Install Nextcloud into root-directory of my Domain

MariusBluem · August 22, 2016, 5:39pm

Hi,

I want to use the guide from @JasonBayton (https://bayton.org/2016/07/installing-nextcloud-on-ubuntu-16-04-lts-with-redis-apcu-apache/) to install Nextcloud with ACPu, Apache2 and nice URLs Is there any way to have Nextcloud in cloud.domain.com/ instead of cloud.domain.com/nextcloud?

I hope you can help me

Cult · August 22, 2016, 6:04pm

I quickly read the link you provided, you should edit the configuration you made in apache2

$ sudo vim /etc/apache2/sites-available/nextcloud.conf

Change

 DocumentRoot /var/www/html

to

 DocumentRoot /var/www/html/nextcloud/

and restart the service:

$ sudo service apache2 restart

tflidd · August 22, 2016, 6:05pm

And the Rewrite-Base-settings:
https://doc.owncloud.org/server/9.1/admin_manual/configuration_server/index_php_less_urls.html#configuration-steps
(should be similar in Nextcloud)

Cult · August 22, 2016, 6:10pm

Yes, exactly, thanks @tflidd

‘htaccess.RewriteBase’ => ‘/’,

and use the occ maintenance:update:htaccess as said in the link to regenerate the .htaccess

JasonBayton · August 22, 2016, 7:33pm

What they said I run my production install in the root - https://goo.gl/JsQbJd

But rather than editing nextcloud.conf to change the DocumentRoot I moved the contents of /nextcloud into /var/www/html/ directly. that way when I bring down a new version, I unpack that into /nextcloud and move the relevant files and directories over to the root.

It’s up to you how you do it.

MariusBluem · August 27, 2016, 5:18pm

After activating the pretty URLs it is not longer possible to view videos
…is MySQL installed secure (no access from external) with apt install lamp-server?

The redirecting from HTTP to HTTPS is also not working for me - also if I follow the tutorial 100%

I hope you can help me out

JasonBayton · August 28, 2016, 1:52pm

I’ll do another test install later today against my guide to confirm it’s working. Not seeing videos is likely a bug?

JasonBayton · August 28, 2016, 9:44pm

Out of interest, is your default 000-default.conf site still enabled?

ls /etc/apache2/sites-enabled to see if it’s there.

The optional redirect I have there relies on the 000-default site being disabled with sudo a2dissite 000-default.conf and an apache reload/restart. I don’t know why, but I didn’t include that in the guide (edited now). I can confirm that prior to disabling that, it wouldn’t redirect, but as soon as I did + apache restart, it worked fine.

An interesting one for me; I followed my own tutorial and everything was going fine up until pretty URLs, which enabled but failed to work (displaying directory listing instead) - on inspection, everything above “Do not edit above this line” in .htaccess was missing.

Adding that in resolved.

Any idea why the htaccess didn’t generate correctly @LukasReschke @tflidd @nickvergessen?

tflidd · August 29, 2016, 7:32am

Just a few remarks to your guide:

check if there is a default-ssl.conf in sites-enabled, you might have to disable this as well
Inside your nextcloud.conf, you should add this

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

Dav off

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

ref: https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/9/admin_manual/installation/source_installation.html#apache-web-server-configuration

in the same file, optimize your ssl settings to use secure ciphers (https://bettercrypto.org/static/applied-crypto-hardening.pdf) and test via ssllabs.com

That’s a bug. I will check on OC 9.1 and report on github…

tflidd · August 29, 2016, 7:43am

JasonBayton · August 29, 2016, 7:52am

Thanks @tflidd. I can add point one but default-ssl.conf is always disabled on Ubuntu until manually enabled.

For point two thanks, will add that in. Up to this point my installations haven’t included the extras in the conf file or any SSL hardening and have been fine, but it’d be wrong not to promote best practices

nickvergessen · August 29, 2016, 7:58am

The only reason I see for this is:

$htaccessContent = file_get_contents($setupHelper->pathToHtaccess());
$content = "#### DO NOT CHANGE ANYTHING ABOVE THIS LINE ####\n";
$htaccessContent = explode($content, $htaccessContent, 2)[0];

So if the code was missing before, it will also miss afterwards. But other then that it updates correctly here.

tflidd · August 29, 2016, 8:20am

Well it didn’t because I made a backup copy before. So where is the difference? my config/config.php:

    "system": {
        "instanceid": "ocx7851qw981",
        "passwordsalt": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "secret": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "trusted_domains": [
            "example.net"
        ],
        "datadirectory": "\/var\/www\/nextcloud\/data",
        "overwrite.cli.url": "https:\/\/example.net\/nextcloud",
        "htaccess.RewriteBase": "\/nextcloud",
        "dbtype": "mysql",
        "version": "9.1.0.16",
        "dbname": "nextcloud",
        "dbhost": "localhost",
        "dbtableprefix": "oc_",
        "dbuser": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "dbpassword": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "logtimezone": "UTC",
        "installed": true,
        "user_backends": [
            {
                "class": "OC_User_IMAP",
                "arguments": [
                    "{mail.example.net:993\/imap\/ssl}"
                ]
            }
        ],
        "updater.release.channel": "beta",
        "loglevel": 2,
        "maintenance": false,
        "updater.server.url": "https:\/\/updates.nextcloud.org\/updater_server\/",
        "updater.secret": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***"
    },

tflidd · August 29, 2016, 8:32am

I was checking again, now it work. I also found the error:
Instead of copying the old .htaccess file, I accidentally moved it (so there was no original one).

tflidd · August 29, 2016, 9:12am

Is this resolved? Did you backup the .htaccess before?

JasonBayton · August 29, 2016, 9:34am

Absolutely fresh install. Didn’t touch anything before/after enabling pretty URLs and running the occ command.

I resolved by copying in everything above “do not edit” from my production environment and saving.

MariusBluem · August 31, 2016, 12:13pm

Thank you Your new guide works for the Force-SSL things. I have now pretty URLs etc. under my root-directory. Data is stored in /var/cloud-data The only problem is, that videos are not playable My log:

Error	index	Exception: {"Exception":"RedisException","Message":"Redis server went away","Code":0,"Trace":"#0 \/var\/www\/html\/nextcloud\/lib\/private\/Memcache\/Redis.php(114): Redis->incrBy('8a73d596d967558...', 1)\n#1 \/var\/www\/html\/nextcloud\/lib\/private\/Lock\/MemcacheLockingProvider.php(73): OC\\Memcache\\Redis->inc('files\/d5c46342e...')\n#2 \/var\/www\/html\/nextcloud\/lib\/private\/Files\/Storage\/Common.php(651): OC\\Lock\\MemcacheLockingProvider->acquireLock('files\/d5c46342e...', 1)\n#3 \/var\/www\/html\/nextcloud\/lib\/private\/Files\/Storage\/Wrapper\/Wrapper.php(584): OC\\Files\\Storage\\Common->acquireLock('files\/Documents...', 1, Object(OC\\Lock\\MemcacheLockingProvider))\n#4 \/var\/www\/html\/nextcloud\/lib\/private\/Files\/Storage\/Wrapper\/Wrapper.php(584): OC\\Files\\Storage\\Wrapper\\Wrapper->acquireLock('files\/Documents...', 1, Object(OC\\Lock\\MemcacheLockingProvider))\n#5 \/var\/www\/html\/nextcloud\/lib\/private\/Files\/View.php(1910): OC\\Files\\Storage\\Wrapper\\Wrapper->acquireLock('files\/Documents...', 1, Object(OC\\Lock\\MemcacheLockingProvider))\n#6 \/var\/www\/html\/nextcloud\/lib\/private\/Files\/View.php(2013): OC\\Files\\View->lockPath('\/Documents\/Abou...', 1, false)\n#7 \/var\/www\/html\/nextcloud\/lib\/private\/Files\/View.php(1106): OC\\Files\\View->lockFile('\/Documents\/Abou...', 1)\n#8 \/var\/www\/html\/nextcloud\/lib\/private\/Files\/View.php(963): OC\\Files\\View->basicOperation('fopen', '\/Documents\/Abou...', Array, 'r')\n#9 \/var\/www\/html\/nextcloud\/lib\/private\/Preview\/TXT.php(48): OC\\Files\\View->fopen('\/Documents\/Abou...', 'r')\n#10 \/var\/www\/html\/nextcloud\/lib\/private\/Preview.php(1142): OC\\Preview\\TXT->getThumbnail('\/Documents\/Abou...', 2048, 2048, false, Object(OC\\Files\\View))\n#11 \/var\/www\/html\/nextcloud\/lib\/private\/Preview.php(777): OC\\Preview->generatePreview(5)\n#12 \/var\/www\/html\/nextcloud\/lib\/private\/Preview.php(802): OC\\Preview->getPreview()\n#13 \/var\/www\/html\/nextcloud\/core\/ajax\/preview.php(64): OC\\Preview->showPreview()\n#14 \/var\/www\/html\/nextcloud\/lib\/private\/Route\/Route.php(155) : runtime-created function(1): require_once('\/var\/www\/html\/n...')\n#15 [internal function]: __lambda_func()\n#16 \/var\/www\/html\/nextcloud\/lib\/private\/Route\/Router.php(293): call_user_func('\\x00lambda_20', Array)\n#17 \/var\/www\/html\/nextcloud\/lib\/base.php(967): OC\\Route\\Router->match('\/core\/preview.p...')\n#18 \/var\/www\/html\/nextcloud\/index.php(48): OC::handleRequest()\n#19 {main}","File":"\/var\/www\/html\/nextcloud\/lib\/private\/Memcache\/Redis.php","Line":114}	2016-08-31T12:01:44+00:00	admin
Error	PHP	Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /var/www/html/nextcloud/3rdparty/sabre/http/lib/Sapi.php:83) at /var/www/html/nextcloud/3rdparty/sabre/http/lib/Sapi.php#63	2016-08-31T11:56:16+00:00	admin
Error	PHP	Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /var/www/html/nextcloud/3rdparty/sabre/http/lib/Sapi.php:83) at /var/www/html/nextcloud/3rdparty/sabre/http/lib/Sapi.php#58	2016-08-31T11:56:16+00:00	admin

JasonBayton · August 31, 2016, 1:21pm

Lol, Redis server went away. Hopefully it comes back soon?

Is Redis up and running OK? Check your system logs for clues as Redis is a system package.

MariusBluem · August 31, 2016, 9:01pm

I am running this instance on a 512 MB RAM Server with 1 Core. Is it possible, that there is not enough resources left for redis?!

JasonBayton · September 1, 2016, 10:47am

In order to know, we’d really need to see what it’s doing.

As you’re on 16.04, what does the output of sudo systemctl status redis give you? Mine looks like:

● redis-server.service - Advanced key-value store
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/redis-server.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Mon 2016-08-29 18:15:42 BST; 2 days ago
     Docs: http://redis.io/documentation,
           man:redis-server(1)
  Process: 297 ExecStartPost=/bin/run-parts --verbose /etc/redis/redis-server.post-up.d (code=exited,     status=0/SUCCESS)
  Process: 294 ExecStart=/usr/bin/redis-server /etc/redis/redis.conf (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
  Process: 287 ExecStartPre=/bin/run-parts --verbose /etc/redis/redis-server.pre-up.d (code=exited,     status=0/SUCCESS)
 Main PID: 296 (redis-server)
    Tasks: 3
   Memory: 6.2M
      CPU: 8min 16.858s
   CGroup: /system.slice/redis-server.service
          └─296 /usr/bin/redis-server 127.0.0.1:0

Furthermore, what do you see in sudo less /var/log/redis/redis-server.log and sudo less /var/log/syslog ?