Adding hosts to the nextcloud-all-in-one nginx proxy manager

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Hi,

I run Nginx Proxy Manager (NPM) as a separate service outside of Nextcloud AIO.
Why separate?

  • Isolation & updates: AIO’s internal proxy is there to serve AIO; keeping NPM separate avoids breaking your proxy when AIO updates/recreates containers.
  • No port fights: A standalone NPM owns ports 80/443/81 for all your apps, not just Nextcloud.
  • Cleaner ops & recovery: independent volumes/DB, simple backups/migration, and it can front multiple services/hosts.

How I run external NPM

# 1) Create a dedicated directory for NPM
mkdir -p ~/nginx-new
cd ~/nginx-new

# 2) Create docker-compose.yml
nano docker-compose.yml

docker-compose.yml

# version: '3'
services:
  app:
    image: 'jc21/nginx-proxy-manager:latest'
    restart: unless-stopped
    ports:
      - '80:80'
      - '81:81'
      - '443:443'
    environment:
      PUID: 1000                #use yours
      PGID: 1000                #use yours
      DB_MYSQL_HOST: "db"
      DB_MYSQL_PORT: 3306
      DB_MYSQL_USER: "npmuser"
      DB_MYSQL_PASSWORD: "StrongPass123!"
      DB_MYSQL_NAME: "nginxnew"
    volumes:
      - ./data/app:/data
      - ./letsencrypt:/etc/letsencrypt

  db:
    image: 'jc21/mariadb-aria:latest'
    restart: unless-stopped
    environment:
      MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: 'RootPass123!'
      MYSQL_DATABASE: 'nginxnew'
      MYSQL_USER: 'npmuser'
      MYSQL_PASSWORD: 'StrongPass123!'
    volumes:
      - ./data/mysql:/var/lib/mysql

# 3) Start it
docker compose up -d

# 4) Open the UI
# http://<your-server-ip>:81

In NPM, add a Proxy Host for your Nextcloud domain that points to the AIO Apache (commonly port 11000 on the AIO host).
For Talk, forward UDP 3478 directly to your AIO server (TURN/STUN is UDP; NPM doesn’t proxy UDP).

For large file uploads with NPM + AIO, here’s a working example (Advanced tab settings included):
https://help.nextcloud.com/t/testing-large-file-synchronization-with-nextcloud-aio-and-nginx-proxy/223392

That’s it: AIO focuses on Nextcloud, external NPM handles everything else cleanly.

Note: This post was written with the help of an AI assistant as a writing aid only. The opinions, solutions, and technical recommendations are fully based on my personal experience.
More about how and why I use AI to write forum posts:
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