Chapter 8. Networked file sharing: Building a Nextcloud file-sharing server

This chapter covers

  • Installing and managing software packages using snaps
  • Configuring Apache to manage multiple websites on a single server
  • Provisioning and administering an enterprise file-sharing site
  • Configuring Nextcloud to use cloud (AWS S3) storage

After your introduction to the LAMP web server and text-based content management collaboration in the previous chapter, I’m sure you started thinking about other ways you could use the technology stack. Perhaps your mind didn’t immediately turn to the problem of enterprise file sharing, but that’s not a bad place to go to learn more about the ways Linux provides web services.

The kind of file sharing I’m talking ...

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