Nextcloud for beginners

[Xa3phod]

Hi, I installed NextCloud on my Truenas Core. I literally have no idea how to start using NextCloud and it's hard to find any documentation for beginners. I see a lot of help guides setting it up in Linux, etc, but not for Truenas.

When I go to the IP for the Nextcloud I get this message:

Access through untrusted domain
Please contact your administrator. If you are an administrator, edit the "trusted_domains" setting in config/config.php like the example in config.sample.php. I tried nano, but I cant find config.php.

I have no idea what to do. I have to edit my trusted domain settings. No idea how to do that. Why would the initial IP Nextcloud gave me not be automatically whitelisted?

Once I figure this out, how do I access the server from outside of my home network?

Thanks for your patience.

 

[danb35]

Did you use the plugin? If so, delete it and forget the plugins are there--they're a dead feature walking, "all but deprecated", and "a path to sadness," the latter to in the words of iX' SVP of Engineering:

iXsystems, when are you going to stop pretending that CORE has (usable) plugins?

Plugins are broken. We all know it, and you have no intention of fixing them. Most notably, @Kris Moore has said not to use them, and that they're "more or less deprecated": using plugins on CORE is a path to sadness. The plugin system is more or less deprecated and as you can tell, somewhat...

www.truenas.com

A much better way to install it, in my completely unbiased opinion, is here:

Scripted installation of Nextcloud 28 in iocage jail

Status: This script will run with TrueNAS CORE 13. It's possible, but untested, that it will work with FreeNAS 12. Earlier versions are not supported. There are a number of guides on the forum to install Nextcloud, but they all rely on a lot of...

www.truenas.com

Once it's installed,

how do I access the server from outside of my home network?

is a matter of port forwarding to the jail where Nextcloud is installed.

 

[Xa3phod]

"First, you must own or control a real Internet domain name." = I don't have a domain. No free way to do this?

Thanks Kosh.

 

[danb35]

Domains are cheap. If you go to freenom.com, among some others, they can even be free.

 

[Xa3phod]

I appreciate it.

 

[Patrick M. Hausen]

If you only want to access your Nextcloud locally, a static hosts entry on your desktop system or in your local DNS server will do. But in most cases the motivation to run Nextcloud in the first place is remote access. And for that a dedicated domain name is mandatory. Possibly your ISP offers a more or less choosable domain name bundled with your access package.

 

[Davvo]

Possibly your ISP offers a more or less choosable domain name bundled with your access package.

You guys have something like that?

 

[Patrick M. Hausen]

German Telekom does offer that, but I do not use it, since I have my own domain. Also popular in Germany is AVM, manufacturer of the popular "Fritzbox" series of home routers. They offer a free proprietary DynDNS service with a name under the "myfritz.com" domain, if I remember the details correctly.