Published: Nov 3, 2019 | Last Edited: Jun 17, 2022

Category: tech

Table of Contents

• Install Docker and Docker-Compose
• docker-compose.yml
• Setting Up
• Modify Overwrite Protocal
• Modify Upload Max Filesize

In one of the previous posts, I mentioned using Nextcloud as a self-hosted cloud platform. This post goes into details how I set up my instance.

Install Docker and Docker-Compose

To install docker, run:

curl -fsSL https://get.docker.com -o get-docker.sh
sh get-docker.sh

To install docker-compose, run:

sudo curl -L "https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/1.24.1/docker-compose-$(uname -s)-$(uname -m)" -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose

docker-compose.yml

Create this docker-compose.yml with following contents:

version: '3'

services:
  db:
    image: mariadb
    command: --transaction-isolation=READ-COMMITTED --binlog-format=ROW
    restart: always
    volumes:
      - /opt/nextcloud-db:/var/lib/mysql
    environment:
      - MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=ENTER MYSQL PASSWORD
      - MYSQL_PASSWORD=ENTER MYSQL PASSWORD
      - MYSQL_DATABASE=nextcloud
      - MYSQL_USER=nextcloud
  redis:
    image: redis:alpine
    restart: always
  app:
    image: nextcloud:apache
    ports:
      - 8080:80
    environment:
      - REDIS_HOST=redis
    depends_on:
      - db
      - redis
    volumes:
      - /opt/nextcloud-data:/var/www/html
    restart: always
  cron:
    image: nextcloud:apache
    restart: always
    volumes:
      - /opt/nextcloud-data:/var/www/html
    entrypoint: /cron.sh
    depends_on:
      - db
      - redis

Run docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml up -d to start all necessary containers.

Setting Up

Browse to http://localhost:8080 and you’ll see a set up page like this:

Fill in the fills as the following:

• Database user: nextcloud
• Database password: Enter your password in docker-compose.yml file
• Database name: nextcloud
• Database host: db

After setting up nextcloud, you will see something like:

Modify Overwrite Protocal

Modify /opt/nextcloud-data/config/config.php and add:

'overwriteprotocol' => 'https',

Modify Upload Max Filesize

By default, Nextcloud only allows uploading file up to 2MB which is not very useful. We can modify the max filesize by adding /opt/nextcloud-data/.htaccess with following:

<IfModule mod_php7.c>
...
php_value upload_max_filesize 16G
php_value post_max_size 16G
</IfModule>

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