Helmut Tammen

I'm running my own Nextcloud server on a Raspberry PI. This is accessible from the internet. It works really fine.

But sometimes my internet provider changes my IP address overnight. In the beginning, I used a dyndns service to update the IP address immediately from my browser. But I wanted to use my own domain name and not the one from the dns service and it shouldn't cost anything.

So I created subdomains for my own domain and redirect those from my domain provider to my home router. From there I go to reverse proxy (nginx) and then to my Nextcloud server.

Browser —> domain provider —> home router —> nginx —> Nextcloud server

But every time my internet provider gives me a new IP address, my Nextcloud is not accessible anymore.

In this blog post I describe how I (semi-automatically) solved the problem.

For the source have a look at my github account

When reading the headline you probably think “what the hell does he do? Why does he not import the csv file into Excel and manage it there?”

Here are the reasons

• I don't like Excel.
• My source csv file needs to be converted before generating the Excel file.
• I wanted to explore DuckDB.

TL;DR: Go to the source files at the very bottom of this blog post.

Our trip to Costa Rica from Feb 18th, 2024 to March 13th, 2024

#Nextcloud is a product that I have been looking at for some time. Since version Hub 6, it has been possible to develop your own applications not only in PHP, but with any programming language. Technically, it works with #Docker. This aroused my particular interest, which is why I finally decided to set up my own Nextcloud server. In this blog post I describe the path I took and which documents / aids I used.

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