New install Login loop

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I have installed nextcloud multiple times, each time it is the same it installs properly but i get a login loop and can’t initially login, and it is in a login loop. I am using Slackware 64 14.2-current Apache 2.4.47 php 7.4.18 mysql/mariadb 10.6.0. I used the following steps to install nextcloud.

  1. Downloaded it to my home directory
  2. sudo mv nextcloud-22.2.0.tar.bz2 /var/www/htdocs
  3. cd /var/www/htdocs
  4. sudo tar xvf nextcloud-22.2.0.tar.bz2
  5. sudo chown -R www-data:www-data nextcloud
  6. sudo cd nextcloud
  7. sudo mkdir data
  8. sudo chown -R www-data:www-data apps data config
  9. sudo chmod -R g+w apps data config .htaccess
  10. sudo mysql -u root -p
  11. CREATE USER ‘username’@‘localhost’;
  12. GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON nextcloud.* TO ‘username’@‘localhost’ IDENTIFIED BY ‘password’;
  13. FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
  14. \q;
  15. http://192.168.0.250/nextcloud

I put in the admin username/password, select mysql/mariadb and fill in database name database
user, database password host as localhost:3306 click next and it fully installs. then it goes to http://192.168.0.250/nextcloud/index.php/login?redirect_url=/nextcloud/index.php/core/apps/recommended if i put in admin username and password it keeps loading this page. Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated.

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Hi,

by default NC redirects to https Does your login work when setting 'overwriteprotocol' => 'http' in your config.php?
(beware that this is not safe to be accessible from the internet!)
/S

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I had the same issue on my Proxmox host in a Debian VM when I tried to setup a test instance of 22.2.0. I have tried all sorts combinations with overwritehost, overwrite.cli.url, overwriteprotocol etc… without success. However, after I added a self-signed certificate and accessed Nextcloud via HTTPS, it worked immediately.

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Right, so then it likely is a result of the webserver configuration. Check if there are any forced https forwards.

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Nope. At first I only had a single VirtualHost for HTTP with the minimal configuration from the Nextcloud docs, no redirects whatsoever. After I created the SSL certificate and a second VirtualHost with the SSL configuration, I added the redirect of course. :wink:

Anyways… After it worked with HTTPS, I didn’t look any further to see what could have caused the issue. On a productive instance you should imho always use HTTPS anyways, even if you only use the service locally.