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Hi,

I’ve just installed Nextcloud on my VPS using Debian 10, and a plain LAMP stack. I’ve not bought a domain name, so I’m only using a self-signed SSL certificate on my installation (and I’m forcing SSL via the Virtual host 000-default.conf). Everything works fine except for the issue of that when I navigate to my server IP, I’m greeted by the default apache page. I’ve tried to force the path in the
default-ssl.conf, to use DocumentRoot /var/www/html/nextcloud but when I add the nextcloud to the end of the line I get a 500 server error. Is there another way to rewrite the virtual hosts files, or force a redirection to the nextcloud installation.

Here’s a small version of my default-ssl.conf file:

<IfModule mod_ssl.c>
        <VirtualHost _default_:443>
                ServerAdmin *MY EMAIL*
                ServerName *MY URL*

                DocumentRoot /var/www/html

        </VirtualHost>
</IfModule>

On another note, does one need to use the nextcloud.conf (located in: /etc/apache2/sites-available) that the nextcloud documentation sates that one should create? I’ve just used the 000-default.conf and the default-ssl.conf, so could I just delete the nextcloud.conf file or is used by nextcloud somehow otherwise?

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then your apache config is ok. more or less. because error 500 means that your backend is not ok. that is php, db and/or redis.

let’s say one should follow one the many howtos or the manual itself.
which one did you follow?

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Hi @krullmizter!
here is a part of my configuration of apache:

apache config 80

<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/nextcloud/
ServerName xxxx

 <Directory /var/www/html/nextcloud/>
    Options +FollowSymlinks
    AllowOverride All
    Require all granted
      <IfModule mod_dav.c>
        Dav off
      </IfModule>
    SetEnv HOME /var/www/html/nextcloud
    SetEnv HTTP_HOME /var/www/html/nextcloud
 </Directory>

 ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
 CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} =xxxx
RewriteRule ^ https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [END,NE,R=permanent]

apache config 443 
<IfModule mod_ssl.c>
<VirtualHost *:443>
     DocumentRoot /var/www/html/nextcloud/
     ServerName xxxxxx

     <Directory /var/www/html/nextcloud/>
        Options +FollowSymlinks
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted
          <IfModule mod_dav.c>
            Dav off
          </IfModule>
        SetEnv HOME /var/www/html/nextcloud
        SetEnv HTTP_HOME /var/www/html/nextcloud
     </Directory>

     ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
     CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
Header always set Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=15552000; includeSubDomains"



SSLCertificateFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/xxxx/fullchain.pem
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/xxxx/privkey.pem
Include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-apache.conf
</VirtualHost>
</IfModule>

after create this file you need to disable 000-default.conf :
sudo a2dissite 000-default.conf
sudo a2ensite file.conf
don’t forget to activate modules of apache :
sudo a2enmod rewrite
sudo a2enmod headers
sudo a2enmod env
sudo a2enmod dir
sudo a2enmod mime
sudo a2enmod ssl
sudo systemctl restart apache2