What is this? This is an off-shoot blog from my journey of trying to set up multiple podman containers on an ubuntu server running on my old laptop. This post is very specific about connecting the pods and the network together, not actually setting up the containers and their services. I’ll try to post links to those if I have…
Tag: nextcloud
How to Connect and Sync a Thunderbird Calendar with Nextcloud
This should have been easy, but as all things it ended up hard. First, when I tried a simple import of my Thunderbird .ics calendar into my new Nextcloud install, I got ‘could not parse data’ errors. Wouldn’t end. After much searching it seems like there might be something in the .ics data that doesn’t work with new Nextcloud, or,…
Problems renewing Letsencrypt certificate on Nextcloud Snap
Super quick post here to explain my problem and solution for why my Nextcloud Snap Letsencrypt certificate wouldn’t renew on my ubuntu server and how I fixed it. I got a warning that my SSL certificate was expired when I was using my nextcloud client. I read a few blogs on how to renew it and the solution was always…
Installing Nextcloud on Digital Ocean Ubuntu Server Droplet
Disclaimer: As always, my blogs are not supposed to be a well-written piece of technical literature but instead a better-than-crap version of a messy notepad. I hope it’s clear enough to help someone other than myself but I always check them to make sure at least I can understand it, ha. It seems that there is a nice blog written…
Fixing My Dead Nextcloudpi box in three simple steps
My nextcloudpi box was kicking back errors and wouldn’t start. It was in a degraded state. I then learned about systemctl –failed command which showed something wrong with certbot. Thankfully I already knew that was related to LetsEncrypt. I realized that it was trying to renew two domains that weren’t there and were expired and would be unable to renew…
How to Install Video Convertor App on Nextcloud
Someone complaining that they can’t view an Apple .MOV file on your Nextcloud server? No surprise considering ‘apple is apple’. Heard about the cool app ‘Video Convertor’ for Nextcloud? Tried to install it and use it and got that ‘requires ffmpeg error? Same. Turns out it’s pretty easy to to get it going and here is how: Let’s do it.…
HOW TO MAKE A NEXTCLOUD PI BOX WORK AS REVERSE PROXY TO YUNOHOST
Background The situation was that I wanted to test out the very cool project Yunohost but I already had Nextcloudpi (another awesome project!) running on my local network. I already had a DDNS service (No-ip) running which was pointing to my Nextcloudpi (“NCP” moving forward) box, and a second DNS service that I set up which pointed to my router…
How to Set up a Calendar with Ubuntu Touch and Nextcloud
1. Set up online account in Ubuntu Touch You will need all your calendar info from your Nextcloud instance before beginning. Looks something like this: https://yourdomain.com/nextcloudserverlocation/remote.php/dav/calendars/username open calendar middle icon that shows grid calendar ‘add online calendar’ choose NC enter credentials 2. Sync UT calendar ‘should’ start syncing right away and you’ll see a little icon appear showing that sync…
How to Sync Files from Ubuntu Touch to Nextcloud using UBsync
Ubuntu Touch is awesome. Nextcloud is also awesome. Put them together and you have awesome… squared. How cool would it be to have your photos automatically sync to your own Nextcloud sever? Well, you can do it today and here is how. EDIT DEC 24, 2018 – Important Security Warning before beginning! Currently as of the time of this post,…
Doing a Really Big and Fast First Upload on a Fresh Nextcloudpi Install (the Samba Way)
EDIT 190515: Oops. Apparently in the instructions below in the Nautilus section I failed to say how to actually connect. Adding that now. Sorry. Nice long title. Thankfully the speed of getting your first big upload to your new Nextcloudpi (NCP) server won’t be so long, thanks to this tutorial! By spending 10 minutes and doing this tutorial you will…