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Is NextCloud self-hosting still viable?
Lots of broken stuff... not a single docker compose reference I found that worked. Been spending a day just trying to make nextcloud + mariadb work. (Edit for additional context: The official now unofficial documentation from Nextcloud is not functional and has caused the troubleshooting "adventure": https://github.com/nextcloud/docker/?tab=readme-ov-file#base-version---apache)
If anybody can share a working docker-compose file (with image tags), you'll be saving a soul. Otherwise, I can't be spending any more time on nextcloud :(
SOLVED: This is what worked for me after trying different versions and docker images.
Nextcloud: lscr.io/linuxserver/nextcloud:28.0.4 (the latest = v29 has breaking changes with mariadb and causes internal server error during installation)
MariaDB: lscr.io/linuxserver/mariadb:10.11.8
Here's the working docker compose file with nginx proxy manager. I use 4430:4434 for SSH reverse tunnel, but port 80 on localhost should be just fine
services:
nginxproxymanager:
image: 'docker.io/jc21/nginx-proxy-manager:2.11.3'
container_name: nginxproxymanager
restart: always
environment:
- TZ=Asia/Seoul
ports:
- '80:80'
- '81:81'
- '443:443'
volumes:
- ./data:/data
- ./letsencrypt:/etc/letsencrypt
nextcloud:
image: lscr.io/linuxserver/nextcloud:28.0.4 # latest breaks
container_name: nextcloud
environment:
- PUID=1000
- PGID=1000
- TZ=Asia/Seoul
volumes:
- ./nextcloud/config:/config
- /path/to/data:/data
ports:
- 4430:443
restart: always
depends_on:
- nextcloud-db
nextcloud-db:
image: lscr.io/linuxserver/mariadb:10.11.8 # pinned for sanity
container_name: nextcloud-db
environment:
- PUID=1000
- PGID=1000
- TZ=Asia/Seoul
- MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=
- MYSQL_DATABASE=
- MYSQL_USER=
- MYSQL_PASSWORD=
volumes:
- ./nextcloud-db/config:/config
ports:
- 3306:3306
restart: alwaysTIP + DISCLAIMER: The All-in-One (AIO) installation and corresponding docker image is currently the OFFICIAL one. Read better... don't be like me. Others seem to find AIO's ballooning logs an issue (see comments) so use your own discretion.
I’ve been using Nextcloud AIO for a while now, and it has never caused any problems—updating it is great too.
The apps are causing problems. After updates my log was full. The one with the suspicious logins was a pita.
I have disabled now the non essentials and I will see how it goes...
Not for people that ask this question
Exactly. Everyone tries to start with docker because its "easier," and then follows some random guide and then they can't figure out why everything is busted.
The official docs are excellent for bare metal or VM hosting. I've been hosting nextcloud for years and literally never had a problem I couldn't solve with the official docs, but it's like people are allergic to looking at documentation.
I stopped using Linuxserver Nextcloud. I had problems with the android app, with Colabora office and other small bugs.
I now use Nextcloud AOI and it's running rocksolid on a N100.
I let other people test it who use Google Drive for business. They claim it's even faster then that.
Try aio.
I used the variant without docker. Self hosted on my own server for 4 years. Never got any problems.
I've set up Apache+MariaDB+Nextcloud manually on my VPS back in 2017, because I didn't understand Docker. Still running and never gave me any trouble with updates.
AIO works great.
Sure. I use Debian and no docker. Not hard.