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Hey there,
I want to setup nextcloud on my server but I need a relatively specific configuration that I struggle to find much information on. So here's the situation:
- I have an https website running using nginx on port 443, using just the simple domain (e.g example.com)
- I want the address of nextcloud to be example.com/nextcloud
Now I know this is possible but I simply cannot wrap my head around how to configure this using nginx.
The official configuration for nextcloud in a subdir uses a seperate server block which doesn't work for me since I want to have nextcloud and my website on the same server name and port. I've tried copying the contents of the server block (so the location directives) and using `alias /usr/share/webapps;` (I use the default nextcloud location of /usr/share/webapps/nextcloud), but even after adding that to every single location directive I still get a 404 after getting redirected to the login page. In general I've just been tinkering around a lot with the config, making some more and some less educated guesses and but haven't gotten anywhere.
Thanks to everyone in advance! I know this may seem trivial to some and I appreciate any help!
Last edited by QuetschKuh (2024-11-15 08:02:23)
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Hi
I think you almost got the solution, you only need to authorize the page for the 404 error
Have you tried the parameter overwritehost
Hope it helps!
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Thank you a lot for your suggestion!
I tried what I think you meant but it doesn't seem to have worked. I'll just post my full nextcloud config.php and nginx.conf.
So here's the nginx:
user http;
worker_processes 2; # Amount of cores to assign a worker to
events {
multi_accept on; # Handle multiple connections per clock
worker_connections 1024; # Number of allowed connections per worker process
}
http {
# General configuration
charset utf-8; # Automatically sends charset meta
sendfile on; # Skip buffering downloaded files
sendfile_max_chunk 4m; # Ensure both a fast connection and not overloading the server
types_hash_max_size 4096; # There was a WARN to increase this idk
client_max_body_size 4m; # Increase allowed size of client requests
# MIME
include mime.types; # Configuration for how to handle different file types
default_type application/octet-stream; # Handle as binary if file type unknown
# Include other configurations
include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*;
# (nextcloud) Set the `immutable` cache control options only for assets with a cache busting `v` argument
map $arg_v $asset_immutable {
"" "";
default ", immutable";
}
# BLOCKS
server {
listen 80;
server_name example.com www.example.com;
return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
}
server {
listen 443 default_server ssl;
server_name example.com www.example.com;
root /var/www/html;
ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/example.com/fullchain.pem;
ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/example.com/privkey.pem;
ssl_stapling on;
ssl_stapling_verify on;
# Prevent Nginx HTTP Server Detection
server_tokens off;
location = /robots.txt {
allow all;
}
location ^~ /.well-known {
location = /.well-known/carddav { return 301 /remote.php/dav/; }
location = /.well-known/caldav { return 301 /remote.php/dav/; }
location /.well-known/acme-challenge { root /var/www; 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;
}
# PHP for Nextcloud
location ~ \.php$ {
alias /usr/share/webapps;
try_files $fastcgi_script_name =404; #404
include fastcgi_params;
# fastcgi settings
fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php-fpm-legacy/nextcloud.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_buffers 8 16k;
fastcgi_buffer_size 32k;
# fastcgi params
fastcgi_param DOCUMENT_ROOT $realpath_root;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $realpath_root$fastcgi_script_name;
#fastcgi_param PHP_ADMIN_VALUE "open_basedir=$base/:/usr/lib/php/:/tmp/";
}
location ^~ /nextcloud {
alias /usr/share/webapps;
# set max upload size and increase upload timeout:
client_max_body_size 512M;
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;
# Pagespeed is not supported by Nextcloud, so if your server is built
# with the `ngx_pagespeed` module, uncomment this line to disable it.
#pagespeed off;
# 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; preload;" always;
# 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 {
alias /usr/share/webapps;
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(?:$|/) {
alias /usr/share/webapps;
# Required for legacy support
rewrite ^/nextcloud/(?!index|remote|public|cron|core\/ajax\/update|status|ocs\/v[12]|updater\/.+|ocs-provider\/.+|.+\/richdocumentscode(_arm64)?\/proxy) /nextcloud/index.php$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 $path_info;
fastcgi_param HTTPS on;
fastcgi_param modHeadersAvailable true; # Avoid sending the security headers twice
fastcgi_param front_controller_active true; # Enable pretty urls
fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php-fpm-legacy/nextcloud.sock;
fastcgi_intercept_errors on;
fastcgi_request_buffering off;
fastcgi_max_temp_file_size 0;
}
# Serve static files
location ~ \.(?:css|js|mjs|svg|gif|ico|jpg|png|webp|wasm|tflite|map|ogg|flac)$ {
alias /usr/share/webapps;
try_files $uri /nextcloud/index.php$request_uri;
# HTTP response headers borrowed from Nextcloud `.htaccess`
add_header Cache-Control "public, max-age=15778463$asset_immutable";
add_header Referrer-Policy "no-referrer" always;
add_header X-Content-Type-Options "nosniff" always;
add_header X-Frame-Options "SAMEORIGIN" always;
add_header X-Permitted-Cross-Domain-Policies "none" always;
add_header X-Robots-Tag "noindex, nofollow" always;
add_header X-XSS-Protection "1; mode=block" always;
access_log off; # Optional: Don't log access to assets
}
location ~ \.(otf|woff2?)$ {
alias /usr/share/webapps;
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 {
alias /usr/share/webapps;
return 301 /nextcloud/remote.php$request_uri;
}
location /nextcloud {
alias /usr/share/webapps;
try_files $uri $uri/ /nextcloud/index.php$request_uri;
}
}
}
}
Here's the previous nextcloud config:
<?php
$CONFIG = array (
'trusted_domains' =>
array (
0 => 'localhost',
1 => 'example.com',
),
'overwrite.cli.url' => 'https://example.com/nextcloud',
'htaccess.RewriteBase' => '/nextcloud',
'datadirectory' => '/var/lib/nextcloud/data',
'logfile' => '/var/log/nextcloud/nextcloud.log',
'maintenance_window_start' => 0,
'apps_paths' =>
array (
0 =>
array (
'path' => '/usr/share/webapps/nextcloud/apps',
'url' => '/apps',
'writable' => false,
),
1 =>
array (
'path' => '/var/lib/nextcloud/apps',
'url' => '/wapps',
'writable' => true,
),
),
'passwordsalt' => '***',
'secret' => '***',
'dbtype' => 'mysql',
'version' => '30.0.1.2',
'dbname' => '***',
'dbhost' => 'localhost:/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock',
'dbport' => '',
'dbtableprefix' => 'oc_',
'mysql.utf8mb4' => true,
'dbuser' => '***',
'dbpassword' => '***',
'installed' => true,
'instanceid' => '***',
);
And here's what I added to the config after looking at the docs you posted:
'overwriteprotocol' => 'https',
'overwritewebroot' => '/nextcloud',
'overwritehost' => 'example.com',
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Resolved the issue! Not entirely sure if this is the best way so if anyone has a better way please still reply but this works for now.
So I more thoroughly read up on location, alias and root. Turns out in certain cases it's actually better to use root instead of alias inside a location.
I adapted the recommended config by putting everything below the .well-known directive into another `location /nextcloud` directive with `root /usr/share/webapps;`, which looking at the wiki page now, was kind of implied to be done, though I'm sure it could be explained better.
Anyway, thanks for the help and have a nice day everyone!
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