I’m using a Raspberry PI with nextcloudpi. Problem is that my ISP seems to have the ports blocked. Any way to get access when I’m not at home?
Which inbound tcp ports are opened usually depend on the configuration of your internet router and not your ISP. You should check the configuration of your internet router first, if you want to allow inbound traffic. This need always to be done independently from which tcp port you want to use at the end.
some ISPs block ports or directly hide you behing a CG-NAT. You would have to do the DNS challenge mechanism. Look that up in the NCP wiki
Im using a vpn provider that have all ports open and a static wan ip. Ok its not free but damn fast. But thats for my epost server My iSP havent blocked 80 or 443. But if my isp blocks 80 and 443 i can use my vpn for that to.
ovpn.com its in sweden but have servers all over the world.
How do I do that?
Get vpn static wan ip? Can write a guide about it in a few hours!
vpn about 3 to 5$ month Static IP about 2$ month look for offer.
apt install openvpn-server
Order a vpn that use a dedicated IP VPN the have guide to add the config file for my ovpn my config looks like this
cd /tmp && wget https://files.ovpn.com/ubuntu_cli/ovpn-se-stockholm-ipv4.zip && unzip ovpn-se-stockholm-ipv4.zip && mv config/* /etc/openvpn && rm -rf config && rm ovpn-se-stockholm-ipv4.zip
paste username and password:
nano /etc/openvpn/credentials
type
username=yourusername
password=yourpass
chmod 600 /etc/openvpn/credentials
openvpn --config /etc/openvpn/ovpn.conf --daemon
and u are done and safe behind vpn all ports open
Perl script to see if ip is right
nano ~/myip.pl
paste
#!/usr/bin/perl
# get HTML file with external IP address
system ("wget -q http://ipchicken.com");
open(FILE, '<index.html') || die("Could not open file!");
print "Your IP Address is: ";
@raw_data=<FILE>;
foreach (@raw_data) {
if (/((\d{1,3})(\.)){3}\d{1,3}/) {
s/[^0-9.]*//g;
print "$_\n";
}
}
# removing index.html
system ("rm index.html");
cd ~
perl myip.pl
Your IP Address is: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
Open port 80 443 25 465 587 and so on for your software and so on in your router, dmz use ufw
ubuntu:
systemctl status/reload/restart/stop/start openvpn
NOTE some vpn providers have there own dns servers dont forget to look them up if it dosent work.
for that price. open an account at hetzner.de or scaleway.com or a cheap hoster nearby
and setup your nextcloud in the cloud. encrypt your datafiles and you should have privacy like at home.
use my playbook to setup up nextcloud in 15-20 minutes.
the external dns name of a scaleway machine works even with letsencrypt.
You can change the ports in your Apache configuration of your NextcloudPi.