Wikimedia CH requested a new NextCloud to share documents with the community without using proprietary software.
This is in line with the Tech Strategy - stub here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CH/Information_Technology_Strategy
2023/early-2024 configuration (concluded)
Self-hosted demo with classic PHP-FPM on node members2 (proposed by Ilario)
- request 200GB additional storage
- create ext4 partition with fsck
- add entry in /etc/fstab/
- create database utf8mb4_general_ci and user credentials
- setup DNS record
- setup virtualhost
- setup PHP-FPM
- install needed operating system packages (php8.2-mysql php8.2-dom php8.2-xml php8.2-curl php8.2-gd php8.2-zip php8.2-mbstring)
- setup web environment
- setup Let's Encrypt certificates with certbot
- first web configuration
- communicate first credentials
- HTTP headers hardening
2024 configuration
Nextcloud as a service from Cloud68 with Collabora.