NextCloudPi is a self-hosted cloud platform that provides file sharing, collaboration, and productivity features. It's an open-source project that lets you sync and share files, contacts, calendars, and other data across multiple devices. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the process of installing NextCloudPi on EndeavourOS, a lightweight Arch-based Linux distribution.
Before we start with the installation process, you need to make sure you have the following prerequisites:
Since NextCloudPi requires Docker to be installed, we need to install Docker on our EndeavourOS system first. Docker allows us to run applications in isolated containers without interfering with other system processes.
To install Docker, run the following commands in your terminal:
sudo pacman -S docker
sudo systemctl start docker
sudo systemctl enable docker
This will install Docker on your system, start the Docker service, and enable it to start automatically at boot.
Next, we have to create a Docker container for NextCloudPi. The following command will create a new Docker container using the latest NextCloudPi image from the official Docker Hub repository.
sudo docker run -d --name nextcloudpi --privileged -p 4443:4443 -v ncdata:/data --restart always ownyourbits/nextcloudpi-armhf
This command will create a container named nextcloudpi with the port number 4443 exposed. This port number is used to access the NextCloud web interface. The ncdata directory will be mounted as a volume inside the container, and all data will be stored inside this directory.
Once the Docker container is up and running, you can access the NextCloud Web Interface by opening your favorite web browser and visit https://localhost:4443. You will be prompted with a self-signed SSL certificate. Since this is a self-hosted cloud platform, we need to accept the certificate to proceed.
After accepting the certificate, you will be greeted with the NextCloud login page. Create a new admin user with a strong password and start using NextCloud.
In this tutorial, we learned how to install NextCloudPi on EndeavourOS. By installing NextCloudPi, you can easily host your own private cloud and sync your files, contacts, calendars, and other data across multiple devices. Docker helps us to isolate the application and makes it easy to manage the NextCloud instance from the system.
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