Help translating nginx config for Nextcloud in Docker

[francislavoie]

@slimz

I read in many examples that it is necessary to make the static files visible to Caddy so that it can serve them, but I did not need to do this with NGINX, and I believe this is because Nextcloud supports serving them from the PHP script? Maybe?

Yep that’s correct. You’ll need to use volumes_from for Caddy to see the files, then add root and file_server directives to your Caddyfile config.

See an example here:

Example: Docker Nextcloud-FPM + Caddy v2 webserver

The Nextcloud Quick reference on Docker Hub states that there are two versions (apache or fpm) of the Nextcloud image. The apache version contains a full Nextcloud installation including an apache web server. The fpm version must be combined with any webserver that can proxy the http requests to the FastCGI-port of the container. In the Quick reference fpm example, an nginx container is combined with the Nextcloud-fpm image and a MariaDB database container. If you would rather use Caddy in plac…