nextcloud

In the previous post of this series, we discussed the process of and lessons learned from building Apache for the Nextcloud snap. Nextcloud is a web application written in PHP, so for this post we’ll focus on getting PHP into the snap. PHP 7, like Apache, is included in the Ubuntu archives. However, I was planning on using the PHP Apache module, and since I was building Apache from source, I figured there’d be a lot of hoops for me to jump through if I tried to shoehorn the ....

The backbone of any web application is of course the web server, so that’s where I started when snapping Nextcloud. I went with Apache as opposed to Nginx for two reasons: 1) Apache is recommended by Nextcloud (the v9 docs that I used when making this decision are lost to the dust of time, but Apache is still the recommended option in v21), and 2) I’m much more familiar with Apache than Nginx....

I’ve been an ownCloud user for years, and I recently moved to using Nextcloud, which is based upon ownCloud. Both my wife and I use it to sync our calendars and contacts across all our devices, and also use it to sync our documents, music, pictures, and videos. It caters to my paranoid nature– the idea that all that information is being saved on my own in-house server instead of someone else’s greatly pleases me....