[How-To] ownCloud using NGINX, PHP-FPM, and MySQL

Rickle · Mar 9, 2014

Hey there,
i have followed your tutorial and successfully installed owncloud in a portjail.
thank you Cyberjock as well for https tutorial (i was fortunate and did not have to re-compile NginX for ssl support)
i have added Fail2Ban and IPFW to help secure the installation and have added a tutorial for those that wish to follow it.
i linked my tutorial to yours. Joshua, if thats ok with you.
it can be seen here

Thank you very much for the awsome tutorial

Paulo · Mar 17, 2014

Getting this error when accessing the post setup check (http://<url>/owncloud/index.php/post-setup-check):

Code:

Your web server is not yet properly setup to allow files synchronization because the WebDAV interface seems to be broken.
Please double check the installation guides.

here's the log:

Code:

{"app":"PHP","message":"simplexml_load_string(): Entity: line 48: parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch: meta line 14 and head at \/usr\/local\/www\/owncloud\/3rdparty\/Sabre\/DAV\/Client.php#533","level":3,"time":"2014-03-17T21:12:46+00:00"}
{"app":"PHP","message":"simplexml_load_string(): \t\t\t&lt;\/head&gt; at \/usr\/local\/www\/owncloud\/3rdparty\/Sabre\/DAV\/Client.php#533","level":3,"time":"2014-03-17T21:12:46+00:00"}
{"app":"PHP","message":"simplexml_load_string(): \t\t\t      ^ at \/usr\/local\/www\/owncloud\/3rdparty\/Sabre\/DAV\/Client.php#533","level":3,"time":"2014-03-17T21:12:46+00:00"}
{"app":"PHP","message":"simplexml_load_string(): Entity: line 72: parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch: meta line 13 and html at \/usr\/local\/www\/owncloud\/3rdparty\/Sabre\/DAV\/Client.php#533","level":3,"time":"2014-03-17T21:12:46+00:00"}
{"app":"PHP","message":"simplexml_load_string(): &lt;\/html&gt; at \/usr\/local\/www\/owncloud\/3rdparty\/Sabre\/DAV\/Client.php#533","level":3,"time":"2014-03-17T21:12:46+00:00"}
{"app":"PHP","message":"simplexml_load_string():        ^ at \/usr\/local\/www\/owncloud\/3rdparty\/Sabre\/DAV\/Client.php#533","level":3,"time":"2014-03-17T21:12:46+00:00"}
{"app":"PHP","message":"simplexml_load_string(): Entity: line 73: parser error : Premature end of data in tag head line 9 at \/usr\/local\/www\/owncloud\/3rdparty\/Sabre\/DAV\/Client.php#533","level":3,"time":"2014-03-17T21:12:46+00:00"}
{"app":"PHP","message":"simplexml_load_string():  at \/usr\/local\/www\/owncloud\/3rdparty\/Sabre\/DAV\/Client.php#533","level":3,"time":"2014-03-17T21:12:46+00:00"}
{"app":"PHP","message":"simplexml_load_string(): ^ at \/usr\/local\/www\/owncloud\/3rdparty\/Sabre\/DAV\/Client.php#533","level":3,"time":"2014-03-17T21:12:46+00:00"}
{"app":"PHP","message":"simplexml_load_string(): Entity: line 73: parser error : Premature end of data in tag html line 7 at \/usr\/local\/www\/owncloud\/3rdparty\/Sabre\/DAV\/Client.php#533","level":3,"time":"2014-03-17T21:12:46+00:00"}
{"app":"PHP","message":"simplexml_load_string():  at \/usr\/local\/www\/owncloud\/3rdparty\/Sabre\/DAV\/Client.php#533","level":3,"time":"2014-03-17T21:12:46+00:00"}
{"app":"PHP","message":"simplexml_load_string(): ^ at \/usr\/local\/www\/owncloud\/3rdparty\/Sabre\/DAV\/Client.php#533","level":3,"time":"2014-03-17T21:12:46+00:00"}
{"app":"core","message":"isWebDAVWorking: NO - Reason: The passed data is not valid XML (InvalidArgumentException)","level":2,"time":"2014-03-17T21:12:46+00:00"}

and the source of the file (i think) it's looking at (/owncloud/remote.php/webdav):

Code:

<html>
<head>
  <title>Index for / - SabreDAV 1.7.6-stable</title>
  <style type="text/css">
  body { Font-family: arial}
  h1 { font-size: 150% }
  </style>
        <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/owncloud/remote.php/webdav/?sabreAction=asset&assetName=favicon.ico" type="image/vnd.microsoft.icon" /></head>
<body>
  <h1>Index for /</h1>
  <table>
    <tr><th width="24"></th><th>Name</th><th>Type</th><th>Size</th><th>Last modified</th></tr>
    <tr><td colspan="5"><hr /></td></tr><tr><td colspan="5"><hr /></td></tr></table>
        <address>Generated by SabreDAV 1.7.6-stable (c)2007-2013 <a href="http://code.google.com/p/sabredav/">http://code.google.com/p/sabredav/</a></address>
        </body>
        </html>

Joshua Parker Ruehlig · Mar 17, 2014

Paulo said:

Getting this error when accessing the post setup check (http://<url>/owncloud/index.php/post-setup-check):

Code:

Your web server is not yet properly setup to allow files synchronization because the WebDAV interface seems to be broken.
Please double check the installation guides.

here's the log:

Code:

{"app":"PHP","message":"simplexml_load_string(): Entity: line 48: parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch: meta line 14 and head at \/usr\/local\/www\/owncloud\/3rdparty\/Sabre\/DAV\/Client.php#533","level":3,"time":"2014-03-17T21:12:46+00:00"}
{"app":"PHP","message":"simplexml_load_string(): \t\t\t&lt;\/head&gt; at \/usr\/local\/www\/owncloud\/3rdparty\/Sabre\/DAV\/Client.php#533","level":3,"time":"2014-03-17T21:12:46+00:00"}
{"app":"PHP","message":"simplexml_load_string(): \t\t\t      ^ at \/usr\/local\/www\/owncloud\/3rdparty\/Sabre\/DAV\/Client.php#533","level":3,"time":"2014-03-17T21:12:46+00:00"}
{"app":"PHP","message":"simplexml_load_string(): Entity: line 72: parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch: meta line 13 and html at \/usr\/local\/www\/owncloud\/3rdparty\/Sabre\/DAV\/Client.php#533","level":3,"time":"2014-03-17T21:12:46+00:00"}
{"app":"PHP","message":"simplexml_load_string(): &lt;\/html&gt; at \/usr\/local\/www\/owncloud\/3rdparty\/Sabre\/DAV\/Client.php#533","level":3,"time":"2014-03-17T21:12:46+00:00"}
{"app":"PHP","message":"simplexml_load_string():        ^ at \/usr\/local\/www\/owncloud\/3rdparty\/Sabre\/DAV\/Client.php#533","level":3,"time":"2014-03-17T21:12:46+00:00"}
{"app":"PHP","message":"simplexml_load_string(): Entity: line 73: parser error : Premature end of data in tag head line 9 at \/usr\/local\/www\/owncloud\/3rdparty\/Sabre\/DAV\/Client.php#533","level":3,"time":"2014-03-17T21:12:46+00:00"}
{"app":"PHP","message":"simplexml_load_string():  at \/usr\/local\/www\/owncloud\/3rdparty\/Sabre\/DAV\/Client.php#533","level":3,"time":"2014-03-17T21:12:46+00:00"}
{"app":"PHP","message":"simplexml_load_string(): ^ at \/usr\/local\/www\/owncloud\/3rdparty\/Sabre\/DAV\/Client.php#533","level":3,"time":"2014-03-17T21:12:46+00:00"}
{"app":"PHP","message":"simplexml_load_string(): Entity: line 73: parser error : Premature end of data in tag html line 7 at \/usr\/local\/www\/owncloud\/3rdparty\/Sabre\/DAV\/Client.php#533","level":3,"time":"2014-03-17T21:12:46+00:00"}
{"app":"PHP","message":"simplexml_load_string():  at \/usr\/local\/www\/owncloud\/3rdparty\/Sabre\/DAV\/Client.php#533","level":3,"time":"2014-03-17T21:12:46+00:00"}
{"app":"PHP","message":"simplexml_load_string(): ^ at \/usr\/local\/www\/owncloud\/3rdparty\/Sabre\/DAV\/Client.php#533","level":3,"time":"2014-03-17T21:12:46+00:00"}
{"app":"core","message":"isWebDAVWorking: NO - Reason: The passed data is not valid XML (InvalidArgumentException)","level":2,"time":"2014-03-17T21:12:46+00:00"}

and the source of the file (i think) it's looking at (/owncloud/remote.php/webdav):

Code:

<html>
<head>
  <title>Index for / - SabreDAV 1.7.6-stable</title>
  <style type="text/css">
  body { Font-family: arial}
  h1 { font-size: 150% }
  </style>
        <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/owncloud/remote.php/webdav/?sabreAction=asset&assetName=favicon.ico" type="image/vnd.microsoft.icon" /></head>
<body>
  <h1>Index for /</h1>
  <table>
    <tr><th width="24"></th><th>Name</th><th>Type</th><th>Size</th><th>Last modified</th></tr>
    <tr><td colspan="5"><hr /></td></tr><tr><td colspan="5"><hr /></td></tr></table>
        <address>Generated by SabreDAV 1.7.6-stable (c)2007-2013 <a href="http://code.google.com/p/sabredav/">http://code.google.com/p/sabredav/</a></address>
        </body>
        </html>

I believe this is a false error that is always present with nginx. you can try browsing the a WebDAV URL and it should work.

Aubury · Mar 27, 2014

These tutorials are fantastic, got ownCloud set up, thanks to Joshua and https cyberjock, works almost perfectly, however, cyberjock's config he uploaded doesn't work, I got a blank page, didn't say it didn't load, just blank. So I used Joshua's with Cyberjock's edits. I would love to know how I can change the config in nginx to redirect http to https so i can to to http://ip/owncloud or even just type ip/owncloud in the url bar and it'll redirect to https://ip/owncloud. Thanks in advance guys! Loved it, so much quicker than the pbi, would be awesome if they changed to pbi to use a setup similar to this.

Joshua Parker Ruehlig · Mar 27, 2014

Aubury said:
These tutorials are fantastic, got ownCloud set up, thanks to Joshua and https cyberjock, works almost perfectly, however, cyberjock's config he uploaded doesn't work, I got a blank page, didn't say it didn't load, just blank. So I used Joshua's with Cyberjock's edits. I would love to know how I can change the config in nginx to redirect http to https so i can to to http://ip/owncloud or even just type ip/owncloud in the url bar and it'll redirect to https://ip/owncloud. Thanks in advance guys! Loved it, so much quicker than the pbi, would be awesome if they changed to pbi to use a setup similar to this.

You could easily do this in NGINX with a 'return 301 https://etc...' but I suggest you just force https for owncloud in the config. You may need to make sure the HTTPS header is passed down to php. I use a different setup for HTTPS so not sure what changes need to be made to make sure PHP is passed the header.

/usr/local/www/owncloud/config/config.php

Code:

"forcessl" => true,

Aubury · Mar 27, 2014

Joshua Parker Ruehlig said:
You could easily do this in NGINX with a 'return 301 https://etc...' but I suggest you just force https for owncloud in the config. You may need to make sure the HTTPS header is passed down to php. I use a different setup for HTTPS so not sure what changes need to be made to make sure PHP is passed the header.

/usr/local/www/owncloud/config/config.php

Code:
"forcessl" => true,

I already have ownCloud forcing https, but if I go to http it just can't connect
I've never really used nginx before, nor managed a server so I'm not super skilled with a terminal, I can work my way around, but I'm horrible with configs. Maybe cyberjock might be able to give some insight

Joshua Parker Ruehlig · Mar 27, 2014

Aubury said:
I already have ownCloud forcing https, but if I go to http it just can't connect
I've never really used nginx before, nor managed a server so I'm not super skilled with a terminal, I can work my way around, but I'm horrible with configs. Maybe cyberjock might be able to give some insight

You just need to listen on both ports.
http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/configuring_https_servers.html#single_http_https_server

Aubury · Mar 27, 2014

Joshua Parker Ruehlig said:
You just need to listen on both ports.
http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/configuring_https_servers.html#single_http_https_server

Yup, that did it perfectly, thanks!

Aubury · Mar 28, 2014

I playing with the ownCloud instance today, and I noticed if i try to access it through http it'll redirect me to the https version, but to the internal ip, which obviously won't work over the internet, but if I go straight to https it won't redirect to the internal IP. Any way to configure nginx or ownCloud to redirect to https with the hostname instead of the internal ip?

Joshua Parker Ruehlig · Mar 28, 2014

Aubury said:
I playing with the ownCloud instance today, and I noticed if i try to access it through http it'll redirect me to the https version, but to the internal ip, which obviously won't work over the internet, but if I go straight to https it won't redirect to the internal IP. Any way to configure nginx or ownCloud to redirect to https with the hostname instead of the internal ip?

did you actually test if it redirects to the external IP when accessing non-locally? I usually test this on my smartphone after disconnecting from WiFi.

sounds like php is receiving the wrong host header or owncloud is set to overwrite the host. I'd start by making a php test file that echo's the host header value

Aubury · Mar 28, 2014

Joshua Parker Ruehlig said:
did you actually test if it redirects to the external IP when accessing non-locally? I usually test this on my smartphone after disconnecting from WiFi.

sounds like php is receiving the wrong host header or owncloud is set to overwrite the host. I'd start by making a php test file that echo's the host header value

I did check it with my phone off of the wifi, still attempted to redirect to the local ip. Unfortunately I don't know any PHP (or any programming for that matter at the moment) to write a test file :\

Rickle · Mar 28, 2014

Aubury said:
I did check it with my phone off of the wifi, still attempted to redirect to the local ip. Unfortunately I don't know any PHP (or any programming for that matter at the moment) to write a test file :\

Just out of curiosity, are you doing port forwarding to your server from the internet.

Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk

Aubury · Mar 28, 2014

Rickle said:
Just out of curiosity, are you doing port forwarding to your server from the internet.

Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk

I believe so, not 100% positive what you meant by that, but I have ports 80 and 443 redirecting to the owncloud jail IP from my firewall

Joshua Parker Ruehlig · Mar 29, 2014

Aubury said:
I did check it with my phone off of the wifi, still attempted to redirect to the local ip. Unfortunately I don't know any PHP (or any programming for that matter at the moment) to write a test file :\

/usr/local/www/owncloud/test.php

Code:

<?php
phpinfo();
?>

Browse to http://NetworkIP/owncloud/test.php
All the headers your client is send or at least php is recieving will show there. If you see an internal IP then you need to make sure passed the right 'host' header to php.

Aubury · Mar 29, 2014

Joshua Parker Ruehlig said:
/usr/local/www/owncloud/test.php

Code:
<?php phpinfo(); ?>

Browse to http://NetworkIP/owncloud/test.php
All the headers your client is send or at least php is recieving will show there. If you see an internal IP then you need to make sure passed the right 'host' header to php.

Thanks, that showed it. This is what I got looking through the php info

Code:

_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"]    192.168.1.1
_SERVER["REMOTE_PORT"]    60320
_SERVER["SERVER_ADDR"]    192.168.1.52
_SERVER["SERVER_PORT"]    443
_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"]    no value
_SERVER["REDIRECT_STATUS"]    200
_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"]    <mydomain>.com
_SERVER["HTTP_CONNECTION"]    keep-alive

Joshua Parker Ruehlig · Mar 29, 2014

Aubury said:

Looking at https://github.com/owncloud/core/blob/master/lib/private/request.php#L68 it should be using HTTP_HOST, not sure why it's redirecting for you.

Is 'HTTP_X_FORWARDED_HOST' on the phpinfo page anywhere?
Can you show the variables output from your phone?
can you check if 'overwritehost' is in /usr/local/www/owncloud/config/config.php

Aubury · Mar 29, 2014

Joshua Parker Ruehlig said:
Looking at https://github.com/owncloud/core/blob/master/lib/private/request.php#L68 it should be using HTTP_HOST, not sure why it's redirecting for you.

Is 'HTTP_X_FORWARDED_HOST' on the phpinfo page anywhere?

Can you show the variables output from your phone?

can you check if 'overwritehost' is in /usr/local/www/owncloud/config/config.php

HTTP_X_FORWARDED_HOST was not on the phpinfo page and overwritehost wasn't in the config file either
Phone php variables output: I just used a screenshot, copying and pasting text came out too sloppy

Joshua Parker Ruehlig · Mar 29, 2014

The header PHP is receiving is correct. Did you check the config for that line. Otherwise, I'm stumped, and you should ask on the owncloud forum.

Aubury · Mar 29, 2014

Joshua Parker Ruehlig said:
The header PHP is receiving is correct. Did you check the config for that line. Otherwise, I'm stumped, and you should ask on the owncloud forum.

I looked at the config and 'overwritehost' wasn't there :\

Aubury · Mar 29, 2014

I seem to have fixed it haha I changed

Code:

 
  'trusted_domains' =>
   array (
    0 => '192.168.1.52',
  ),

to

Code:

  'trusted_domains' =>
  array (
    0 => '<mydomain>.com',
  ),

at the top of config.php, worked on my phone with wifi off. Not sure if it's the right way to do it, but it worked haha

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