[Debian/Nextcloud] HowTo not completely error free

🚧 Installation
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I am trying to install Nextcloud on Debian 10.4.
I am using this HowTo:

My first problem was that:
curl -fsSL https://nginx.org/keys/nginx_signing.key | sudo apt-key add -

Didn’t work. So i removed “sudo” to solve that problem. Since i already used the sudo command in the beginning i figured that was probably the problem.

Now my problem is that:
Service nginx restart is not working.
Error: service: command not found

Could someone tell me how to fix this?

And question two: why isn’t this HowTo 100% working :stuck_out_tongue:

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I used this multiple times 100% error free. I would not install nginx from another source if not nessasary. Why nginx and not apache2?

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Why Nginx? Well to be honest, because this HowTo uses it. This HowTo also includes Fail2Ban and apticorn. Please a way to move storage.

But since that is not a really good reason :wink: i could switch to the HowTo you mentioned. I will first give this one a couple more tries, if i really cannot get through this one i will switch.

Edit: i always thought that Nginx was the better choice performance wise.

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@devnull dev

I have solved the problem, solution was to use this command: systemctl restart nginx

But got a new one now.

sed -i “s/09,39.*/# &/” /etc/cron.d/php
(crontab -l ; echo “09,39 * * * * /usr/lib/php/sessionclean 2>&1”) | crontab -u root -

gives “no crontab for root”. Someone know how to solve this?

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as root: crontab -e and insert the line manually.

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or use one of the many scripts:

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All of the problems you’re having seem unrelated to Nextcloud itself. These are really more general Linux questions.

I wrote a guide for a Docker based setup on Ubuntu. It would probably work similarly on Debian. You can use it for a reference too if you need any extra examples.

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@Reiner_Nippes,

I have a few questions about your script:
https://github.com/ReinerNippes/nextcloud

It is about the inventory file:

selfsigned certificate as default

ssl_certificate_type = ‘selfsigned’

Letsencrypt or selfsigned certificate

ssl_certificate_type = ‘letsencrypt’

If i would like to use letsencrypt, do i remove the first two lines or do i change ‘selfsigned’ to letsencrypt?

Looking at this part:

database settings

nc_db_type = ‘mysql’ # (MariaDB)

nc_db_host = ‘localhost’

nc_db_type = ‘pgsql’ # (PostgreSQL)
nc_db_host = ‘’

I have to remove the first 2 or the last 2 lines right? This is were you choose between MariaDB and PostgreSQL right?

This line:

php Version

php_version = ‘7.3’

Can i simply change this to 7.4 to use a newer version of PHP?

Install restic backup tool if backup_folder is not empty

more info about restic: https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

to use a local directory as a restic repository (not a good idea anyway)

restic_repo = ‘/var/backups/nextcloud’

use rclone to backup a cloud storage, see https://rclone.org for more details

configure also rclone_remote in group_vars/all.yml

restic_repo = “rclone:backup-selfhosted:selfhosted-{{ lookup(‘password’, ‘{{ credential_store }}/restic_backup_s3_bucket_uid chars=ascii_lowercase,digits length=12’) }}/backup”

crontab setings for the backup script - default daily at 3pm

restic_backup_day = ‘*’
restic_backup_minute = ‘0’
restic_backup_hour: = ‘3’

If i don’t want to use restic and rsync i can remove the lines above right?

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i think you got an old inventory version. assuming you use ubuntu/centos you can use the nextcloud-reloaded branch where things look a bit different.

# Selfsigned Certificate are Default
# nextcloud_certificate_type  = 'selfsigned'

# Letsencrypt Certificate provided with acme.sh (https://github.com/Neilpang/acme.sh)
nextcloud_certificate_type  = 'acme.sh'

each variable should appear only once. or ansible will give a warning. and take the last definition of the variable.

#nextcloud_db_type           = 'mysql'        # (MariaDB)
nextcloud_db_type           = 'pgsql'        # (PostgreSQL)
nextcloud_db_host           = 'localhost'
nextcloud_db                = 'nextcloud'
nextcloud_db_user           = 'nextcloud'
nextcloud_db_passwd         = ''
nextcloud_db_prefix         = 'oc_'

this would install pgsql as database program. change it to

nextcloud_db_type           = 'mysql'        # (MariaDB)
#nextcloud_db_type           = 'pgsql'        # (PostgreSQL)
nextcloud_db_host           = 'localhost'
nextcloud_db                = 'nextcloud'
nextcloud_db_user           = 'nextcloud'
nextcloud_db_passwd         = ''
nextcloud_db_prefix         = 'oc_'

would install mariadb.

yes. in the new branch this is done already.

no. you have to change it to restic_repo = ''
the playbook checks if the variable is not empty.

but the playbook would fail if the variable isn’t defined.