Alright, I’ve entirely reinstalled nextcloud from both sides of the equation - server and client.
Server’s back up and updated to 34.whatever properly, no issues there. I can once again access it via my usual web client ways. Or at least it was until I tried logging into it in my phone client to test the connection and now I’m COMPLETELY LOCKED OUT with a “Too many requests” notice.
and the one way I tried to fix that is from instructions from a different post Cannot login: Too Many Requests - #28 by michuvon ? here with the sudo command, except that it tells me that it’s “not found” when I try the terminal.
God it’s just one thing after another.
Client is fresh on windows, though if there’s a lingering config file somewhere I don’t know where it is. In the brief window where my web client was letting me in, I was still getting the same redtext error as before in the desktop client.