Upgrade question Ubuntu 16.04 to 18.04 server upgrade

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Everything is running fine under 16.04 and plan to upgrade to 18.04 .
I do the following:
$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt upgrade

Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
Calculating upgrade… Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libvpx3 libzip4
Use ‘sudo apt autoremove’ to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
nginx-core
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libnginx-mod-http-auth-pam libnginx-mod-http-dav-ext libnginx-mod-http-echo
libnginx-mod-http-geoip libnginx-mod-http-image-filter
libnginx-mod-http-subs-filter libnginx-mod-http-upstream-fair
libnginx-mod-http-xslt-filter libnginx-mod-mail libnginx-mod-stream
nginx-full
The following packages will be upgraded:
nginx nginx-common
2 upgraded, 11 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 922 kB of archives.
After this operation, 926 kB of additional disk space will be used.

It ask me it will remove nginx-core and upgrades/install some new nginx files.
How shall I proceed? What changes or modifications do I need to do?
I know I have to fix:
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock;

Nextcloud version 14.0.3
Operating system and version Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
nginx version: nginx/1.10.3 (Ubuntu)
PHP version 7.0

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Solved. Followed the 16.04 to 18.04 instructions. After sudo apt upgrade entered Y, N, N but it was at old 16.04 php7.0 and had to do a sudo apt-get install php7.2 php7.2-fpm php7.2-cli php7.2-curl php7.2-gd php7.2-mysql php7.2-gd php7.2-imagick php7.2-recode php7.2-tidy php7.2-xmlrpc php7.2-mbstring zip unzip php7.2-common php7.2-opcache

18.04 uses php7.2

This a Nginx web server.
It worked.

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I had the same issue, problems with upgrading Nextcloud ubuntu host from 16.04 to 18.04. However, I had apache instead of nginx and I needed few more packages…and then some updates to config files. I documented that to my blog at Ubuntu upgrade from 16.04 to 18.04 messed up Nextcloud installation (Fixed) if somebody else would have the same problems.

Briefly it is:

  1. Upgrade Ubuntu normally (do-release-upgrade)

  2. Fix php setup with command:

    sudo apt-get install php7.2 php7.2-fpm php7.2-cli php7.2-curl php7.2-gd php7.2-mysql php7.2-gd php7.2-imagick php7.2-recode php7.2-tidy php7.2-xmlrpc php7.2-mbstring zip unzip php7.2-common php7.2-opcache php7.2-json php7.2-intl php7.2-xml php7.2-zip libapache2-mod-php7.2

  3. Edit /etc/redis/redis.conf

Uncomment rows
unixsocket /var/run/redis/redis-server.sock
unixsocketperm 700

and change ‘unixsocketperm 700’ to ‘unixsocketperm 770’

  1. edit /var/www/nextcloud/config/config.php

so that the redis.sock will point to the same file as in redis.conf

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Thank you so much! This is invaluable! I tried a bunch of other suggestions, but this actually works; amazing!

Apparently there is still something missing, it looks like the html is rendered (login works etc.), but the css is missing? Do you have any idea?

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Great that it helped. Then it was not a wast of time to document it.

I got it fully working with that. No idea if the css is missing.

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Had the same troubles, tried for months on and off, gave up. THANK you! worked flawlessly …