Nextcloud: Configuration was not read or initialized correctly (mounted datadir drive)

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I currently have the following nextcloud configuration:

 services.nextcloud = {
      enable = true;
      configureRedis = true;
      package = pkgs.nextcloud30;
      hostName = "server.nextcloud.home";
      datadir = "/mnt/storage/nextcloud";
      database.createLocally = true;
      extraAppsEnable = true;
      autoUpdateApps.enable = true;

      config = {
        dbtype = "pgsql";
        adminpassFile = config.sops.secrets.nextcloud-admin.path;
        adminuser = "admin";
      };
    };

    services.nginx.virtualHosts${config.services.nextcloud.hostName}.listen = [
      {
        addr = "0.0.0.0";
        port = 8081;
      }
    ];

The first issue I have is having home on an external drive. This results in

Configuration was not read or initialized correctly, not overwriting /mnt/storage/nextcloud/config/config.php

When disabling this line for testing purposes, I still encounter the problem that my connection via a tailscale network is not a trusted domain. Adding every device via settings.trustedDomains seems not the correct solution to me.

Are there any solutions for my two problems?

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How about this for the trusted domains issue? (Use wildcard for subnet values)

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Thanks. This could solve my problem. Sadly I am not even to getting to this error message anymore, as now every set home or datadir results in

Configuration was not read or initialized correctly, not overwriting config/config.php

with the config directory just being empty without any files and the whole folder being owned by the root user

4

For troubleshooting, maybe remove the datadir setting and just go with the default/var/lib/nextcloud until you get the rest of it working.

5

Thanks, this works now without any issues, after I deleted all the files and databases manually

Now the only issue is with the non-default datadir, which also has no config.php file in it

6

Any updates? I am facing this same issue, I am using a very basic configuration:

sops.secrets.nextcloud-admin-password = { owner = "nextcloud"; group = "nextcloud"; };
services.nextcloud.phpOptions."realpath_cache_size" = "0";

services.nextcloud = {
  enable = true;
  package = pkgs.nextcloud30;
  hostName = "nextcloud.mydomain.tld";
  database.createLocally = true;
  config = {
    dbtype = "pgsql";
    adminpassFile = config.sops.secrets.nextcloud-admin-password.path;
  };
};

And I get the same error:

Configuration was not read or initialized correctly, not overwriting /var/lib/nextcloud/config/config.php
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Sounds like you need to remove the existing config.php before you rebuild.