Getting started with NextCloudPi on Proxmox

Edson_Rodrigues · November 20, 2021, 6:53pm

I did the radical thing and wiped all Proxmox and reinstalled it…

I repeated the process and I was able to boot the VM thinking back, VERY likely it was the img that was corrupted and I never tried re-downloading the tar.bz2 that should’ve been one of my “retry” options.

Anyway, now seems ok and I will start more tests.

@Dani-Pi

I was able to boot the VM and auth with root/ownyourbits on the proxmox VM shell. Via SSH I was not able to get a session so I went to the NCP webUI on port 4443 and enabled SSH:

I tried SSH and I was able to get a prompt. Once I hit root > enter, I got disconnected and now I get:

When I went back to the Proxmox VM shell I authenticated with root/ownyourbits but this time I got a prompt:

I changed the password and I was inside the Proxmox VM shell, then I edited /etc/ssh/sshd_config

changed:

#PermitRootLogin prohibit-password

to:

PermitRootLogin yes

and also changed:

PasswordAuthentication no

to:

PasswordAuthentication yes

This worked for me and I am able to login via SSH and root.

Thanks!
ER.

Edson_Rodrigues · November 20, 2021, 7:38pm

@Dani-Pi

I can’t find the “pi” user so maybe it is not included in the VM version?

getent passwd | awk -F: ‘{ print $1}’

root
daemon
bin
sys
sync
games
man
lp
mail
news
uucp
proxy
www-data
backup
list
irc
gnats
nobody
_apt
systemd-timesync
systemd-network
systemd-resolve
messagebus
uuidd
sshd
_chrony
vagrant
systemd-coredump
mysql
postfix
redis
ncp
_rpc
statd
dnsmasq
prometheus
avahi

Dani-Pi · November 22, 2021, 1:31pm

@Edson_Rodrigues Hi, thank you for your detailed feedback! Yes, that’s the way it should work. I will try it again in some days. I solved the problem with using the CURL Installer instead of ISO image to built up the NCP VM. Because of the pi user I think so too. Has something to do with VM ISO.

Edson_Rodrigues · November 22, 2021, 5:34pm

@Dani-Pi

The curl installer worked 100% for you?

I am asking this because it always worked for me but the last times I tried to useit, I always get a error when the script is just about to finish I think it could be a “bug” as I seen this issue happening in other situations. For the first time I posted in github:

Instalation script fails with: Column “oc_preview_generation”.“locked” is type Bool and also NotNull, so it can not store “false”. #1391

From several posts in the forum to github, I see that people like @nachoparker and @OliverV are pretty much hands-tied and cannot support/verify everything so I will wait patiently for a reply.

Cheers,
ER

igijfl · December 14, 2021, 5:55pm

EDIT: I found my error. I had installed a nextcloud LXD, not a nextcloud pi LXD. I’ll try to get the nextcloudpi one running now.

I am trying to install nextcloudpi using method one: LXD option! I already have ncp running on a pi (for a while now, maybe a year?) and I’m looking to port it over to my shiny new NUC.

I’m happy to share the steps I’ve done to make whatever modest improvements I can to the documentation that you kindly maintain.

I’m stuck at the moment on the splash page. I’m getting hit with the " Access through untrusted domain" message on the web gui, and when I log in through the console in proxmox, I am prompted for “NextCloudPi login:”, but none of the user/password combos mentioned here have granted me access (root/root, root/ownyourbits, root/vagrant). Are there any other passwords or methods that I can try?

~~My process thus far:~~

~~To start, I used the proxmox console to check the available containers (as described in the proxmox docs:~~

~~pveam available~~

~~I then copied the line for nextcloud and downloaded it with:~~

~~pveam download local debian-10-turnkey-nextcloud_16.1-1_amd64.tar.gz~~

~~From there I created the container in the GUI. I’ll try using the command line the next time I do this (I am going to help a friend if I succeed) as that is usually easier to document.~~

igijfl · December 15, 2021, 2:51pm

I tried to import the LXD into proxmox directly via url from the tar.gz link at Index of /downloads/NextCloudPi_LXD_10-08-21/

However, it appears that proxmox wants a tar.gz file, so I downloaded the tar.bz2 , uncompressed it with 7-zip, and then recompressed it as a tar.gz. I was able to upload the tar.gz into proxmox, but when I tried to create a container from it I got approximately one million errors. They all look like this:

Creating filesystem with 2097152 4k blocks and 524288 inodes
Filesystem UUID: cb109969-4b6f-4531-9649-7e18ee983e11
Superblock backups stored on blocks: 
	32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632
extracting archive '/var/lib/vz/template/cache/NextCloudPi_LXD_10-08-21.tar.gz'
tar: backup/container/rootfs/bin: Cannot change ownership to uid 100000, gid 100000: Invalid argument
tar: backup/container/rootfs/boot: Cannot change ownership to uid 100000, gid 100000: Invalid argument
tar: backup/container/rootfs/dev: Cannot change ownership to uid 100000, gid 100000: Invalid argument
tar: backup/container/rootfs/etc/.pwd.lock: Cannot change ownership to uid 100000, gid 100000: Invalid argument
tar: backup/container/rootfs/etc/adduser.conf: Cannot change ownership to uid 100000, gid 100000: Invalid argument
tar: backup/container/rootfs/etc/aliases: Cannot change ownership to uid 100000, gid 100000: Invalid argument

I wonder if my 7-zip chicanery caused this. Does anyone have any advice on how to get the proper file into proxmox?

michuvon · December 18, 2021, 12:36am

Hi @igijfl nice to see that you also try to get it working.
I haven’t had much time these days but was finally able to put a post together about my attempts.

I got a bit further than you, but it’s not yet working either.
See this post >> Making it possible: NextCloudPi LXD on Proxmox

johndoe0815 · September 27, 2022, 6:40pm

For option 3, the link https://ownyourbits.com/downloads does not work anymore. And on nextcloudpi.com, VM install is mentioned, but under downloads (Releases · nextcloud/nextcloudpi · GitHub) I do not see any download for a VM?!

On the section " Pass through a drive that is used for NCP data" I am a bit lost.
I have installed NCP in Proxmox and want to continue using the HDD that so far I was using in NCP in my Raspberry Pi.
So far my datadir was /media/USBdrive/ncdata.
In the proxmox installation it is /var/www/nextcloud/data.
As it looks like I cannot change this, would I need to mount the HDD folder into /var/www/nextcloud/data? I guess that is not possible to mount into this folder, isn´t it?
But as the nc-datadir option is not available in ncp-config, what do I do?

michuvon · October 7, 2022, 2:29pm

I just updated the first post.
So the links should work again and I mentioned about the VM being Discontinued (for now).

The Pass through is for a VM so I guess that might now work the same way with a CT?

From this post I understand that you solved the other issues.

michuvon · October 7, 2022, 2:45pm

@OliverV @just @ZendaiOwl @theCalcaholic

Should we add the Proxmox Helper Script to the official NCP Documentation? It seems legit.
I like to try the script and will take screenshots and notes if we agree to put it in the official docs.
(No promises on when this will happen, we are still hard at work with our startup)

moehre · December 13, 2022, 4:24pm

Hi, first of all: great work! I love this guide and used it many times! But now the Second way is not working anymore, because of an automatic update of PHP. I tried to install my Debian11 VM as i did many times before and now I am not able to install Nextcloud with the curl command.
I tried also with a clean install of Debian and did not run “apt install update / upgrade” before proceed with the curl command, same issue… “this Version of NextCloud is not compatible with PHP8.2”
I think i have to downgrade PHP before I can install Nextcloud.

REAPERSbattlecry · December 18, 2022, 8:29am

There was an issue in the ncp curl script. Which is solved by now.

github.com/nextcloud/nextcloudpi

Script ends with php8.2.0 not compatible

opened 04:04PM - 13 Dec 22 UTC

closed 12:51AM - 17 Dec 22 UTC

ikorbln

has-updates

Hi, I install a fresh system with debian 11.5 on a intel system. After the i…nitial install of debian, i checked php. No version is installed. After running the ncp install script it ends after some time with: "This version of Nextcloud is not compatible with PHP>=8.2.<br/>You are currently running 8.2.0". I can see that the script installs 8.1 and 8.2. Do i miss something?  **System information** <details> <summary>NextCloudPi diagnostics</summary> ``` grep: /var/www/nextcloud/config/config.php: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden NextCloudPi version v1.50.3 NextCloudPi image NextCloudPi_12-13-22 OS Debian GNU/Linux 11. 5.10.0-19-amd64 (x86_64) automount no USB devices none datadir (doesn't exist) rootfs usage 4,6G/250G swapfile /var/swap dbdir /var/lib/mysql Nextcloud check error HTTPD service up PHP service up MariaDB service up Redis service up HPB service down Postfix service up Internet check ok public IP ***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE*** public IP ***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE*** Port check 80 closed Port check 443 closed IP ***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE*** gateway ***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE*** Interface ens18 certificates ***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE*** NAT loopback no Uptime 22min ``` </details> <details> <summary>Nextcloud configuration</summary> ``` This version of Nextcloud is not compatible with PHP>=8.2.<br/>You are currently running 8.2.0. ``` </details> <details> <summary>HTTPd logs</summary> ``` [Tue Dec 13 16:44:13.986178 2022] [mpm_event:notice] [pid 2708:tid 140453277723968] AH00489: Apache/2.4.54 (Debian) configured -- resuming normal operations [Tue Dec 13 16:44:13.986315 2022] [core:notice] [pid 2708:tid 140453277723968] AH00094: Command line: '/usr/sbin/apache2' [Tue Dec 13 16:48:46.750183 2022] [mpm_event:notice] [pid 2708:tid 140453277723968] AH00492: caught SIGWINCH, shutting down gracefully [Tue Dec 13 16:48:46.806690 2022] [mpm_event:notice] [pid 30043:tid 139812760730944] AH00489: Apache/2.4.54 (Debian) OpenSSL/1.1.1n configured -- resuming normal operations [Tue Dec 13 16:48:46.807247 2022] [core:notice] [pid 30043:tid 139812760730944] AH00094: Command line: '/usr/sbin/apache2' ``` </details> <details> <summary>Database logs</summary> ``` tail: '/var/log/mysql/*.log' kann nicht zum Lesen geöffnet werden: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden ``` </details> grep: /var/www/nextcloud/config/config.php: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden <details> <summary>Nextcloud logs</summary> ``` tail: '/nextcloud.log' kann nicht zum Lesen geöffnet werden: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden ``` </details>

moehre · December 19, 2022, 11:59am

Thank you! Thats great

c0bnut · January 12, 2023, 11:47pm

The unofficial Proxmox Helper Script by tteck is broken. Getting the following error message when trying to login to the shell “This account is currently not available”. Additionally it appears the SSH module in the NCP admin panel is missing. I’ve started a Discussion topic in tteck’s github here.

tomg1970 · February 14, 2023, 6:26pm

Ich habe gerade den aktuellen helper-script benutzt.
Die Installation auf Proxmox ist auch durchgelaufen.
Ich weiß jetzt nur nicht, wie ich mich einloggen kann?
Finde kein Passwort/Benutzername?

I just used the latest helper-script.
The installation on proxmox also went through.
I just don’t know how to log in now?
Can not find a password / username?

michuvon · June 1, 2023, 3:24pm

Good question @tomg1970 did you find a solution?

If you can access the CT Shell with ncp-config you should be able to change the password somewhere in the settings. The username is probably ǹcp

moehre · June 16, 2023, 8:12am

Hi together,

the script dont work with the new Debian 12. Had someone the same Problem or a Solution?

OliverV · June 18, 2023, 7:22am

Correct ! The ncp install script will only work for Debian 11.

MrTismo · November 2, 2023, 8:30pm

I used script helper by tteck to get nextcloudpi running. It have been running for a while now no issues , however, in the last 2 or 3 weeks, the server is unavailable and I am forced to go to ncp-config to run clear-php-opClears the PHP before I can bring it back up again.
How could I fix this?

I have nextcloudpi running on an LXC on proxmox

MagelanM · January 23, 2024, 10:55pm

The passwords for ncp-Account (NextcloudPi) and ncp-User (Admin on Nextcloud) will be shown on the setup page on the first call URL:4443. That is the NextcloudPi standard installation procedure.
If you want to have root access to you lxc container, don’t use the default settings in the helper script, choose “advanced”.