Setup Nextcloud 19.0.4 on Fedora 32

JaredBusch

Note to all, I have not yet ran though my instructions in one go. This is basically a copy paste of them as I built up the server.

I'll wipe it tomorrow and do it again to make sure the instructions are solid.

JaredBusch

@Pete-S said in Setup Nextcloud 19.0.4 on Fedora 32:

And I think you need to be root to create conf files under apache as well:
"Create the nextcloud apache config file" section

No, because it is created in the local folder and then moved and permissions fixed.

Because you cannot sudo cat >> /restricted/folder/fuck.conf << EOF

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@JaredBusch said in Setup Nextcloud 19.0.4 on Fedora 32:

Note to all, I have not yet ran though my instructions in one go. This is basically a copy paste of them as I built up the server.

I'll wipe it tomorrow and do it again to make sure the instructions are solid.

Well, you did great work anyway. It takes a lot of time to make instructions.

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@JaredBusch said in Setup Nextcloud 19.0.4 on Fedora 32:

Because you cannot sudo cat >> /restricted/folder/fuck.conf << EOF

I wouldn't know. I just go root and go to work. I'm too lazy to type sudo a hundred times. Probably frowned upon but I don't care.

JaredBusch

@Pete-S said in Setup Nextcloud 19.0.4 on Fedora 32:

@JaredBusch said in Setup Nextcloud 19.0.4 on Fedora 32:

Because you cannot sudo cat >> /restricted/folder/fuck.conf << EOF

I wouldn't know. I just go root and go to work. I'm too lazy to type sudo a hundred times. Probably frowned upon but I don't care.

I'm so used to typing sudo, I type it even when I sudo su - into root.

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@JaredBusch said in Setup Nextcloud 19.0.4 on Fedora 32:

@Pete-S said in Setup Nextcloud 19.0.4 on Fedora 32:

@JaredBusch said in Setup Nextcloud 19.0.4 on Fedora 32:

Because you cannot sudo cat >> /restricted/folder/fuck.conf << EOF

I wouldn't know. I just go root and go to work. I'm too lazy to type sudo a hundred times. Probably frowned upon but I don't care.

I'm so used to typing sudo, I type it even when I sudo su - into root.

I've used debian a lot and sudo isn't even installed by default. Well, in a minimal install that is.

JaredBusch

@Pete-S said in Setup Nextcloud 19.0.4 on Fedora 32:

I've used debian a lot and sudo isn't even installed by default. Well, in a minimal install that is.

Yeah, I learned that when I setup my current Unifi and UNMS controllers.

I run those on Debian, and no matter the OS, I always do minimal installs for server instances.

black3dynamite

@JaredBusch said in Setup Nextcloud 19.0.4 on Fedora 32:

@Pete-S said in Setup Nextcloud 19.0.4 on Fedora 32:

And I think you need to be root to create conf files under apache as well:
"Create the nextcloud apache config file" section

No, because it is created in the local folder and then moved and permissions fixed.

Because you cannot sudo cat >> /restricted/folder/fuck.conf << EOF

Using sudo with tee works well.

sudo tee -a config.php  <<EOF
  'memcache.locking' => '\\OC\\Memcache\\Redis',
  'memcache.local' => '\\OC\\Memcache\\Redis',
  'redis' =>
  array (
    'host' => 'localhost',
    'port' => 6379,
  ),
);
EOF

JaredBusch

@black3dynamite said in Setup Nextcloud 19.0.4 on Fedora 32:

Using sudo with tee works well.

I'll try that when I redo the install.

I know I tried tee a couple years ago and things did not work right. I might have just screwed up the syntax, causing my own problems.

JaredBusch

@black3dynamite said in Setup Nextcloud 19.0.4 on Fedora 32:

Using sudo with tee works well.

Yeah, that works for the apache vhost file, and will work with the nextcloud config file once I work out what to do instead of head -n 1 for that.

JaredBusch

ok fixed. thanks.

sed '$d' for the win there.

black3dynamite

@JaredBusch said in Setup Nextcloud 19.0.4 on Fedora 32:

ok fixed. thanks.

sed '$d' for the win there.

Nice! I was about to post that command.

JaredBusch

@black3dynamite since you are better with sed than I am... Or at least better with Google and the man pages than I am..

How can I fix this to use the environment variables instead of manual.

This is part of the next step to use the "pretty URL" as it is called.
It works fine like this.

sudo sed -i -e 's/\(^DocumentRoot\s*\).*$/\1"\/var\/www\/html\/nextcloud"/' /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

But I want it to use the above $WWW_PATH and $APP_FOLDER variables.

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@JaredBusch said in Setup Nextcloud 19.0.4 on Fedora 32:

@black3dynamite since you are better with sed than I am... Or at least better with Google and the man pages than I am..

How can I fix this to use the environment variables instead of manual.

This is part of the next step to use the "pretty URL" as it is called.
It works fine like this.
sudo sed -i -e 's/$^DocumentRoot\s*$.*$/\1"\/var\/www\/html\/nextcloud"/' /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
But I want it to use the above $WWW_PATH and $APP_FOLDER variables.

What does the line do exactly?
Sets the DocumentRoot parameter to /var/www/html/nextcloud ?

~~What does $WWW_PATH and $APP_FOLDER contain?~~
Ah, the first post says: /var/www/html and nextcloud

JaredBusch

@Pete-S said in Setup Nextcloud 19.0.4 on Fedora 32:

What does the line do exactly?
Sets the DocumentRoot parameter to /var/www/html/nextcloud ?

Correct.

(      # Start a capture group
^      # Matches the start of the line 
DocumentRoot  # Matches the word I am want
\s     # a space character I should probably remove that. came from an example I found
*      # umm everything maybe? not sure inside the capture group also likely need removed
)      # End capture group 
.*     # Matches anything
$      # Matches the end of the line

So, sed should find any instance of DocumentRoot at the beging of a line. This happens only once in a default Apache config file.

The capture group means to capture the term within the parentheses in a variable. This is the 1 in the replacement section of the s/// command.

I am then appending "/var/www/html/nextcloud" to the captured string "DocumentRoot" to end up with his

JaredBusch

@Pete-S said in Setup Nextcloud 19.0.4 on Fedora 32:

~~What does $WWW_PATH and $APP_FOLDER contain?~~
Ah, the first post says: /var/www/html and nextcloud

And that is why I want to use the environment variables. Not everyone installs everything to the default location.

JaredBusch

@Pete-S said in Setup Nextcloud 19.0.4 on Fedora 32:

sudo sed -i -e 's/(^DocumentRoot\s*).*$/\1"/var/www/html/nextcloud"/' /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

Better sed. I removed the \s*

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@JaredBusch said in Setup Nextcloud 19.0.4 on Fedora 32:

@Pete-S said in Setup Nextcloud 19.0.4 on Fedora 32:

sudo sed -i -e 's/(^DocumentRoot\s*).*$/\1"/var/www/html/nextcloud"/' /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

Better sed. I removed the \s*

I think you can simplify it way more.

you don't need -e
don't use the / separator, use for instance #. So s#expression#replacement#. Then you don't have to escape your paths. And then you can put your variables straight in.

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@Pete-S said in Setup Nextcloud 19.0.4 on Fedora 32:

@JaredBusch said in Setup Nextcloud 19.0.4 on Fedora 32:

@Pete-S said in Setup Nextcloud 19.0.4 on Fedora 32:

sudo sed -i -e 's/(^DocumentRoot\s*).*$/\1"/var/www/html/nextcloud"/' /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

Better sed. I removed the \s*

I think you can simplify it way more.

you don't need -e

don't use the / separator, use for instance #. So s#expression#replacement#. Then you don't have to escape your paths. And then you can put your variables straight in.

Don't think you need the sed script inside a quoted string either.

Maybe something like this:

sudo sed -i s#\(^DocumentRoot\).*$#\1$WWW_PATH/$APP_FOLDER# /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

If you want quotes around the sed "instructions" use " so you get variable expansion, and not '.
But you don't need to quote a string as long as it doesn't contain spaces.

JaredBusch

@Pete-S said in Setup Nextcloud 19.0.4 on Fedora 32:

you don't need -e

You just trying to fix all my old habits?