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[–] Medalist@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

For me personally, ocis is way better than Nextcloud for basic sharing and file sync.

[–] Medalist@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I haven't tried the desktop app but the Android one works just fine - plus it comes with a 'document provider' so you can access files stored on your server via Android's native files explorer app as if they were on your phone.

[–] Medalist@lemmy.fmhy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

When I said Nextcloud-like, I meant in function and not philosophy. So Nextcloud-like in the sense that you can do file sync, auto uploads of videos/photos from a mobile device etc

 

To those self-hosters who are out there curious if there exists a faster Nextcloud-like alternative without all the bells and whistles. I present to you, OCIS! This howto assumes that you're running a Linux OS and that you have a reverse proxy like caddy running. To the guy who I suggested checking out OCIS, I wrote this guide for you ;)

1. Download the OCIS binary:

sudo wget -O /usr/bin/ocis https://download.owncloud.com/ocis/ocis/stable/3.0.0/ocis-3.0.0-linux-amd64

The above downloads the latest stable version.

2. Make the downloaded binary executable:

sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/ocis

3. Create a systemd unit file to start OCIS automatically:

Description=OCIS server

[Service]
Type=simple
User=ocis
Group=ocis
EnvironmentFile=/etc/ocis/ocis.env
ExecStart=ocis server
Restart=always

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

4. Create the ocis user:

sudo useradd --system --no-create-home --shell=/sbin/nologin ocis

5. Create the necessary directories:

sudo mkdir -p /etc/ocis /var/lib/ocis

6. Grant ownership of created directories above to the ocis user:

sudo chown -R ocis:ocis /etc/ocis/ /var/lib/ocis

7. Create the environment file for running OCIS:

sudo nano /etc/ocis/ocis.env and paste the lines below - edit the domain accordingly:

OCIS_URL=https://ocis.your.domain.org
PROXY_TLS=false
OCIS_INSECURE=true
OCIS_LOG_LEVEL=error
OCIS_CONFIG_DIR=/etc/ocis
OCIS_BASE_DATA_PATH=/var/lib/ocis
PROXY_HTTP_ADDR=0.0.0.0:9200
PROXY_USER_OIDC_CLAIM=preferred_username
PROXY_USER_CS3_CLAIM=username
PROXY_ENABLE_BASIC_AUTH=true

8. Initialize your OCIS install:

sudo -u ocis ocis init --config-path /etc/ocis

That's it! Visiting the url https://ocis.your.domain.org should present you with OCIS login page. To access the webdav endpoint via something like Cx Explorer or Gnome files, use: https://ocis.your.domain.org/remote.php/webdav

Depending on your setup, you might have to add the ocis domain above to your hosts file. A line like 127.0.0.1 ocis.your.domain.org to the /etc/hosts file.

If you don't have a reverse proxy but would still like to check out OCIS, use the environment file below:

OCIS_URL=https://192.168.x.x:9200
PROXY_TLS=true
OCIS_INSECURE=true
OCIS_LOG_LEVEL=error
OCIS_CONFIG_DIR=/etc/ocis
OCIS_BASE_DATA_PATH=/var/lib/ocis
PROXY_HTTP_ADDR=0.0.0.0:9200
PROXY_USER_OIDC_CLAIM=preferred_username
PROXY_USER_CS3_CLAIM=username
PROXY_ENABLE_BASIC_AUTH=true

I tried mine with keli.local:9200 and it worked just fine- make sure you have avahi-daemon installed!

Edit: If you're using a reverse proxy, your proxy address should be localhost:9200. For caddy, this would mean an entry like:

ocis.your.domain.org {
    reverse_proxy localhost:9200
}
[–] Medalist@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You should look into OCIS. You can set it up in minutes and it's really fast compared to Nextcloud for basic file's stuff (share, sync, stream, photo auto uploads).

[–] Medalist@lemmy.fmhy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe you should give Ubuntu Server a spin. Last I tried, Nextcloud snap was the easiest way to get Nextcloud up and running.

[–] Medalist@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Synology's Download Station introduced me to emule. I don't think there's a more polished client for it than DS.

[–] Medalist@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

DivestOS is the only Android ROM I know of that integrates the Mulch webview. But Tad (DivestOS dev) also builds standalone binaries of Mulch that can be installed independently- just add their repo into f-droid or something like droidify and you're good to go. Link: https://divestos.org/fdroid/official

[–] Medalist@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Here we (Kenya) banned single-use plastic bags back in 2017!!

[–] Medalist@lemmy.fmhy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Learning the gestures currently with Connect. At least it doesn't crash randomly.