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Secure a nextcloud instance on Debian 7 Wheezy that can no longer get certificates via certbot

January 14, 2024

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We were running a shared NextCloud instance at nextcloud.libreinfra.org for sometime on Debian GNU/Linux 7 Wheezy. It was setup on a shared hosting tool that is no longer maintained (Manu would know the details), upgrading the host was not possible. Most other services were migrated to other systems but this nextcloud service remained on this host. Sometime back certbot stopped working (likely because the openssl version is too old and it does not support newer crypto) and we could not continue using https, so this was left untouched for a long time.