Internal serever error. While trying to log in

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A perfectly working Nextcloud deployment all of the sudden says *internal server error *

In the file nextcloud.log this is what I get:

  "reqId": "yx1tUeMtNHSbi8TRzgLu",
  "level": 3,
  "time": "2021-04-09T15:15:22+00:00",
  "remoteAddr": "189.223.246.194",
  "user": "--",
  "app": "PHP",
  "method": "POST",
  "url": "/index.php/login",
  "message": "Unknown: POST Content-Length of 193 bytes exceeds the limit of 4 bytes at Unknown#0",
  "userAgent": "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/78.0",
  "version": "19.0.1.1"
} 

My php.ini has this values:
upload_max_filesize= 4G
post_max_size = 4G

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Nextcloud version (eg, 20.0.5): 19
Operating system and version (eg, Ubuntu 20.04): debian buster
Apache or nginx version (eg, Apache 2.4.25): Apache2
PHP version (eg, 7.4): 7.3

The issue you are facing:

Is this the first time you’ve seen this error? (Y/N): Y

Steps to replicate it:

  1. Open nextcloud web page
  2. Fill in log in credentials
  3. hit the Log in button

The output of your Nextcloud log in Admin > Logging:

can't access Nextcloud other than ssh.  See log above.

The output of your config.php file in /path/to/nextcloud (make sure you remove any identifiable information!):

<?php
$CONFIG = array (
  'instanceid' => 'oci2vy493lyo',
  'passwordsalt' => 'XXX',
  'secret' => XXX',
  'trusted_domains' => 
  array (
    0 => 'XXX,
  ),
  'datadirectory' => '/mnt/volume_sfo3_02/nextcloud',
  'dbtype' => 'mysql',
  'version' => '19.0.1.1',
  'overwrite.cli.url' => 'sdfdf',
  'dbname' => 'fdfdf',
  'dbhost' => 'localhost',
  'dbport' => '',
  'dbtableprefix' => 'oc_',
  'mysql.utf8mb4' => true,
  'dbuser' => 'fddfdr',
  'dbpassword' => *a hard password*
  'installed' => true,
);

The output of your Apache/nginx/system log in /var/log/____:

[Fri Apr 09 15:15:22.782009 2021] [php7:warn] [pid 4101] [client 189.223.246.194:50458] PHP Warning:  Unknown: POST Content-Length of 193 bytes exceeds the limit of 4 bytes in Unknown on line 0

Why are you not using the search function to find an answer on your question :wink:

https://help.nextcloud.com/search?q=internal%20server%20error%20login

perhaps check with a phpinfo() script, which values are really set. php.ini values can be overwritten by other configurations like .htaccess.