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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
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.
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.
However, it seem to me AppAPI is like an app development environment and I’m afraid it’ll start becoming required in the future, for non-AI users too.
I’m using Nextcloud on a shared host, I don’t have shell access but only cPanel available.
Up to NC 31 I could use the app “OCC web” that was good enough for my very poor needs (I use NC only as a file repository with the ability to edit ASCI text) but on NC32 it’s no longer supported.
Do you know of any other way of managing this kind of problems from inside Nextcloud?
Your post doesn’t really have anything to do with the topic of this thread, other than the fact that it’s about an app. But I suppose at this point that doesn’t really matter anymore, since the thread has turned into a mixture of topics, mostly people expressing dissatisfaction with various things.
Regarding occWeb, it hasn’t been under active development for quite some time. But it seems that at least some work has been done recently to make it compatible with newer versions of Nextcloud. It is not yet officially compatible with version 32, but you could try force-enabling the app and it should most likely work.
In my opinion, however, a shared hosting environment without CLI access is simply not suitable for Nextcloud…
There is no guarantee that occWeb will be compatible forever.
If, for whatever reason, you break your Nextcloud and can no longer access the web UI, occWeb won’t be able to help you either.
But again, this has nothing to do with the AppAPI. The actual reasoning of the dev why occWeb is no longer being developed can be found here: GitHub - Adphi/occweb
