[SOLVED] Setting up Nextcloud with NGiNX Issues

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So I am looking to install Nextcloud on the following environment:

Ubuntu 16.04
PHP 7.2 (modules installed)
NGiNX (php-fpm installed)

This environment is of course running behind an NGiNX reverse proxy since I have other servers on the network running as well. The reverse proxy has cerbot installed and is running SSL termination.

I am using the following configuration on the Nextcloud server:

https://hastebin.com/quziribefo.nginx

But right now I am just hitting the default “Welcome to NGiNX” page. I have /var/www/cloud, the permissions are correctly set and everything. What am I doing wrong?

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server {
listen 80;
listen [::]:80;
server_name cloud.domain.com;
}

server {
listen 80 default_server;
listen [::]:80 default_server;
server_name cloud.domain.com;

Could it be due to wrong port definitions? It’s port 80 twice instead of port 80 and port 443.

3

It shouldn’t be the wrong ports, the SSL is terminated and then the connection is forwarded HTTP.

4

Sorry, I don’t see where you forward you forward from port 443 to port 80 to terminate SSL. :thinking:

Additional idea (not related to “welcome to nginx”):
I read that for security reason you should actually use $request_uri instead of $uri

location / {
    rewrite ^ /index.php$request_uri;
}

and

location ~ \.(?:css|js|woff|svg|gif)$ {
    try_files $uri /index.php$request_uri$is_args$args;
5

There are multiple servers, the SSL termination is done on the Reverse Proxy server, the config I posted is the one where Nextcloud is hosted.

6

I am confused by your second point, I assume you are referring to this?

location ~ ^/(?:updater|ocs-provider)(?:$|/) {
    try_files $uri/ =404;
    index index.php;
}
7

Okay, I didn’t know about SSL termination, sorry about that.

Further (maybe stupid) ideas:

  • loaded the correct config (just to make sure you didn’t edit the config that is not loaded actually)
  • php handler really listening on port 9000 and you don’t use the socket
  • restarted nginx after config edit

Oh and I had an issue in the past where the browser cached the content. I just noticed that when using a different browser. Clearing the browser cash and doing a full reload of the page (CTRL + R) helped with then.

Regarding my suggestion:
Your config reads

location / {
    rewrite ^ /index.php$uri;
}

I suggest

location / {
    rewrite ^ /index.php$request_uri;
}
8

I am using incognito mode in the browser to test this but I did clear out browser entirely but the issue remains.

9

Since there are two server blocks with the same server_name nginx will pick the first one (which is basically an empty block) serving a request with that server name. Have you tried deleting or commenting out the first server block:

server {
    listen 80;
    listen [::]:80;
    server_name cloud.domain.com;
}

EDIT: don‘t forget to let nginx reload the configuration files with nginx -s reload

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So I deleted one block, so this is my config now:

https://hastebin.com/golidaqeli.nginx

But now the error I am getting is Bad Gateway error.

11

Are you sure php-fpm is configured to listen at 127.0.0.1:9000?
Have a look in the configuration file /etc/php/7.2/fpm/pool.d/www.conf where php is listening.

12

Ok that was it.

13

Good to hear it is working now :slight_smile: