How to set up Nextcloud in AWS the easy way.txt

1. Create an AWS Lightsail instance at https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/
   - I chose: 1 GB RAM, 1 vCPU, 40 GB SSD
   - start it and wait for it to come up
   - click the console/terminal icon to open a console

2. Run `nano docker-compose.yaml` Paste in the lines found below.  Consider changing the password.

3. Run `sudo docker-compose up -d`

4. Close the terminal

5. Find the IP address of your sail instance and browse to it with http://your_ip_address




version: '2'

volumes:
  nextcloud:
  db:
  
services:
  db:
    image: mariadb:10.5
    restart: always
    command: --transaction-isolation=READ-COMMITTED --binlog-format=ROW
    volumes:
      - db:/var/lib/mysql
    environment:
      - MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=somethingsecret
      - MYSQL_PASSWORD=somethingsecret
      - MYSQL_DATABASE=nextcloud
      - MYSQL_USER=nextcloud

app:
  image: nextcloud
  restart: always
  ports:
    - 80:80
  links:
    - db
  volumes:
    - nextcloud:/var/www/html
  environment:
    - MYSQL_PASSWORD=somethingsecret
    - MYSQL_DATABASE=nextcloud
    - MYSQL_USER=nextcloud
    - MYSQL_HOST=db