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  • [gentoo-user] Nextcloud-24.0.7 and proxy settings

    From Alexander Puchmayr@21:1/5 to All on Sun Feb 19 13:20:01 2023
    Hi there,

    I'm trying to setup a nextcloud instance inside a DMZ that has no direct connection to the outside world, only via proxy. The proxy itself is working fine, but I fail to configure nextcloud to actually use this proxy.

    According to the docs, I tried setting the proxy field in config/config.php, i.e.

    <?php
    $CONFIG = array (
    ...
    'proxy' => '10.46.1.109:3128',
    'proxyuserpwd' => '',
    ...
    );

    But this setting seems to be ignored, tcpdump does not show any connection attempt to that ip and nextcloud complains that it cannot connect to the internet.

    In another forum I found that in /etc/apache2/vhosts.d/10_nextcloud_vhosts.conf, environment variables like HTTP_PROXY and HTTPS_PROXY may be set, i.e.

    <VirtualHost *:80>
    ...
    SetEnv HTTP_PROXY 10.46.1.109:3128
    SetEnv HTTPS_PROXY 10.46.1.109:3128
    ...
    </VirtualHost>

    But this also does not seem to work.

    Any other ideas?

    Thanks
    Alex

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  • From J. Roeleveld@21:1/5 to All on Tue Feb 21 11:00:01 2023
    On Sunday, February 19, 2023 1:17:41 PM CET Alexander Puchmayr wrote:
    Hi there,

    I'm trying to setup a nextcloud instance inside a DMZ that has no direct connection to the outside world, only via proxy. The proxy itself is working fine, but I fail to configure nextcloud to actually use this proxy.

    According to the docs, I tried setting the proxy field in config/config.php, i.e.

    <?php
    $CONFIG = array (
    ...
    'proxy' => '10.46.1.109:3128',
    'proxyuserpwd' => '',
    ...
    );

    But this setting seems to be ignored, tcpdump does not show any connection attempt to that ip and nextcloud complains that it cannot connect to the internet.

    In another forum I found that in /etc/apache2/vhosts.d/10_nextcloud_vhosts.conf, environment variables like HTTP_PROXY and HTTPS_PROXY may be set, i.e.

    <VirtualHost *:80>
    ...
    SetEnv HTTP_PROXY 10.46.1.109:3128
    SetEnv HTTPS_PROXY 10.46.1.109:3128
    ...
    </VirtualHost>

    But this also does not seem to work.

    Any other ideas?

    If using "fpm-php", add the following to your config:
    env[HTTP_PROXY] = 10.46.1.109:3128
    env[HTTPS_PROXY] = 10.46.1.109:3128

    I have this in:
    /etc/php/fpm-php8.1/site.conf

    After this, run:
    /etc/init.d/fpm-php restart

    This is how I got it working on my end.

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    Joost

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  • From Alexander Puchmayr@21:1/5 to All on Sat Feb 25 11:10:01 2023
    Hi there,

    The problem has a rather simple cause and also a simple solution:

    Nextcloud expects a working DNS server for resolving its own app server,
    *then* it is using the proxy to access it.

    After configuring a DNS proxy in my DMZ and ensuring that /etc/resolv.conf on the nextcloud instance is correctly pointing to it, it suddenly works :-)

    Alex


    On Sonntag, 19. Februar 2023, 13:17:41 CET Alexander Puchmayr wrote:
    Hi there,

    I'm trying to setup a nextcloud instance inside a DMZ that has no direct connection to the outside world, only via proxy. The proxy itself is working fine, but I fail to configure nextcloud to actually use this proxy.

    According to the docs, I tried setting the proxy field in config/config.php, i.e.

    <?php
    $CONFIG = array (
    ...
    'proxy' => '10.46.1.109:3128',
    'proxyuserpwd' => '',
    ...
    );

    But this setting seems to be ignored, tcpdump does not show any connection attempt to that ip and nextcloud complains that it cannot connect to the internet.

    In another forum I found that in /etc/apache2/vhosts.d/10_nextcloud_vhosts.conf, environment variables like HTTP_PROXY and HTTPS_PROXY may be set, i.e.

    <VirtualHost *:80>
    ...
    SetEnv HTTP_PROXY 10.46.1.109:3128
    SetEnv HTTPS_PROXY 10.46.1.109:3128
    ...
    </VirtualHost>

    But this also does not seem to work.

    Any other ideas?

    Thanks
    Alex

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