Can't access my owncloud without typing https:// first

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Hello,

Im using this tutorial http://www.techjawab.com/search/label/Raspberry%20Pi to setup my ownCloud and everything setup and working correctly even have it access from outside my local network. Although I can't seem to understand why every new visitors or new devices need to type in https://example.com for it to work. Its very annoying since user typical like myself can't be bother to type in the full URL. I have check the A Record and applied it correctly with @ and pointing to my public IP address. I don't know what the problem is.

Please help me, thank You

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You can redirect your normal http to https. Edit your config file /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf and add a Redirect permanent after that it should look similar to:

<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
        DocumentRoot /var/www/html
        Redirect permanent / https://myhostname/owncloud
        ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
        CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
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Hi,

I am using nginx in the tutorial, inside /etc/nginx/sites-available/default I can't seem to fit in the code

Redirect permanent / https://myhostname/owncloud

I get error when restart nginx

Job for nginx.service failed. See 'systemctl status nginx.service' and 'journalctl -xn' for details.

This is my actual file 'default'

server {
listen 80;
server_name mydomain.com
return 301 https://$server_name$request_uri; # enforce https
}

server {
listen 443 ssl;
server_name mydomain.com
add_header Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=15552000; includeSubDomains";
ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/mydomain.com/fullchain.pem;
ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/mydomain.com/privkey.pem;
root /var/www/owncloud;

and some more down the line.

I try to google out redirect permanent for nginx but none seem to work in my case...

Thank You

4

Oh sorry, my example was for apache. Your version with the redirect looks good. You are sure there is no competing configuration? Did you restart the webserver?

5

For configuration help with nginx its also possible to contact the nginx community:

http://nginx.org/en/support.html

6

Seems your firewall is still blocking port 80.

If you're running fedora, centos 7 or rhel 7 you can open port 80 by running following command:

firewall-cmd --permanent --add-service=http
firewall-cmd --reload

For other distributions consider its manual.

7

Your configuration is missing a semicolon at the end of the server_name statements (in both server blocks):

server {
           listen 80;
           server_name mydomain.com
           return 301 https://$server_name$request_uri;    # enforce https
}

server {
           listen 443 ssl;
           server_name mydomain.com
           add_header Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=15552000; includeSubDomains";

You can execute sudo nginx -t to verify you have a valid nginx configuration.

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@timm2k : I'm using raspbian jessie
@litemaster: the ; at the end was a miss cut and paste, :slight_smile: so sudo nginx -t is successfully test

Thank you for all replied, although I am still looking for a solution.

9

Then what does journalctl -xn show after nginx fails to start up?
I may not be related to ownCloud at all.

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How should this be set for someone not utilizing domain name. I access using public ip address and non-standard port. I would think if I entered
10.0.0.1:1443/owncloud ------> HTTPS://10.0.0.1:1443/owncloud (This results in error 400)
10.0.0.1:8080/owncloud ------> HTTP://10.0.0.1:8080/owncloud (this works but http is not added to beginning which is fine I guess)

I don't want all HTTP traffic forwarded to HTTPS as I deal with some people whose computers will not connect to self-signed certificates. In this case I need HTTP to work. I suppose I could force HTTPS (redirect) and remove in the event it is not needed for the short time, I am OK with that.

(Bad Request
Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.

Reason: You're speaking plain HTTP to an SSL-enabled server port.

_ Instead use the HTTPS scheme to access this URL, please._

Apache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu) Server at xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Port 1443)

Thanks.

11

Your problem is different, please open a new topic and don't hijack this one.

12

I reckon I'll make another thread, although I would think the title of this thread matches exactly what I need to find solution for.