Installing Nextcloud on Unraid 2022 pt1

[@fakecubed]

This is way more thorough than I could have hoped, but I should have expected it. Exceptional quality tutorial as always. I sincerely wish a lot of people see this and decide to tackle the project for themselves. Self-hosting is the future. Commercial cloud services can't be trusted and are definitely not our friends.

[@notoryous2]

That's INSANE. I've been eyeing your video to implement this just now. Great to have an updated guide. Thank you!

[@SpaceinvaderOne]

Glad you like it!

[@toolbelt7439]

Bly me! I looked at this 3x and there is only one path mistake on your video (@16:38 the command you typed does not match what's on the bottom path), but after such a mini oversight I REALLY enjoyed this whole video. You are by far a very patient man to put this together. Thank you mate! Cheers.

[@ParalysedGekko]

I really love your content! Since most internet providers are distributing IPv6 adresses now, this tutorial is quite outdated. The web lacks a good unraid/nextcloud tutorial based on IPv6 adress handling...i would really LOVE to see you updating this very useful and beautiful tutorial you made.

[@Tintifaxize]

I hope everything is okay now, health is always the most important thing!

[@johnissa5268]

The most helpful, straightforward, and simple tutorial I have witnessed on youtube. Worked perfectly on the first try and was exactly the same as my install.

[@YoutubeHistorian1999]

I was just watching your old tutorial a week ago and was going to ask for an update, wow you read my mind. Your videos help so much man, thank you!

[@collin3089]

at 16:40 the path you have listed is missing the "nginx" folder! It is correct in the terminal window though

[@raichua]

This needs to be pinned.

[@shalamigri]

Mann...I used this last year to setup Nextcloud. I was just following the directions but wasn't really trying to make any sense of any of the reverse proxy stuff, but watching it again really helped me to understand what's going on behind the scene.

[@JoeSee]

Yet another two year old video that walks me through everything - and super simple. THANK YOU!

[@shansen008]

Well, I can NOW officially access my nextcloud from anywhere. There is no way I could have done this without this tutorial. Thank you so much!!

[@HannsSchulmeister]

Hope you´ll recover to the fullest - thanks for all the work you put in these videos. Have a great and healthy holiday season.

[@MrDead1975]

just a quick thank you for all the superb guides, about to setup my first unraid NAS and your guides will make it a stress free process

[@garrettc.9451]

Your audio sounds way better than previous! Love the content. I've been rocking Nextcloud for the last couple years because of you ;) Awesome work.

[@MaartenVandenBroucke]

You're a true hero! This has been sitting on my mind ever since I set up my unraid server. Thanks to all your previous videos, I had everything at hand to complete this one without any problems! Thank you and keep up the good work.

[@zebdelrosario2920]

To anybody trying this and receiving error 522: make sure your SSL settings in CloudFlare (domain > SSL tab on your left) is set to "full", this is defaulted to "flexible". Took me half a day of figuring out. Also call your ISP if they are blocking your ports 443 and 80; they should unblock them upon request.

[@droptoilet]

You are a legend

[@straxthe15th34]

Huge thanks! I was stuck with that 522 error until I saw this.

[@motu6161]

I have my SSL security set to full. On the router 80 external/180 internal, 443 external/1443 internal forwarded. Not sure why but I am still gettin a 522 error.

[@bunnymuncher1864]

This fixed my 522 error, thank you!

[@mdnet78]

Was stuck on this. You saved my day !!

[@KrisRatliff75]

Welcome back Ed. Glad you are on the mend and thank you again for the video. I've been wanting to get this setup for quite some time. Tried it last year and got NextCloud working, but, couldn't get Only Office working. I'm looking forward to this series as your instructions are always so thorough, I'm sure it will work as I've wanted it to. Be blessed my friend.

[@reaXona]

This and your other related videos are so detailed yet simple and incredibly helpful. Thanks for making these!

[@shouse94]

Please k

[@wjhazel]

I keep running into an issue when creating the nextcloud user via the webgui. It says it can't connect to the database. I've tried setting the database host to the ip it's accessing it from 192.x.x.x:3306, localhost:3306, and the port mapped address 172.17.x.x:3306 and none of them work. I tried setting the network mode of each to host or custom (since their 172.17 addresses are not in the same network) and still nadda. Any suggestions?

[@T.N.T.15]

Delete app data for both services and reinstalled everything

[@faulkner146]

Glad you’re updating you’re videos with all the changes with unraid.

[@techdrums4204]

A complete noob like myself is very grateful to you as I enter the world of servers and build my first UnRaid server. You have obviously earned an eager subscriber and I look forward to checking out your old and new content. Cheers mate!

[@themagiceye6723]

Perfect timing for this update! Thanks for all you do Ed.

[@vinylwalk3r]

THANK YOU SIR!! I've been fiddling with this on and off for a probably two or three months now, but only this evening did I get it working, and only thanks to your thorough and detailed tutorial! Hats of and many thanks to you Spaceinvader!

[@nilleftw]

Thank you! I finally managed to repair my broken Nextcloud instance with this video. I was running SQLite before and installed MariaDB with this video instead.

[@chickenschnitzel678]

its currently 2:20 AM i started watching vidoes on how to fix this at 7PM i forgot that you made a updated version which you are a god

[@DavidJJJ]

This was a great howto, everything worked as expected for me. I also already was forwarding to homeassistant, so I changed that to swag and now swag can handle all my networking, so that's great.

[@user-dr2pg8fk2i]

Could you make an updated version of the video?

[@FrostyButters]

Oh no! Sorry to hear about the injury Spaceinvader One. I'm glad to hear you're doing better

[@markuskohler2387]

Thank you so much, I started to switch to nextcloud from google workspaces recently, this video was quite helpfull. I'm using a dirty solution for onlyoffice until now, looking forward for this topic to fix the solution I'm currently using.

[@roshill2010]

I actually followed your old video and got stuck. I went the DDNS route and it's working great so far. Will check this video out too just incase that stops working for some reason. This was very much needed thank you.

[@roshill2010]

Omg hope you get better soon. Take care of your self. This channel has been a huge help to me installing and creating my server.

[@terranceoliver8935]

THANK YOU SO MUCH I had so many issues attempting to set up the reverse proxy correctly, and this finally fixed it. I had to slow down and do everything step by step!

[@SpaceinvaderOne]

Glad it helped! thanks for watching :)

[@collin3089]

perfect timing! Awesome video as always!

[@SpaceinvaderOne]

Enjoy! Thanks for watching :)

[@Milhouz]

Super helpful! Can't wait for part 2 as that has part of the features I am looking to add.

[@zamalek-en2ec]

Thank you for your effort in helping us, I tried your guide on Unraid 6.11.5 id did not work, so I installed 6.9.2 and worked perfectly. then I updated Unraid

[@alikus727]

soo good Ed, I always look forward to all your videos. Thanks for everything...

[@LingBaneHydra]

Could you update this tutorial? Todays Nextcloud (Official), MariaDB (Official) and Unraid seems to be a bit different. The tutorial is not holding up so well. I know it's a lot of work but noobs like me don't have much easy and awesome resources like this. Thanks for the video!

[@shansen008]

I got it figured out. Hardest part for me was properly setting up the dynamic dns with cloudflare. Once I got that hashed out, the rest was as easy as simply following along with the video. I registered with cloudflare, so there is another video he has where he explains how to install the cloudflare-DDNS docker container, it accomplishes the same thing as in this vid. From there you just have to add some CNAME entries in your DNS management that point your subdomain to your dynamic URL, otherwise it will go through proxy and be a mess/headache. Im by no means an expert, but if you havent got this figured out yet, ill check this thread if you reply to comments if you need help still. This is the vid that explains the dynamic dns setup better. kzbin.info/www/bejne/eYSaY56EZ8hpnrc

[@BergeSimonian]

Mate, brilliant as usual. Truly appreciate your efforts in making our lives easier. Glad you're doing well after the injury and looking forward to more content from you!

[@rajibear77]

Sorry to hear about your accident, glad that you have been recovering

[@MrShadenis]

Need some help here....I did setup duckdns and cloudflare as stated, but I can't seem to get on the swag homepage, I am able to ping both the domain and the duckdns reverse proxy. I tried portforwarding 443 to the server, but when I test for open ports it says it is closed for my public IP..

[@Shaq2k]

Excellent guide! BUT: how do you connect to it from your local network? The way this is set up, the traffic will always go out the internet first even if both client and server are on the local network.

[@vfaguilera]

I have this problem , my download speeds in local are limited to my ISP upload speed, VERY SLOW compared to local

[@brookspn]

I've been waiting for this!! So glad to see it. Thanks, Ed!!

[@MAFuentes]

I wish you the best recovery. Your videos help me a lot with unRAID

[@SpaceinvaderOne]

Thanks and thanks for watching :)

[@Stuart-Taylor]

Great guide, thanks so much! Got the bad gateway error and i was like "argh" till watched the rest! :)

[@SteveHill68K]

Exactly the same with me! Always watch to the end before attempting to troubleshoot and stuffing up even more :)

[@SuperMcZombie]

I got to the end and tried it and got the gateway error and thought I did something wrong and then you instantly showed how to fix it :D Thank you!

[@juanferley]

I got the gateway error (502 Bad Gateway) How did you fix it?

[@SuperMcZombie]

@@juanferley He says how to fix it at 22:55

[@WhiskyNeighbour]

This was perfect. I had to spend some time figuring out how to use it with 'godaddy' since that is where my site is located, but I got there! Thanks so much.

[@Candinas24]

You have been my Unraid lord and savior. Thank you so much for all you do

[@YoutubeHistorian1999]

I am having an issue, when i try to create my nextcloud account and direct it to my sqldatabase (mariadb) it gives me this error --> "SQLSTATE[HY000] [1045] Access denied for user"

[@Alex-os5co]

Yeah me too, how did you fix this?

[@ngoertzen]

I have the same problem. Tried different passwords, haven't found anything yet that works. Any suggestions?

[@MLeicht6]

check mariadb's users. i had to hop into mariadb after the docker install and setup the nextcloud user. for whatever reason, linuxserver's mariadb docker appeared to not create the nextcloud user properly.

[@TheOfficialBatteryMan]

I’m getting the same issue. Feel like I’ve tried everything I knoe

[@realgenghiskhan]

Same happening for me. Any fix found?

[@rseavey]

Sorry to hear about the concussion, hope all is well. I’m excited to see some updated and expanded videos on Nextcloud. Not sure which version of Nextcloud you are installing in this video, but if the Nov 29, 2021 release date is any clue, it may coincide with newly released version 23 of Nextcloud. I just upgraded from 22 to 23 yesterday and it installed cleanly and appears to work great. However, I have reencountered the security error message regarding occ db:add-missing-indices which you addressed in your earlier Feb 12, 2020 video titled “How to Fix Various Nextcloud Errors”. I tried to run that occ fix and encountered 47 lines of error messages beginning with “ArgumentCountError: Too few arguments to function OC\App\AppStore\Fetcher\Fetcher::__construct()”. I’m hoping that you might address this in your Part 2 of this updated Nextcloud series.

[@rseavey]

Just a quick edit... there was an update to the Nextcloud Docker files yesterday which apparently corrected the problem. Prior to running that update, I reran the occ command and was still getting the errors, but following the update, it executed with no problems.

[@albertleh.]

oh my god, you saved my ass. i had the 502 error and was struggeling until you posted the solution. may god or whatever you believe in bless you

[@chrisumali9841]

Thanks for the demo and info, I hope you feel better soon. Have a great day

[@ThomasBlade37]

Thanks SIO! Looking forward to the elastic tut! Curious why you opt'd to use SWAG as the proxy in this example.

[@seamydobbsno1]

Hi Ed, I followed your installation steps, but when I hit install in the nexcloud webui i get an error: "Error while trying to create admin user: Failed to connect to the database: An exception occurred in the driver: SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Name does not resolve"

[@bazookapanda]

How did you fix this? Same issue, I think MariaDB is not creating the database properly so nextcloud can't connect to it

[@seamydobbsno1]

@BAZOOKAPANDA Yeah never figured it out... completely stumped me so gave up. Ed normally replies also so disappointed there wasn't a solution here either.

[@bazookapanda]

@@seamydobbsno1 I did try one thing. Insted of using mariaDB I used postgresq, I installed the one with a 15 at the end of it, set the same details and chose it in the nextcloud docker. There is no sqlLite error in nextcloud so I assume its fine. So yea substitute mariaDB for postgresql15 and see.

[@seamydobbsno1]

@BAZOOKAPANDA Yeah I might try it. It's not something a really required it more just curiosity after watching one of his videos. But yeah if it works it could be handy

[@ElmokillaXDK]

@@bazookapanda if you install em both on the same custom docker network you can use the container name instead of the port for the database eg. MariaDB, and as for the container not creating the db use admirer for gui where you can create it

[@p0larz0mbies]

Thank you so much for making an updated guide, I wouldn't be able to set this up without your help.

[@MantaProx2]

Nice work with redoing this one, the flow was awesome

[@MrMischelito]

Happy there is an uptodate guide, because after moving to a new house I am afraid I have to set up my nextcloud again

[@user-it4oq7yk9s]

Another great video! Thanks again that you donate your freetime to us, making this awesome videos!

[@Knutowskie]

just a question. i have a nextcloud up and running. also i got SWAG and MariaDB. All works fine. But i have a separate duckdns container running as you showed in a earlier video. is this now not needed anymore?

[@IEnjoyCreatingVideos]

Another great video Ed! sorry to hear about the head trauma i'm glad your ok :) Thanks for always sharing with us!💖👍😎JP

[@nwolfe1990]

I loved Nextcloud, the only issue I ever had with it was my uploads to it where slow.

[@ajquayle]

Thanks so much for the video. I spent all day yesterday on it. Sorry for posting an error, that was explained 5 seconds later in the video! I followed each step, executed, then stopped. If I had gone ahead 5 secs. I would have seen how to correct the error! Unfortunately it appears my ISP blocks ports 80 and 443 I spent hours trying to get it working, I didn't consider ISP block. I did a tcpdump on my USG port - no data from an external connect. Yes there is data internally!

[@paradroid888]

Thanks for this video. I got stuck on how to specify the database server on the nextcloud setup page. Changing localhost to the IP of the server (as you did) works!

[@SpaceinvaderOne]

Great I'm glad to hear its all working for you. Thanks for watching :)

[@matthiasbuscher2190]

Thank you for your great tutorials! Could you maybe consider doing a tutorial on Seafile? It's much faster and less bloated than Nextcloud. Getting the docker to run is pretty easy but accessing it over swag etc. Pffftttt never was able to get it to work.

[@Vipe694]

Any chance for a video on doing a proper offsite backup of nextcloud?

[@darthkielbasa]

Worked like a charm, sir. If my wife will allow it, I’m upgrading my Patreon contribution.

[@adambuchanan6599]

Came just in time man! I was really sad that my old nextcloud container that wasn't working.

[@almulder10]

Hope your feeling better. Any ETA on Pt2? (Love your videos, learned so much and my unraid would not be what it is without them.)

[@yhenrichon]

Great to see you back. Take care buddy.

[@nickmurray7703]

As Always, another Amazing video, It would be super nice if you had timestamps though, like "Reverse Proxy" setup etc. Also on the Reverse Proxy info it would be nice if you mentioned duckdns because that was what your old video recommended, now I'm thinking there may be something wrong with duckdns

[@SpaceinvaderOne]

Thanks for the feedback Nick. No, nothing wrong with duckdns :)

[@nickmurray7703]

@@SpaceinvaderOne cool thanks, again my unraid server would be a simple file server without your videos! Instead it's the hub to my home and business

[@julian.morgan]

Thanks Ed - I got this set up with NPM instead of swag and while it seems to work reliably within a browser, the file sync between LAN computers and the unraid server is incredibly slow. Any idea what might be going on, or what I might have done wrong? This seems to be a fairly common complaint when I've searched the issue . . . . thanks

[@roderickvanrhyn2073]

at 16:37 you command on the screen is incorrect. It is different than the one you typed

[@nadirnikakhtar1129]

Brilliant, thank you so much for the time and effort sacrificed for teaching us, stay blessed SI1

[@baldsealion]

Firefly Fan!!! Yes! hahaha... all my computers are named after Firefly characters and places! Just finished the series again with our kid, he loved it.

[@gurulee73]

Very helpful, thank you so much for your time and effort on this.

[@kaiser_sose]

Should we be setting up dynamic.yourdomain and pointing subdomains to that, as you demonstrate in "Tracking your Dynamic ISP IP Address for use with your Home Server with Cloudflare DDNS & Duck DNS"?

[@cyberclaw77]

I'm wondering the same thing. Any insights?

[@zilla8232]

Also wondering the same. From what I can tell, Cloudflare and DuckDNS can both dynamically track your WAN IP. So why is he pointing Cloudflare to DuckDNS?

[@spacecowboy1033]

were you able to figure this out? I'm pretty confused on what should be in target

[@kaiser_sose]

@@spacecowboy1033 I just made the CNAME subdomains on Clouflare. I don't recall it all, but followed SpaceInvader1 and IBRACorp videos and kind of muddled my way through.

[@lennertclaeys3723]

Hello, your guide is awesome. I'm able to setup a local NextCloud server. I now wanna make it so I can acces it everywhere, but I'm stuck at 10:00 in the video. How do I know what the target of the alias is?

[@BriceCarroll]

Same

[@lennertclaeys3723]

@@BriceCarroll It's more explained in this video of him, kzbin.info/www/bejne/eYSaY56EZ8hpnrc

[@schnittmagier5515]

I think this is instruction Video is what you need to do first kzbin.info/www/bejne/eYSaY56EZ8hpnrc

[@Sz4qu]

Same here. It's global ip? But when I put global ip I get 1004 cname error

[@Sz4qu]

Ok I know now, this target is from kzbin.info/www/bejne/eYSaY56EZ8hpnrc duckdns domain ;)

[@lahadtoure8383]

for the rest of your future, I’m looking forward to being able to invest when I turn 21 in November!

[@goodcitizen4587]

It's really quite simple. LOL! Thanks for the vid!

[@dylanoyer4348]

I'm on the last step where you put NextCloud on the custom docker network but when i click on NextCloud i don't have the EDIT option, its just missing. Any ideas?

[@RoniTuomi]

Thank you for the detailed instructions, great video! I got everything up and running with this guide, i was wondering if it is possible to use the same instance of swag, to reverse proxy other services like overseerr also?

[@demonmaestro]

Well 2 years later it appears some of the config has changed with SWAG.

[@migram67]

Hi everyone, unfortunately I don't know English very well, I can't figure out which port to open on the router, 443 or 1443 or 444? Would anyone be kind enough to answer me? I am always getting the error "404 Not Found - nginx"

[@AndreAndre-ud6dj]

Hi, in this series, are you going to show how to set up smartphone to nextcloud ? that would be awesome...

[@joeytwopointoh]

Confused as to where DuckDNS comes into play if we have our own domain and are using Cloudflare

[@xeneye]

Thanks for this updated guide Ed, much appreciated. I've twice in the past tried to use Nextcloud with Unraid, but both times its failed after a few months when there is an update. Does this seem like a Nextcloud thing or a docker thing because I was thinking of reinstalling it again, but this time in a VM to see if that's any better?

[@Jonathan_2099]

same thing has happened to me. Im installing it again because i keep getting an "This version of Nextcloud is not compatible with > PHP" error

[@charliedgabriel]

When will part 2 be available? Will part 2 have the Elasticsearch indexing of files? Thanks for all of your time creating nice tutorial videos.

[@MrMischelito]

A huge help - as usual. Thank you!

[@scottm6518]

Great video. For the next in the series, can you please include Borgmatic as a backup solution for NextCloud and show how to configure it? Many people show NextCloud installs but I haven't found anyone showing a backup of one, particularly on Unraid. Thanks!

[@SpaceinvaderOne]

Noted

[@marcoknives]

Yes! Finally is working!!! Thanks a lot!

[@4dario615]

TNice tutorials is literally the hardest tNice tutorialng my brain can't comprehend. AnytNice tutorialng else I do takes a few minutes and tNice tutorials is just.. it's just so confusing

[@edgardoirizarry9997]

Great video. I had tried so many times to set Nextcloud and failed. Watch and follow every step you did and was able to get my Nextcloud fully working no issues. There’s one thing I saw on Nextcloud under Security & setup warnings. It says (The “Strict-Transport-Security” HTTP header is not set to at least “15552000” seconds. For enhanced security, it is recommended to enable HSTS as described in the security tips. I have been trying to find where I can correct that.

[@edgardoirizarry9997]

I was able to correct the warnings. Under the nginx/site-confs/default I removed the # in front of the sentence that’s listed for that. Also, under nextcloud/config/config.php added the following command ‘default_phone_region’ => ‘’, and saved all changes made restarted the Nextcloud container and I got the green check mark under overview. I’m all good now.

[@codyzurn30]

If you cannot create a NextCloud Admin account check the mariadb log. If you look at the mariadb log and see it changing 022 to 0640 you can change the UMASK setting from 022 to 0640 under more settings. If you look at the mariadb log and it states "World-writable config file '/etc/my.cnf.d/custom.cnf' is ignored" go to your mariadb install under databases and delete any ib_logfile* then restart mariadb. Hope this helps!

[@relaxunwind4971]

Still not working for me, any other suggestions?

[@sabotpfl]

I have run into a roadblock at the reverse proxy setup. I searched the comments with the hope that it was explained i little more in detail but I didn't see any further information. I have a netgear router and i think I created the port forwarding similar as in your other video. External port is TCP 443 and the internal is TCP 1443. Any suggestions for this old newbie?

[@sabotpfl]

My bad, I copied the wrong domain name from DuckDNS... I'm such a newbie... Awesome, awesome work Ed!!!!

[@BenjaminSweetnam]

Thanks been setting this up and a couple of things have been bugging me hopefully this should fix them.

[@BenjaminSweetnam]

got it working :D

[@wcg66]

Awesome and useful, as usual!

[@SpaceinvaderOne]

Glad you think so!

[@user-pn3gm6ms6t]

12:54 I would recommend clicking the link and following those instructions That way you can avoid storing the global key which, if someone acquired that, could be very bad The link also says you should chmod 600 that file, but maybe it already does that?

[@8BitLife69]

Ed, is there ever going to be a part 2? Perhaps on tuning and improving the QOS? Nextcloud is awful out of the box, I never use it. It's TOO SLOW.

[@Nakomaify]

If you get "Error while trying to create admin user: Failed to connect to the database" it might be a red herring. I found someone else who had an issue with using the word "Admin" in the username I had MynameAdmin and it kept failing. Deleted, reinstalled twice, tried all different types of database host IP/hostname, reset all the passwords. So if you have Admin in the user name just try remove that first...

[@chillstar]

I had problems using 'nextroot' so maybe it doesn't like the word root in there either.

[@dancue599]

Are you still working on a video for elasticsearch and OnlyOffice?

[@haptikgames]

Have they improved speed yet? I remember it always being painfully slow.

[@danuw3lls]

still slow i was hoping this video would help, the android app is practically unusable.

[@snakesandtrails9290]

@9:57 I got hung up trying to put in my home IP address. what do I enter into target? I don't have a domain name for my server but I created a domain with godaddy as the recommended video instructed. I just can't get past this step. I am getting error code: "DNS Validation Error (Code: 1004) Content for CNAME record is invalid." I enterred CNAME into the dropdown, nextcloud under name and can't find what to type under "target"

[@gorschill8456]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/eYSaY56EZ8hpnrc he has this video addressing this very thing "Tracking your Dynamic ISP IP Address". This video should have been also mentioned and linked like the Domain buying one.