installed nextcloud, apps/dashboard/index.php file missing

Question

I have installed nextcloud 26.0.10 on ubuntu running nginx. When I first hit the URL it gave me a window to set up an admin username and password, specify the data folder location and the database location as expected.

First time I submitted the wrong password and it griped at me, so I know the second time the config setup went fine, but then it redirected me to mydomain.com/index.php/apps/dashboard

which gave an Ngnix 403 Forbidden error

Trying to change the URL to:

mydomain.com/apps/dashboard

also gives the same 403, and there are no files in that directory like an index.php, just subfolders.

Anyone know what might be wrong here? I have not seen this in the NC docs so far.

(HINT: I suspect this is an issue with routing redirects, which I'm familiar with in Apache but not nginx)

Answer 1

Answer:

The following seems to be a partial answer but it's not complete. This will allow mydomain.com/index.php/apps/dashboard to display, but mydomain.com/apps/dashboard (the pretty URL) will still produce a 403 (because there is a folder path but no actual index.php file there, and shouldn't be):

        location / {
                try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?args;
        }