Android Client and Sync with OwnCloud on NGINX
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:author: Aaron Ball
:email: nullspoon@iohq.net



I have been looking for a good way to move completely from Google for quite
some time. Many of the things I am dependant upon them for are pretty vital for
day to day operations. One of these is of course contact and calendar syncing.
Currently, my solution to that problem is http://www.egroupware.org[EGroupware]
for my server using syncml through http://funambol.com[Funambol] to synchronize
my contacts from my web server to my Android phone. This solution is bulky
taking about 80 MB on my server for the PHP code. Though this works, it is
hardly ideal.  That's why I was so excited to try out
http://owncloud.org[ownCloud].  Their Android client is still definitely a work
in progress, but at least it's something (not to mention that they use
standards-based services, so several other sync apps for Android can work with
ownCloud).

Now, I run http://nginx.org[NGINX] on my web server which does things a little
differently than Apache, especially in regards to .htaccess files. Despite that
though, out of the box (or tarball) ownCloud seems to work perfectly. However,
when you try to sync up your Android phone via
http://owncloud.org/support/android/[their dandy client], you get this obscure
error

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Wrong path given
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Additionally, when you check your server access logs, you'll see

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Requested uri (/remote.php/webdav.php) is out of base uri (/remote.php/webdav/)
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This is most likely because you need two location directives in your NGINX conf
file (or vhost file if you're doing things that way). To fix this just put the
following two things in your said config file (This assumes your own cloud
server is running at

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location /owncloud {
     index index.php;
     try_files $uri $uri/ @owncloud
}
location @owncloud {
     rewrite ^/owncloud/(.*)$ /owncloud.php/index.php?p=$1 last;
}
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And that should do it for you!


Category:Nginx
Category:Android


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