[GoLUG] We need a new meeting venue

[Ron]

On 2026-10-19 03:05, Steve Litt wrote:

> Good! I need guidance on setting up Nextcloud, because my leading
> alternative is to host Nextcloud right from my house.

I do that on one instance and have held video conferences with a couple 
people and multiple screen sharing in a meagre 60/6 Mbps connection.

Thinking back, I did not use my camera.


> Now for some questions:
> 
> * Can I set it up like Jitsi, where all I do is state a URL and people
>    can join from a browser? I'd prefer not to have all the join-up
>    hassles of Big Blue Button.

Yes, create a new "Conversation" and copy the URL. It can be password 
protected, a lobby can be used, you can determine if anyone / who can 
use mic, video, screen sharing, etc.

Big Blue Button does not require attendees to join anything, just give a 
nickname.



> * Does Nextcloud mind if I use a random port number for http rather
>    than 80 or 8080? I'm pretty sure I'll be using 443 for https.

I'm on the road so cannot check, but I think it uses 8080 for the ... 
container orchestrator (term escapes me, but it supervises Nextcloud).

I believe the AIO *requires* https. It comes with optional `caddy` 
reverse proxy, but I just use nginx.


So, https://nextcloud.golug.org would be an ideal URL for it.



> * Did you set up your nextcloud from a Docker container, or is it
>    running directly on your computer?

I've done both. The current official method is via docker and I'd advise 
that 11/10 times. Planning to convert all my instances someday.

The headache of matching PHP / DB / httpd versions is not worth it. 
Plus, Borg Backup looks very intriguing.



> * What distro are you running Docker on?

Ubuntu flavours, usually Ubuntu Server LTS of some version.