I am trying to install NextCloud to sync all my home files. I signed up for a free Woelki account and uploaded the web installer (setup-nextcloud.php) into my cloud space
If you sign up at them you dont need to run the setup. That is a nextcloud provider and you signed up for an account there. Thats it. If you want to run it on your own you need a linux server or another kind of account.
I am not very technically savvy and don’t understand the process very well
I understand that I have now signed up for a hosting account
However I still need to create the NextCloud admin account - otherwise files are going to be synced in an unencrypted format. I only have signed on for the web hosting plan using the referral page - not NextCloud
I am using the instructions from this page
How do I now create the NextCloud setup within the hosted space?
If you have signed up at wölkli that is a nextcloud account. Not a hosting account. That account can be used to try it out and see how it works.
for a hosting account you need to find one that provides linux. in that article they mention 000webhost for example. But i would recommend a decent linux vps from for example linode or digital ocean. That is however a bit more techincal (but they describe it in that article)
When creating this account, I was never asked to set up a NextCloud Admin account and the only options I see are for Wolkli
I setup the windows desktop client and all the files are syncing unencrypted. For example, I uploaded a text file with the word Text. When I go to to the Wolkli website, that file and contents are clearly visible. Doesn’t that mean that there is no encryption occurring?
Isn’t there an additional step of setting up a NextCloud admin account?
you can only get a user account on that. And it might be encrypted but as you sign in with your user it will be unencrypted. Unless you setup end to end encryption. But i don’t know if that works on wölkli.
If you setup your completly own server then you would have admin accounts.
Thanks. I was looking to set up an end to end encrypted account and don’t mind paying for that.
Any recommendations for providers where I could easily set up a server
The user manual is pretty technical for me to understand. Any instructions you can point me to for a non-techie to then set up next cloud. For example, I don’t even know what domain I would go to under your-domain/setup-nextcloud.php