☁️ Nextcloud ☁️

This Ansible playbook is created to install and preconfigure Nextcloud on a Debian system without having to use the WebGUI.

It consists out of 5 roles:

1️⃣ Install ----- This will install packages like apache2 & mysql-server & php dependencies

2️⃣ Download ----- This downloads the latest Nextcloud installer and unpacks it

3️⃣ Database ----- This configures the mysql-server, adds a user and privileges

4️⃣ Apacheconfig ----- This configures Apache2 and enables the Nextcloud webpage

5️⃣ Postinstall ----- This initializes the database and configures Nextcloud using occ

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Each role has a few tasks:

1️⃣ Install

1. Installs apache2, mysql-server, php, zip , libapache2-mod-php , php-gd, php-json , php-mysql, php-curl , php-mbstring, php-intl , php-imagick , php-xml, php-zip , php-mysql , php-bcmath , php-gmp , pip
2. Create a Nextcloud cache directory for the installer download from https://download.nextcloud.com/server/releases/

2️⃣ Download

1. Download the latest Nextcloud installer to the cache directory (latest.tar.bz2)
2. Create the Nextcloud www-root directory
3. Unpack the tar file to the www-root directory
4. Give /var/www/html/nextcloud perms

3️⃣ Database

1. Makes sure pip is upgraded to be able to install PyMysql
2. Install pip PyMysql package
3. Create the "NEXTCLOUD" database in Mysql
4. Create database user ""NEXTCLOUD_USER"" for database "NEXTCLOUD"

4️⃣ Apacheconfig

1. Configure Apache vhost "NEXTCLOUD"
2. Check whether site "NEXTCLOUD" is already enabled
3. a2enmod en restart apache
4. Reload apache2

5️⃣ Postinstall

1. Give perms to nextcloud dir for db initialisation
2. Initialise the database and config.php (only works for fresh Nextcloud installation) using the occ command.
3. Insert the trusted ip domain in the config file at /var/www/html/nextcloud/nextcloud/config/config.php

⚙️ Variables ⚙️

These variables can be customized for your own system and are found in the main directory in the playbook file: nextcloud.yml

var	default value	description
nc_directory	/var/www/html/nextcloud	This is the directory where the Nextcloud webpage files will be stored
nc_cache	nc_cache	This is the directory where the Nextcloud installer will download to
a2_se	/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/nextcloud.conf	This is the path to the nextcloud.conf file in sites-enabled
a2_sa	/etc/apache2/sites-available/NEXTCLOUD.conf	This is the path to the NEXTCLOUD.conf file in sites-available
db_name	NEXTCLOUD	This is the database name
db_login	root	This is the database login
db_sock	/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock	This is where the MySql socket is
db_pw	test123	This is the password for the created database
nc_user	NEXTCLOUD_USER	This is the username for the Nextcloud application
nc_pw	test123	This is the password for the Nextcloud application
trusted_domain	192.168.1.124	This is the domain were the webpage is hosted on, added as a trusted domain

⭐ Usage ⭐

Customize the variables in nextcloud.yml and run the playbook with ansible-playbook nextcloud.yml

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