## After to install Nextcloud

These are some of the things you probably should do after get installed Nextcloud.

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### Enable Redis caching

Using your local terminal connect with VPS:
```
ssh [email protected]
```

Edit Nextcloud config file:
```
sudo nano /var/www/html/config/config.php
```

And add this:
```
'memcache.distributed' => '\\OC\\Memcache\\Redis',
'memcache.locking' => '\\OC\\Memcache\\Redis',
'redis' => [
   'host' => 'localhost',
   'port' => 6379,
],
```
Save & exit with CTRL+X.

Restart server with:
```
sudo service apache2 restart
```

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### Basic & required/recommended settings as administrator

Log in as **administrator** on Nextcloud, using browser.
And set these questions:

**Apps > install some usual ones**:

 - AppOrder, Mind Map, QOwnNotesAPI, News, Talk
 - Calendar, Contacts, Deck, Markdown editor
 - Social sharing via email, Social sharing via Facebook

**Settings > Basic settings > Email server (SMTP)**

 - SMTP, encrypt: None, From: [email protected]
 - Auth: login, required (check)
 - server: mail.mydomain.com:587
 - cred: [email protected] | ****

_Obviously: replace with the SMTP settings of one email of yours_


**Settings > Basic settings > Background jobs**

 - check the third option: [] **CRON**
 - you need to do this on terminal:
```
sudo chmod +x /var/www/html/cron.php
echo "*/15 * * * * php -f /var/www/html/cron.php" >> cron.tmp
sudo crontab -u www-data cron.tmp
rm cron.tmp
```
 - to check the last executions of CRON, run this on SHELL:
```
grep CRON /var/log/syslog
```

**Settings > Sharing**

 - check _Enforce password protection_ around
 - uncheck all on "Federated Cloud Sharing" (if you do not use it)
 - on _Share by email_ uncheck _Send password by email_
	  and check _Enforce password protection_

**Settings > Security > Password policy**

 - Set "Minimal length" to 4 (to be able to share files protected with an only 4 digits, which is more friendly to third people don't using our Nextcloud)
 - uncheck "Forbid common passwords" (for the same question above, to let us to use _simple_ passwords like a 4 numeric digits, instead to force to us to use symbols, upper/lower case letters, bla bla bla, when sharing files)