NextCloud installation/configuration tutorial on Electric Eel(!)

[Aqua1ung]

I couldn’t find any up-to-date tutorials for the installation and configuration of NextCloud on ElectricEel. Can anyone point me to one such tutorial please?

[The official guide is woefully confusing and incomplete unfortunately.]

[LarsR]

A full guide for installing Nextcloud on TrueNAS Scale with Collabora integration and outside access through Nginx Proxy Manager

Background It took me over 30 hours of actual time on the computer to correctly install Nextcloud on TrueNAS SCALE both with Collabora integration as well as with the ability to access Nextcloud from outside the local network, but I finally got everything working. Considering the amount of people on these forums that seem to be struggling with this exact same issue, or a variant of it, I thought that there might be a reasonably large audience for a guide that details EXACTLY what one person, wi…

[daryusnslr]

The tutorial linked above walks you through the Nextcloud app which I guess is what you’re looking for, but you can also consider setting it up as a virtual machine. I happened to write a post about it yesterday, it is a general guide, not a tutorial but may be useful.

Reliable Nextcloud VM with Hassle-free Upgrades

TLDR Install the appliance VM by Hansson IT, get rid of its default ZFS, provide storage to it from your TrueNAS, let it update itself automatically and effortlessly, use Cloudflare tunnel for remote access. Background There are dozens of threads about the many different ways Nextcloud (NC) can be set up with TrueNAS (or on TrueNAS). Many discussions are related to troubleshooting after a major update breaks everything. Surprisingly, I do not see much being mentioned about the combination of Tr…

[Aqua1ung]

Thanks! Will that work on ElectricEel though?

[LarsR]

it should if you use the iX-app and follow the steps to add the storage & env variables, but i personally use my own compose file to deploy nextcloud and did not have any problems in the 6 months since switched to it. Here’s my compose-file

version: '3.3'
services:
  nextcloud-db:
    image: linuxserver/mariadb:latest
    container_name: nextcloud-db
    restart: unless-stopped
    volumes:
      - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
      - /etc/timezone:/etc/timezone:ro
      - /mnt/yourpool/yourdataset/config:/config #set path for mariadb config
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=set it yourself  #set SQL root password
      - MYSQL_PASSWORD=set it yourself #Set SQL user password
      - MYSQL_DATABASE=nextcloud #Databasename Name
      - MYSQL_USER=nextcloud #SQL Username
      - MYSQL_INITDB_SKIP_TZINFO=1
      - MARIADB_AUTO_UPGRADE=1
    ports:
      - 3306:3306
  nextcloud-redis:
    image: redis:alpine
    container_name: nextcloud-redis
    hostname: nextcloud-redis
    networks:
        - default
    restart: unless-stopped
    command: redis-server --requirepass nextcloud # set Redis password
  nextcloud-app:
    image: linuxserver/nextcloud:latest
    container_name: nextcloud-app
    restart: unless-stopped
    depends_on:
      - nextcloud-db
      - nextcloud-redis
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TRUSTED_PROXIES="**"
      - OVERWRITEPROTOCOL=https
      - OVERWRITECLIURL=yourdomain.com
      - OVERWRITEHOST= yourdomain.com
      - REDIS_HOST= nextcloud-redis
      - REDIS_HOST_PASSWORD= nextcloud # enter Redis Password here
    ports:

      - '11080:80'
    volumes:
      - /mnt/poolname/datasetname/config:/config #hostpath for nextcloud config storage
      - /mnt/nextcloud:/data #hostpath for nextcloud data storage
    labels:
      - "traefik.enable=true" #optional for traefik
      - "traefik.docker.network=proxy" #optional for traefik
      - "traefik.http.routers.nextcloud.rule=Host(`yourdomainname.com`)" #optional for traefik
      - "traefik.http.routers.nextcloud.entrypoints=https" #optional for traefik
      - "traefik.http.routers.nextcloud.tls=true" #optional for traefik
      - "traefik.http.services.nextcloud.loadbalancer.server.port=80" #optional for traefik
      - "traefik.http.routers.nextcloud.tls.certresolver=cloudflare" #optional for traefik
    networks:
      - proxy #optional for traefik
      - default
networks: #optional for traefik
  proxy: #optional for traefik
    external: true #optional for traefik

[Aqua1ung]

My NextCloud is currently not working. What am I doing wrong?

Here are the datasets that I currently have:

Here are the current ACL settings on nextcloud:

Current ACL settings on html:

Current ACL settings on postgres_data:

And finally, current ACL setings on data:

[LarsR]

hard to tell without an actual error mesage…
“doesn’t work” can mean a lot.
Does the app start but you cant connect to it?
Does the app start but can’t connect to the Database?
The app does not start and throws an error?

Have you taken a look at the apps log for any information on why it doesn’t start?

[Aqua1ung]

Apologies, I should have specified that the app starts, no problem, but I cannot access the Web UI.

[LarsR]

How are you trying to access the webui? via ip:port or via domain?

[Aqua1ung]

ip:port

[LarsR]

Which port did you assign to nextcloud? By default the webui should be at port 80, but since that is already used by the truenas webui you should use port mapping to map a different external port to internal port 80

[LarsR]

Since i’m not using the iX app, but rather the compose file i posted up above i don’t know if you have to set the overwrite cli url env variable during the setup… which could be the problem…

[Aqua1ung]

Looks like I made some progress. Feel free to add your suggestions to the questions raised therein. And many thanks for paying attention to my NextCloud saga!

[Schnigges]

Thanks so much for the compose file! Could you post your nextcloud config.php as well? As far as I understand, I somehow have to change the config file to use the database from the compose file, right?

[LarsR]

<?php
$CONFIG = array (
  'datadirectory' => '/data',
  'instanceid' => 'assword',
  'passwordsalt' => 'password',
  'secret' => 'password',
  'trusted_proxies' =>              # list of cloudflare ip-spaces, can be deleted if not needed
  array (
    0 => '172.64.0.0/13',
    1 => '173.245.48.0/20',
    2 => '103.21.244.0/22',
    3 => '103.22.200.0/22',
    4 => '103.31.4.0/22',
    5 => '141.101.64.0/18',
    6 => '108.162.192.0/18',
    7 => '190.93.240.0/20',
    8 => '188.114.96.0/20',
    9 => '197.234.240.0/22',
    10 => '198.41.128.0/17',
    11 => '162.158.0.0/15',
    12 => '104.16.0.0/13',
    13 => '104.24.0.0/14',
    14 => '131.0.72.0/22',
  ),
  'trusted_domains' => 
  array (
    0 => 'yourtruenas ip:11080',    # insert your truenas ip
    1 => 'cloud.my-domain.com', # insert your domain name
  ),
  'dbtype' => 'mysql',
  'version' => '29.0.2.2',
  'overwrite.cli.url' => 'https://cloud.my-domain.com',     # insert your domain name
  'overwriteprotocol' => 'https',
  'dbname' => 'nextcloud',
  'dbhost' => 'DB IP:3306', #insert your dbip
  'dbport' => '',
  'dbtableprefix' => 'oc_',
  'mysql.utf8mb4' => true,
  'dbuser' => 'nextcloud',
  'dbpassword' => 'yourdbpassword', # insert your db password
  'installed' => true,
  'memcache.local' => '\\OC\\Memcache\\Redis',
  'memcache.distributed' => '\\OC\\Memcache\\Redis',
  'filelocking.enabled' => true,
  'memcache.locking' => '\\OC\\Memcache\\Redis',
  'redis' => 
  array (
    'host' => 'yourtruenasip',   # insert your truenasip
    'port' => 6380,
    'timeout' => 0.0,
    'password' => 'nextcloud',
  ),
  'upgrade.disable-web' => true,
  'mail_from_address' => 'mail account name',    #change to your mail providers smtp settings!
  'mail_smtpmode' => 'smtp',
  'mail_sendmailmode' => 'smtp',
  'mail_domain' => 'mailprovider.com',
  'mail_smtpauth' => 1,
  'mail_smtphost' => 'smtp.server.de',
  'mail_smtpport' => '587',
  'mail_smtpname' => 'mailname@mailservice.com',
  'mail_smtppassword' => 'mailaccount password',
  'maintanance_window_start' => 1,

);