Make Nextcloud fast! Full tutorial and server setup!

Nextcloud is a great system for setting up your personal cloud and sharing with friends. It can be frustrating when it is slow. Let's get nextcloud entirely setup and optimized for performance on your server! ** PHP 8.3 is out. Nextcloud currently will NOT run on php8.3. Many required php packages for php8.3 are not out yet, such as intl, mysql, curl, and others** ** This guide has been updated to specify installing php 8.2 packages, be sure you are running php8.2!** **Nextcloud 28 is out, it also wants you to install bz2 php extension** **sudo apt-get install php8.2-bz2** *Server setup* sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade sudo apt-get install software-properties-common sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php sudo apt-get install apache2 php8.2-fpm sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/nextcloud.conf *paste in the code from here:* https://github.com/jhodak/linux-configuration-files/blob/main/Apache_Reverse_Proxy_Configs/Nextlcoud sudo a2enconf php8.2-fpm sudo a2ensite nextcloud.conf sudo apt-get install imagemagick php8.2-imagick memcached libmemcached-tools php8.2-memcached php8.2-apcu mariadb-server php8.2-gd php8.2-mysql php8.2-curl php8.2-mbstring php8.2-intl php8.2-gmp php8.2-bcmath php8.2-xml php8.2-zip unzip smbclient sudo a2enmod headers rewrite mpm_event http2 mime proxy proxy_fcgi setenvif alias dir env ssl proxy_http proxy_wstunnel sudo a2dismod mpm_prefork sudo nano /etc/memcached.conf change 64 to 1024 *save and exit* sudo nano /etc/php/8.2/fpm/pool.d/www.conf max_children = 80 start_servers = 20 min_spare_servers = 20 max_spare_servers = 60 *uncomment these lines:* env[HOSTNAME] = $HOSTNAME env[PATH] = /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin env[TMP] = /tmp env[TMPDIR] = /tmp env[TEMP] = /tmp *save and exit* sudo nano /etc/php/8.2/fpm/php.ini memory_limit = 1024M post_max_size = 512M upload_max_filesize = 1024M *down in opcache settings:* opcache.enable=1 opcache.memory_consumption=1024 opcache.interned_strings_buffer=64 opcache.max_accelerated_files=150000 opcache.max_wasted_percentage=15 opcache.revalidate_freq=60 opcache.save_comments=1 opcache.jit=1255 opcache.jit_buffer_size=256M *save and exit* *setup MariaDB* sudo mysql CREATE USER 'username'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password'; CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS nextcloud CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_general_ci; GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON nextcloud.* TO 'username'@'localhost'; FLUSH PRIVILEGES; quit; cd /var/www sudo wget https://download.nextcloud.com/server/releases/nextcloud-27.1.4.zip sudo unzip nextcloud-27.1.4.zip sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/nextcloud sudo systemctl restart apache2 sudo systemctl restart memcached sudo systemctl restart php8.2-fpm *open website and continue nextcloud isntallation on new website* sudo nano /var/www/nextcloud/config/config.php *grab the code to add from here:* https://github.com/jhodak/linux-configuration-files/blob/main/nextcloud/config save and exit sudo systemctl restart apache2 just in case. *Your nextcloud should now be running optimally!* **Optional but highly recommended** Enable OCC -- nextcloud command line function sudo nano /etc/php/8.2/mods-available/apcu.ini *add the following line at the bottom:* apc.enable_cli=1 save and exit in nextcloud go to administration settings -- basic settings -- change from Ajax to Cron (recommended) if you want to test if cron is working sudo -u www-data php -f /var/www/nextcloud/cron.php if you see nothing it is working, if you get an error it is not working