Okay I know this sounds like a weird question but hereās the deal. Last month I bought a new Windows laptop and decided to turn my old desktop into a fulltime Linux personal cloud webserver.
I installed NextCloud and it was extremely easy, it took me like 5 minutes, and I was able to do it without having a domain name etc. I could create a public link and then access the linked file from my phone while it had wifi turned off, just using mobile data.
I decided to try some other desktop environments and wound up screwing up my installation. So I swept the slate clean with a fresh install of Kubuntu 18.04. I then switched it back over to Gnome after decided that I liked it better.
Then I decided I wanted to reinstall NextWeb. Butā¦ I canāt find find the original tutorial I used.
Iām not entirely sure how I installed itā¦ but I vaguely remember it being the webinstaller, because I remember thinking how running a php file to install it was kind of genius in itās simplicity and it reminded me of when I have to use manually uploaded php files to clone over wordpress databases on my portfolio website.
This is locally hosted, on a physical machine in my apartment. Iā¦ donāt know a whole bunch about development, Iām a designer learning development, but I canāt run the php file from my browser. Iām pretty sure that I have to run it off a sever but the only way Iāve done that in the past is on Windows using Wordpress specific virtual machine containerized versions of MAMP.
So Iām really confused on what I did. It was so easy!
I thoughtā¦ maybe it was an appimage or a snap? But I canāt find any tutorials on how to install from an appimage, and when I tried installing from the snap itās nothing like I remember my installation process before. For one, wherever the snap installs NextCloud, the actual physical files were inside a folder at $Home called āNextCloudā and installing with snap does not do that.
Every other tutorial I find also talks about requiring a domain name etc, and I donāt remember that at all.
Yes, I will get a domain name and https etc etc. But for right now Iām just trying to get it running on my lcoal network off my local machine and I canāt figure out how I did it previously. Iāve googled high and low, and Iāve checked multiple browser histories but I canāt find the original tutorial, and nothing in the official installation documentation looks familiar.
I could also try to do a normal manual installation from the deb package but the only one I can see instructions for online is the 16.04 version.