Make your Nextcloud ready for access over the internet

So, if you read about “Create a cloud using NextCloud, Raspberry Pi, and a USB HDD from scratch” then the proper next step is to make it accessible over the internet.

Shortlist of things to make it accessible over the internet

In order to make things work, you will need to:

• Have a working Nextcloud installation;
• Port forwarding;
• DHCP address reservation;
• Enable Dynamic DNS like No-IP;
• Configure Nextcloud to accept domain;
• Install SSL certificate;

Port forwarding your cloud

Your Raspberry Pi is probably connected over an internet router, so you need to use port forwarding for 80 and 443 ports over the internet. If you don’t do this your cloud can’t be accessed over the internet.

The necessity of port forwarding for Nextcloud access over the internet

Sadly, this is different from router to router or depends on your network equipment, so I can’t present you a proper way for each one of you.

You can find the information you need by using Google and searching for “port forward YOUR ROUTER MODEL” or try to browse through portforward.com .