<wiki> | Reinstalling nextcloud

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Re-intstalling next cloud, for whatever reason :)

To re-install you should:

  1. Stop the web server systemctl stop apache2

  2. delete or rename the config.php file sitting in the <directory>/nextcloud/config directory. I prefer renaming it, just incase cd /var/www/cloud.me.xyz/config sudo mv config.php config.php.bak

  3. delete or rename your data directory, that is <directory>/nextcloud/data In my case: cd cd /var/www/cloud.me.xyz sudo mv data data.bak

  4. Login to maria db and either drop all the tables in your database to generate a list of SQL statements you need to drop all the tables. Cut and paste back into the SQL cli. Use something like:

sudo mysql use nextcloud; SELECT concat("DROP TABLE IF EXISTS ", table_name, ";") FROM information_schema.tables WHERE table_schema = "nextcloud";

or just drop the database entirely, and create a new one, give it the permissions

DROP DATABASE nextcloud; CREATE DATABASE nextcloud; SHOW DATABASES; GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON nextcloud.* TO 'nextcloud'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '<password>';

  1. Finally, go back to the <directory>/nextcloud/config directory and create a new file CAN_INSTALL using something like this:

cd /var/www/nextcloud/config touch CAN_INSTALL chown www-data CAN_INSTALL chgrp www-data CAN_INSTALL chmod 644 CAN_INSTALL

  1. Restart the web server

Conclusion: bitch just use snapd honestly, you can either have a life or be a sys-admin