Pretty url remove '/nextcloud'

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Nextcloud version : 13.0.5
Operating system and version: Debian 9
Apache :2.4.25
PHP version : 7.0.3

Hi there,

To use my web interface i would like to use ‘example.org’ instead of ‘example.org/nextcloud’ so i tried the procedure described in the doc, here is my /var/www/nextcloud/config/config.php: ( i dont have any vhost or other app on the server)

[…]
‘overwrite.cli.url’ => ‘example[.]org/nextcloud’,
‘htaccess.RewriteBase’ => ‘/nextcloud’,
[…]

I also tried:
‘overwrite.cli.url’ => ‘example[.]org’,
‘htaccess.RewriteBase’ => ‘/’,

But i still have have to use ‘/nextcloud’ to access it. I have checked the correct modules are loaded ( rewrite and env):

a2enmode rewrite

Module rewrite already enabled

When i run the command “sudo -u www-data php /var/www/nextcloud/occ maintenance:update:htaccess” i got no error : htaccess has been updated

But i noticed that no matter what i put in my config.php (if i replace ‘example[.]org/nextcloud’’ by ‘toto.tutu’ and run the command “occ maintenance:update:htaccess…” nothing changed, i still can access my nextcloud the same way.

So i suspect that the configuration is not taken into account, maybe a problem with the .htaccess file. So i modified the value “upload_max_filesize” from 511M to 1024M in the file “/var/www/nextcloud/.htaccess”, run again occ maintenance:update:htaccess and even restart apache2 but when i go to my control pannel of my web interface i still see 511M.
(Merci @Nemskiller for your help in the post “Nextcloud 13 pretty urls not working”).

Here is my ‘/etc/apache2/sites-available/nextcloud.conf’ (i made a symbolic link as described in the doc: “ln -s /etc/apache2/sites-available/nextcloud.conf /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/nextcloud.conf” )

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

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

Dav off

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

Other useful info:
-> Installation directory: /var/www/nextcloud
-> ‘/var/www/nextcloud/.htaccess’ is writeable by www-data

And here is my .htaccess file:
https://pastebin.com/ATREYJ0z

PS: Because of the security rule of the forum, i had to change the address http:// example . org by “example.org” or "example[.]org

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Remove the alias line, restart your apache and try example.org

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Note that pretty URLs and the occ/.htaccess related steps are for removing the /index.php/ from the URL, not the /nextcloud/.

Not sure if it’s possible to achieve the latter with a similar method, at least never heard of it.

Why do you not just move your webroot to /var/www/nextcloud/ to avoid all rewrite and alias steps that might somehow have a similar but surely crippled result?

Remove/leaving the Alias line from config should not break or enable access via domain, but just allows an additional access URL, AFAIK, it’s about the webroot.

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Thank for your replies, removing the alias line didn’t help :frowning: I think i am going to try the proposition of Michalng which seems more convenient. Thanks

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You also have to modify the url in your config.php and the more important ;
In your apache website conf file you must have this line :
ServerName example.org

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If Nextcloud should be accessed on the root of the domain , url.com , keep in mind the following:

  • Any vhost entries in Apache configs referring to the directory path /var/www/html should be changed to /var/www/html/nextcloud
  • The Nextcloud config.php base URL should be changed from '/nextcloud' to '/'
  • Lets Encrypt will work, however the .well-known directory will need to be moved out and back in to the nextcloud directory before and after an upgrade respectively to avoid an integrity check error.