Nextcloud, Technology, Tutorial, Ubuntu

EXAMPLE PODMAN-COMPOSE YAML FILE FOR NEXTCLOUD ON UBUNTU SERVER

What is this? This is basically the ‘nextcloud version’ of this n8n post. It’s the ‘other pod’ that I setup in my multi-pod environment. Directory Comments For the directory structure to hold this setup, if you want to copy exactly what I did, you can copy and paste this next block of commands navigate to your HOME directory and run…

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Nextcloud, Technology, Tutorial, Ubuntu

SPINNING UP THE PODMAN NEXTCLOUD CONTAINER – TERMINAL-COPY-PASTE STYLE

What is this? This post is kind of my original journey into podman and getting a quick proof-of-concept pod up and running. In the end I changed paths away from quadlets and terminal-pasting in favour of podman-compose (like docker compose) style setup because I like the neatness of the ‘recipe’ of a compose.yaml file. However, I am not done with…

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Life Skills, Nextcloud, Technology, Tutorial

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,…

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Business, Freedom and Privacy, Nextcloud, Technology, Tutorial, Ubuntu

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…

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Nextcloud, Technology, Tutorial

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…

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Freedom and Privacy, Life Skills, Nextcloud, Technology, Tutorial, Ubuntu

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…

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Freedom and Privacy, Life Skills, Nextcloud, Tutorial, Ubuntu Touch

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…

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