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Fix NextCloud login on Android app | Tom Wojcik
Fix the 'Strict mode: No HTTP connection allowed' error when logging into NextCloud Android app behind a reverse proxy.
Fix NextCloud login on Android app August 13, 2022 dockerhomelabnextcloud In my homelab I use NextCloud as a drop-in replacement for Google Drive / Dropbox. Even though I was able to login via the browser to my nextcloud.example.com instance (from both mobile and PC), I wasn’t able to login using the official app on Android. I was getting error “Strict mode: No HTTP connection allowed”. In my setup, Traefik is sitting in front of NextCloud and is responsible for SSL and proxying the traffic to my homelab. I run into “Using the apache image behind a reverse proxy and auto configure server host and protocol” docs section. It provides a set of environment variables that overwrite the main config file. If we jump to the definition of overwriteprotocol in the config file, it says /** * When generating URLs, Nextcloud attempts to detect whether the server is * accessed via ``https`` or ``http``. However, if Nextcloud is behind a proxy * and the proxy handles the ``https`` calls, Nextcloud would not know that * ``ssl`` is in use, which would result in incorrect URLs being generated. * Valid values are ``http`` and ``https``. */ which is exactly what we want! NextCloud, when not aware of the reverse proxy, uses http by default. After adding this environment variable to my nextcloud service, I was able to log in via the mobile app. environment: - OVERWRITEPROTOCOL=https You can see my final compose file for NextCloud in my public homeserver repository.