web site before you have set up the user.
For a reverse proxy setup using Caddy (see Section 95.3), we’ll set the Nextcloud server to listen to port 81:
The caddy configuration file /etc/caddy/Caddyfile should then have
the following appended to it so that anything sent to
cloud.example.com is redirected to the localhost’s port 81. The
Strict-Transport-Security setting is suggested by the security &
setup warnings message: The “Strict-Transport-Security” HTTP header
is not set to at least “15552000” seconds.
cloud.example.com {
rewrite /.well-known/carddav /remote.php/dav
rewrite /.well-known/caldav /remote.php/dav
reverse_proxy localhost:81
header {
Strict-Transport-Security max-age=15552000;
}
}After making this update reload the configuration into the caddy server:
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