We’re getting ready to release a new version of the Nextcloud snap. v11.0.3snap3-rc1 is now in the candidate channel: $ sudo snap install --candidate nextcloud This update includes: An update to MySQL v5.7.18 An update to certbot v0.14.1 We’d love this new version (particularly features that involve those updates) to get some exercise before we release it. Feel like helping? We’ve put together some smoke tests to get you started....
We’re getting ready to release a new version of the Nextcloud snap with a few new features, including: Supporting changing ports from the default 80/443. Supporting Samba shares. We’d love this new version (particularly these new features) to get some exercise before we release it. Feel like helping? We’ve put together some smoke tests to get you started. Please test all you can, but if you only have time to focus on the smoke tests covering the new features, that would still be very useful....
In the previous post of this series, we discussed the process of and lessons learned from building Redis for the Nextcloud snap. That means we’ve covered all the major pieces except for Nextcloud itself, so for this post that’s what we’ll focus on getting that into the snap. As I mentioned previously, Nextcloud is a PHP application. As such, it’s not difficult to get working with Apache or MySQL. However, it was written in such a way to make its deployment as easy as possible (e....
In the previous post of this series, we discussed the process of and lessons learned from building MySQL for the Nextcloud snap. The last piece of infrastructure we need to introduce is the memcache, for which we’ll use Redis. Nextcloud supports a number of memcache backends; I chose Redis because it can provide both a local cache as well as file locking, so for this post that’s what we’ll focus on getting into the snap....
In the previous post of this series, we discussed the process of and lessons learned from building PHP 7 for the Nextcloud snap. Nextcloud supports a number of databases, but they recommend MySQL (the v9 docs that I used when making this decision are lost to the dust of time, but MySQL is still the recommended option in v21), so for this post that’s what we’ll focus on getting into the snap....