Trouble setting up Web GUI for WAN access

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Hi,

Thanks in advance for any help.

I can access my Web GUI from LAN perfectly yet when I try to access it from WAN, it fails to load. I know that I have correctly port forwarded because I can access my instance of nextcloud on WAN from the app but when I try to get to it through a browser, it says the server cannot be reached. I think my problem lies in my apache configuration for it.

Here’s what it looks like:

1   Alias /nextcloud "/var/www/nextcloud/"
  1
  2 <VirtualHost *:80>
  3     ServerAdmin myemail@gmail.com
  4     DocumentRoot /var/www/nextcloud
  5     ServerName cloud.myurl.com
  6     ServerAlias cloud.myurl.us
  7     ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
  8     CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
  9 </VirtualHost>
 10
 11 <Directory /var/www/nextcloud>
 12     Options +FollowSymlinks
 13     AllowOverride All
 14
 15     <IfModule mod_dav.c>
 16         Dav off
 17     </IfModule>
 18
 19     SetEnv HOME /var/www/nextcloud
 20     SetEnv HTTP_HOME /var/www/nextcloud
 21
 22 </Directory>

Any help would be much appreciated.

Edit: I cannot access any websites I’m hosting through Nextcloud either. I can however access websites hosted in my var/www/ folder.

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you access through one of these domains?

You define the

but you also want to use nextcloud in the nextcloud folder?

You don’t use a https-connection?

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Yes, I access it through one of those domains.

I determined that it was a problem with chrome on mobile. I checked this morning using different browsers and a laptop and I am able to reach my Nextcloud Web GUI on WAN. I don’t use https because I can’t really afford a certificate at the moment. Thank you for your reply!

To clarify my statement about hosting websites through Nextcloud, I set the DocumentRoot to a directory inside of Nextcloud so I can edit all my html and css through a web browser. Maybe not the most secure or best way to do it, but it works for me.

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If it’s your own domain, you can have free certs from https://letsencrypt.org/

Don’t do that, for such purposes you can use external storage (can be a local folder of your server):
https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/12/admin_manual/configuration_files/external_storage_configuration_gui.html?highlight=external%20storage