NextcloudPi latest version
installed on
Debian - latest
I have one instance of NextcloudPi on a raspberry pi and it works
Ports 80 443 are forwarded and my noip host name is fine
Now i am trying to install another NextcloudPi instance on a different machine which I can access via local netwrok
I want to access the new machine from the outside world.
but when I come to port froward the WebUI cannot do the port forwarding and when I am trying to manually port forward the router interface returns :
Some or all of these ports are already assigned to an existing rule.
Ha
Not really.
I want the name to be an easy to remember
I guess for the time being I’ll be stuck with mydomainname.ddns.net:4443 - not very elegant but hey…
You can only by your own domain and create a CNAME to your long domain. Or, if you have the chance to update the server’s IP address for your domain as well, you can direct the new domain directly to the server.
In any way, you need to buy your own domain, if you want to get rid of ".ddns.net". And if your current “domainname2” is very hard to remember, buying your own domain is even more recommended.
Some domains are available for 2,- € a year already, so that’s worth it in my opinion.
Well, it depends. Where did you get your current address (domainname.ddns.net) from?
Is this a provider where you just created an account to have a free domain name?
I don’t have much experience with hosters. I was not so happy with Web.de before and switched to hosting.de where I am very happy now. Possible that there are hosters out there which are equally good or better. All I can tell is, that I like them very much so far and had some very good experiences with them:
2,90 € per year for a .de address
awesome support so far (even though support is only Mo - Fr, they reacted on Sunday within an hour and solved my configuration issue - just wow!)
includes free DNS resolver with API access, so you can update the DNS values with the server’s IP address via script (no need for other dynDNS solutions)
DNSSec is included for free as well and easy to set up with a few clicks on their web GUI (be aware, that DNSSec is only available for specific TLDs if you’re interested in that)
acme.sh client fully supports hosting.de for DNS validation for automatic letsencrypt SSL-certificates
Not knowing your exact background, I believe you can delete your account at "ddns.net" completely if you buy your own domain and handle the DNS settings with your hoster.
That’s how I do it at least. For hosting.de I could even provide an update-DNS script
If you ever wanted to have more than one service available to the internet, which hides behind one NAT IP address, then you’d probably bound to register your own domain and use some DNS provider, which allows you to setup up CNAMES, as @Schmu already noted.
Then, you could route all incomng traffic on your local network through an instance of HAProxy and have it deal with the two - or more, targets on your network.
My setup is something like that, although its rather a couple of services on port 443 (NC, mail, some other Web services) and it really works absolutely fine.