Nextcloud on Fedora Workstation 38

nextcloud_on_fedora_38.md

Nextcloud on Fedora Workstation 38

Initialization

• Configuration of self generated SSL certificate
  • Append export ssl_name="my_domain_name" to ~/.bashrc
    • Replace "my_domain_name" with the domain name(e.g. lists.fedoraproject.org)
  • # dnf install openssl
  • # mkdir ~/certs
  • # cd ~/certs
  • # openssl genrsa -des3 -out ${ssl_name}.key 4096
    • Recommended: Add passphrase
  • # openssl req -x509 -new -nodes -key ${ssl_name}.key -sha256 -days 1825 -out ${ssl_name}.pem
  • # cp ~/certificate-trust-examples/Cert-trust-test-ca.pem /etc/pki/ca-trust/source/anchors/
  • # update-ca-trust
  • References
    • https://deliciousbrains.com/ssl-certificate-authority-for-local-https-development/
    • https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/using-shared-system-certificates/
• MariaDB/MySQL installation
  • # dnf install mariadb-server
  • # systemctl enable --now mariadb
  • # mysql_secure_installation
  • mysql -u root -p
    • CREATE USER 'username'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
    • CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS nextcloud;
    • GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON nextcloud.* TO 'username'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
    • FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
    • quit
• Nextcloud installation
  • # dnf install nextcloud
• Nextcloud server initialization
  • # cd /usr/share/nextcloud/
  • # sudo -u apache php occ maintenance:install --data-dir /var/lib/nextcloud/data/ --database "mysql" --database-name "nextcloud" --database-user "nextcloud" --database-pass "database_password" --admin-user "nextcloud_admin" --admin-pass "nextcloud_admin_password"
    • Replace "*" with proper values
• Firewall configuration
  • # firewall-cmd --list-all-zones | grep active
  • # firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-service=http
  • # firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-service=https
  • # firewall-cmd --reload

Running the cloud

• # systemctl start httpd
• # systemctl restart httpd

Fixes

• PHP memory limit
  • # nano /etc/php.ini
    • memory_limit = 128M --> 512M
• "PHP configuration option output_buffering must be disabled."
  • # nano /etc/php.ini
    • output_buffering = 4096 --> Off
• "This server has no working Internet connection: Multiple endpoints could not be reached."
  • # setsebool -P httpd_can_network_connect 1
  • Reference: https://help.nextcloud.com/t/this-server-has-no-working-internet-connection-it-does-really/67524/2