What is Nextcloud?

A safe home for all your data. Access & share your files, calendars, contacts, mail & more from any device, on your terms.

How to use this image

Start Nextcloud

Starting Nextcloud php-fpm instance listening on port 9000 is as easy as the following:

$ docker run -d nextcloud

Now you can get access to fpm running on port 9000 inside the container. If you want to access it from the Internets, we recommend using a reverse proxy in front. You can find more information on that on the docker-compose section. Once you have a reverse proxy, go to http://localhost/ and go through the wizard. By default this container uses SQLite for data storage, but the wizard should allow for connecting to an existing database.

For a MySQL database you can link an database container, e.g. --link my-mysql:mysql, and then use mysql as the database host on setup.

Persistent data

All data beyond what lives in the database (file uploads, etc) is stored within the default volume /var/www/html. With this volume, Nextcloud will only be updated when the file version.php is not present.

• -v /<mydatalocation>:/var/www/html

For fine grained data persistence, you can use 3 volumes, as shown below.

• -v /<mydatalocation>/apps:/var/www/html/apps installed / modified apps
• -v /<mydatalocation>/config:/var/www/html/config local configuration
• -v /<mydatalocation>/data:/var/www/html/data the actual data of your Nextcloud

... via docker-compose

You can use a setup that is used in production at IndieHosters/Nextcloud.