cunningorb
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I'm brand new to FreeNAS, and not having a very wonderful experience yet. Hoping we can change that.
I want my brand new installation of FreeNAS to run Nextcloud 12 and eventually 13 when it is out of beta.
There are several existing guides which would walk through step by step how to accomplish this.
https://forums.freenas.org/index.ph...3-on-freenas-11-with-all-checks-passed.58634/
https://ramsdenj.com/2017/06/05/nextcloud-in-a-jail-on-freebsd.html
https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/please-help-me-install-nextcloud-12-in-jail.57855/ (great work @dureal99d you paved a good path)
What none of these tutorials cover currently is how to install Nextcloud 12 using the current stable version of FreeNAS, 11.1.
I have already been at this about 30-40 hours estimated but no matter what I run into some kind of game-ending error. The only time I was able to see Nextcloud in working form was when I installed using the plugin in the Old UI.
How far I've gotten:
*Old UI: I was able to get to the part where we install MariaDB 10.1, however the mysql service would not start. Multiple errors and no fix could work. Most common error was the same type of issue with sockets and not being able to remove mariaDB package that this person had: https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/help-building-mediawiki-into-jail.60614/
*Old UI: I also tried from scratch again (both reinstalling the entire FreeNAS OS, and just removing and starting with a new jail) but using ports. This seemed like it might have worked except for the warnings about no ports being supported anymore. I even added allow unsupported system = yes to make.conf which allowed the install to happen, but in the very end the install still failed. Some file or other could not be found.
*New UI: The new UI wasn't showing any releases under creating a jail, but somehow I got lucky and fetched iocage 11.1 based on the ramsdenj guide above. Still, adding this jail from the beta UI I could not do anything because I was getting errors when trying to stop and start the jail. If I tried to stop it, the "dataset does not exist" error came up. I saw I was not the only person with this error either: https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/cannot-destroy-iocage-jail.60058/
Bottom line, I have never gotten past installing MariaDB. That is like 15% of the guide so I'm starting to wonder if FreeNAS is just too much for me. I'm going to set a personal goal line after which if I can't figure this out, I will just adopt an OS that won't drive me crazy and lose the feature set that appears to come with FreeNAS. I know this may come across as negative when read online, but I only mean it as a pragmatic solution to how I can best use my free time. That is in limited supply and so far I have lost an amazing amount of it with no clear progress.
Before you ask, "Why don't you just run Nextcloud from another OS?" I was hoping to use the replication, file sharing, and possibly vpn features found in FreeNAS. I was also eager to attempt file duplication between the Nextcloud setup and my local network file sharing so that when remote, I sync via Nextcloud. When at home I work on the wired network. Both would be the same files. I was also contemplating the use of a Plex server.
If anyone could write a guide for installing Nextcloud 12 on FreeNAS 11.1 using the absolute latest of everything this would be a huge help for me. I understand if that is asking too much though!
I want my brand new installation of FreeNAS to run Nextcloud 12 and eventually 13 when it is out of beta.
There are several existing guides which would walk through step by step how to accomplish this.
https://forums.freenas.org/index.ph...3-on-freenas-11-with-all-checks-passed.58634/
https://ramsdenj.com/2017/06/05/nextcloud-in-a-jail-on-freebsd.html
https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/please-help-me-install-nextcloud-12-in-jail.57855/ (great work @dureal99d you paved a good path)
What none of these tutorials cover currently is how to install Nextcloud 12 using the current stable version of FreeNAS, 11.1.
I have already been at this about 30-40 hours estimated but no matter what I run into some kind of game-ending error. The only time I was able to see Nextcloud in working form was when I installed using the plugin in the Old UI.
How far I've gotten:
*Old UI: I was able to get to the part where we install MariaDB 10.1, however the mysql service would not start. Multiple errors and no fix could work. Most common error was the same type of issue with sockets and not being able to remove mariaDB package that this person had: https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/help-building-mediawiki-into-jail.60614/
*Old UI: I also tried from scratch again (both reinstalling the entire FreeNAS OS, and just removing and starting with a new jail) but using ports. This seemed like it might have worked except for the warnings about no ports being supported anymore. I even added allow unsupported system = yes to make.conf which allowed the install to happen, but in the very end the install still failed. Some file or other could not be found.
*New UI: The new UI wasn't showing any releases under creating a jail, but somehow I got lucky and fetched iocage 11.1 based on the ramsdenj guide above. Still, adding this jail from the beta UI I could not do anything because I was getting errors when trying to stop and start the jail. If I tried to stop it, the "dataset does not exist" error came up. I saw I was not the only person with this error either: https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/cannot-destroy-iocage-jail.60058/
Bottom line, I have never gotten past installing MariaDB. That is like 15% of the guide so I'm starting to wonder if FreeNAS is just too much for me. I'm going to set a personal goal line after which if I can't figure this out, I will just adopt an OS that won't drive me crazy and lose the feature set that appears to come with FreeNAS. I know this may come across as negative when read online, but I only mean it as a pragmatic solution to how I can best use my free time. That is in limited supply and so far I have lost an amazing amount of it with no clear progress.
Before you ask, "Why don't you just run Nextcloud from another OS?" I was hoping to use the replication, file sharing, and possibly vpn features found in FreeNAS. I was also eager to attempt file duplication between the Nextcloud setup and my local network file sharing so that when remote, I sync via Nextcloud. When at home I work on the wired network. Both would be the same files. I was also contemplating the use of a Plex server.
If anyone could write a guide for installing Nextcloud 12 on FreeNAS 11.1 using the absolute latest of everything this would be a huge help for me. I understand if that is asking too much though!
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