I have installed nextcloud from source (actually many years ago and moved it around since then to new servers).
In the nextcloud docs it doesn’t explicitly say to install nextcloud at /var/www/nextcloud but the example configuration and virtual hosts file indicate it is there:
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot /var/www/nextcloud/
ServerName your.server.com
<Directory /var/www/nextcloud/>
Require all granted
AllowOverride All
Options FollowSymLinks MultiViews
<IfModule mod_dav.c>
Dav off
</IfModule>
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
This is where nextcloud is on my server.
Now the actual DocumentRoot of my server is (in 000-default.conf) /var/www/html.
In my case nextcloud is curretly accessed from a subdomain like nextcloud.mydoman.tld and nextcloud is resolved fine.
However, I am also, like many others having problems with getting error like
Your web server is not properly set up to resolve "/.well-known/carddav"
I have tried creating a .htaccess file like the following in /var/www and /var/www/html
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/\.well-known/host-meta /public.php?service=host-meta [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^/\.well-known/host-meta\.json /public.php?service=host-meta-json [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^/\.well-known/carddav /remote.php/dav/ [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^/\.well-known/caldav /remote.php/dav/ [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^\.well-known/nodeinfo /index.php/.well-known/nodeinfo [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^\.well-known/webfinger /index.php/.well-known/webfinger [R=301,L]
</IfModule>
I had it in only one of these locations at a time, and restarted apache each time before testing the configuration.
But no matter what I do I cannot get rid of these errors.
Is it possible this is because I need to move my nextcloud installation to /var/www/html/nextcloud?
If not, what do I actually have to do to get rid of these errors? Nothing I have tried helps.
For reference my Virtualhosts file for nextcloud looks like this:
<VirtualHost *:443>
# The ServerName directive sets the request scheme, hostname and port that
# the server uses to identify itself. This is used when creating
# redirection URLs. In the context of virtual hosts, the ServerName
# specifies what hostname must appear in the request's Host: header to
# match this virtual host. For the default virtual host (this file) this
# value is not decisive as it is used as a last resort host regardless.
# However, you must set it for any further virtual host explicitly.
ServerName nextcloud.<redacted>
<IfModule mod_headers.c>
Header always set Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=15552000; includeSubDomains"
</IfModule>
ServerAdmin sysadmin@<redacted>
DocumentRoot /var/www/nextcloud
<Directory /var/www/nextcloud/>
Require all granted
AllowOverride All
Options FollowSymLinks MultiViews
<IfModule mod_dav.c>
Dav off
</IfModule>
</Directory>
# For most configuration files from conf-available/, which are
# enabled or disabled at a global level, it is possible to
# include a line for only one particular virtual host. For example the
# following line enables the CGI configuration for this host only
# after it has been globally disabled with "a2disconf".
#Include conf-available/serve-cgi-bin.conf
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/\.well-known/host-meta /public.php?service=host-meta [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^/\.well-known/host-meta\.json /public.php?service=host-meta-json [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^/\.well-known/carddav /remote.php/dav/ [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^/\.well-known/caldav /remote.php/dav/ [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^\.well-known/nodeinfo /index.php/.well-known/nodeinfo [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^\.well-known/webfinger /index.php/.well-known/webfinger [R=301,L]
</IfModule>
# Available loglevels: trace8, ..., trace1, debug, info, notice, warn,
# error, crit, alert, emerg.
# It is also possible to configure the loglevel for particular
# modules, e.g.
#LogLevel info ssl:warn
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
# For most configuration files from conf-available/, which are
# enabled or disabled at a global level, it is possible to
# include a line for only one particular virtual host. For example the
# following line enables the CGI configuration for this host only
# after it has been globally disabled with "a2disconf".
#Include conf-available/serve-cgi-bin.conf
SSLCertificateFile <redacted>
SSLCertificateKeyFile <redacted>
Include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-apache.conf
</VirtualHost>
</IfModule>
And to be honest I am not a 100% sure if it makes any difference. But I don’t think the path matters, unless other global directives in in /etc/conf-enabled or in the /etc/apache2.conf file are active which may affect this path?