Dear friends ,
I have a nginx reverse proxy in front of my nextcloud server.
The nginx dispatches the requests to several applications, to several servers.
Nginx and Nextcloud are on different servers.
Nginx has a htpasswd based access control for the other apps but not for Nextcloud (as Nextcloud does not like it ! ).
Sometimes when the user browse from the other apps to Nextcloud he gets a blue page from Nextcloud with the message “Error”.
At this time nextcloud.log says : “message”:“Token is not valid: Token is too short for a generated token, should be the password during basic auth”
This beahaviour is very reproductive since a few years ago after a release (I dont remember wich one) .
Have I to add specific instructions to the Nextcloud section in my Nginx configuration ?
How may I recover peaceful relation between Nginx and Nextcloud ?
Versions :
*Nginx server:
Debian 12.8
Nginx: 1.22.1-9 (standard debian)
Nextcloud server
Debian 12.8
Apache2 2.4.62-1~deb12u2
Mariadb 1:10.11.6-0+deb12u1
php8.2 8.2.26-1~deb12u1
[Nextcloud Hub 9] (30.0.2)
From admin account:
Type : mysql
Version : 10.11.6
Taille : 24,5 MB
Version : 8.2.26
Limite de mémoire : 128 MB
Temps d’exécution maximal : 3600
Taille de téléversement maximale : 2 MB
Fréquence de revalidation de l’OPcache : 2
Extensions : Core, date, libxml, openssl, pcre, zlib, filter, hash, json, random, Reflection, SPL, session, standard, sodium, apache2handler, mysqlnd, PDO, xml, apcu, bcmath, bz2, calendar, ctype, curl, dom, mbstring, FFI, fileinfo, ftp, gd, gettext, gmp, iconv, igbinary, imagick, imap, intl, exif, msgpack, mysqli, pdo_mysql, Phar, posix, readline, redis, shmop, SimpleXML, sockets, sysvmsg, sysvsem, sysvshm, tokenizer, xmlreader, xmlwriter, xsl, zip, memcached, Zend OPcache
Browser Firefox 133.0.3
Many thanks for infos
Jlem
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