How To Install Nextcloud 25 On Red Hat 8.6 With PHP 7.4

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My Spesification Server Lab on virtualbox

OS            : Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6
Hard Disk     : 160 GB
RAM           :  4 GB
Hostname      : cloud-rhel
IP Address    : 192.168.1.86/24
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Change hostname to cloud-rhel

hostnamectl set-hostname cloud-rhel

Change ip address

nmtui

Follow steps change the ip address and reboot server

Restart your putty and login again

Install php 7.4

dnf -y install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm

dnf -y install https://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/remi-release-8.rpm

dnf -y install dnf-utils

dnf module reset php -y

dnf update -y

dnf module install php:remi-7.4 -y

dnf install httpd php php-cli php-mysqlnd php-zip php-devel php-gd php-mcrypt php-mbstring php-curl php-xml php-pear php-bcmath php-json php-pdo php-pecl-apcu php-pecl-apcu-devel mariadb mariadb-server unzip php-pecl-zip -y

Download Nextcloud Latest Version

wget https://download.nextcloud.com/server/releases/latest.zip

unzip latest.zip -d /var/www/html

mkdir /var/www/html/nextcloud/data

chown -R apache:apache /var/www/html/nextcloud/*

Check Selinux

grep enforcing /etc/selinux/config
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output :

#     enforcing - SELinux security policy is enforced.
#     permissive - SELinux prints warnings instead of enforcing.
SELINUX=enforcing
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Because selinux is active, we give apache access to selinux

chcon -t httpd_sys_rw_content_t /var/www/html/nextcloud/ -R

Configure mariadb

mysql_secure_installation

Enter and type "Y" change your password mariadb. My Password is "P@ssw0rd"

Configure mariadb

mysql -u root -p
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output :

mysql> CREATE DATABASE nextclouddb;
mysql> CREATE USER 'nextclouduser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'P@ssw0rd';
mysql> GRANT ALL ON nextclouddb.* TO 'nextclouduser'@'localhost';
mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
mysql> exit
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Configure apache

nano /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

Edit "DocmentRoot"

Before

DocumentRoot "/var/www/html"

After

DocumentRoot "/var/www/html/nextcloud"
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Press ctrl + x

Create new file in the conf.d

nano /etc/httpd/conf.d/nextcloud.conf
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Copy Paste :

<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerName 192.168.1.86
  ServerAdmin admin@agl.net
  DocumentRoot /var/www/html/nextcloud
  <directory /var/www/html/nextcloud>
    Require all granted
    AllowOverride All
    Options FollowSymLinks MultiViews
    SetEnv HOME /var/www/html/nextcloud
    SetEnv HTTP_HOME /var/www/html/nextcloud
  </directory>
</VirtualHost>
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Press ctrl + x

Restart apache

systemctl restart httpd

Check firewalld

systemctl status firewalld
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output :

● firewalld.service - firewalld - dynamic firewall daemon
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/firewalld.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Mon 2022-12-26 14:13:51 WIB; 17min ago
     Docs: man:firewalld(1)
 Main PID: 946 (firewalld)
    Tasks: 2 (limit: 23031)
   Memory: 39.0M
   CGroup: /system.slice/firewalld.service
           └─946 /usr/libexec/platform-python -s /usr/sbin/firewalld --nofork --nopid

Dec 26 14:13:51 svr-cloud2 systemd[1]: Starting firewalld - dynamic firewall daemon...
Dec 26 14:13:51 svr-cloud2 systemd[1]: Started firewalld - dynamic firewall daemon.
Dec 26 14:13:51 svr-cloud2 firewalld[946]: WARNING: AllowZoneDrifting is enabled. This is considered an insecure configuration option. It will be removed in>
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Because firewalld is active, we need to provide http service to firewalld

firewall-cmd --add-service=http --permanent

firewall-cmd --reload

Access nextcloud on your favourite browser

http://192.168.1.86

Follow Instructions