Providing Secure Access to Files to Individuals via the Web

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I have no support/technical question and have seen the support category. (Be aware that direct support questions will be deleted.)

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I pay for a service that hosts my website. The hosting service charges me for storage. I would like to provide individual clients credentials-based access to an area of my website where they can view and download files BUT I want those files to remain on my local server. I have Nextcloud 2.1.19 running within TrueNAS Scale 25.10 locally. (I will eventually host my website locally, but that’s not happening soon.)

I believe this is do’able, but it’s sufficiently complex that, combined with my inexperience, I’m having difficulty pulling the pieces together. So I post here, and hope to get some assistance from folks with casual experience with this sort of thing. You there, reading this; can you provide some guidance on how I can string together what I need to get this working?

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Hello @holley,

welcome to the Nextcloud community! :handshake:

I could imagine this is doable using a reverse proxy of embedding your Nextcloud in an iframe but but makes more likely doesn’t fit your requirements. Please explain what your are trying to achieve from the “business process” point of view

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I send clients an email with a link to online storage that I pay for. This works, though there’s expense. Instead, I want that link to open to a page my website (hosted by a service–another expense) that prompts for credentials; and upon authentication, they’re presented a page listing files for them to download.

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sharing files is basic functionality of Nextcloud, please educate yourself File Sharing — Nextcloud latest User Manual latest documentation