[Solved] NC13 & Centos 7 - Not a vaild json?

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1

Hi,

could someone tell me why this file


is not a valid json for Nextcloud occ config:import import on CentOS7?

sudo -u nginx php occ config:import {{ role_path }}/defaults/config.json

On Debian and Ubuntu the installation is working correct.

On CentOS7 the occ command doesn’t import the json with the error message, that it isn’t a valid json. Online json validators don’t complain.

Also the return code of occ is ZERO. So ansible didn’t report an error. :frowning:

2

is this a current Centos 7 release or sth older? Nextcloud installed by a repository or manual?

3

It’s this ansible playbook https://github.com/ReinerNippes/nextcloud13/tree/master on a AWS CentOS7 image from here https://wiki.centos.org/Cloud/AWS.

Nextcloud is from here: https://download.nextcloud.com/server/releases/latest.tar.bz2

On Ubuntu and Debian the same playbook is runing without problems. (At least the occ config:import part.)

4

Even this

{
    "system": {
        "memcache.local": "\\OC\\Memcache\\APCu",
        "redis": {
            "host": "\/var\/run\/redis\/redis.sock",
            "port": "0",
            "timeout": "0.0"
        }
  }
}

is not a valid json on CentOS7 ami-4bf3d731

The error message is

[centos@ip-172-31-71-17 ~]$ sudo -u nginx  php /var/www/nextcloud/occ config:import config.json
The file must contain a valid json array
5

And finally. You can’t reimport the config written with occ config:list

[centos@ip-172-31-71-17 ~]$ sudo -u nginx php /var/www/nextcloud/occ config:list > config.json
[centos@ip-172-31-71-17 ~]$ sudo -u nginx php /var/www/nextcloud/occ config:import config.json
The file must contain a valid json array
6

I found the problem.

On CentOS the HOME directories have 0700 rights (instead of 0755 on Ubuntu/Debian).

So the user nginx (sudo -u nginx) can’t access any file in the HOME of centos.

Nevertheless the error handling could be improved. “File not accesible. Return=-1” would be better.