What I’m trying to do: I am attempting to host a web server, with more in the future, and Nextcloud on my Ubuntu Server. I do not own a domain, these services will only be available within the LAN for now, and I am currently utilizing self-signed certificates.
I have the charlie site functional, but I can’t access Nextcloud via web client following installation.
The following is a representation of my goal.
Web client
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https://192.168.1.189/charlie (web site) https://192.168.1.189/nc (Nextcloud)
Where I’m stuck: I’ve seen tutorials utilize different IPs or domains for each respective web server or Nextcloud on nginx, but I have no domains and only 1 local IPv4 address for my Ubuntu Server.
The following are my web site and Nextlcoud config files.
- nginx.conf
user www-data;
worker_processes auto;
error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log notice;
pid /run/nginx.pid;
events {
worker_connections 1024;
}
http {
include /etc/nginx/snippets/ssl-params.conf;
include /etc/nginx/snippets/self-signed.conf;
include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*.conf;
include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
default_type application/octet-stream;
log_format main '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" '
'$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
'"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';
access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log main;
sendfile on;
#tcp_nopush on;
keepalive_timeout 65;
#gzip on;
}
- charlie.conf (web site)
# HTTP
#server {
#listen 80;
#server_name 192.168.1.189;
#location /charlie {
#root /usr/share/nginx/html;
#index index.html;
#}
#error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
#location = /50x.html {
#root /usr/share/nginx/html;
#}
#}
#------------------------------------------------------------------
# HTTPS
server {
listen 443 ssl default_server;
server_name 192.168.1.189;
location /charlie {
root /usr/share/nginx/html;
index index.html;
}
error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
location = /50x.html {
root /usr/share/nginx/html;
}
}
# Redirect
server {
listen 80;
server_name 192.168.1.189;
return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
}
- nc.conf (Nextcloud)
upstream php-handler {
#server 127.0.0.1:9000;
server unix:/var/run/php/php8.3-fpm.sock;
}
# Set the `immutable` cache control options only for assets with a cache busting `v` argument
map $arg_v $asset_immutable {
"" "";
default ", immutable";
}
server {
listen 80;
listen [::]:80;
server_name 192.168.1.189;
# Prevent nginx HTTP Server Detection
server_tokens off;
# Enforce HTTPS just for `/nextcloud`
location /nextcloud {
return 301 https://$server_name$request_uri;
}
}
server {
#listen 443 ssl http2;
#listen [::]:443 ssl http2;
# With NGinx >= 1.25.1 you should use this instead:
listen 443 ssl;
listen [::]:443 ssl;
http2 on;
server_name 192.168.1.189;
# Path to the root of the domain
root /var/www;
# Use Mozilla's guidelines for SSL/TLS settings
# https://mozilla.github.io/server-side-tls/ssl-config-generator/
# PROVIDED VIA CODE SNIPPET
#ssl_certificate /etc/ssl/nginx/cloud.example.com.crt;
#ssl_certificate_key /etc/ssl/nginx/cloud.example.com.key;
# Prevent nginx HTTP Server Detection
server_tokens off;
# Set .mjs and .wasm MIME types
# Either include it in the default mime.types list
# and include that list explicitly or add the file extension
# only for Nextcloud like below:
include mime.types;
types {
text/javascript mjs;
application/wasm wasm;
}
location = /robots.txt {
allow all;
log_not_found off;
access_log off;
}
location ^~ /.well-known {
# The rules in this block are an adaptation of the rules
# in the Nextcloud `.htaccess` that concern `/.well-known`.
# ENSURE PROPER CONFIG VIA SOURCE LINK
location = /.well-known/carddav { return 301 /nextcloud/remote.php/dav/; }
location = /.well-known/caldav { return 301 /nextcloud/remote.php/dav/; }
location /.well-known/acme-challenge { 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;
}
location ^~ /nextcloud {
# 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=31536000; 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 {
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(?:$|/) {
# Required for legacy support
rewrite ^/nextcloud/(?!index|remote|public|cron|core\/ajax\/update|status|ocs\/v[12]|updater\/.+|ocs-provider\/.+|.+\/richdocumentscode(_arm64)?\/proxy) /nextcloud/index.php$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 $path_info;
fastcgi_param HTTPS on;
fastcgi_param modHeadersAvailable true; # Avoid sending the security headers twice
fastcgi_param front_controller_active true; # Enable pretty urls
fastcgi_pass php-handler;
fastcgi_intercept_errors on;
fastcgi_request_buffering off;
fastcgi_max_temp_file_size 0;
}
# Serve static files
location ~ \.(?:css|js|mjs|svg|gif|ico|jpg|png|webp|wasm|tflite|map|ogg|flac)$ {
try_files $uri /nextcloud/index.php$request_uri;
# HTTP response headers borrowed from Nextcloud `.htaccess`
add_header Cache-Control "public, max-age=15778463$asset_immutable";
add_header Referrer-Policy "no-referrer" always;
add_header X-Content-Type-Options "nosniff" always;
add_header X-Frame-Options "SAMEORIGIN" always;
add_header X-Permitted-Cross-Domain-Policies "none" always;
add_header X-Robots-Tag "noindex, nofollow" always;
add_header X-XSS-Protection "1; mode=block" always;
access_log off; # Optional: Don't log access to assets
}
location ~ \.(otf|woff2?)$ {
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 {
return 301 /nextcloud/remote.php$request_uri;
}
location /nextcloud {
try_files $uri $uri/ /nextcloud/index.php$request_uri;
}
}
# SUPPRESS LOG MESSAGES (nginx section 3)
location = /data/htaccesstest.txt {
allow all;
log_not_found off;
access_log off;
}
}
What I’ve already tried: I’ve spent some time in the Nextcloud community forum and as of now the issue seems to be my lack of understanding for configuring nginx with multiple servers. I’ve been watching tutorial videos regarding nginx configurations, but nothing seems to be obviously wrong from my perspective as of yet.