AppAPI deploy daemon is not set

ℹ️ Support
1
Support intro

Sorry to hear you’re facing problems. :slightly_frowning_face:

The community help forum (help.nextcloud.com) is for home and non-enterprise users. Support is provided by other community members on a best effort / “as available” basis. All of those responding are volunteering their time to help you.

If you’re using Nextcloud in a business/critical setting, paid and SLA-based support services can be accessed via portal.nextcloud.com where Nextcloud engineers can help ensure your business keeps running smoothly.

Getting help

In order to help you as efficiently (and quickly!) as possible, please fill in as much of the below requested information as you can.

Before clicking submit: Please check if your query is already addressed via the following resources:

(Utilizing these existing resources is typically faster. It also helps reduce the load on our generous volunteers while elevating the signal to noise ratio of the forums otherwise arising from the same queries being posted repeatedly).

Some or all of the below information will be requested if it isn’t supplied; for fastest response please provide as much as you can. :heart:

The Basics

  • Nextcloud Server version (e.g., 29.x.x):
    • 32.0.1
  • Operating system and version (e.g., Ubuntu 24.04):
    • Ubuntu Linux 24.04.3
  • Web server and version (e.g, Apache 2.4.25):
    • Apache2
  • Reverse proxy and version _(e.g. nginx 1.27.2)
    • X
  • PHP version (e.g, 8.3):
    • 8.3
  • Is this the first time you’ve seen this error? (Yes / No):
    • yes
  • When did this problem seem to first start?
    • After upgrade to NextCloud 32
  • Installation method (e.g. AlO, NCP, Bare Metal/Archive, etc.)
    • Nextcloud settings, script
  • Are you using CloudfIare, mod_security, or similar? (Yes / No)
    • no

Summary of the issue you are facing:

After upgrading to NextCloud 32 I get an X error message in the settings: AppAPI deploy daemon
AppAPI default deploy daemon is not set. Please register a default deploy daemon in the settings to install External Apps (Ex-Apps).

I go on AppApi and I see a Deploy Daemons section.
I don’t understand what is this and create a new Daemon show some data but nothing work.
I don’t know how to setup this.

I looked at the guide here but I’m not using Docker, I installed Nextcloud by web script.

Could I ask a little help to understand step by step what I have to do to resolve this error?
Thank you

2

Before anything else, consider whether you want or need to use any of the apps provided through the AppAPI. If not, just disable the app and the error will go away.

If you do want to use it (as far as I know it’s currently mainly used for apps that provide AI integration to the Nextcloud Assistant), you need to set up the backend/deploy deamon according to the documentation you linked. Nextcloud itself doesn’t need to be installed via Docker for this to work, but the deploy deamon does. That’s how I understand it anyway; I haven’t tested it myself yet.

3

For now by SSH on the Nextcloud root I used the following command:

php occ app:disable app_api

This seems remove the error message.

I hope I will have no issue, maybe I’m not using this Ex App.

I’m not sure but I will try.

Thank you.

4

You’d know if you used any ExApps, because it’s not a new feature introduced in 32, and, afaik, ExApps could never be installed without a Docker deploy daemon. The only new thing is that the AppAPI app was enabled by default in 32, which then leads to this error message because no deploy daemon is running.