Hi,
I have a local installation of nextcloud running on my home lab.
Is there a way to keep my files on my local instance and when I want to share them with others using the link that it will expose from my external VPS?
I don’t want to expose my local nextcloud application and I am not too fond of managing two separate instances of nextcloud, is there a way to achieve this?
Thanks in advance!
I didn’t quite understand your problem. Nor do I believe that it is possible if I have understood it correctly.
Perhaps two approaches:
You can use the Configurable Share Links app. Then you can give both shares the same name, e.g. “name”, and instead of https://intern.cloud.tld/s/name you send the link https://extern.cloud.tld/s/name. Ok not a really good solution.
You can perhaps use Nextcloud Federation. For example, you can share folders from your internal Nextcloud with your external Nextcloud user. This user can share the file with another person with correct sharing settings. However, your internal Nextcloud must be accessible externally, even if not for the recipient of the data.
Actually, the advantage of Nextcloud is that you can have as many independent Nextclouds as you like. I don’t see a problem with giving shares from different Nextclouds.