Hello and welcome to my series of posts on setting up a server to run Debian Linux, hosting a WordPress and a Nextcloud installation The idea is to take you through all the steps needed to get up and running, some basic familiarity with computers and Linux is assumed, but…
Now you’re up and running with what should be a stable and secure installation of WordPress and Nextcloud with Collabora. There are plenty more tweaks you can work on yourself: Server Administration Advanced HTTPS – you can check your config with https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/. You have choices about how you want to…
The final of the 3 big pieces – this provides document editing capability in Nextcloud. Install Collabora There are a couple of ways to install Collabora, and the recommended way is to use a Docker image. That isn’t ideal for us because the Docker version will use more resources which…
Before enabling public access to Nextcloud, lets take a moment to improve things a little. Apache Config First up, let’s force the use of the HTTPS and make sure we haven’t left any security holes by stripping back the HTTP config file to it’s bare bones. The default Apache configuration…
Database Again, same as for WordPress, we need a database and a user. Same command to login as the root database server user: a similar set of SQL commands to set up the nextcloud database: Disable Public Access – a different way Like before, we don’t want the Nextclound site…
First, we need 1 extra PHP module: Like with WordPress, we’ll create a folder and apache configuration for Nextcloud: And we’ll use essentially the same apache configuration we used for wordpress, with a few tweaks. We’ll also create a temporary configuration for collabora while we’re here: This is just a…