Deploy Nextcloud on TrueNAS SCALE; Behind NPMplus SSL Proxy

 

Deploy Nextcloud on TrueNAS SCALE

Behind a NPMplus SSL Proxy

Nextcloud is consistently one of the most-installed apps on TrueNAS SCALE, but the official app catalog ships with a few defaults and quirks that can send a fresh install sideways; especially if you're putting it behind a reverse proxy like NPMplus. The good news is that once you know which boxes to tick (and which to leave alone), the whole stack comes up clean and stays up.

This guide walks through the exact sequence I used to deploy Nextcloud on TrueNAS SCALE Community Edition with NPMplus handling SSL and reverse proxying, with all the working settings with no detours, no "try this and see if it works" steps, and no recovery sections you'll only need if something breaks.

Project N.O.M.A.D.: Your Offline AI Survival Kit

 

Project N.O.M.A.D.: Your Offline AI Survival Kit (And How to Actually Get It Running)

If you've been following the homelab and self-hosted AI scene, you've probably heard of Project N.O.M.A.D. which is short for Networked Offline Machine for Autonomous Data. It's an impressive all-in-one offline-first AI platform built by Crosstalk Solutions, designed to give you a full AI assistant, knowledge base, and document processing engine that works even when the internet doesn't. Think Wikipedia mirrors, Stack Exchange snapshots, medical references, and a fully local LLM; all in a Docker stack you run on your own hardware.

This post covers what NOMAD is, how to install it, how to get it behind a reverse proxy with authentication, and (for those of you with AMD Ryzen mini PCs) how to unlock GPU acceleration so your AI assistant actually runs at a useful speed.

Offline AI LLM System

Create a Completely Offline LLM:
Using Dolphin, Ollama, and AnythingLLM

Running a Large Language Model (LLM) completely offline gives you privacy, control, and independence from cloud services. In this comprehensive guide, I'll walk you through setting up a fully functional offline AI assistant using three powerful tools:

• Dolphin - Uncensored, instruction-tuned language models
• Ollama - Simple, efficient local LLM runtime
• AnythingLLM - User-friendly web interface for interacting with local models

By the end of this guide, you'll have a ChatGPT-like experience running entirely on your own hardware, with no internet connection required!!