Nextcloud Development Environment

Installation / Running

make build
docker compose up

Afterward you should be able to open http://localhost:8081/index.php/apps/news (admin/admin) to log in to your Nextcloud instance.

Press Ctrl+C to stop the container.

Check nextcloud.log

For debugging, you can show the nextcloud.log:

make show-log

There also is a logging web interface.

Create shell in docker container

To check if the container is still running:

docker ps

It should show something like this:

CONTAINER ID   IMAGE                  COMMAND                  CREATED         STATUS         PORTS                                       NAMES
a1b2c3d4e5f6   nextcloud-news-app     "docker-entrypoint.…"   2 hours ago     Up 2 hours     0.0.0.0:8081->80/tcp                        nextcloud-news-app

To open a shell as www-data which you need to run occ commands run:

docker exec -u www-data -it nextcloud-news-app /bin/bash

To open a shell as root run

docker exec -it nextcloud-news-app /bin/bash

To exit press Ctrl+D

Inside the shell

Use sqlite3 to open the db

sqlite3 data/mydb.db

More on the sqlite3 cli: https://www.sqlite.org/cli.html

Tip

In case something is broken try to reset the container:

docker compose build; docker compose down; docker volume rm nextcloud-news_nextcloud