Version advancement problem

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I’m trying, following this guide:

https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/latest/admin_manual/maintenance/manual_upgrade.html

To upgrade the version from nextcloud 25 (after switching from owncloud) to 26
I downloaded the zip file from here:
https://download.nextcloud.com/server/releases/

unpacked, I renamed the old nextcloud folder to nextcloud-old and copied the new folder to /var/www, once I had done this from the previously renamed folder I copied the data folder and the config.php file, but when I give the command:
pi@raspberrypi:/var/www/nextcloud $ sudo -u www-data php occ upgrade
I receive:
This version of Nextcloud requires at least PHP 8.0
You are currently running 7.4.33. Please update your PHP version
I see this instead:
This version of Nextcloud requires at least PHP 8.0
You are currently running 7.4.33. Please update your PHP version.
if I try to start nextcloud from web…
Could you tell me where/what I’m doing wrong?

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Hi @nemo87

You are not doing anything wrong. The message:

… is really clear, isn’t it?

You have to upgrade php to at least 8.0 for it to work.

If your pi is running on a debian derivative, then you can use

to easily migrate the current version 7.4 to a higher one.

Nextcloud 16 requires at least php8.0 and can be run with php8.2 at most. So I would recommend you to switch 7.4 to 8.2, so you can then update to the current Nextcloud version, without further php upgrade.

Much and good luck,
ernolf

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with php 8.0 it starts now but I get this error:

  • Can’t write into config directory!This can usually be fixed by giving the webserver write access to the config directory.
    if I give the command:
    sudo chmod 750 /var/www/nextcloud/config

  • Configuration was not read or initialized correctly, not overwriting /var/www/nextcloud/config/config.php
    As I had already said, I copy the config.php file from the nextcloud-old folder