Upgrading Nextcloud on Fedora: A Journey from PHP Errors to Success

Step 1: Identifying the Issue

I recently upgraded my Nextcloud instance on a Fedora server and faced several challenges, from compatibility issues with PHP 8.2 to database schema errors. Here’s how I navigated through the process.

Initially, I encountered an error stating my Nextcloud version was incompatible with PHP 8.2. To address this, I decided to upgrade Nextcloud instead of downgrading PHP.

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Migrating My Home Server from Arch Linux to Fedora 30

This is outdated, and many information here is not applicable. Refere to the updated version here

Why Migrate the Server?

Arch is an amazing linux distro, but being cutting-edge is the opposite of being stable. For my home server, I don’t need the latest and greatest as much as I need a stable server that does what it does with as less maintenance as possible. Hence, Archlinux is to replaced with a more stable Fedora distro.[Yep, I hate Ubuntu – though I  believe it is a good distro all-around .. just don’t like it, personally].

Storage-wise, I have one harddrive for the system installation, and two identical hard drives (4TB each) making a RAID drive, for the data.

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