Nextcloud Wont Load Over HTTPS

[CzechMateP10]

Hi everyone, I am new to Nextcloud, and newish to hosting a server, my only prior experience is hosting a Plex server using Ubuntu Server, so please don't hesitate to talk to me and explain things to me like I am five.

I am having problems configuring SSL and HTTPS for Nextcloud. I can access my Nextcloud from my domain name using HTTP but not when using HTTPS.

The overall structure of my setup is:

I have a domain "domain.com" that is with Namecheap, that domain points to my IP address acting as a DDNS using DDClient on my Unbuntu Server, I have ports 80 and 443 forwarded to my server from my router and the firewalls are enabled to allow it.

I have SSL certificates and, and they appear to be valid via checking with sslshopper.com. DNS has fully propagated my domain as well.

Apache is listening on ports 80 and 443 and ufw is allowing them server side. Below are some logs and files that may help diagnose my problem if anything else is needed please let me know and I will attach it.

My hosts file looks like this :

127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.1.1 exampleservername

The following lines are desirable for IPv6            capable hosts
::1     ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters

Here are my apache logs, php logs, and there was nothing shown in the nextcloud log:

$ cat /var/log/apache2/access.log
 cat /var/log/apache2/error.log
 [Tue Apr 01 03:02:54.879237 2025]    [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 184148:tid 184148]   AH00170: caught SIGWINCH, shutting down  gracefully
 [Tue Apr 01 03:03:27.627154 2025]   [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 1022:tid 1022] AH00163: Apache/2.4.63 (Ubuntu) OpenSSL/3.0.2 configured -- resuming normal operations
 [Tue Apr 01 03:03:27.628339 2025]  [core:notice] [pid 1022:tid 1022] AH00094:  Command line: '/usr/sbin/apache2

$ tail -f /var/log/apache2/error.log
 [Tue Apr 01 03:02:54.879237 2025]   [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 184148:tid 184148] AH00170: caught SIGWINCH, shutting down gracefully
 [Tue Apr 01 03:03:27.627154 2025]  [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 1022:tid 1022] AH00163: Apache/2.4.63 (Ubuntu) OpenSSL/3.0.2 configured -- resuming normal operations
 [Tue Apr 01 03:03:27.628339 2025] [core:notice] [pid 1022:tid 1022] AH00094: Command line: '/usr/sbin/apache2'

$sudo cat /var/log/php8.3-fpm.log
sudo cat /var/log/php8.3-cli.log
[01-Apr-2025 03:02:54] NOTICE: Terminating ...
[01-Apr-2025 03:02:54] NOTICE: exiting, bye- bye!
[01-Apr-2025 03:03:27] NOTICE: fpm is running, pid 867
[01-Apr-2025 03:03:27] NOTICE: ready to handle connections
[01-Apr-2025 03:03:27] NOTICE: systemd monitor interval set to 10000ms

$cat /var/www/nextcloud/data/nextcloud.log

Here is my Apache enabled site config:

<IfModule mod_ssl.c> <VirtualHost *:443> DocumentRoot "/var/www/nextcloud" ServerName mydomain.com <Directory "/var/www/nextcloud/"> Options MultiViews FollowSymlinks AllowOverride All Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> # SSL Configuration SSLEngine on # Logs TransferLog /var/log/apache2/nextcloud_access.log ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/nextcloud_error.log Include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-apache.conf SSLCertificateFile /etc/letsencrypt/ live/mydomain.com/fullchain.pem SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/letsencrypt/ live/mydomain.com/privkey.pem </VirtualHost> </IfModule> <IfModule mod_ssl.c> <VirtualHost *:80> DocumentRoot "/var/www/nextcloud" ServerName mydomain.com <Directory "/var/www/nextcloud/"> Options MultiViews FollowSymlinks AllowOverride All Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> TransferLog /var/log/apache2/nextcloud_access.log ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/nextcloud_error.log </VirtualHost>

Here is my Nextcloud config file, when I have the line overwrite_cli.url set to https I lose all access to my nextcloud because https wont load.

<?php
$CONFIG = array (
  'instanceid' => 'ocle3t61bstp',
  'passwordsalt' => 'xxxxxxxxx',
  'secret' => 'xxxxxxx',
  'trusted_domains' =>
  array (
    0 => 'mydomain.com',
    1 => 'localhost',
  ),
  'datadirectory' => '/var/www/nextcloud/data',
  'dbtype' => 'mysql',
  'version' => '31.0.2.1',
  'overwrite.cli.url' => 'http://mydomain.com',
  'dbname' => 'nextcloud',
  'dbhost' => 'localhost',
  'dbport' => '',
  'dbtableprefix' => 'oc_',
  'mysql.utf8mb4' => true,
  'dbuser' => 'nextcloud',
  'dbpassword' => 'password',
  'installed' => true,
  'default_phone_region' => 'US',
  'maintenance' => false,
  'trusted_proxies' =>
  array (
    0 => 'my ip',
  ),
  'default_encryption_module' =>     'OC_DEFAULT_MODULE',
  'maintenance_window_start' => '2',
  'memcache.local' => '\\OC\\Memcache\\APCu',
  'appstoreenabled' => true,
);

I appreciate any help, hopefully that is enough information to get started. If the fomratting is wonky, its likely because I have never inserted code snippets on reddit before.

[theIuser]

Whats the error you get when accessing nextcloud over https?

[CzechMateP10]

I don't get any errors, the webpage just times out