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Nextcloud version (eg, 12.0.2): 17
Operating system and version (eg, Ubuntu 17.04):Ubuntu 18.04
Apache or nginx version (eg, Apache 2.4.25): nginx/1.17.7
PHP version (eg, 7.1): PHP 7.3.13-1
The issue you are facing: Having followed the excellent Carsten Rieger installation guide to build a nextcloud server, I am having a problem with the cron job that trys to renew the SSL certificate.
I am getting the following error:
/home/acmeuser/.acme.sh/acme.sh: line 4322: /var/www/letsencrypt/.well-known/acme-challenge/long string of random characters: Permission denied mywebsite.co.uk:Can not write token to file : /var/www/letsencrypt/.well-known/acme-challenge/long string of random characters
Is this the first time you’ve seen this error? (Y/N): Yes
Steps to replicate it:
- Follow the server build from the Carsten Rieger Installation Guide
The output of your Nextcloud log in Admin > Logging:
Nothing to report
The output of your config.php file in /path/to/nextcloud (make sure you remove any identifiable information!):
<?php
$CONFIG = array (
'passwordsalt' => '************',
'secret' => '***************',
'trusted_domains' =>
array (
0 => '*************.uk',
),
'datadirectory' => '/mnt/nextcloud-storage/',
'dbtype' => 'mysql',
'version' => '17.0.1.1',
'overwrite.cli.url' => 'https://***********.uk',
'dbname' => '********',
'dbhost' => 'localhost:/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock',
'dbport' => '',
'dbtableprefix' => 'oc_',
'mysql.utf8mb4' => true,
'dbuser' => 'nextcloud',
'dbpassword' => '*************',
'installed' => true,
'instanceid' => '***********',
'activity_expire_days' => 14,
'auth.bruteforce.protection.enabled' => true,
'blacklisted_files' =>
array (
0 => '.htaccess',
1 => 'Thumbs.db',
2 => 'thumbs.db',
),
'cron_log' => true,
'enable_previews' => true,
'enabledPreviewProviders' =>
array (
0 => 'OC\\Preview\\PNG',
1 => 'OC\\Preview\\JPEG',
2 => 'OC\\Preview\\GIF',
3 => 'OC\\Preview\\BMP',
4 => 'OC\\Preview\\XBitmap',
5 => 'OC\\Preview\\Movie',
6 => 'OC\\Preview\\PDF',
7 => 'OC\\Preview\\MP3',
8 => 'OC\\Preview\\TXT',
9 => 'OC\\Preview\\MarkDown',
),
'filesystem_check_changes' => 0,
'filelocking.enabled' => 'true',
'htaccess.RewriteBase' => '/',
'integrity.check.disabled' => false,
'knowledgebaseenabled' => false,
'logfile' => '/var/log/nextcloud/nextcloud.log',
'loglevel' => 2,
'logtimezone' => 'Europe/London',
'log_rotate_size' => 104857600,
'maintenance' => false,
'memcache.local' => '\\OC\\Memcache\\APCu',
'memcache.locking' => '\\OC\\Memcache\\Redis',
'overwriteprotocol' => 'https',
'preview_max_x' => 1024,
'preview_max_y' => 768,
'preview_max_scale_factor' => 1,
'redis' =>
array (
'host' => '/var/run/redis/redis-server.sock',
'port' => 0,
'timeout' => 0.0,
),
'quota_include_external_storage' => false,
'share_folder' => '/Shares',
'skeletondirectory' => '',
'theme' => '',
'trashbin_retention_obligation' => 'auto, 7',
'updater.release.channel' => 'stable',
'mail_smtpmode' => 'sendmail',
'mail_sendmailmode' => 'smtp',
'mail_from_address' => '******',
'mail_domain' => '********',
'mail_smtpsecure' => 'tls',
'mail_smtpauth' => 1,
'mail_smtpauthtype' => 'LOGIN',
'mail_smtpname' => '**********',
'mail_smtppassword' => '**************',
'mail_smtphost' => '********* ',
'mail_smtpport' => '587',
);
The output of your Apache/nginx/system log in /var/log/____:
cat /var/log/nginx/error.log.1
2019/12/26 12:42:49 [notice] 28025#28025: using inherited sockets from "6;7;8;9;10;"
2019/12/27 00:55:15 [error] 28029#28029: *69 open() "/var/www/letsencrypt/.well-known/acme-challenge/*******************" failed (2: No such file or directory), client: 127.0.0.1, server: 127.0.0.1, request: "GET /.well-known/acme-challenge/******************* HTTP/1.0", host: "**********.uk"
2019/12/27 00:55:16 [error] 28029#28029: *72 open() "/var/www/letsencrypt/.well-known/acme-challenge/***************" failed (2: No such file or directory), client: 127.0.0.1, server: 127.0.0.1, request: "GET /.well-known/acme-challenge/************** HTTP/1.0", host: "*******.uk"
2019/12/27 00:55:16 [error] 28030#28030: *75 open() "/var/www/letsencrypt/.well-known/acme-challenge/********************" failed (2: No such file or directory), client: 127.0.0.1, server: 127.0.0.1, request: "GET /.well-known/acme-challenge/***************** HTTP/1.0", host: "***************.uk"
The server has been running fine for a few months but as the certificate will run out soon, I would like to get this sorted. This is the first time I have used Nginx and the acme client. My other server is running Apache and the certbot client. This combination works well and I am used to just renewing the certificate manually.
The Nginx and acme system I have no experience with and would apprectiate any help, thank you.
