Nextcloud

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• Homepage
• OCC commands

 

Installing

• Installing Nextcloud

HOWTO

Use Elasticsearch

Install electricsearch and check:

curl -XGET 'localhost:9200/?pretty'

Install the apps:

Search->Full text search
Search->Full text search - Elasticsearch Platform 

Configure search:

Settings->Full text search
 Search platform: "Elasticsearch"
 Address of the Servlet http://localhost:9200

'Navigation icon' ???

Fix "login throttled"

occ security:bruteforce:reset your-ip

FAQ

Run occ as apache

sudo -u www-data php occ whatevercommand

Upgrading

Web upgrader is under "Overview", not "Version"

Check for expected files, The following extra files have been found:

Probably files in install root dir

Stops at X Create backup

Check data/updater.log

apache error log: Client denied by server configuration: .ocdata

That's from the Overview test cycle, so in fact a good sign

Authentication

nextcloud and yubikey

Works using the U2F app

Location of the logfile

Could be:

/var/www/nextcloud/data/nextcloud.log

Nextcloud in snap

Location of data

/var/snap/nextcloud/common/nextcloud/data/

<your installation>/data/nextcloud.log

Editing config in nextcloud snap

nextcloud.occ config:xxx

File encoding for /<user>/files/foo.txt is not UTF-8. This may cause problems.

file contains non-UTF-8 characters

 

The files you are trying to upload exceed the maximum size for file uploads on this server.

???

Can't find ldap user

Even though admin interface "verify user" works:

php occ ldap:check-user foo

Cannot check user existence, because disabled LDAP configurations are present.

Admin interface, under LDAP / AD integration ->Advanced "Configuration active"

 php occ ldap:check-user foo --force

 

Access forbidden CSRF check failed

another mystery

 

Import data

occ files:scan <userid>

or in snap:

(sudo) nextcloud.occ files:scan <userid>

Uknown user 1

It needs the user ID, not name

Mail

https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/latest/admin_manual/configuration_server/email_configuration.html

Unexpected error during account creation

Try enabling mail_smtpdebug

MP4 not playing

Could be HCEV/H.265 which is not supported by browsers because of patents. Try converting with ffmpeg.

Update needed

And occ upgrade failing, try setting version in config.php to version reported by occ --version

The PHP OPcache module is not loaded

try uncommenting

opcache.memory_consumption

and remember to restart php-fpm as well as apache