Windows Nextcloud Setup for App Development

[Christophs]

Hello,

i followed the tutorial Nextcloud app development tutorials final - Nextcloud and everything from the tutorial worked, except the last step “Open your browser and browse to http://nextcloud.local/ which should open the Nextcloud in the browser” - i get ‘server not found’. If i try http://127.0.0.1/ it says ‘503 Service Temporarily Unavailable nginx’.

The containers are running and here you can see the errors:

Docker:

Any recommendations?

thank you!

kind regards
Christoph

[christianlupus]

Hello @Christophs,

I would 99% guess that the name resolution fails. Did you update the hosts file? Can you verify in a Windows terminal using e.g. ping nextcloud.local that it is redirected to 127.0.0.1?

The access via browser to the IP is not possible. There is an nginx reverse proxy in place so that all possible NC servers (stableXX as well as nextcloud, nextcloudX) and all other HTTP servers can be accessed using a single port (80 or 80+443 with HTTPS). To do this, the browser must claim “I want to talk to nextcloud.local”, which the browser is not doing when using the IP address. (This is done via the Host header in the request, just FYI).

Chris

[Christophs]

Hello,

i did update the hosts file, but i did it wrong. I thought it has to look like the other entries (for whatever reason):

# 127.0.0.1 nextcloud.local

After deleting the #, it works perfectly fine.

thank you!

kind regards
Christoph