Host Your Own Nextcloud Instance on Your Free VPS

mkdir -p ~/nextcloud && cd ~/nextcloud

services:
  db:
    image: mariadb:11
    restart: unless-stopped
    command: --transaction-isolation=READ-COMMITTED --log-bin=binlog --binlog-format=ROW
    volumes:
      - db:/var/lib/mysql
    environment:
      MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: change-this-root-password
      MYSQL_DATABASE: nextcloud
      MYSQL_USER: nextcloud
      MYSQL_PASSWORD: change-this-db-password

  app:
    image: nextcloud:stable
    restart: unless-stopped
    ports:
      - "8080:80"
    volumes:
      - nextcloud:/var/www/html
    environment:
      MYSQL_HOST: db
      MYSQL_DATABASE: nextcloud
      MYSQL_USER: nextcloud
      MYSQL_PASSWORD: change-this-db-password
      NEXTCLOUD_TRUSTED_DOMAINS: cloud.example.com
    depends_on:
      - db

volumes:
  db:
  nextcloud:

docker compose up -d

docker compose logs -f app

sudo apt install -y nginx

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name cloud.example.com;
    client_max_body_size 10G;

    location / {
        proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080;
        proxy_set_header Host $host;
        proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
        proxy_request_buffering off;
    }
}

sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/cloud.example.com /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/
sudo nginx -t
sudo systemctl reload nginx

sudo certbot --nginx -d cloud.example.com

# View logs
docker compose logs -f

# Update to the latest Nextcloud version
docker compose pull
docker compose up -d

# Run occ (Nextcloud's command-line tool)
docker compose exec --user www-data app php occ status

# Stop everything
docker compose down