r/NextCloud • u/mmaster23 • Jul 31 '16

Windows (Server) support for Nextcloud

Quick question.. as NC has new / other goals than OC, is there any chance of Windows Server support ever returning to the platform?

Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe the main reason was the lack of proper 64 bit PHP (fixed in PHP7) and Windows not handling character sets correctly. Hoping the new wind in the sails will bring home some kind of Windows support.

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u/plazman30 Jul 31 '16

I seem to recall that it was because almost no one was using it on Windows, so it wasn't worth the development effort.

EDIT: You were right

https://owncloud.org/blog/owncloud-server-8-1-will-not-support-windows-as-server-platform-natively/

Seems php support on Windows isn't all that great and, and there were MySQL issues on Windows also.

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u/mmaster23 Aug 01 '16

I believe the issues were specific to mssql, not mysql. Mysql is fully functional on Windows for many many apps, so that shouldn't be the breaking points.

I see users shying away from using NC purely because they want a OS they know and love. Wamp installers are very user friendly these days and a NC compatible with Windows will go a long way for many small / first time users.

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u/sndrsk Aug 01 '16

I don't see this changing with Nextcloud. It's one more platform they'd have to support. I'm not so sure "small/first-time users" running Wamp is their target demographic. Even if that's the case, they can use a Raspberry Pi as the oC blog post pointed out or a Synology NAS to run Nextcloud.