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Nextcloud in docker
guide by example
Purpose & Overview
File share & sync.
Nextcloud is an open source suite of client-server software for creating and using file hosting services with wide cross platform support.
The Nextcloud server is written in PHP and JavaScript. For remote access it employs sabre/dav, an open-source WebDAV server. It is designed to work with several database management systems, including SQLite, MariaDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL.
There are many ways to deploy Nextcloud, this setup is going with the most goodies.
Using PHP-FPM
for better performance and using Redis
for more reliable
transactional file locking
and for memory file caching.
Files and directory structure
/home/
└── ~/
└── docker/
└── nextcloud/
├── nextcloud-data/
├── nextcloud-db-data/
├── .env
├── docker-compose.yml
├── nginx.conf
└── nextcloud-backup-script.sh
nextcloud-data/
- a directory where nextcloud will store users data and web app datanextcloud-db-data/
- a directory where nextcloud will store its database data.env
- a file containing environmental variables for docker composedocker-compose.yml
- a docker compose file, telling docker how to build the containersnginx.conf
- nginx web server configuration filenextcloud-backup-script.sh
- a backup script if you want it
You only need to provide the files.
The directories are created by docker compose on the first run.
docker-compose
Official examples here
Five containers to spin up
- nextcloud-app - nextcloud backend app that stores the files and facilitate the sync and runs the apps
- nextcloud-db - mariadb database where files-metadata and users-metadata are stored
- nextcloud-web - nginx web server with fastCGI PHP-FPM support
- nextcloud-redis - in memory file caching and more reliable transactional file locking
- nextcloud-cron - for periodic maintenance in the background
docker-compose.yml
version: '3'
services:
nextcloud-db:
image: mariadb
container_name: nextcloud-db
hostname: nextcloud-db
command: --transaction-isolation=READ-COMMITTED --binlog-format=ROW
restart: unless-stopped
volumes:
- ./nextcloud-data-db:/var/lib/mysql
environment:
- MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD
- MYSQL_PASSWORD
- MYSQL_DATABASE
- MYSQL_USER
nextcloud-redis:
image: redis:alpine
container_name: nextcloud-redis
hostname: nextcloud-redis
restart: unless-stopped
nextcloud-app:
image: nextcloud:fpm-alpine
container_name: nextcloud-app
hostname: nextcloud-app
restart: unless-stopped
depends_on:
- nextcloud-db
- nextcloud-redis
volumes:
- ./nextcloud-data/:/var/www/html
environment:
- MYSQL_HOST
- REDIS_HOST
- MAIL_DOMAIN
- MAIL_FROM_ADDRESS
- SMTP_SECURE
- SMTP_HOST
- SMTP_PORT
- SMTP_NAME
- SMTP_PASSWORD
nextcloud-web:
image: nginx:alpine
container_name: nextcloud-web
hostname: nextcloud-web
restart: unless-stopped
volumes:
- ./nextcloud-data/:/var/www/html:ro
- ./nginx.conf:/etc/nginx/nginx.conf:ro
nextcloud-cron:
image: nextcloud:fpm-alpine
container_name: nextcloud-cron
hostname: nextcloud-cron
restart: unless-stopped
volumes:
- ./nextcloud-data/:/var/www/html
entrypoint: /cron.sh
depends_on:
- nextcloud-db
- nextcloud-redis
networks:
default:
external:
name: $DEFAULT_NETWORK
.env
# GENERAL
MY_DOMAIN=blabla.org
DEFAULT_NETWORK=caddy_net
TZ=Europe/Bratislava
# NEXTCLOUD-MARIADB
MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=nextcloud
MYSQL_PASSWORD=nextcloud
MYSQL_DATABASE=nextcloud
MYSQL_USER=nextcloud
# NEXTCLOUD
MYSQL_HOST=nextcloud-db
REDIS_HOST=nextcloud-redis
# USING SENDGRID FOR SENDING EMAILS
MAIL_DOMAIN=blabla.org
MAIL_FROM_ADDRESS=nextcloud
SMTP_SECURE=ssl
SMTP_HOST=smtp.sendgrid.net
SMTP_PORT=465
SMTP_NAME=apikey
SMTP_PASSWORD=SG.asdasdasdasdasdasdsaasdasdsa
nginx.conf
I wont be pasting it here
in full text,
but it is included this github repo.
This is nginx web server configuration file, specifically setup to support fastCGI PHP-FPM.
Taken from this official nextcloud example
setup
and has one thing changed in it - the upstream hostname from app
to nextcloud-app
upstream php-handler {
server nextcloud-app:9000;
}
All containers must be on the same network.
Which is named in the .env
file.
If one does not exist yet: docker network create caddy_net
Reverse proxy
Nextcloud official documentation regarding reverse proxy.
Caddy v2 is used, details
here.
There are few extra directives here to fix some nextcloud warnings.
Caddyfile
nextcloud.{$MY_DOMAIN} {
reverse_proxy nextcloud-web:80
header Strict-Transport-Security max-age=31536000;
redir /.well-known/carddav /remote.php/carddav 301
redir /.well-known/caldav /remote.php/caldav 301
}
First run
Nextcloud needs few minutes to start, then there is the initial configuration,
creating admin account and giving the database details as set in the .env
file
The domain or IP you access nextcloud on this first run is added
to trusted_domains
in config.php
.
Changing the domain later on will throw "Access through untrusted domain" error.
Editing nextcloud-data/config/config.php
and adding the new domain will fix it.
Security & setup warnings
Nextcloud has a status check in Settings > Administration > Overview
There are likely several warnings on a freshly spun containers.
The database is missing some indexes
docker exec --user www-data --workdir /var/www/html nextcloud-app php occ db:add-missing-indices
Some columns in the database are missing a conversion to big int
docker exec --user www-data --workdir /var/www/html nextcloud-app php occ db:convert-filecache-bigint
The "Strict-Transport-Security" HTTP header is not set to at least "15552000" seconds.
Helps to know what is HSTS.
This warning is already fixed in the reverse proxy section in the caddy config,
the line: header Strict-Transport-Security max-age=31536000;
Your web server is not properly set up to resolve "/.well-known/caldav" and Your web server is not properly set up to resolve "/.well-known/carddav".
This warning is already fixed in the reverse proxy section in the caddy config,
The lines:
redir /.well-known/carddav /remote.php/carddav 301
redir /.well-known/caldav /remote.php/caldav 301
Troubleshooting
If there is a problem accesing nextcloud from a mobile app, "Please log in before granting access", and being stuck after logging in with the circle animation:
Edit nextcloud-data/config/config.php
adding as the last line: 'overwriteprotocol' => 'https',
Extra info
check if redis container works
At https://<nexcloud url>/ocs/v2.php/apps/serverinfo/api/v1/info
ctrl+f for redis
, should be in memcache.distributed and memcache.locking
You can also exec in to redis container:
docker exec -it nextcloud-redis /bin/sh
- start monitoring:
redis-cli MONITOR
- start browsing files on the nextcloud
- there should be activity in the monitoring
check if cron container works
- after letting Nextcloud run for a while
- in settings > administration > basic settings
- background jobs should be set to Cron
- the last job info should never be older than 10 minutes
Update
Watchtower updates the image automatically.
Manual image update:
docker-compose pull
docker-compose up -d
docker image prune
Backup and restore
Backup
Using borg that makes daily snapshot of the entire directory.
Restore
- down the nextcloud containers
docker-compose down
- delete the entire nextcloud directory
- from the backup copy back the nextcloud directory
- start the containers
docker-compose up -d
Backup of just user data
User data daily export using the
official procedure.
For nextcloud it means entering the maintenance mode, doing a database dump
and backing up several directories containing data, configs, themes.
For the script it just means database dump as borg backup and its deduplication will deal with the directories, especially in the case of nextcloud where hundreds gigabytes can be stored.
Create a backup script
Placed inside ~/docker/nextcloud/
directory on the host.
nextcloud-backup-script.sh
#!/bin/bash
# MAINTENANCE MODE ON
docker container exec --user www-data --workdir /var/www/html nextcloud-app php occ maintenance:mode --on
# CREATE DATABASE DUMP, bash -c '...' IS USED OTHERWISE OUTPUT > WOULD TRY TO GO TO THE HOST
docker container exec nextcloud-db bash -c 'mysqldump --single-transaction -h nextcloud-db -u $MYSQL_USER -p$MYSQL_PASSWORD $MYSQL_DATABASE > /var/lib/mysql/BACKUP.nextcloud.database.sql'
# MAINTENANCE MODE OFF
docker container exec --user www-data --workdir /var/www/html nextcloud-app php occ maintenance:mode --off
The script must be executable - chmod +x nextcloud-backup-script.sh
Test run the script sudo ./nextcloud-backup-script.sh
The resulting database dump is in
nextcloud/nextcloud-data-db/BACKUP.nextcloud.database.sql
Cronjob
Running on the host, so that the script will be periodically run.
su
- switch to rootcrontab -e
- add new cron job0 23 * * * /home/bastard/docker/nextcloud/nextcloud-backup-script.sh
runs it every day at 23:00crontab -l
- list cronjobs to check
Restore the user data
Assuming clean start.
- start the containers:
docker-compose up -d
let them run so they create the file structure - down the containers:
docker-compose down
- delete the directories
configs
,data
,themes
in the freshly creatednextcloud/nextcloud-data/
- from the backup of
/nextcloud/nextcloud-data/
, copy the directoriesconfigs
,data
,themes
in to the new/nextcloud/nextcloud-data/
- from the backup of
/nextcloud/nextcloud-data-db/
, copy the backup database namedBACKUP.nextcloud.database.sql
in to the new/nextcloud/nextcloud-data-db/
- start the containers:
docker-compose up -d
- set the correct user ownership of the directories copied:
docker exec --workdir /var/www/html nextcloud-app chown -R www-data:www-data config data themes
- restore the database
docker exec --workdir /var/lib/mysql nextcloud-db bash -c 'mysql -u $MYSQL_USER -p$MYSQL_PASSWORD $MYSQL_DATABASE < BACKUP.nextcloud.database.sql'
- turn off the maintenance mode:
docker container exec --user www-data --workdir /var/www/html nextcloud-app php occ maintenance:mode --off
- update the systems data-fingerprint:
docker exec --user www-data --workdir /var/www/html nextcloud-app php occ maintenance:data-fingerprint
- restart the containers:
docker-compose restart
- log in