Fresh installation with data carried over from prior installation fails

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@ccurley

I had a working installation under Debian 12 (bookworm). I saved the installation and data, and installed new Debian 13 (trixie). I set up Apache and PHP following the old installation as much as possible. I copied in the data and config.php file from the old installation.

If you still have the old installation I would recommend to perform the migration in proper way as described in Migrating to a different server — Nextcloud latest Administration Manual latest documentation

see 101: backup what and why (not how) to learn which data is important.

@ccurley

I conjecture that some PHP module or other is missing. Which one? I have done:

please review Preparing PHP — Nextcloud latest Administration Manual latest documentation