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Thu, Apr 5, 2018 02:00 CEST

Ever wanted to get rid of your dependency on Dropbox and Google Drive?

More details here.

Install and configure NGiИX.

PostgreSQL

Install the relevant packages:

sudo pacman -S postgresql

Init the database:

sudo -u postgres -i
[postgres]$ initdb --locale $LANG -E UTF8 -D '/var/lib/postgres/data'
[postgres]$ exit

Enable and start the service:

sudo systemctl enable --now postgresql

Create a user and a database:

sudo -u postgres createuser -h localhost -P nextcloud
sudo -u postgres createdb -O nextcloud nextcloud

PHP

Install relevant packages:

pacman -S php php-pgsql php-intl php-gd php-fpm

Edit the following lines in /etc/php/php.ini:

data.timezone = Europe/Brussels
extension=gd
extension=iconv
extension=pdo_pgsql
extension=pgsql

Do not forget to configure php-fpm

Uncomment env[PATH] = /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin in /etc/php/php-fpm.d/www.conf

systemctl enable --now php-fpm

NGiИX

mkdir /etc/nginx/conf.d

# /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
http {
	...
	...
	server_names_hash_bucket_size 64;
	include conf.d/*.conf;
}

Create a server block as here (webroot) in /etc/nginx/conf.d/nextcloud.conf.

Use /usr/share/webapps/nextcloud instead of /var/www/nextcloud. Change the upstream hook.

upstream php-handler {
   server unix:/run/php-fpm/php-fpm.sock;
}

Then restart the service:

systemctl restart nginx

Configure Nextcloud

mkdir -p /usr/share/webapps/nextcloud/{data,apps2}
chown http:http /usr/share/webapps/nextcloud/{data,apps2}
chmod 700 /usr/share/webapps/nextcloud/{data,apps2}

# /etc/webapps/nextcloud/config/config.php
'apps_paths' =>
  array (
	0 =>
	array (
	  'path' => '/usr/share/webapps/nextcloud/apps',
	  'url' => '/apps',
	  'writable' => false,
	),
	1 =>
	array (
	  'path' => '/usr/share/webapps/nextcloud/apps2',
	  'url' => '/apps2',
	  'writable' => true,
	),
  ),
  'datadirectory' => '/usr/share/webapps/nextcloud/data'