Help setting up NextCloud module - NextCloud not installed

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I tried using the snippet from NixOS wiki and it didn’t work. Then I found another snippet from here The Holy Grail Nextcloud setup made easy by NixOS · Carlos Vaz and changed a few things. Now I’m getting a NextCloud not installed error when nextcloud-setup.service tries to boot.

warning: the following units failed: nextcloud-setup.service
× nextcloud-setup.service
     Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/nextcloud-setup.service; enabled; preset: ignored)
     Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Thu 2025-02-20 18:33:13 JST; 368ms ago
 Invocation: b0da9989113c4321a593dba6a8710edc
    Process: 62747 ExecStart=/nix/store/5ki5899f46d8fckjl9bj56yk2cy4qa54-unit-script-nextcloud-setup-start/bin/nextcloud-setup-start (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
   Main PID: 62747 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
         IP: 0B in, 0B out
         IO: 17.7M read, 0B written
   Mem peak: 38.2M
        CPU: 220ms

Feb 20 18:33:13 PikaNix systemd[1]: Starting nextcloud-setup.service...
Feb 20 18:33:13 PikaNix nextcloud-setup-start[62761]: Nextcloud is not installed - only a limited number of commands are available
Feb 20 18:33:13 PikaNix nextcloud-setup-start[62761]:                                      
Feb 20 18:33:13 PikaNix nextcloud-setup-start[62761]:   Command "upgrade" is not defined.
Feb 20 18:33:13 PikaNix nextcloud-setup-start[62761]:                                      
Feb 20 18:33:13 PikaNix systemd[1]: nextcloud-setup.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Feb 20 18:33:13 PikaNix systemd[1]: nextcloud-setup.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Feb 20 18:33:13 PikaNix systemd[1]: Failed to start nextcloud-setup.service.
Feb 20 18:33:13 PikaNix systemd[1]: nextcloud-setup.service: Consumed 220ms CPU time, 38.2M memory peak, 17.7M read from disk.
warning: error(s) occurred while switching to the new configuration

This is what the NextCloud section of my configuration.nix looks like now:

services.nextcloud = {
    enable = true;
    hostName = "localhost";
    # Need to manually increment with every major upgrade.
    package = pkgs.nextcloud29;
    # Let NixOS install and configure the database automatically.
    database.createLocally = true;
    # Increase the maximum file upload size to avoid problems uploading videos.
    maxUploadSize = "16G";
    https = true;
    
    autoUpdateApps.enable = true;
    extraAppsEnable = true;
    extraApps = with config.services.nextcloud.package.packages.apps; {
      # List of apps we want to install and are already packaged in
      # https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/59236c424f78565cddaf8dd24d3703de358496b8/pkgs/servers/nextcloud/packages/nextcloud-apps.json
      inherit (config.services.nextcloud.package.packages.apps) previewgenerator;

      # Custom app installation example.
      # cookbook = pkgs.fetchNextcloudApp rec {
      #   url = "https://github.com/nextcloud/cookbook/releases/download/v0.10.2/Cookbook-0.10.2.tar.gz";
      #   sha256 = "sha256-XgBwUr26qW6wvqhrnhhhhcN4wkI+eXDHnNSm1HDbP6M=";
      #   license = "MIT";
      # };
    };
    
    config = {
      dbtype = "pgsql";
      adminuser = "admin";
      adminpassFile = "/etc/nextcloudadminpass";
    };
  };
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I personally don’t use the Nextcloud service but have you looked at the official manual?

https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/#module-services-nextcloud

In addition I don’t know which wiki you used but it is recommended to use the official one, however that doesn’t mean it is totally accurate either:
https://wiki.nixos.org/wiki/Nextcloud

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Hi, thank you for replying.

I initially looked through both pages but those snippets don’t work because of various missing configs. The link I posted got me furthest but still not there yet.

4

Hi, not sure about this error but you should try with the latest pkgs.nextcloud30

5

Thank you, I tried with 30 but it didn’t work either… I also tried removing then readding the configuration in case it was some sort of initialization error but it didn’t work…

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Here’s my working Nextcloud config. You can ignore the sops stuff, traefik config and changing the nginx port assignment (had a conflicting service).

Make sure you clean out any residual configuration in /var/lib/nextcloud and any existing databases before you try again. This bit me once when I was first experimenting. The database config especially is not necessarily idempotent.