Was on Ubuntu for a couple of desktops for a while. Moved to Fedora starting with 26 and currently on 29. I don't mind either. Have both Ubuntu and Fedora on servers as well.

@DustinB3403 I installed KVM on F29 and 2 F29 VMs. Virt-manager seems clunky at first. Just have to get more time in with it. The guests ran fine and I also moved the .qcow2 files and imported them back in as a test. No issues. I also had trouble with copy/paste in the guests.

@travisdh1 started with virt-manager. Trying to get familiar with it.

KVM - I created a storage pool in /home/VMs. Do you create a Volume for each VM? Seems like there is an unnecessary extra step if you don't use the defaults. If you create a default 20Gb volume for each VM, it seems like you are choosing the size again when going through the steps. Maybe I'm over-complicating it or just too used to Hyper-V.

@Obsolesce I am going to assume you are running Win10 in KVM on the Fedora laptop? Sounds like something I need to try.

What is a good "size" for a VM that is strictly a reverse proxy? Would 20Gb be sufficient as it is not storing any data other than log files?

A guy I used to work with used to call < and > "chicken lips right" and "chicken lips left". It was used in the terminal on Ericcson AXE Telco switches for the commands. Always gave me a chuckle.

@travisdh1 I thought that was the issue as well and temporarily disabled selinux and it did not fix my issue.

@travisdh1 On on one of the test instances I used Cockpit to mount the new vdisk as /data and that works fine. NC jsut doesn't like the permissions even though apache:apache is the owner.

@travisdh1 My dilemma is that I am trying to set up NC with an alternate "data" location which is set as /data. I can install NC all day long without issue unless I try to move the data location during install. I have tried both ways - a data folder in the same partition as the OS and with a separate disk (virtual) that is mounted as /data. Neither of those will work. I get permission errors. Apache:Apache is the owner, etc. but it does not work. I can use the default location in /var/www/html....and it works fine. If I use fstab to mount /data to /var/www/nextcloud... it works. I have been pounding my head against the wall. Everything seems correct but it has the permission on the /data in the wizard. I want a small install for the OS and a large data drive (both virtual disks). I need to retire my old server but want to set up the new one following best practices. Not having any luck as you can see.

@JaredBusch I am sure you forgot about this by now... I was looking at @scottalanmiller script at https://gitlab.com/scottalanmiller/nextcloud_fedora_installer and it appears to do what I was doing manually following your guide. He has the script creating /data. I have not run the script on Fedora 28 and changed it to reflect NC 14.0.1 to see if it will work. Ultimately, I want the data on a separate partition. Still cannot get it to work without using fstab to mount my data folder.

@jaredbusch Sure thing. Running Fedora Server 28 minimal from net install image and NC 14.0.1.
I have tried multiple times and it always fails if I try to move the data location.

@black3dynamite I have it working now. Thank you very much for the advice. What I cannot seem to understand is why it won't work by pointing to the /data location in the wizard. It seems from all the reading I have done that it should be possible. Yet, I always fail to make it work that way. Also, in @JaredBusch guide he states "Leave the data folder alone unless you know that you changed it when going through the above instructions." I thought this would be way easier but yet fails.

@black3dynamite I currently have /dev/sdb1 mounted as /ncdata. I did not edit the fstab file yet.

/dev/sdb1 133102084 165696 132936388 1% /ncdata

Should I change this first or leave as it is? Seeing that it already has a mount point, I didn't know if it will cause errors.

@black3dynamite I will try this. I am assuming you just install using the defaults and only map it in the fstab? This is similar to what I do for my Plex server. I have the "library" mapped to the server via the fstab file and the data is on a NAS.

Is there any way to make it work the way I have described?

I thought that was the correct process to avoid having to "move" the data location later. I set up the folder for the data before the install. I point NC wizard to the location I would like to use for data. That is when the error comes in to play. Everything I read says to do this versus moving the data location after the install. On the install guide by @JaredBusch it says "Personally, if you are going to use a separate disk for the data, I would just mount it to /var/www/html/nextcloud/data" but I am not sure what that is referring to.

@jaredbusch Yes. I thought that was how it is supposed to work. I assumed that you made sure the permissions were correct and it would update the necessary files to reflect the proper data location.

@black3dynamite The sample config file is there. I have zero clue as to why the normal config.php is missing. I did not delete it.

<?php
$CONFIG = array (
'instanceid' => 'xxxxxxxxxxxxx',
);

Not sure where the config file went. I am puzzled even more now. I had the same issue on the other server but the config.php file was there. May need to start over again.

On one of the other test installs from a few days ago, I disabled selinux as a test and it made no difference. I fully believe this is a permissions problem but I am unsure of how to resolve it. It shows apache apache as the owner. It could be that the "root" of /ncdata is still owned by root, but it looks like your example. I did not disable selinux on this one as I am trying to do it correctly from the beginning. Maybe there is a "better" order of what I'm trying to do.