Win 11 Pro ->Virtualbox Next Office in local subdomain won't resolve

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WIN11 PRO Virtualbox Yunohost

Hardware: Legion 5 Laptop
YunoHost version: 11.0.9
I have access to my server : Yes, local
Are you in a special context or did you perform some particular tweaking on your YunoHost instance ? : no

Description of my issue

hi everyone,
I am very new to this so please bear with me.

working on a win 11 pro VM (virtualbox with yunohost installed) and my router doesn’t support redirecting so i edited my local host file to:
192.168.1.114 yunohost.local
192.168.1.114 word.yunohost.local

to test things out i installed nextcloud, next office and collabora, set the subdomain in collabora to word.yunohost.local. Everything installed fine, but next office wont greenlight the subdomain word.yunohost.local. also i can’t login into the admin area of collabora online (ofc i used the password i setup while installing collabora). Checking the logs on nextcloud it seems like it cant resolve the subdomain?

GuzzleHttp\Exception\ConnectException: cURL error 6: Could not resolve host: word.yunohost.local (see https://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/libcurl-errors.html) for https://word.yunohost.local/hosting/capabilities

What did i miss or do wrong?
Thank you all for your patience and help in advance

Ps: i jsut tested the app focalboard which also requries a subdomain and the same issues occur.

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.local domains are reserved for mDNS protocol, which does not support subdomains. The Diagnosis should warn you about that.

Using the hosts file on the host might override this, but I am unsure the VM with YunoHost will follow this.

To be sure that it is not a mDNS issue, can you try with another TLD, like .test ?

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thank you very much for your reply! i tried what you recommended, but unfortunately have the same issues. without knowing too much about it the real issue i believe i am too unexperienced to really find a solution without asking a trillion questions, so i will read up on the documentation of each piece of software to maybe come back with at least a bit of understanding of whats going on under the hood.

thanks again and back to the drawing board :wink:

on another note: i am kind of sick of the virtual machine and thinking of getting a raspberry. the website writes version 3 or 4, but they come in different configurations. which raspberry would you guys recommend?

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I used to do it when I was using windows.
Easy :

  1. I create a dummy domain “home.up” on the yunohost webadmin
  2. I create a subdomain “drive.home.up” also on the webadmin, and so on, install apps
  3. get the ip address of the yunohost server (from ssh using ip -a)
  4. open the hosts file of windows and add a new line “192.168.1.20 home.up” at the end of the file and save it (change the ip according to yours)
  5. open “home.up” on a browser in the windows
  6. you can access it from any connected devices in your local network if change its hosts file (smartphone, another computer, etc…)
    If I remember correctly, I changed the ethernet configuration on virtualbox to Nat instead of bridged.

Some apps may require you to add a line to the hosts file of the yunohost server “127.0.0.1 home.up”
Good luck

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hi and thank you very much for taking the time to reply!

i have done all the modifications you mention before and apps like Agendav, Baikal, Nextcloud (Calendar+invtites) and Seafile work, so maybe the self assigned certificates might not work whenever there is a subdomain involved? i also tested the Focalboard app, which also requires its own subdomain and there i cant even login. unfortunately i haven’t looked into the ins and outs of certificates (how to generate, verify, where to place, where to edit, root certificates etc…)

Again, i know i have much to learn to at least give you pros somewhat of a meaningful description of a technical problem as to not waste your time.

thanks for all your help :wink:

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