NextCloud: Install: Heroku

Preface

• Ephemeral Drive
  • Locked Code
  • S3
• Databases
  • PostgreSQL

Prerequisites

You are going to need the following Services and Software before getting started with your NextCloud installation on Heroku. 

Be sure you have accounts setup for the following Services listed below. 
Also, be sure you have installed the following Software listed below.

Services

• Heroku Account
• AWS Account (Amazon Web Services)

Software

• Git
• Latest NextCloud for Server
  • Other Releases for NextCloud for Server
• Composer
• Heroku CLI

sudo snap install heroku --classic

Setup Heroku

Login to Heroku CLI (Ubuntu)

heroku login

Create App

• This needs to be created after git. IT will automatically create the remote links needed in Git

heroku create

Heroku will return a sample app and location. Use this for the rest of the install.

Creating app... done, ⬢ infinite-lowlands-38883
https://infinite-lowlands-38883.herokuapp.com/ | https://git.heroku.com/infinite-lowlands-38883.git

Heroku Add-ons

• Heroku Postgres

Install NextCloud - Phase 1

Download & Extract NextCloud

Download the version of nextcloud

wget https://download.nextcloud.com/server/releases/nextcloud-15.0.8.zip

Unzip nextcloud-x.x.x.zip to it's own folder

unzip nextcloud-15.0.8.zip

Create a new folder `nextcloud-x.x.x`

mkdir nextcloud-15.0.8

Move folder `nextcloud` into `nextcloud-x.x.x` and label it `server`

mv nextcloud nextcloud-15.0.8/server

Initialize Git

cd nextcloud-15.0.8
git init
git config user.name "Eric Wanchic"
git config user.email "ewanchic@elifestream.com"

cat > .gitignore

Copy & Paste the following to the file:

/vendor/
.env

Ctrl+D

git add .
git commit -m "Initial NextCloud 15.0.8"

Setup Composer

cat > composer.json

Copy & Paste the following to the file:

{
  "require" : {
    "php": "7.2.19",
    "ext-mbstring": "*",
    "ext-gd": "*",
    "ext-intl" : "*",
    "ext-imagick": "*",
    "ext-memcached": "*",
    "ext-pcntl": "*"
  },
  "require-dev": {
    "php": "7.2.19",
    "ext-mbstring": "*",
    "ext-gd": "*",
    "ext-intl" : "*",
    "ext-imagick": "*",
    "ext-memcached": "*",
    "ext-pcntl": "*"
  }
}

Ctrl+D to exit

composer update

Commit code to repo

git add .
git commit -m "Adding composer files."

Setup Procfile

cat > Procfile

Copy & Paste the following to the file:

web: vendor/bin/heroku-php-apache2 server/

Ctrl+D to exit

You might be tempted to use nginx instead of apache. In this instance, stay with apache.

Commit code to repo

git add .
git commit -m "Adding Procfile."

Install PostgreSQL Add on

heroku addons:create heroku-postgresql:hobby-dev --app infinite-lowlands-38883

DB is created. You'll have to log in to get further details.

Creating heroku-postgresql:hobby-dev on ⬢ infinite-lowlands-38883... free
Database has been created and is available
 ! This database is empty. If upgrading, you can transfer
 ! data from another database with pg:copy
Created postgresql-crystalline-20674 as DATABASE_URL
Use heroku addons:docs heroku-postgresql to view documentation

Install NextCloud - Phase 2

Push code to Heroku

git push heroku master

References

• Getting Started on Heroku with PHP (Ubuntu)

Return

• NextCloud
• Public