pbek / solid-nextcloud

A plugin to make Nextcloud compatible with Solid

solid-nextcloud

A plugin to make Nextcloud compatible with Solid.

You can download it via the Nextcloud app store: https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/solid IMPORTANT: Follow the install instructions!.

Development install

Clone https://github.com/pdsinterop/test-suites, cd into it, and run:

docker pull nextcloud
docker build -t nextcloud-server-base ./servers/nextcloud-server/base/
docker build -t nextcloud-server ./servers/nextcloud-server/server/
docker run -p 443:443 -d --rm --name=server nextcloud-server
echo sleeping
sleep 10
echo slept
docker logs server
docker exec -u www-data -it server sh /init.sh
docker exec -u root -it server service apache2 reload

Now visit https://localhost and log in as alice / alice123.

Manual install

Pleas follow the install instructions.

Unattended testing

There is a GitHub Action that runs a Docker-based test script.

Manual testing

You can try out the various Solid apps that show up in the Solid App GUI inside the Nextcloud GUI on first use.

Publishing to the Nextcloud app store

• git checkout main
• git pull
• Tag v0.0.X in solid/appinfo/info.xml
• git tag
• git tag v0.0.X
• git push --follow-tags
• git checkout publish
• git pull
• git merge main
• cd solid
• php ../composer.phar update
• php ../composer.phar install --no-dev --prefer-dist
• git commit -am"built" (at least vendor/composer/installed.php will have changed)
• git push
• cd ..
• create a release on github from the tag you just pushed
• tar -cf solid.tar solid/
• gzip solid.tar
• git checkout main
• edit the release and upload solid.tar.gz as a binary attachment
• make sure transfer/solid.key and transfer/solid.crt exist
• openssl dgst -sha512 -sign ./transfer/solid.key ./solid.tar.gz | openssl base64
• visit https://apps.nextcloud.com/developer/apps/releases/new
• go into the developer tools browser console to change the <a> element around the form to a <p> element. This makes it possible to fill in values in this form without being redirected.
• fill in for instance https://github.com/pdsinterop/solid-nextcloud/releases/download/v0.0.2/solid.tar.gz and the base64 signature from the openssl command
• click 'uploaden'
• good luck!