when check the status of the service
● apache2.service - The Apache HTTP Server
Jan 31 09:51:30 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Starting The Apache HTTP Server…
here is the log from /var/log/apache2
[Thu Jan 31 08:25:09.406037 2019] [mpm_event:notice] [pid 1730:tid 1995976704] AH00489: Apache/2.4.25 (Raspbian) configured – resuming normal operations
It seems to be an issue with certificate. Looks like Apache cannot be startet, because the config tries to read a certificate which does not exist in expected place ( /etc/apache/ssl/apache.key).
Check if key is present:
ls -alF /etc/apache/ssl/
i’ve managed to resolve. The problem was when i was trying to transfer the nextcloud data folder to an External HDD.
Can somebody please help me do it.
Data directory will be defined in config.php. But it is not that easy as the database is affected as well. This topic might be helpful…
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If you use Nextcloud Snap, follow their official simple instructions: <a href="https://github.com/nextcloud/nextcloud-snap/wiki/Change-data-directory-to-use-another-disk-partition" class="inline-onebox">Change …
i guess its best to do when configuring the nextcloud itself and the way i know is to reinstall the whole thing again.
I would re-install as well. And I did really often in the beginning.
ok so next cloud is up and running.
Disk /dev/sda: 1.8 TiB, 2000365289472 bytes, 3906963456 sectors
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
i can see the above when using the command " sudo fdisk -l"
and i can see the following files
pi@raspberrypi:/media $ ls
would the hdd be ready to transfer the data directory from var/www/html/data to media/nextcloud ?
i just learned it had to be unmounted first and formated to delete the contents. I did it and now how do i mount it ?
It depends on your system. I need to add the UUID of the disk to /etc/fstab and then I mount it.
This is the way like I do:
UUID=`blkid | grep -v "vfat" | cut -d '"' -f2`
mkdir /media/usbhdd-a
echo "UUID="$UUID" /media/usbhdd-a ext4 defaults 0 0" >> /etc/fstab
mount -a
# creation of Nextcloud data directory
mkdir /media/usbhdd-a/nextcloud
mkdir /media/usbhdd-a/nextcloud/data
chown -R www-data:www-data /media/usbhdd-a/nextcloud
Thanks. i’v got the HDD mounted. but after moving the data directory from the initially created folder
/var/www/html/nextcloud/data to 'media/pi/nc_dataStore/data
and the page does not load anymore. The webpage navigates to
http://192.168.100.188/nextcloud/index.php
and stops. what could be wrong ?
Do you remember last screen to finish the setup? There you need to define your data directory.
https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/15/admin_manual/installation/installation_wizard.html#data-directory-location-label
Use /media/pi/nc_dataStore/data instead of /opt/nextcloud as given in the example.
iv’e done that as well but from the /config.php
I dot not get that screen when navigating to the webpage. That page was completed during the initial setup and does not showup when moving the files.
this is what it shows with ls
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo ls -la /media/pi/nc_dataStore/data
and attached pic shows how it looks when navigating to the web page
just blank white page. Now sure what is missing.
Ok, try the following:
# delete old database
mysql -u root -p
# enter password
DROP DATABASE nextcloud;
Quit;
# delete old files
cd /media/pi/nc_dataStore/data
rm -R *
cd /var/www/html
rm -R nextcloud
# download new instance
cd /var/www/html
wget https://download.nextcloud.com/server/releases/latest-15.zip
unzip latest-15.zip
rm latest-15.zip
chown-R www-data:www-data nextcloud
Now call the cloud as before. Can you now see mentioned webpage dialogue?
Well, just seen that the manual used Sqlite. No idea how to get rid of the old database.
Is this helpful?:https://www.quackit.com/sqlite/tutorial/drop_a_database.cfm
You can install MySQL if you want:
sudo apt-get install mysql-server
sudo mysql_secure_installation
ah the default database used is SQLlite not MySQL.
here is the same topic in this forum but i don’t see why mine is not working.
