Out of my depth

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Hey folks, I’ve been watching many different tutorials online about how to setup Nextcloud to be able to access it remotely, and share files with people over the internet, and I just can’t seem to get it all to work. Mostly because this is way beyond my current skill and knowledge.

I am running TrueNAS Scale, and managed to install NextCloud successfully using the “apps” page. But I am unable to get port forwarding to work. I tried a few different solutions including using nginx-proxy-manager and Cloudflare tunneling. But no luck.

I followed/watched this guide

also watched Wendell’s guide

I am trying to keep the setup as easy/simple as possible. Which one of the reasons I am avoiding TrueCharts and their apps, which have led me down a rabbit hole.

Currently when I type in my address for Nextcloud address “nc.mydomain.com” (nc short for nextcloud) , I get a bad gateway error. So I am guessing my cloudflare tunnel is working BUT something is wrong on my Nginx setup. Does anyone have any tips on how I can trouble shoot, or better understand what is not working? Like some way to “ping” or test my connection?

Again, I am very new to all this, so maybe I am doing this all wrong.

Thank you for your time. (It looks like a lot of people/videos use PortainerIO, I would rather avoid that if possible, unless that is the only way around TrueNAS’s port’s being seen).

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Check web server logs, reverse proxy logs and maybe do a traffic capture from both your machine (wire shark) and the server (maybe tcpdump) to see what is going on.

Where does the bad gateway error get generated from?

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*update.

I’ve managed to get my domain forward via cloudflare tunnel to my TrueNAS system “https://nc.mydomain.com:443” but can’t get Nextcloud to work any port. Tried 9001 (which apparently Cloudflare doesn’t support) and 40443 but with no luck.

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I would forget the tunnel until you know it’s working just via your domain or static_IP.

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