OAuth2¶
Nextcloud allows connecting external services (for example Moodle) to your Nextcloud.
This is done via OAuth2
. See RFC6749 for the
OAuth2 specification.
Note
Nextcloud does only support confidential clients.
Add an OAuth2 Application¶
Head over to your Administrator Security Settings. Here you can add a new OAuth2
client.
Enter the name of your application and provide a redirection url.
You should now have a Client Identifier and Secret. Enter those into your OAuth2
client.
Please provide the OAuth2 application the following details:
Authorization endpoint: SERVER/apps/oauth2/authorize Token endpoint: SERVER/apps/oauth2/api/v1/token
Note that the SERVER portion must include index.php at the end if pretty URL is not configured.
The access token¶
The access token obtained is a so called Bearer token. Which means that for request to the Nextcloud server you will have to send the proper authorization header.
Authorization: Bearer <TOKEN>
Note that apache by default strips this. Make sure you have mod_headers
, mod_rewrite
and mod_env
enabled.