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18 changes: 14 additions & 4 deletions admin_manual/configuration_server/security_setup_warnings.rst
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Expand Up @@ -115,11 +115,21 @@ websites. To ensure that Nextcloud will work properly you need to update OpenSSL
to at least 1.0.2b or 1.0.1d. For NSS the patch version depends on your distribution
and an heuristic is running the test which actually reproduces the bug.

Your Web server is not set up properly to resolve /.well-known/caldav/ or /.well-known/carddav/
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Your Web server is not set up properly to resolve /.well-known/ URLs
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Both URLs need to be correctly redirected to the DAV endpoint of Nextcloud. Please
refer to :ref:`service-discovery-label` for more info.
The following well-known URLs must be correctly redirected for full Nextcloud functionality:

* ``/.well-known/caldav`` → ``/remote.php/dav`` (CalDAV service discovery)
* ``/.well-known/carddav`` → ``/remote.php/dav`` (CardDAV service discovery)
* ``/.well-known/webfinger`` → ``/index.php/.well-known/webfinger`` (identity/federation)
* ``/.well-known/nodeinfo`` → ``/index.php/.well-known/nodeinfo`` (server metadata)
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This looks wrong, there shouldn't be a redirect here.

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You mean we should have a redirect for that nodeinfo thing ?
I found this in the server code 🤔
https://github.com/nextcloud/server/blob/926cecba3c3924acbc3fec5573dc808119ec27f8/apps/settings/lib/SetupChecks/WellKnownUrls.php#L52


The CalDAV and CardDAV redirects are required for calendar and contacts clients that use
automatic service discovery. The WebFinger and NodeInfo redirects are used for federation
and profile discovery between Nextcloud instances and compatible services.

Please refer to :ref:`service-discovery-label` for setup instructions for Apache and NGINX.

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