Nextcloud Setup Issue

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Hey all! Iā€™m on ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Iā€™m fairly new to linux itself, but I have quite a bit of experience with cpanel/whm. I currently use it to host websites/email etc.

However, Iā€™ve been looking at maybe using ubuntu server w/o cpanel. I want to get pretty comfortable with it before using it for production purposes. I ran across nextcloud, thought it was interesting so I figured Iā€™d check it out as I get used to doing things in ubuntu.

However, Iā€™m having a problem with thisā€¦seemingly simple install.I found this tut here: https://websiteforstudents.com/setup-nextcloud-on-ubuntu-18-04-lts-beta-with-apache2-mariadb-and-php-7-1-support/

Iā€™ve followed it to a T without any errors whatsoever, however, after the install of nextcloud, i go to localhost/nextcloud, and while it takes me to nextcloud, iā€™m met with a plethora of errors:

No Database drivers (i installed mariadb, configured, db created, u/n and p/w created)

PHP module zip not installed

PHP module dom not installed

Php module XMLWriter not installed

PHP module XMLReader not installed

ā€¦and thereā€™s more after that, but I assume iā€™m getting all of these for the same reason

I know for a fact I installed and configured mariadb and all the php modules. Iā€™m sure itā€™s for some obvious reason, but as I stated iā€™m fairly new to linux. I donā€™t usually ask questions on community forums for the sake of looking dumb, but for once in my life I would like to seek help instead of banging my head against a wall until I figure it out. I provided the link to the tutorial I followed so you can know exactly what I did.

Thanks in advance for any help.

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The howto you used installs php 7.1 modules. Maybe you can check if apache is using php 7.2 instead of php 7.1.

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On Ubuntu 18.04.1, youā€™ll need to install following packages:
apt-get install php7.2-fpm php7.2-gd php7.2-mysql php7.2-curl php7.2-xml php7.2-zip php7.2-intl php7.2-mbstring php7.2-bz2 php7.2-json php-apcu

With these packages, I donā€™t have any PHP related issues with Nextcloud.

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Didnā€™t fix it. I do however think that the version of nextcloud in the tutorial I followed is not compatible with php 7.2. I upgraded nextcould to 13, and while It fixed the first errors, I started recieving an ā€œInternal Server Errorā€. I read that this was an issue with 13, so attempted to upgrade again, but i couldnā€™t perform the occ upgrade due to write permission in the config directory? Anyway, instead of nitpicking it apart(which i probably should for the sake of learning) Iā€™m rolling back to my untouched ubuntu snapshot and going to repeat the process with correct/compatible versions of php and nextcloud. Good experience for me probably. Iā€™ll report back once I make some progress. Thanks for the replies.

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PHP7.2 works since NC12, AFAIK. However of course you should always install the latest release: https://download.nextcloud.com/server/releases/latest.zip

But indeed your error messages looks like mixed PHP versions. Please check the following:

php -v
php -m
ls -l /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/