For those getting here looking for an answer to setting up nextcloud under a plesk server, I have a working solution. It may not all be correct, but it is working.
I installed nextcloud using the plesk extension, and then starting trying to figure out why things were not working right, specifically there were warnings reported on the Admin settings page, and the text editor in deck was not showing up when first clicking a card.
In order to resolve both, I ended up making the following changes in plesk:
1)under the subscription where nextcloud is installed go to"Hosting & DNS" → “Apache & nginix”
2) Turn off “Proxy Mode”
3) Change the “Maximum allowed HTTP request body size” to 512 MB
4) Add the following to “Additional nginx directives” and click apply or OK. Please note, I have not fully checked all that this code does, but playing around with the file from the nextcloud documents and looking at the things already in the nginx.ini files written by pesk, this is what I have assembled that is working for me. YMMV:
Note: You must find the path of the php-fpm.sock on your server and fix the line: fastcgi_pass “unix:/var/www/vhosts/system/YOUR_SUBSCRIPTION_NAME_HERE/php-fpm.sock”; <–that path was where mine was (ubuntu 22.04 and Plesk Obsidian), of corse, “YOUR_SUBSCRIPTION_NAME_HERE” is jsut a placeholder for the actual folder name.
location = /robots.txt {
allow all;
log_not_found off;
access_log off;
}
location ^~ /.well-known {
# The rules in this block are an adaptation of the rules
# in the Nextcloud `.htaccess` that concern `/.well-known`.
location = /.well-known/carddav { return 301 /nextcloud/remote.php/dav/; }
location = /.well-known/caldav { return 301 /nextcloud/remote.php/dav/; }
location /.well-known/acme-challenge { try_files $uri $uri/ =404; }
location /.well-known/pki-validation { try_files $uri $uri/ =404; }
# Let Nextcloud's API for `/.well-known` URIs handle all other
# requests by passing them to the front-end controller.
return 301 /nextcloud/index.php$request_uri;
}
client_body_timeout 300s;
fastcgi_buffers 64 4K;
# Enable gzip but do not remove ETag headers
gzip on;
gzip_vary on;
gzip_comp_level 4;
gzip_min_length 256;
gzip_proxied expired no-cache no-store private no_last_modified no_etag auth;
gzip_types application/atom+xml text/javascript application/javascript application/json application/ld+json application/manifest+json application/rss+xml application/vnd.geo+json application/vnd.ms-fontobject application/wasm application/x-font-ttf application/x-web-app-manifest+json application/xhtml+xml application/xml font/opentype image/bmp image/svg+xml image/x-icon text/cache-manifest text/css text/plain text/vcard text/vnd.rim.location.xloc text/vtt text/x-component text/x-cross-domain-policy;
# The settings allows you to optimize the HTTP2 bandwidth.
# See https://blog.cloudflare.com/delivering-http-2-upload-speed-improvements/
# for tuning hints
client_body_buffer_size 512k;
# HSTS settings
# WARNING: Only add the preload option once you read about
# the consequences in https://hstspreload.org/. This option
# will add the domain to a hardcoded list that is shipped
# in all major browsers and getting removed from this list
# could take several months.
add_header Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=15768000; includeSubDomains;";
# HTTP response headers borrowed from Nextcloud `.htaccess`
add_header Referrer-Policy "no-referrer" always;
add_header X-Content-Type-Options "nosniff" always;
add_header X-Frame-Options "SAMEORIGIN" always;
add_header X-Permitted-Cross-Domain-Policies "none" always;
add_header X-Robots-Tag "noindex, nofollow" always;
add_header X-XSS-Protection "1; mode=block" always;
# Remove X-Powered-By, which is an information leak
fastcgi_hide_header X-Powered-By;
# Specify how to handle directories -- specifying `/nextcloud/index.php$request_uri`
# here as the fallback means that Nginx always exhibits the desired behaviour
# when a client requests a path that corresponds to a directory that exists
# on the server. In particular, if that directory contains an index.php file,
# that file is correctly served; if it doesn't, then the request is passed to
# the front-end controller. This consistent behaviour means that we don't need
# to specify custom rules for certain paths (e.g. images and other assets,
# `/updater`, `/ocs-provider`), and thus
# `try_files $uri $uri/ /nextcloud/index.php$request_uri`
# always provides the desired behaviour.
index index.php index.html /nextcloud/index.php$request_uri;
# Rule borrowed from `.htaccess` to handle Microsoft DAV clients
location = /nextcloud {
if ( $http_user_agent ~ ^DavClnt ) {
return 302 /nextcloud/remote.php/webdav/$is_args$args;
}
}
# Rules borrowed from `.htaccess` to hide certain paths from clients
location ~ ^/nextcloud/(?:build|tests|config|lib|3rdparty|templates|data)(?:$|/) { return 404; }
location ~ ^/nextcloud/(?:\.|autotest|occ|issue|indie|db_|console) { return 404; }
# Ensure this block, which passes PHP files to the PHP process, is above the blocks
# which handle static assets (as seen below). If this block is not declared first,
# then Nginx will encounter an infinite rewriting loop when it prepends
# `/nextcloud/index.php` to the URI, resulting in a HTTP 500 error response.
location ~ \.php(?:$|/) {
# Required for legacy support
rewrite ^/nextcloud/(?!index|remote|public|cron|core\/ajax\/update|status|ocs\/v[12]|updater\/.+|ocs-provider\/.+|.+\/richdocumentscode(_arm64)?\/proxy) /nextcloud/index.php$request_uri;
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+?\.php)(/.*)$;
set $path_info $fastcgi_path_info;
try_files $fastcgi_script_name =404;
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $path_info;
fastcgi_param HTTPS on;
fastcgi_param modHeadersAvailable true; # Avoid sending the security headers twice
fastcgi_param front_controller_active true; # Enable pretty urls
fastcgi_pass "unix:/var/www/vhosts/system/YOUR_SUBSCRIPTION_NAME_HERE/php-fpm.sock";
fastcgi_intercept_errors on;
fastcgi_request_buffering off;
fastcgi_max_temp_file_size 0;
}
# Serve static files
location ~ \.(?:css|js|mjs|svg|gif|ico|jpg|png|webp|wasm|tflite|map|ogg|flac)$ {
try_files $uri /nextcloud/index.php$request_uri;
# HTTP response headers borrowed from Nextcloud `.htaccess`
add_header Cache-Control "public, max-age=15778463";
add_header Referrer-Policy "no-referrer" always;
add_header X-Content-Type-Options "nosniff" always;
add_header X-Frame-Options "SAMEORIGIN" always;
add_header X-Permitted-Cross-Domain-Policies "none" always;
add_header X-Robots-Tag "noindex, nofollow" always;
add_header X-XSS-Protection "1; mode=block" always;
access_log off; # Optional: Don't log access to assets
}
location ~ \.(otf|woff2?)$ {
try_files $uri /nextcloud/index.php$request_uri;
expires 7d; # Cache-Control policy borrowed from `.htaccess`
access_log off; # Optional: Don't log access to assets
}
# Rule borrowed from `.htaccess`
location /nextcloud/remote {
return 301 /nextcloud/remote.php$request_uri;
}
location /nextcloud {
try_files $uri $uri/ /nextcloud/index.php$request_uri;
}
- Go back to your subscription dashboard and click, “PHP”
- Check that “Run PHP as” is set to “FPM application served by nginix”
- Change the Memory Limit to 512M
- Add the following code in “Additional configuration directives” and click apply. NOTE: add whatever path you need in there. Or don’t add it, if none is needed.
[php-fpm-pool-settings]
env[PATH] = /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
Hope this is useful to someone.
JDJ
