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An installation of Nextcloud that borrows some of the "Mail-in-a-Box" code and standards
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Install bcmath as part of standard setup; use PHP 7.3 instead of PHP 7.2 #8

Closed dumblob closed 3 years ago

dumblob commented 3 years ago

This is what NC tells admin after fresh install in the web settings interface:

There are some warnings regarding your setup.

You are currently running PHP 7.2.24-0ubuntu0.18.04.7. Upgrade your PHP version to take advantage of performance and security updates provided by the PHP Group as soon as your distribution supports it.

Nextcloud 20 is the last release supporting PHP 7.2. Nextcloud 21 requires at least PHP 7.3.

This instance is missing some recommended PHP modules. For improved performance and better compatibility it is highly recommended to install them.

   bcmath

Any plans to solve these?

downtownallday commented 3 years ago

With the frequency of Nextcloud releases, php 7.2 isn't going to be viable very much longer. I can look into php 7.3. 7.2 is what comes with Ubuntu Bionic and there is no official support for 7.3. What a pain. Alternatively, one could upgrade ubuntu which comes with 7.4, which is probably what cononical wants.

dumblob commented 3 years ago

I feel the pain. I'd say it'd be easiest to:

  1. use the newest by Nextcloud supported Ubuntu (as that's what's "guaranteed" to work) and hope the correct PHP etc. comes with it
  2. write a huge warning to cloudinabox readme, that it requires a different version of Ubuntu than MiaB-LDAP
  3. check Ubuntu version technically in the installation scripts
downtownallday commented 3 years ago

Looks like Bionic has official php 7.4 support.

$ apt-cache search php7.4
php7.4 - server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language (metapackage)
downtownallday commented 3 years ago

Oops, I take it back. I ran that search on a ubuntu 20/focal fossa machine.

downtownallday commented 3 years ago

Fixed by v0.03. Reopen or create a new issue if needed.