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+ <title>Install Nextcloud on Windows with WSL2</title>
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+ <meta name="author" content="i12bretro">
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+ <meta name="description" content="Install Nextcloud on Windows with WSL2">
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+ <meta name="revised" content="04/01/2023 10:20:42 AM" />
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+ <script type="text/javascript" src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.5.1.min.js"></script>
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+ <script type="text/javascript" src="includes/js/steps.js"></script>
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+ <link href="css/steps.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
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+ <body>
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+ <div id="gridContainer">
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+ <div class="topMargin"></div>
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+ <div id="listName" class="topMargin">
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+ <h1>Install Nextcloud on Windows with WSL2</h1>
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+ </div>
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+ <div></div>
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+ <div id="content">
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+ <h2>What is Nextcloud?</h2>
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+<blockquote><em>Nextcloud is an open source, self-hosted file share and communication platform. Access & sync your files, contacts, calendars & communicate and collaborate across your devices. You decide what happens with your data, where it is and who can access it! -<a href="https://docs.nextcloud.com/" target="_blank">https://docs.nextcloud.com/</a></em></blockquote>
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+<h2>Installing WSL</h2>
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+<ol>
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+ <li>Launch Powershell as administrator</li>
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+ <li>Run the following command
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+ <div class="codeBlock PS"># enable WSL feature<br />
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+ dism.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux /all /norestart<br />
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+ # enable virtual machine platform<br />
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+ dism.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:VirtualMachinePlatform /all</div>
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+ </li>
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+ <li>Type Y to reboot the system</li>
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+ <li>Launch Powershell as administrator and run the following additional commands to use WSL 2
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+ <div class="codeBlock PS"># enable virtualization platform<br />
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+ Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName VirtualMachinePlatform<br />
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+ # enable wsl2<br />
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+ wsl --set-default-version 2<br />
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+ # download the wsl kernel update<br />
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+ $ProgressPreference = 'SilentlyContinue'; Invoke-WebRequest https://wslstorestorage.blob.core.windows.net/wslblob/wsl_update_x64.msi -OutFile .\wsl_update_x64.msi<br />
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+ # reset progress preference<br />
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+ $ProgressPreference = 'Continue'<br />
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+ # install the downloaded file<br />
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+ .\wsl_update_x64.msi</div>
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+ </li>
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+ <li>Click the Start Button > Search Microsoft Store > Select Microsoft Store</li>
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+ <li>Search for the Linux distribution to install (Debian, Ubuntu, etc), Debian in this example</li>
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+ <li>Select the Linux distribution and click the Get button</li>
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+ <li>After the Linux distribution downloads and installs, click Open or select the distribution from the Start menu to launch it</li>
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+ <li>Input a username and password to be used in the Linux environment</li>
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+</ol>
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+<h2>Installing Nextcloud</h2>
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+<ol>
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+ <li>Continue with the following commands in WSL
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+ <div class="codeBlock"># update software repositories<br />
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+ sudo apt update<br />
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+ # install software updates<br />
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+ sudo apt upgrade -y<br />
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+ # install prerequisite packages<br />
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+ sudo apt install unzip wget -y<br />
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+ # install Apache HTTPD and MySQL<br />
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+ sudo apt install apache2 mariadb-server mariadb-client -y<br />
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+ # install PHP components<br />
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+ sudo apt install php7.4 libapache2-mod-php7.4 php7.4-mysql php-common php7.4-cli php7.4-common php7.4-json php7.4-opcache php7.4-readline php7.4-intl php7.4-json php7.4-gd php7.4-mbstring php7.4-mysql php7.4-xml php7.4-zip php7.4-curl -y<br />
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+ # start the mariadb service<br />
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+ sudo service mariadb start<br />
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+ # configure the MySQL database<br />
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+ sudo su<br />
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+ mysql_secure_installation</div>
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+ </li>
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+ <li>Press Enter to login as root</li>
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+ <li>Type N and press Enter to not switch to socket authentication</li>
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+ <li>Type Y and press Enter to set a root password, type the password twice to confirm</li>
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+ <li>Type Y and press Enter to remove anonymous users</li>
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+ <li>Type Y and press Enter to disallow root login remotely</li>
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+ <li>Type Y and press Enter to remove the test database</li>
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+ <li>Type Y and press Enter to reload privilege tables</li>
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+ <li>Run the following command to login into MySQL:
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+ <div class="codeBlock">mysql -u root -p</div>
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+ </li>
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+ <li>Authenticate with the root password set earlier</li>
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+ <li>Run the following commands to create the Nextcloud database and database user
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+ <div class="codeBlock">CREATE DATABASE nextclouddb;<br />
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+ GRANT ALL ON nextclouddb.* to 'nextcloud_rw'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'N3xtCl0ud!';<br />
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+ FLUSH PRIVILEGES;<br />
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+ EXIT;<br />
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+ exit</div>
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+ </li>
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+ <li>Continue with the following commands to download and extract Nextcloud in the Apache webroot
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+ <div class="codeBlock"># download latest nextcloud version<br />
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+ wget -O /tmp/nextcloud.zip https://download.nextcloud.com/server/releases/latest.zip<br />
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+ # extract downloaded nextcloud archive<br />
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+ sudo unzip -q /tmp/nextcloud.zip -d /var/www<br />
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+ # set the owner of the new nextcloud directory to www-data<br />
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+ sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/nextcloud<br />
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+ # create a new nextcloud.conf file to configure the site<br />
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+ sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/nextcloud.conf</div>
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+ </li>
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+ <li>Paste the following configuration into nextcloud.conf
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+ <p>Alias /nextcloud "/var/www/nextcloud/"<br />
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+ <directory /var/www/html/nextcloud/><br />
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+ Options +FollowSymlinks<br />
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+ AllowOverride All<br />
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+ Require all granted</p>
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+
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+ <p>Dav off</p>
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+
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+ <p>SetEnv HOME /var/www/nextcloud<br />
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+ SetEnv HTTP_HOME /var/www/nextcloud<br />
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+ </directory></p>
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+ </li>
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+ <li>Press CTRL+O, Enter, CTRL+X to write the changes to nextcloud.conf</li>
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+ <li>Continue with the following commands to enable the site and restart Apache:
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+ <div class="codeBlock"># enable the nextcloud config<br />
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+ sudo a2ensite nextcloud<br />
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+ # enable required apache modules<br />
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+ sudo a2enmod rewrite headers env dir mime dav<br />
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+ # restart apache2 service for the changes to take effect<br />
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+ sudo service apache2 restart</div>
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+ </li>
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+ <li>Open a web browser and navigate to http://DNSorIP/nextcloud</li>
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+ <li>The Nextcloud setup screen should be displayed</li>
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+ <li>Enter a username and password</li>
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+ <li>Click the storage & database link to expand the section</li>
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+ <li>Fill out the database connection information as follows
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+ <p>username: nextcloud_rw<br />
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+ password: N3xtCl0ud!<br />
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+ database name: nextclouddb<br />
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+ database host: localhost</p>
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+ </li>
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+ <li>Click Finish Setup</li>
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+ <li>After a few moments of setup Nextcloud will be up and running</li>
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+ <li>Choose to install recommended apps or skip</li>
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+ <li>Welcome to Nextcloud running on WSL</li>
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+</ol> </div>
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+ </div>
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+ </body>
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+ </html>
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