# Allowing public share links for private instance

**URL:** <https://help.nextcloud.com/t/allowing-public-share-links-for-private-instance/234817>\
**Category:** ℹ️ Support\
**Created:** [October 27, 2025, 6:03pm UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/allowing-public-share-links-for-private-instance/234817 "2025-10-27T18:03:11Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 16, 2025, 1:08pm UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/allowing-public-share-links-for-private-instance/234817/3 "2025-12-16T13:08:47Z")

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Hi,

I am currently working on something like that, for my home use. Here’s what I have done, maybe some ideas are helpful to you. Though I have it not yet working unfortunately.

Access to my Nextcloud instance is secured via Tailscale @ [https://nextcloud.mytailnet.ts.net](https://nextcloud.mytailnet.ts.net). Public share links start at the /s/ route. So I’ve heard people advocating Cloudflare Tunnels for this use case.

I set up Cloudflare Tunnel with [https://public-nextcloud-share.mydomain.tld](https://public-nextcloud-share.mydomain.tld) to route any traffic going to the /s/ route to my NGINX which then forwards to my instance that is secured by Tailscale.

This appeared to work at first, however, when I open eg [https://public-nextcloud-share.mydomain.tld](https://public-nextcloud-share.mydomain.tld)/s/fpwjstoijtoi5jtoj43otj43t43 on a public device, The page is broken and there are lots of Javascript errors in the console, because assets coming from the /dist folder could not be loaded. I set-up Cloudflare to only forward traffic to [https://public-nextcloud-share.mydomain.tld](https://public-nextcloud-share.mydomain.tld)/s/ to NGINX and drop (404) all other traffic. So I know its because of the Cloudflare Tunnel config but I don’t know how else to allow only traffic destined for the public share endpoint.

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