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Hello,

is there a good tutorial, how to install on a Debian VM?

Greetings

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https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/latest/admin_manual/installation/source_installation.html

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I wasn’t happy with the official doc that @jtr linked, so I wrote my own tutorial for ubuntu (almost the same for debian)

Let me know if that works for you or if you have any questions.

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I do not have a Domain, what do i have to do with the ServerName, IP does not work?

<IfModule mod_ssl.c>
<VirtualHost *:443>
  ServerName  cloud.x_yourdomain.com
</VirtualHost>
</IfModule>
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If you don’t have a domain, you won’t be able to get a cert or access it from remote or share files. Is that not a problem for you?

My tutorial does not cover that special case, but you should probably be able to follow my NGINX proxy tutorial. Why? Well in the case of a NGIXN proxy in front of apache, apache also does not use ssl. I think the only thing you have to change is to delete the line with ServerName.

apache

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Is that not a problem for you?

No, this is not a problem for me. Ubuntu Snap is running for me. I will try your tutorial.

You won’t be able to get a cert or access it from remote or share files.

What alternatives are there to reach Nextcloud from outside if I don’t have a domain. Perplexity answer to this Problem:

There are several alternatives to reach Nextcloud from outside without using your own domain:

  1. DynDNS services: Use a dynamic DNS service to assign a fixed hostname to your changing IP address[1][5].

  2. VPN connection: Set up a VPN (e.g. WireGuard) to securely access your home network[2][6].

3 Overlay networks: Use services such as Tailscale or Netbird to establish secure connections without port forwarding[1].

These methods allow access to your Nextcloud instance without the need for a separate domain.

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Hello,

Any random extension domains are like less than USD 1 for the entire year. Domain is not the issue here. Actual issue is CG-NAT

For outside access, Snap Nextcloud will happily work with any Public IP and self signed SSL certificate and port forwarding at your router level.

But the question is, do you have Public IP at your home router?

Sadly, more and more ISPs are pushing CG-NAT IP at home routers and there no conventional VPN would work.

One bypass method is using Tail-Scale but that means each and everyone along with every device who wishes to access nextcloud needs to install & authenticate same tail-scale user account and then subsequently will have access to the entire home network.

So for the question of outside access, first step I guess would be figuring out if you have Public IP at router level or not. Based on that your options will defer !!

Thanks.