Setup Nextcloud 29 for private photo/video storage and sharing using Ubuntu and docker compose on Intel NUC minipc
Hardware
Intel(R) Client Systems NUC10i7FNK (6 core i7-10710U, 64GB, 4TB nvme) + Ubuntu 24.04 noble
Prepare folders and scripts
mkdir -p /docker/nextcloud/var/www/html mkdir -p /docker/mariadb/var/lib/mysql vi nextcloud.yml vi ./nextcloud_update.sh chmod +x ./nextcloud_update.sh ./nextcloud_update.sh
Update scriptÂ
./nextcloud_update.sh
nextcloud_update.sh
#!/bin/bash docker compose -f nextcloud.yml ps docker compose -f nextcloud.yml down ; docker compose -f nextcloud.yml up -d --build --force-recreate; docker compose -f nextcloud.yml ps docker compose -f nextcloud.yml logs --follow
docker compose file
nextcloud.yml
docker-compose.yml
services: db: image: mariadb:10.11.7 container_name: cloud-db restart: always command: --transaction-isolation=READ-COMMITTED --log-bin=mysqld-bin --binlog-format=ROW --innodb-file-per-table=1 --skip-innodb-read-only-compressed volumes: - /docker/mariadb/var/lib/mysql:/var/lib/mysql:rw - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro - /etc/timezone:/etc/timezone:ro - type: tmpfs target: /tmp environment: - MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=db_admin_pass - MYSQL_PASSWORD=db_user_pass - MYSQL_DATABASE=nextcloud - MYSQL_USER=nextcloud - MARIADB_AUTO_UPGRADE=yes - REDIS_HOST=redis - REDIS_PORT=6379 redis: image: redis:alpine container_name: cloud-cache restart: always app: image: nextcloud:29.0.1 container_name: cloud-server hostname: cloud.example.com restart: always ports: - 8880:80 links: - db - redis volumes: - /docker/nextcloud/var/www/html:/var/www/html:rw - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro - /etc/timezone:/etc/timezone:ro - type: tmpfs target: /tmp:exec devices: - /dev/dri/renderD128:/dev/dri/renderD128 - /dev/dri/card0:/dev/dri/card0 environment: - MYSQL_PASSWORD=db_user_pass - MYSQL_DATABASE=nextcloud - MYSQL_USER=nextcloud - MYSQL_HOST=db - OVERWRITEHOST=cloud.example.com - OVERWRITEPROTOCOL=https - NEXTCLOUD_ADMIN_USER=nc_admin_user - NEXTCLOUD_ADMIN_PASSWORD=nc_admin_pass - NEXTCLOUD_UPLOAD_LIMIT=20G - PHP_UPLOAD_LIMIT=32G - PHP_MEMORY_LIMIT=32G - APACHE_BODY_LIMIT=0
nginx configuration
server { listen 80; server_name cloud.example.com; return 301 https://$server_name$request_uri; location / { } } server { listen 443 ssl; http2 on; server_name cloud.example.com; add_header Strict-Transport-Security 'max-age=15552000; includeSubDomains'; ssl_certificate /etc/ssl/private/cloud-example-com.pem; ssl_certificate_key /etc/ssl/private/cloud-example-com.pem; ssl_trusted_certificate "/etc/ssl/certs/cloud-example-com.ca"; client_max_body_size 36G; client_body_timeout 800s; ssl_protocols TLSv1.3 TLSv1.2; ssl_ciphers "EECDH+ECDSA+AESGCM EECDH+aRSA+AESGCM EECDH+ECDSA+SHA384 EECDH+ECDSA+SHA256 EECDH+aRSA+SHA384 EECDH+aRSA+SHA256 EECDH+aRSA+RC4 EECDH EDH+aRSA HIGH !RC4 !aNULL !eNULL !LOW !3DES !MD5 !EXP !PSK !SRP !DSS"; ssl_session_cache shared:SSL:20m; ssl_session_timeout 1h; ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on; ssl_stapling on; ssl_stapling_verify on; resolver 1.1.1.1 8.8.4.4 valid=300s; resolver_timeout 5s; location ^~ /.well-known { location = /.well-known/carddav { return 301 /remote.php/dav/; } location = /.well-known/caldav { return 301 /remote.php/dav/; } location /.well-known/acme-challenge { try_files $uri $uri/ =404; } location /.well-known/pki-validation { try_files $uri $uri/ =404; } return 301 /index.php$request_uri; } location = /robots.txt { allow all; log_not_found off; access_log off; } location / { add_header X-protocol $server_protocol always; include /etc/nginx/mime.types; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Host $host; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Server $host; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for; proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme; proxy_pass http://10.0.0.2:8880; } location /s/blank.mp4 { return 501 'NO FILE'; } }
add plugins
- https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/memories
- https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/recognize or https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/facerecognition
- https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/previewgenerator
- https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/workflow_media_converter
Tuning
that have to be done every container version update
To get in nextcloud container
docker exec -it cloud-server bash
Prepare mirrors list for apt
apt update apt install lsb-release
UA mirrors example
cat <<EOF >/etc/apt/sources.list deb http://debian.volia.net/debian $(lsb_release -sc) main contrib non-free deb-src http://debian.volia.net/debian $(lsb_release -sc) main contrib non-free deb http://mirror.mirohost.net/debian-security $(lsb_release -sc)-security main contrib non-free non-free-firmware deb-src http://mirror.mirohost.net/debian-security $(lsb_release -sc)-security main contrib non-free deb http://debian.netforce.hosting/debian $(lsb_release -sc)-updates main contrib non-free non-free-firmware deb-src http://debian.netforce.hosting/debian $(lsb_release -sc)-updates main contrib non-free EOF
install some tools and compile ImageMagick
# install some basic tools apt update apt install -y sudo vim git wget exiftool # add HW media conversion support (for Intel graphics) groupadd -g 109 render usermod -a -G video www-data usermod -a -G render www-data apt install -y vainfo intel-media-va-driver-non-free ffmpeg # Compile latest ImageMagick apt install -y build-essential autoconf libtool apt build-dep -y imagemagick libmagickcore-dev libde265 libheif cd /usr/src/ git clone https://github.com/strukturag/libde265.git git clone https://github.com/strukturag/libheif.git cd libde265/ ./autogen.sh ./configure make -j 6 make install cd /usr/src/libheif/ ./autogen.sh ./configure make -j 6 make install cd /usr/src/ #wget https://www.imagemagick.org/download/ImageMagick.tar.gz #wget https://imagemagick.org/download/ImageMagick.tar.gz #wget https://imagemagick.org/archive/ImageMagick.tar.gz wget https://download.imagemagick.org/archive/ImageMagick.tar.gz tar xf ImageMagick.tar.gz cd ImageMagick-7* ./configure --with-heic=yes make -j 6 make install ldconfig
Optional switch back from ffmpeg 6.0.1 to 5.1.4
apt-cache policy ffmpeg apt remove ffmpeg apt install ffmpeg=7:5.1.4-0+deb12u1
compile php-imagick
cd /usr/src/ wget http://pecl.php.net/get/imagick-3.7.0.tgz tar -xvzf imagick-3.7.0.tgz cd imagick-3.7.0/ phpize ./configure make -j 6 make install echo "LimitRequestBody 0" > /etc/apache2/conf-enabled/apache-limits.conf service apache2 reload
Cleanup build directory
cd /usr/src/ rm ImageMagick.tar.gz rm imagick-*.tgz rm php.tar.xz rm php.tar.xz.asc rm -Rf ImageMagick-* rm -Rf imagick-*
Check installations
vainfo