Snap installation with no domain and self-signed certificate

radiostar · January 7, 2019, 9:03am

I want to demonstrate NextCloud as a viable proof-of-concept for non-technical stakeholders. I am trying to install and deploy NextCloud as quickly and painlessly as possible; I installed via snap with an IP address (i.e. no domain name) and a self-signed certificate. I can’t access it through the browser.

Should I shutdown the snap deployment and deploy conventionally (i.e. install/configure each LAMP component and then install NextCloud) or is there something else I can do to tweak my snap deployment?

I used this guide.

I have NextCloud running (I think). I was able to get the following output from snap:

$ sudo snap services
Service                   Startup  Current
nextcloud.apache          enabled  active
nextcloud.mdns-publisher  enabled  active
nextcloud.mysql           enabled  active
nextcloud.nextcloud-cron  enabled  active
nextcloud.php-fpm         enabled  active
nextcloud.redis-server    enabled  active
nextcloud.renew-certs     enabled  active

Reiner_Nippes · January 7, 2019, 4:08pm

or

curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ReinerNippes/nextcloud/master/prepare_system.sh | /bin/bash
ansible-pull --clean --force -d ~/nextcloud15 -i 'nextcloud' -U https://github.com/ReinerNippes/nextcloud.git nextcloud.yml \
-e "fqdn=$(hostname -f)" \
-e "ssl_certificate_type=selfsigned" \
-e "talk_install=false" \
-e "install_onlyoffice=false" \
-e "install_collabora=false" \
-e "dhparam_numbits=1024"

radiostar · January 8, 2019, 2:56am

@Reiner_Nippes: I’m running Ubuntu 18.04.1. I’m getting an error where the script, ./prepare_system.sh is trying to install pip. The pip installation script thinks the system has Python 3, but /usr/bin/python is Python 2. I’ve done some googling; I’ve installed Python 3 but that hasn’t changed the version of the above python runtime. What are some things I can do?

software-properties-common is already the newest version (0.96.24.32.6).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
+ PYTHON_BIN=/usr/bin/python
+ install_pip
+ sudo -H /usr/bin/python
+ curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100 1622k  100 1622k    0     0  7915k      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 7877k
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 20890, in <module>
  File "<stdin>", line 197, in main
  File "<stdin>", line 82, in bootstrap
  File "/tmp/tmpO_1u4F/pip.zip/pip/_internal/__init__.py", line 19, in <module>
  File "/tmp/tmpO_1u4F/pip.zip/pip/_vendor/urllib3/__init__.py", line 8, in <module>
  File "/tmp/tmpO_1u4F/pip.zip/pip/_vendor/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 11, in <module>
  File "/tmp/tmpO_1u4F/pip.zip/pip/_vendor/urllib3/exceptions.py", line 2, in <module>
  File "/tmp/tmpO_1u4F/pip.zip/pip/_vendor/urllib3/packages/six.py", line 203, in load_module
  File "/tmp/tmpO_1u4F/pip.zip/pip/_vendor/urllib3/packages/six.py", line 115, in _resolve
  File "/tmp/tmpO_1u4F/pip.zip/pip/_vendor/urllib3/packages/six.py", line 82, in _import_module
ImportError: No module named httplib

radiostar · January 8, 2019, 3:39am

@Reiner_Nippes

I had to do a couple things for the installation script to work:

First I changed the path to PYTHON_BIN to /usr/bin/python3.
Then I installed sudo apt install python3-distutils.

I don’t know if that makes a difference to change the script. Also, you’ve got a number of minor typos. Do a search for ‘Sytem’ in your script.

radiostar · January 8, 2019, 6:15am

Just FYI for anyone following this thread, I gave up and just did a traditional LAMP stack installation and configuration. It was actually more straight-forward for me because I understand those technologies versus trying to troubleshoot Snap or Docker.

Reiner_Nippes · January 8, 2019, 12:05pm

which edition? server or desktop?

radiostar · January 9, 2019, 6:04am

I’m pretty sure it’s the server edition, since it was the default install from my VPS provider; it doesn’t make sense for them to install the desktop edition…

Reiner_Nippes · January 9, 2019, 7:36am

hmmm.
I tested the script on AWS EC2, DigitalOcean, Scaleway, VirtualBox Ubuntu 18.04.
So it’s hard for me to tell what’s missing in the Ubuntu distro of your provider. Sorry.