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Setup NextCloud on Synology

Synology-NextCloud

Setup NextCloud on Synology

0. Synology DSM 6.2 with following packages are installed

• Web Station
• Apache Server 2.2
• Maria DB 10
• PHP 5.6

1. Create share to store NextCloud data. Make sure allow read/write to http group

2. Login to Synology using your favorite ssh client as admin

3. Switch to root. (Use admin password again)

admin@DSM6:/$ sudo -i
password:

3. Go to to web server folder

root@DSM6:~# cd /volume1/web/
root@DSM6:/volume1/web#

4. Go to Install - NextCloud, click Detail download and options and Copy Link to tar.bz2 archive. (https://download.nextcloud.com/server/releases/nextcloud-12.0.2.tar.bz2 now)

5. Download NextCloud package to local

root@DSM6:/volume1/web# wget https://download.nextcloud.com/server/releases/nextcloud-12.0.2.tar.bz2
--2017-08-21 20:21:34--  https://download.nextcloud.com/server/releases/nextcloud-12.0.2.tar.bz2
Resolving download.nextcloud.com... 88.198.160.133
Connecting to download.nextcloud.com|88.198.160.133|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 42756355 (41M) [application/x-bzip2]
Saving to: 'nextcloud-12.0.2.tar.bz2'

100%[=====================================================================================================>] 42,756,355  3.64MB/s   in 20s

2017-08-21 20:21:55 (1.99 MB/s) - 'nextcloud-12.0.2.tar.bz2' saved [42756355/42756355]

root@DSM6:/volume1/web#

6. Extract downloaded package

root@DSM6:/volume1/web# tar -xf nextcloud-12.0.2.tar.bz2

7. Change owner to http

root@DSM6:/volume1/web# chown -R http:http nextcloud

8. Change ownership for NextCloud data directory

root@DSM6:/volume1/web# chown root:http /volume1/nextcloud

9. Restrict everyone access to NextCloud data

root@DSM6:/volume1/web# chmod 770 /volume1/nextcloud

That's all with CLI.

10. Open Web Station. Go General settings tab. Set http back-server to Apache 2.2 and PHP to 5.6

11. Add :/dev/urandom:/volume1/nextcloud to end of open_basedir

12. Make sure that following Extensions are enabled

• culr
• gd
• openssl
• pdo_mysql
• zip

13. Reset Maria DB password to known. Also note port on which DB is listen for requests (3307 at screenshot).

14. Open <synology_ip>/nextcloud in browser. Fill

• Username
• Password
• Path to NextCloud Share (created at step 1.)
• DB user (root)
• DB user password (set at step 13.)
• DB name
• Maria DB IP:PORT (from step 13.) It's better to specify IP (127.0.0.1) rather than name (localhost) as name may not work in same cases.

15. Click Finish and wait while NextCloud to be initialized