Installation and server configuration

• System requirements
  • Server
  • Desktop client
  • Mobile apps
  • Web browser
• Deployment recommendations
• Installation on Linux
  • Prerequisites for manual installation
  • Apache Web server configuration
  • Pretty URLs
  • Enabling SSL
  • Installation wizard
  • SELinux configuration tips
  • php.ini configuration notes
  • php-fpm configuration notes
  • Other Web servers
  • Installing on Windows (virtual machine)
  • Installing via Snap packages
  • Installation via web installer on a VPS or web space
  • Installation via install script
• Installation wizard
  • Quick start
  • Data directory location
  • Database choice
  • Trusted domains
• Installing from command line
• Supported apps
  • Nextcloud Files
  • Nextcloud Groupware
  • Nextcloud Talk
  • Collaborative editing
  • Global Scale
• SELinux configuration
  • Enable updates via the web interface
  • Disallow write access to the whole web directory
  • Allow access to a remote database
  • Allow access to LDAP server
  • Allow access to remote network
  • Allow access to network memcache
  • Allow access to SMTP/sendmail
  • Allow access to CIFS/SMB
  • Allow access to FuseFS
  • Allow access to GPG for Rainloop
  • Troubleshooting
• NGINX configuration
  • Nextcloud in the webroot of NGINX
  • Nextcloud in a subdir of the NGINX webroot
  • Tips and tricks
• Hardening and security guidance
  • Passwords
  • Operating system
  • Deployment
  • Use HTTPS
  • Use a dedicated domain for Nextcloud
  • Ensure that your Nextcloud instance is installed in a DMZ
  • Serve security related headers by the Web server
  • Connections to remote servers
  • Setup fail2ban
• Server tuning
  • Using cron to perform background jobs
  • Reducing system load
  • Caching
  • Using MariaDB/MySQL instead of SQLite
  • Using Redis-based transactional file locking
  • TLS / encryption app
  • Enable HTTP/2 for faster loading
  • Tune PHP-FPM
  • Enable PHP OPcache
• Example installation on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
  • Next steps
• Example installation on CentOS 8
  • Apache
  • PHP
  • Database
  • Redis
• Example installation on OpenBSD
  • HTTPD(8)
  • PHP
  • Database
  • Redis
  • Cron job
  • Chroot
  • Nextcloud final steps
  • NOTE