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I tried to selfhost Nextcloud at work (feddit.it)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/selfhosted

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And it failed spectacularly.

We only needed a simple form, but we wanted to be fancy, so we used "nextcloud forms".

The docker image automatically updated the install to nextcloud 30, but the forms app requires nextcloud 29 or lower. No warning whatsoever. It's an official app, couldn't they wait that it was ready for NC 30 before launching it? The newsletter boasts "NC hub 9 is the best thing after sliced bread" yet i don't see any difference both in visual or performance compared to NC hub 2

Conclusion: we made our business to rely on nextcloud forms as a signup form, but the only reason we were using it was disabled who knows how many weeks ago.

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[–] ikidd 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The forms app is useless. It's basically for surveys. I can't see how you'd use it for signups.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 months ago

I wrote signups but I meant survey (in another comment I wrote "I would have never checked the useless survey")

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

take a VM snapshot, upgrade the app, validate it still works as intended, if not, revert from snapshot

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Not to flame you, but really just an HTML form was all you needed? It's a super simple feature...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

sure, but why solve problems in 10 minutes when i can do it way more sophisticated using 10x more time and resources?

(at the moment reverted to the easy html form + php send mail)

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

No offence, but is Docker really the best way of running NC in a professional environment? Also, if you don’t want Docker to upgrade to latest image, don’t use the “latest” tag in your configuration.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Yes, docker is the best way. Anything else is hell. It is still painful with docker but at least it is manageable

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