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  • Nextcloud Server version (e.g., 29.x.x):
    • 35
  • Operating system and version (e.g., Ubuntu 24.04):
    • kubernetes, docker image
  • Web server and version (e.g, Apache 2.4.25):
    • Apache 2.4.25
  • Reverse proxy and version _(e.g. nginx 1.27.2)
    • traefik 2.21
  • PHP version (e.g, 8.3):
    • 8.3
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    • no error
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    • no problem
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    • helm chart
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Summary of the issue you are facing:

Hello,

I am new to NextCloud. I installed it on my kubernetes cluster for HA. My goal is to serve files through a file browser with some fine grained access which NextCloud seems to provide quite well.

I also need to serve some files with public access like for example embed a <img> tag in some html page with an image loaded from my NextCloud instance.

Unless I didn’t fully checked everywhere, it appears that it is not possible at all ? I found so many subject about it on internet from 2019 to this day but no one mention how to do this.

I tried to create a public link for a file, then embed it with <img src="https://mynextcloud.com/public.php/dav/files/rGXPedkfZ2ggzGR/" /> but it doesn’t work because of the response header provided by nextcloud cause brower issues to load the image.

I have read about this NextCloud plugin GitHub - rookie0/nextcloud-sharing-path: 🌩 Nextcloud app to enhance files sharing to be accessed by stored path, can be used as CDN origin. but it appears to be not working and not maintained for a while now.

How can I embed <img> tag on my website with a file from my NextCloud instance ?

Steps to replicate it (hint: details matter!):

  1. there is no step as there is no error

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Nextcloud

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PASTE

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PASTE HERE

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Nextcloud

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It seems like this format works:

https://your-nextcloud-domain.com/public.php/dav/files/SHARE_TOKEN/

I tested on mine, and it directly downloads the file.

I got the Share Token from the public link that you can copy from the share screen.

Thanks but like I said in my post I already tried this link format, which is good to trigger a direct download but it’s not a direct link to serve a file, as a basic <img /> html tag with this link format will fail

ah, sorry. missed that.

what about:

https://your-nextcloud.com/index.php/s/abc123xyz/preview

This renders directly in my browser. (abc123xyz is the share token)

It doesn’t work for me, it returns me an empty bracket [] with a http code 404.
The strange part is that if I keep this format you sent me and replace the token with a fake one, I still got a 404 but I got the actual 404 Page of NextCloud instead of the empty bracket [] so Nextcloud nows something about it.

Maybe it was a feature that got removed in the latest version of NextCloud ?

Weird. I’m on 32.0.5 I believe (whatever the latest release is).

Do you get the image displayed if you insert the copied link into the browser address field?