Re: [gentoo-user] Nextcloud-24.0.7 and proxy settings

[J. Roeleveld]

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