Nextcloud local https access

[guzior-lps]

Required Information

DietPi version | 9
Distro version | bookworm
Kernel version | Linux DietPi 6.6.62+rpt-rpi-2712
Architecture | arm64
SBC model | RPi5
Power supply used | Beseus 100w PD
SD card used | SanDisk Extreme 128Gb + Samsung Evo 970 + Data X8200Pro

Additional Information (if applicable)

Software title: Nextcloud

My question is how to get access via https in local network. I need that to share eg links for my friends when they come and want to sent them some big files. Links are only generated when nextcloud is accessed with ssl (can be self signed, no difference for me)

[Joulinar]

You need to create a self signed certificate and activate SSL within web server config. As this is quite specific to web server used

[guzior-lps]

I’m using apache - dietpi installer mentioning it’s easiest one

[Joulinar]

You can use following as starting point Configuring a Self-Signed SSL Certificate on a Apache Server | by Pasang Lama Tamang | Medium

[guzior-lps]

OK, so i did:

mkdir /etc/apache2/ssl
cd /etc/apache2/ssl

openssl genrsa -out nextcloud.key 2048

openssl req -new -key nextcloud.key -out nextcloud.csr

openssl x509 -req -days 999 -in nextcloud.csr -signkey nextcloud.key -out nextcloud.crt

cp /etc/apache2/sites-available/default-ssl.conf /etc/apache2/sites-available/default-ssl.conf.bak

cp /etc/apache2/ssl/nextcloud.key /etc/ssl/private/nextcloud.key
cp /etc/apache2/ssl/nextcloud.crt /etc/ssl/certs/nextcloud.crt

nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/default-ssl.conf

I changed lines to:

        SSLCertificateFile      /etc/ssl/certs/nextcloud.crt
        SSLCertificateKeyFile   /etc/ssl/private/nextcloud.key

edited this files:

nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf

added redirection and then executed:

a2enmod ssl
a2ensite default-ssl
apache2ctl configtest

response was:

AH00112: Warning: DocumentRoot [/var/www/html] does not exist
Syntax OK

did:

systemctl restart apache2

I went to <my_ip>/nextcloud, had warning about certificate and when press allow anyway i have white page with:

Not Found
The requested URL was not found on this server.

[Joulinar]

@guzior-lps

DocumentRoot [/var/www/html]

On DietPi our default is /var/www