Hello!
I am currently changing from Truenas SCALE with Truecharts Apps to Electric Eel.
I did a complete fresh installation on my home server. Currently running TrueNAS ElectricEel 24.10.1.
I did try to follow the installation instruction for Nextcloud from the official Truenas documentation.
I think I did not understand the right set-up for the permissions.
I did create 3 datasets
nc/data
nc/html
nc/postgres_data
Nextcloud app settings for the folders:
What am I missing?
I don’t know if Is correct, so take this with a grain of salt… But i have struggled a bit with ACL for nextcloud data until i don’t give to everyone some read data attribute plus execute… But i have nextcloud’s datasets nested as childs of another dataset (where all apps datasets are stored);
Yeah, somebody needs to go over the official NextCloud installation guide and fix it, because it’s full of holes and confusing as heck.
Ok - I started from scratch and set up nextcloud WITHOUT following the documentation.
Just create the parent dataset nc and nest the 3 datasets below.
nextcloud
html
data
postgres_data
Do NOT change any permissions and let the app installer take care of that.
Worked for me. Curious, if that is the right approach and the installation instructions here are obsolete.
Thanks. I need my data dataset in a different pool though. Will that work?
Also, when creating the datasets, what ACL permissions should the datasets be created with? What do you mean by “do NOT change any permissions”? Do not change them from WHAT? Are they created with permissions BY DEFAULT?
I did not set any ACL permissions at all …
Thanks. I did just as you suggested, and I also left all the “Enable ACL” tickboxes empty. However, what I also did is I ticked the “Automatic Permissions” tickbox, and that seems to have done it. Now it looks like I need to “edit the ‘trusted_domains’ setting in config/config.php,” as I get the funny screen pictured below when attempting to access the WebUI from any computer on my LAN. How can I do that though? Where do I find this config/config.php file?
And what the heck is this “Host” setting about? What is that for?
For the first one you must edit your config/config.php
Either from the shell within or ssh to the server.
The second one is relevant, if you want to use your own hostname.
eg.: mynextcloud.com or nextcloud.mydomain.com
Yeah, that’s the $64,000 question, where exactly is this config/config.php file hidden, ‘cause there ain’t no config directory in TrueNAS’ root. Anyway, it looks like I found it: /mnt/nas1_app/nextcloud/html/config/config.php.
Now that I’ve edited this file, I can finally see the login screen, though I cannot login! What credentials does this thing take? I tried the admin credentials I inputted when I installed the application, but they do not work.
No definitely the admin + password you did set there
config.php? I can’t find it anywhere in there!config.php so I can compare it with mine (please obscure any sensitive info)?Here below is my config.php, and please let me know if you see anything funny in there:
root@nas1[/mnt/nas1_app/nextcloud/html/config]# cat config.php
<?php
$CONFIG = array (
'htaccess.RewriteBase' => '/',
'memcache.local' => '\\OC\\Memcache\\APCu',
'apps_paths' =>
array (
0 =>
array (
'path' => '/var/www/html/apps',
'url' => '/apps',
'writable' => false,
),
1 =>
array (
'path' => '/var/www/html/custom_apps',
'url' => '/custom_apps',
'writable' => true,
),
),
'memcache.distributed' => '\\OC\\Memcache\\Redis',
'memcache.locking' => '\\OC\\Memcache\\Redis',
'redis' =>
array (
'host' => 'redis',
'password' => 'some_password',
'port' => 6379,
),
'upgrade.disable-web' => true,
'passwordsalt' => 'seemingly_random_string',
'secret' => 'seemingly_random_string',
'datadirectory' => '/var/www/html/data',
'dbtype' => 'pgsql',
'version' => '30.0.4.1',
'overwrite.cli.url' => 'http://localhost',
'dbname' => 'nextcloud',
'dbhost' => 'postgres:5432',
'dbport' => '',
'dbtableprefix' => 'oc_',
'dbuser' => 'oc_admin',
'dbpassword' => 'seemingly_random_string',
'installed' => true,
'instanceid' => 'ocvqq2wlhyy5',
'trusted_domains' =>
array (
0 => '127.0.0.1',
1 => '192.168.153.205:30027',
2 => '192.168.153.205:30001',
3 => 'localhost',
4 => 'nextcloud',
),
);
Many thanks!
How do you try to access your nextcloud website? It must be added here:
e.g.: nextcloud.mydomain.com
The password is used, when you get to the login screen.
Alright, here’s the conclusion of my NextCloud on TrueNASA saga: attempting to change the password in NextCloud app edit mode is an exercise in futility, at least at this point in time. Neither is re-installing the app any useful … UNLESS one first cleans up ALL NextCloud files everywhere on TrueNAS prior(!) to doing a reinstall. Simple reinstall does not clear out previous installations, so all subsequent installs are doomed to fail.
As such, indeed, doing an install from scratch–that is, including all relevant storage datasets–is the easiest way to ensure a painless installation. And also make sure your admin password does not end with the dollar sign ($) or comma (,).
had the exact same experience. very frustrating.
Well this is very frustrating. Found you post and was hoping it would clear things up. I still cant access the webUI after trying many different things
Thanks for all your hardwork. I am about 40 hours in and you saved me a bunch of time with other configurations I was considering changing.
