Install Nextcloud 13.0.0 on Fedora 27
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@brandon220 said in Install Nextcloud 13.0.0 on Fedora 27:
@nashbrydges I had the same issue on a Fedora install. I created a 3Tb dynamic disk and had to manually partition Fedora to get the full disk for /. This was Hyper-V 2016.
This is a normal Fedora tactic. I'll make a guide on this later or something.
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@brandon220 Using Cockpit was ridiculously easy,
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@jaredbusch Good to know. This was my first time using Fedora.
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I have a 2 Tb Nextcloud install on Ubuntu (16.04) from a couple years ago. I need to migrate everything to a new server using Fedora but a migration seems harder than it should be. Hopefully I will tackle it soon. I've not had any issues with Ubuntu but everyone here seems to dislike it.
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The default behaviour of a Fedora Server install is to just use what's needed. During install, you need to select the "custom" option and add space to your
/
partition and/or add a/home
if you desire.See the first section of my post here: https://mangolassi.it/topic/16084/installing-fedora-27-lamp-stack-plus-wordpress
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@brandon220 said in Install Nextcloud 13.0.0 on Fedora 27:
I have a 2 Tb Nextcloud install on Ubuntu (16.04) from a couple years ago. I need to migrate everything to a new server using Fedora but a migration seems harder than it should be. Hopefully I will tackle it soon. I've not had any issues with Ubuntu but everyone here seems to dislike it.
"Dislike" is strong. "Don't like compared to common alternatives" is better.
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Whats the best way to configure the data directory? Do I create a large VM or a separate disk mounted on the data folder?
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@mattbagan said in Install Nextcloud 13.0.0 on Fedora 27:
Whats the best way to configure the data directory? Do I create a large VM or a separate disk mounted on the data folder?
For a file server, I'd have a separate .VHDX for the file storage, and mount it as /DATA
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@mattbagan said in Install Nextcloud 13.0.0 on Fedora 27:
Whats the best way to configure the data directory? Do I create a large VM or a separate disk mounted on the data folder?
Varies on your needs. NextCloud recommends separate BtrFS volume. I like a separate LVM2 volume with XFS.
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@scottalanmiller @Tim_G Thanks for the info. I will have a separate disk for the data. I will be using this guide to migrate from ubuntu to fedora.
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Very nice! I've done this before on Fedora 23 with OwnCloud, but the procedure was confusing.
I wanted to add something for users who might have an issue like I did. I have a separate physical disk I wanted to setup for the data disk, but found myself running through most of your procedure without having setup or mounted the disk. I took your advice and used the default /var/www/html/nextcloud/data path.
At the NextCloud wizard, I received a "can't read or write into the data directory" message. I knew it had something to do with permissions. First, I had to re-issue the chown apache:apache -R /var/www/html/nextcloud command because once the disk was mounted the data folder reverted back to root:root - that's a given. But the same error came up. So, I figured it was SELINUX and I re-ran the selinux_config.sh script, which gave me an error for each folder saying it was already defined. Even so, I tried NextCloud again and had the same data directory error.
A little poking around and I found this out: you have 2 commands in SELINUX: "semanage fcontext" and "restorecon" ...
The "already defined" error was coming from the semanage fcontext command, so I read a bit about restorecon and discovered that if you add an "-F" parameter, it will force the command rather than bypass it if it's already been run. There is no error from restorecon, it just silently doesn't work. Adding the -F parameter worked: restorecon -R -F ${ocpath}/data.Thank you, I have a nicely running NextCloud system now!
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@sopdahl said in Install Nextcloud 13.0.0 on Fedora 27:
Very nice! I've done this before on Fedora 23 with OwnCloud, but the procedure was confusing.
I wanted to add something for users who might have an issue like I did. I have a separate physical disk I wanted to setup for the data disk, but found myself running through most of your procedure without having setup or mounted the disk. I took your advice and used the default /var/www/html/nextcloud/data path.
At the NextCloud wizard, I received a "can't read or write into the data directory" message. I knew it had something to do with permissions. First, I had to re-issue the chown apache:apache -R /var/www/html/nextcloud command because once the disk was mounted the data folder reverted back to root:root - that's a given. But the same error came up. So, I figured it was SELINUX and I re-ran the selinux_config.sh script, which gave me an error for each folder saying it was already defined. Even so, I tried NextCloud again and had the same data directory error.
A little poking around and I found this out: you have 2 commands in SELINUX: "semanage fcontext" and "restorecon" ...
The "already defined" error was coming from the semanage fcontext command, so I read a bit about restorecon and discovered that if you add an "-F" parameter, it will force the command rather than bypass it if it's already been run. There is no error from restorecon, it just silently doesn't work. Adding the -F parameter worked: restorecon -R -F ${ocpath}/data.Thank you, I have a nicely running NextCloud system now!
No problem. I am happy you figured it out.
I did not think about the -F paramter to force it to redo it. That is a good idea to add to the instructions in case someone redoes something like you did.
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The one additional step I also did was to have what Nextcloud calls "pretty URLs"
Add these lines to the config.php file (https if you've secured your instance with certs, http if you haven't)
'overwrite.cli.url' => 'https://www.mydomain.com', 'htaccess.RewriteBase' => '/', 'overwriteprotocol' => 'https',
Then from terminal, run this command.
sudo -u apache php /var/www/nextcloud/occ maintenance:update:htaccess
My URL then changed from
https://www.mydomain.com/nextcloud
tohttps://www/mydomain.com
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@nashbrydges Did you have to set
Require all granted
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@bnrstnr said in Install Nextcloud 13.0.0 on Fedora 27:
@nashbrydges Did you have to set
Require all granted
in your httpd.conf too?You should not touch
httpd.conf
That is the reason thatnextcloud.conf
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@bnrstnr said in Install Nextcloud 13.0.0 on Fedora 27:
@nashbrydges Did you have to set
Require all granted
in your httpd.conf too?I didn't, no. All changes are done in nextcloud.conf and it does not need
Require all granted
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I guess I should make a dedicated post for this..
Here are the instructions to pretty the URL.https://mangolassi.it/topic/12878/install-nextcloud-11-0-2-on-centos-7-with-php-7-1-from-remi/2
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@jaredbusch Ah, I was confusing this with SAM's install script. I was about to say that the script didn't create a nextcloud.conf in my conf.d folder. I ran his script last night on a new server and it was only going to serve this one nextcloud install so I just modified the httpd.conf
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The only change that I do that isn't really covered anywhere in any documentation I've seen is to change the favicon. I replace the Nexcloud one with mine just to complete the theming.
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@bnrstnr said in Install Nextcloud 13.0.0 on Fedora 27:
@jaredbusch Ah, I was confusing this with SAM's install script. I was about to say that the script didn't create a nextcloud.conf in my conf.d folder. I ran his script last night on a new server and it was only going to serve this one nextcloud install so I just modified the httpd.conf
@scottalanmiller is a slacker.