Disable user access for maintenance

📱 Desktop & mobile clients 💻 Desktop
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I’m aware of occ maintenance:mode --on but that disables access to Nextcloud for all users. Fine for upgrades.

However, I want to do some tests on a client Nextcloud install so want to disable access for everyone except me. Is this possible?

I looked at disabling users which would work except after you re-enable them, they’re logged out of the client and have to log back in. Plus there is no clue they need to do this as the client just says “Disconnected”.

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As far as I know, Nextcloud itself has no such function.

The only thing I can think of off the top of my head is to temporarily restrict access at the network/firewall level, or at the proxy or web server, to a certain IP range or a certain IP.

Example for Apache:

<Directory /path/to/nextcloud>
    Order deny,allow
    Deny from all
    Allow from 192.168.1.100  # Allow a specific IP address
    Allow from 10.0.0.0/24    # Allow a range of IP addresses
</Directory>
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Good suggestion - this instance is behind nginx and yes, I’ve been able to limit access to my IP address. In nginx, you add this to the server block for the nextcloud website:

# control access by IP address
allow 81.110.119.30;        # me
deny all;
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