What is Nextcloud?
A safe home for all your data. Access & share your files, calendars, contacts, mail & more from any device, on your terms.
This image is designed to be used in a micro-service environment. It consists of the Nextcloud installation in an php-fpm container. To use this image it must be combined with any webserver that can proxy the http requests to the FastCGI-port of the container.
Starting Nextcloud php-fpm instance listening on port 9000 is as easy as the following:
$ docker run -d indiehosters/nextcloud
Now you can get access to fpm running on port 9000 inside the container. If you want to access it from the internet, we recommend using a reverse proxy in front. You can install it directly on your machine or use an additional container (You can find more information on that on the docker-compose section). Once you have a reverse proxy, you can access Nextcloud at https://localhost/ and go through the wizard.
By default this container uses SQLite for data storage, but the Nextcloud setup wizard (appears on first run) allows connecting to an existing MySQL/MariaDB or PostgreSQL database. You can also link a database container, e.g. --link my-mysql:mysql
, and then use mysql
as the database host on setup.
All data beyond that which 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
The recommended minimal setup is using this image in combination with two containers: A database container and a reverse proxy for the http connection to the service. A working example can be found at IndieHosters/Nextcloud.
If you want to access your Nextcloud from the internet we recommend configuring your reverse proxy to use encryption (for example via let's Encrypt)
To update your Nextcloud version you simply have to pull and start the new container.
$ docker pull indiehosters/nextcloud
$ docker run -d indiehosters/nextcloud
When you access your site the update wizard will show up.