There are a many ways to run Nextcloud:

• on localhost, on a VPS, or in a Docker container
• using Apache, nginx, php -S
• from git, from zip, via snap

On a VPS, using Snap

• Follow "How To Install and Configure Nextcloud on Ubuntu 22.04"

On a VPS, using Docker

• With nc-sciencemesh enabled: pondersource/sciencemesh-nextcloud#demo-setup
• With solid-nextcloud enabled: pdsinterop/solid-nextcloud:/setup-test-server.sh

On localhost, using Docker

• With nc-sciencemesh enabled:
  • generate cert for nc1.docker
  • build for nc1
  • start nc1.docker with maria1.docker
• With solid-nextcloud enabled: https://github.com/pdsinterop/solid-nextcloud/blob/main/run-solid-test-suite.sh

On localhost, using php -S

• For instance these install instructions

Note that in September 2022, we at Ponder Source switched from "On localhost, using php -S" to "On localhost, using Docker" as our standard development environment, because too many team member were spending too many days (even weeks!) being stuck in a "My local Nextcloud is broken" state. It's a bit harder to connect your step debugger to a PHP process running inside Docker, but in the end we decided that disadvantage is outweighed by the advantage of having a dev setup that you can simply reset with a single command.

TODO: try out something like https://dev.to/jackmiras/xdebug-in-vscode-with-docker-379l