How to access NextcloudPi first time & Activation

ncpbot · October 29, 2021, 11:29pm

This guide will help you access NextcloudPi.

Access

Instant Domain Name Access

When up and running, your device should become accessible at https://nextcloudpi or https://nextcloudpi.local.

First time access will be redirected automatically to the activation page

Copy the passwords for later use, you will be able to review or reset them with nc-admin (for NC) and nc-passwd (forNCP) from either Web UI or Terminal UI.

If you are using Windows you may have to install Bonjour Services for Windows to make it discover the .local domains. If your Browser redirects you to some search engine, you may try pasting the whole adress (including https://) at once.

If this does not work, try the following to discover your Pi’s IP address directly.

Find the IP address of the Raspberry Pi

You need to find the local IP address of the Raspberry Pi in order to connect to it and configure it.

From the screen

If you connect a monitor with a HDMI cable to your Raspberry Pi, you will see the local IP address.

From your home Router Web Interface

Note: Routers do not share the same Web User Interface.

Open a Web Browser, like Firefox.
Visit your home Router IP address. It is written at the bottom of your Router. Normally it will be 192.168.1.1
Log in with your credentials
Navigate to an entry in your menu that shows your Network Map and find a list that shows the IPs of the connected devices. The Raspberry Pi’s IP address should be listed there.

Linux / Mac

Install nmap from your package manager.
Open a terminal
Run the command nmap -sP '192.168.0.*', where you have to replace the network IP (192.168.0) with yours.
You will see something like this:

Nmap scan report for 192.168.0.131 (192.168.0.131)
Host is up (0.016s latency).
MAC Address: AA:BB:CC:11:22:33 (Raspberry Pi Foundation)

The local IP address of this Raspberry Pi is 192.168.0.131

Windows

Install Angry IP Scanner from it’s website.
Run Angry IP Scanner and put your network range and netmask. For example From: 192.168.0.0 To: 192.168.0.255 Netmask: /24.
Hit start.

You will get a list of all connected devices on your network. For more info look at the FAQ of Angry IP Scanner.

Activation

Now, we can start using NextcloudPi! first type the IP address or domain in your browser, then we have to activate NCP.

We will be presented with an activation page. Print the page or copy the passwords, and hit ‘Activate’. We can change these passwords later with nc-admin and nc-passwd.

ncp-activation

We will be redirected to ncp-web where we can run the first run Wizard.
wizard-demo1

Initial setup finished

From this point

we can access Nextcloud by the IP address, nextcloudpi.local or the DDNS domain name we have registered.
we can access the NCP-web panel (WebUI) at port 4443, for example https://nextcloudpi.local:4443

You can continue to configure your NextcloudPi - read here
https://help.nextcloud.com/t/how-to-configure-nextcloudpi/126310

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davidgror · June 29, 2024, 8:26am

https://nextcloudpi.local will not connect I get connection refused. Using build 1.54.0

Paul_Moench · October 12, 2024, 10:26am

I got the same problem. Does someone have a solution?

geoW · October 12, 2024, 11:09am

I have deep doubts, but no hints about your set-up.
The only question remaining in this thread is:

What did the 45 link-follower really expect to see?

gadjetor · October 13, 2024, 9:31am

Same here.

I put a build 1.55.2 on a raspberry 5 (4Gb ram).
MD5 of the image is OK.

http://nextcloudpi.local is down (same for port :4443)
Direct access with ip do the same.
Ping is ok.
A nmap command tells me that only ports 110 111 143 993 995 are open.
A nmap -p 80 answer that this port is closed ; same for port 4443.

I also tried with an ethernet cable & power plug used by a raspberry 4 which works well. No better results.

I waited half a day (in case of downloading updates maybe?) and reboot from time to time.

Formatting the SD card and start over. (256Gb for a SanDisk SD card: is it too much?)

My next step: plug a HDMI screen on the raspberry to see if something’s wrong…

geoW · October 13, 2024, 10:41am

How do you write the image?
Capacity shouldn’t matter here.

Yes, it gives a lttle more information.

gadjetor · October 13, 2024, 2:15pm

balenaEtcher, as advised

geoW · October 13, 2024, 2:39pm

As long-time propagator of pi-imager with new images (armbian based) I no longer take this advice.
But nevertheless you could test older images -ncp 1.52.x- .

Paul_Moench · October 13, 2024, 3:48pm

I tried to use the second most recent version of nextcloudpi, got the same problem. I connected my pi 4 via HDMI to a screen. Seems like everything is fine. It asks for a username and password to log into the TUI. Unfortunately, as I understand, the password is randomly generated and you only get it via the Web-UI, that does not work in my case.
In another blog I read, that, for an unknown reason, the WebUI wasn’t activated in the config. Unfortunately I see now way to access the config without the random generated password.

gadjetor · October 13, 2024, 4:00pm

It works with pi-imager !!!
Thanks a lot @geoW !!!
Now I can continue my activation. I’m so relieved

Maybe the page How to install NextCloudPi should be updated?

geoW · October 13, 2024, 4:05pm

Good ol’ pi-imager.
You got your pi4 with an older ncp version running?
Then you have have to do the whole update processes, good training.

geoW · October 13, 2024, 4:13pm

Don’t you get activation site in your browser

https://server-ip

?

gadjetor · October 13, 2024, 7:34pm

Hi @geoW,
I claimed victory too quickly, when I saw the port 80 open, then my browser saying to me the connection was unsafe . Few seconds later, all was blocked.
I tried with a HDMI screen plugged on the raspberry, and it appears that it freeze randomly on a boot step (after many reboot tests). Even if it reaches the last step and invite to go to the activation URL, the port 80 is closed.
I have to test with another micro SD card. This one is maybe corrupted
I hope to find the solution soon, and I’ll post it here, and maybe clean-up all my past messages, depending to the solution found.

Andre2 · October 14, 2024, 11:10am

I got the same problem.

I got the image using wsl and used the Raspberry PI Imager to flash the SD card. When I try to go to https://nextcloudpi or https://nextcloudpi.local, I get this error.

Fehler: Netzwerk-Zeitüberschreitung

geoW · October 14, 2024, 11:41am

I have the same advice, see above.

Andre2 · October 14, 2024, 12:54pm

I have also tried to access it via IP. It just does not work. What I have not tried is installing an older version.
I will try it with the curl install script from the github page and the Raspberry PI OS:

# curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nextcloud/nextcloudpi/master/install.sh | bash

geoW · October 14, 2024, 12:57pm

Then take a look in issues, I think there is one with curl script.

Paul_Moench · October 14, 2024, 2:10pm

No, the activation site is not accessible, as it is the case with the other users here. That, in fact, is the problem. If I got the activation site, I wouldn’t have to go into the console. I am using the same setup as @gadjetor.
In my case, the booting process looks fine. Other images can be installed onto the SD Card and booting works properly.

geoW · October 14, 2024, 2:32pm

In these cases my best advise is file a bug-report on github
https://github.com/nextcloud/nextcloudpi/issues