No access via local network with 'overwriteprotocol' => 'https',

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1

Hello everyone,

i just did a fresh install of nextcloud on a proxmox lxc behind an apache reverse proxy. I managed to access nextcloud locally and via the internet.

Now i wanted to install the nextcloud linux client on my pc, but i couldn’t grant the client access to my server. I read that i could solve the problem by adding the line

'overwriteprotocol' => 'https',

to the config.php file. If I do this it indeed works, but then I can’t access the nextcloud server directly over it’s local ip address anymore. I guess it’s because the server expects a https-request but i try to access it via a http-request.

So how can i solve this problem?

Here’s my config.php

<?php
$CONFIG = array (
  'trusted_domains' => 
  array (
    0 => 'cloud.local',
    1 => '192.168.0.99',
    2 => 'mydomain.org',
  ),
  'datadirectory' => '/mnt/hdd/data/',
  'dbtype' => 'mysql',
  'version' => '19.0.0.12',
  'overwrite.cli.url' => 'http://cloud.local',
  'overwriteprotocol' => 'https',
  'dbname' => '',
  'dbhost' => '',
  'dbport' => '',
  'dbtableprefix' => 'oc_',
  'mysql.utf8mb4' => true,
  'dbuser' => '',
  'dbpassword' => '',
  'installed' => true,
  'htaccess.RewriteBase' => '/',
);

And the .conf file of the reverse proxy

<VirtualHost *:80>
 ServerName mydomain.org
 ProxyPreserveHost On
 DocumentRoot /var/www/html
 ProxyPass /.well-known !
 ProxyPass / http://192.168.0.99:80/
 ProxyPassReverse / http://192.168.0.99:80/
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} =mydomain.org
RewriteRule ^ https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [END,NE,R=permanent]
</VirtualHost>
2

@Mackes-sys you can see my answer here: Some HTTP links not rewritten to HTTPS despite `'overwriteprotocol' => 'https'`

To clarify. Can you not use the public domain name for your local access? I just added my local ip to my DNS. You can also add in hosts file. That way the TLS certificate is correct.

3

Hi thanks for your answer, but I’m not sure if i understand this correctly…

So the suggestion is changing the last three lines in the .conf file of my proxy to

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/.well-known
RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [NC,NE,R=permanent,L]

and removing the line

'overwriteprotocol' => 'https'

?
I think i can just use my domain for the local access, can you explain that a bit more in detail? Which hosts file do i have to edit and how exactly?

sorry if this question is trivial, but this is the first server I’m setting up

4

Okay I already figured it out, i added my server to the hosts file now everything works fine

Thank you

5

Could you please post your hosts file contains
Im have same problem