Just had NextCloud denying my credentials (not for the first time). I know they weren’t wrong because I’m using a password manager. Logs didn’t say much. Was about to reinstall (again, not the first time nextcloud went bonkers on me) before I tried a docker compose down && docker compose up. Lo and behold after a restart the credentials worked again.

This stuff is just way too flaky for something so important.

Is OwnCloud good again? My main usecase is saving photos but I don’t want them locked away in a database so SeaFile is out.

Edit: I’m going to take the time to reply to you all, bit busy with work and family suddenly. But a little update - I’ve quickly setup Immich and fired up the CLI to import my library. AFAIK the files are still stored on disk somewhere but metadata is in a database. I didn’t realize this before, knowing that I think my mind is made up and Immich is the best solution. Thanks everyone!

  • Morethanevil@lmy.mymte.de
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    I am using nextcloud for years now with postgres, redis and configured PHP setttings, but I installed it on the host. Never had any problems, Performance is awesome… Almost everytime I read about problems is with the docker images. The new AIO image shall be bad too, but I can not say anything to this, since I don’t use it.

    I really like docker, but sometimes it is better to install on the host directly or use an LXC if you need isolation. MinIO is the same… Would not want it in a Container

    Maybe seafile could be an option for you 🤔

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      Been running multiple Nextcloud instances for years on bog standard debian + apache + php-fpm install, as documented in the official docs which do not even mention docker. Upgrades were never a problem. Some apps may suffer some bugs from time to time, but Nextcloud itself works flawlessly. Wrote an ansible role to install, manage and update it. The only thing that deviates from the “recommended” setup is Postgres instead of MariaDB. People need to start following the actual documented/well-supported installation options and stop trying to stick containers everywhere…

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        The docs are very good and you have a lot of tutorials for nextcloud, bit mostly they scratch only on the surface. They show you how to install and if you are lucky you see how to setup HTTPS…

        But then? Start nextcloud and go to system overview and everything is red and you get warnings about region, php opcache… 😁 Most tutorials end there. It is a pity

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      I just don’t see how docker can fuck something like this up honestly, the only thing that can be screwy is permissions when dealing with filesystem mounts - but once you’ve got that working it should be pretty static.

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        Maybe it is permissions or the image won’t start correctly. Maybe it tries to read from the database which is jot up at the moment or something similar 🤔

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      I tried to run it on Debian and on each update it was always complaining the php version too old. Maybe on a distro that doesn’t come with ancient packages can be ok…

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        I guess this is only a problem on an older debian server. Then you could use the PHP PPA. Some people still run PHP 7.4 or even 5.6, but they are end of life 😳