Help installing on Debian [SOLVED]

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So I’m rather confused I can’t get this to work as I’ve done this a handful of times before, but this time I’m running into a roadblock. Here’s what I’ve done:
Put all my nextcloud contents in /var/www/html/nextcloud
Tried having my webroot be /var/www/html and /var/www/html/nextcloud

my www-data user has ownership over everything except I gave user ownership to root for the .htaccess files.

And here are the lines I have added to my default apache nextcloud.conf file at the very end:

Alias /nextcloud “/var/www/html/nextcloud/”

<Directory /var/www/html/nextcloud/>
Options +FollowSymlinks
AllowOverride All

Dav off

SetEnv HOME /var/www/html/nextcloud
SetEnv HTTP_HOME /var/www/html/nextcloud

I also have my mysql database created, but that doesn’t really matter because I can’t even get to the spot where I can even hook it up. When I try to visit the website for the first time I get this error:

“You don’t ahve permission to access / on this server.
Server unabled to read htaccess file, denying access to be safe”

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What’s odd is the nextcloud directory won’t even show up in the webroot. Quick FYI: This is running in a FreeBSD jail inside VirtualBox

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Well after fudging around with it for too long I moved the contents of nextcloud/ to my webroot (/var/www/html) and it works. Is this an orthodox thing to do?

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You can run nextcloud directly in your webroot, there is no problem about that. If you use this domain or subdomain for nextcloud only, it makes the URLs shorter.

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Gotcha! I am running Nextcloud in a container that’s separate from my website. So is there a way to do something like “nextcloud.mywebsite.org”? My internal website would be something like 192.168.1.150 and Nextcloud would be 192.168.1.155 or something like that

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Yes, you can use VirtualHosts with different IPs. There are a number of examples in the apache-doc: https://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/vhosts/examples.html#ip

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