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There are multiple options when installing nextcloud but I always install my self hosted services through docker just to keep everything isolated and easy to backup. I will publish a post on the back strategy I use with docker in another post but for this post here's how I managed to get nextcloud working with docker (docker-compose actually) and the full text search capability.
Why would you want full text search? Because the search capability for nextcloud out of the box is pretty naive in that it only searches for the query in the file name, which is OK sometimes, but most of the time you need the search to be in the contents of the file. This capability is provided by an external search server, in this case via ElasticSearch (which is an excellent search server albeit resource hungry). Ok, so here is the docker-compose file I use to setup everything:
version: '2' services: db: image: mariadb command: --transaction-isolation=READ-COMMITTED --binlog-format=ROW restart: always volumes: - ./db:/var/lib/mysql environment: - MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD= - MYSQL_PASSWORD= - MYSQL_DATABASE=nextcloud - MYSQL_USER=nextcloud app: image: nextcloud ports: - 90:80 links: - db - es volumes: - ./nextcloud:/var/www/html restart: always cron: image: nextcloud links: - db - es volumes: - ./nextcloud:/var/www/html - ./crontab:/var/spool/cron/crontabs/www-data restart: always es: build: ./elastic-docker/. environment: - discovery.type=single-node volumes: - ./elastic:/usr/share/elasticsearch/data
The first two services are from the standard docker-compose file in the nextcloud documentation page. I've added another service that runs the cron scripts (you can delete this is you have a different way to run crons) and then there is elastic search service. I use local directories for persistent storage as it's super easy for backups. The elastic search image requires a bit of customization so here is the Dockerfile
for the service
FROM docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch:7.6.2 RUN /usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch-plugin install --batch ingest-attachment
Elastic search wants a plugin to index content from nextcloud.
After these files are in place, spin up the stack with docker-compose up -d
. Make sure you see all services up and running. You can ignore the warnings from the ElasticSearch image.
After the containers are up install the following apps for Nextcloud
Now you can test the installation using
docker-compose exec --user www-data app php occ fulltextsearch:test
if everything goes well you can start the indexing
docker-compose exec --user www-data app php occ fulltextsearch:index
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First published on 2020-07-20
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