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Self hosted Onedrive alternative (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 1 day ago by Infernal_pizza@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I'm looking to finally ditch Onedrive with a self hosted alternative, but I'm not sure what to go with. I want something with all of the files on a central server, with an Android client with the option to sync individual files for offline access as needed. Preferably the files should also be stored in plain format on the server to make backups easier and as a fallback if the service completely fails and I don't have time to fix it. Linux and Windows clients are a bonus but I'm happy just using a web gui if that's all that's available. These are the options I've considered so far:

Seafile - This was the one that I thought fit my needs the best until earlier but apparently it has a weird disk layout which means the files are basically inaccessible by anything else?

Nextcloud - I had originally ruled this out because I don't care about any of the additional features which people claim also slow it down and make it a bit of a resource hog, and I also don't want to deal with forced https. However I think the community image may actually be what I want as it seems to be just the file server and works with just http? I am a bit confused about the different options for the database though. https://hub.docker.com/_/nextcloud/

Syncthing - Not quite what I'm looking for as you need to sync the entire thing, and I don't like whatever weirdness is going on with the Android app at the moment

SAMBA share - Also not really what I'm looking for as there's no offline syncing, but very easy to set up and basically nothing to go wrong

Are there any other options I should be looking into?

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[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I also need to work out how to do automatic certificate renewal and if that's even worth doing

This is what certbot is for. For example, with nginx, you just set up the webserver to be reachable via your domain.

You then install and run certbot, and it will aquire, install and configure, and then set itself up to auto-renew, a certificate. All with just one command.

With Nextcloud specifically I also don't like the fact that you can't change the domain after the initial setup

Yes you can?

I've done it thrice now.

Is this some limitation of the docker AIO stack?

[–] Infernal_pizza@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How do you change the domain? That was one of the biggest things putting me off

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Locate and edit the config/config.php. There is a line that starts with 'trusted_domains' Add your new domain thusly:

'trusted_domains' =>
  array (
    0 => 'old-domain.com',
    1 => 'new-domain.com',
  ),

You'll have to update your web server configuration, your DNS records, and you may have to clear any server cache you may have.

ETA: Ooops! Forgot to add citation: https://help.nextcloud.com/t/howto-add-a-new-trusted-domain/26

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's the one.

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Thanks for the backup. LOL I get nervous sharing code. Sure it worked for me, but in the back of my head I see some poor guy deploying any code I've used and smoke starts coming out of his server, the front cover falls off, and his Ethernet cable is belched out the back. LOL