Thanks for advice, MichaIng. Access & sync your files, contacts, calendars and communicate & collaborate across your devices. Mount the dataset you want to the nextcloud jail and called it what you want , mine would be "nextclouddata", 3. Include the output of this script. Hi All, I am a newbie here and really appreciate this thriving community. -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 34520 Mar 11 10:52 COPYING If you need to override this path for all users, you can set, Configuring Object Storage as Primary Storage, External Storage authentication mechanisms. Note that the below does not apply to Nextcloud containers/appliances. Ensure permissions are still correct. As there still appear qu. Edited 2 times, last by Alomon (Feb 3rd 2020). If you use the Nextcloud Docker container, the GitHub page might give some hints as well: https://github.com/nextcloud/docker drwxr-x 5 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 15 15:46 data Then go to settings. them in directory that is readable by the webserver user. If you have any guide or video link to help, Ill appreciate it. volumes: - nextcloud:/var/www/html Using the above as an example, /var/www/html sits inside the container and nextcloud is a Docker volume on your Docker host, the location of which you don't (easily) have control of. Im about to do a fresh re-install, and Ill use your suggested configuration. To create a new external storage mount, select an available backend from the dropdown Add storage. can't cd into nextcloud data directory. Any ideas? So, possibly it is somehow related to it. i deinstalled nextcloud-desktop, since I have the network-drive directly mounted now in nautilus, so I cannot debug this further. No, not an unix user. Hence, intense search on changing Data after install. I have all the right permissions and there should be no issue with reading and writing, but it still occurs. My standard permissions for folders are 750 and for files 640. This is really helpful. They appear on the users Nextcloud Files page just like any other files. You can use any backup software that supports WebDAV for that purpose. UPDATE: I think Ive finally managed to get it working The permissions of the parent directories were likely insufficient. I had not this warning message until moved to virtual host from my old config. And then you must rescan all with occ, hm sorry but while your solution works (not great, see below), @Andy3153 works as well (Solution 2 of this HowTo) and the occ re-scan can be skipped when altering the database entry according to Solution 1 of this HowTo. drwxr-xr-x 33 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 11 10:56 3rdparty overwrite the files that are shipped by default with Nextcloud in I'm running NextCloud on Docker for Windows from within Ubuntu WSL. If you are an administrator, edit the "trusted_domains" setting in config/config.php like the example in config.sample.php. If you use Nextcloud Snap, follow their official simple instructions: https://github.com/nextcloud/nextcloud-snap/wiki/Change-data-directory-to-use-another-disk-partition If you use the Nextcloud Docker container, the GitHub page might give some hints as well: https://github.com/nextcloud/docker The official Nextcloud VM has the data already Nextcloud's occ command (origins from "ownCloud Console") is Nextcloud's command-line interface. Im having the same issue and have uploaded my issues cannt change data directory before or after adding admin. Enable maintenance mode (install sudo if you don't have it already in the jail), 4. Backup folders Simply copy your config, data and theme folders (or even your whole Nextcloud install and data folder) to a place outside of your Nextcloud environment. drwxr-xr-x 3 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 15 15:46 KimAdmin -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 2647 Mar 15 15:46 .htaccess Click on Change to change the choice if necessary. See nextcloud.export -h for more information. Nextcloud (Mint/Apache) SSL on port 8888/443 not working, What are the things I should be extra careful with if I do this (ie: dont change .htaccess etc.). If Nextcloud finds no matching database entry, it creates an additional one, which then works fine according to quick tests and user reports above. the strange thing is that when i was logged in it was still working and my HD was detected but when i logged out i got this message . move your data, Make sure root has write access, but it's not accessible by others, for example: Important: Posix permissions take the entire path into account. empty to not copy any skeleton files. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. @nickvergessen Storage configuration. nextcloud / groupfolders Public Notifications Fork 67 Star 201 Code Issues 146 Pull requests 11 Actions Projects 1 Wiki Security Insights New issue files:scan to allow group folder selection #88 Closed . total 164 -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 542 Mar 15 15:46 .htaccess I also set symlink ownership and set the actual data folder ownership (like described in solution2). I did a lot of other experiments like changing the snap enviroment variable NEXTCLOUD_DATA_DIR which is used in autoconfig.php with no success. Everything should work if I create a folder on that partition, /mnt/external_hdd/nextcloud as an example, then I move everything from that partition into that folder, and then I run ln -s /mnt/external_hdd/nextcloud /var/nextcloud, right? This allows you to overwrite the files that are shipped by default with Nextcloud in core/skeleton. With the default data directory everything works fine. thank you, Last edited by chittu (2016-11-05 05:31:29), In /usr/share/webapps/nextcloud/config/config.php, 'datadirectory' => ''. The config.php entry must be changed. For security, it's best to place the data directory outside of Nextcloud webroot directory. Honestly, I configured nextcloud, based on owncloud.As for owncloud itself, I configured it manually, not via the installer it provides, so I can't help you here. I would go to the folder /etc/apache2/sites-available and create there file e.g. My NC config was in sites-enabled and your in conf-available. Here is a list of known old tables: oc_privatedata - this table was later added again by the app privatedata (https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/privatedata) and is safe to be removed if that app is not enabled, https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/privatedata. So by just moving the data directory to another location and change the 'datadirectory' directive inside config.php, the oc_filecache will be full of wrong entries from the old location, where the files entries for the new location are missing, thus no files will be shown inside Nextcloud. Stop Apache. Bash shell commands like "cd" can't be "sudo'ed", so do this: $ sudo -i. now you can cd into the directory and do what you like. Indeed your statement (hence this HowTo) and Nextcloud docs do not match here. Now I am trying to figure out how to back up an additional existing folder on my Mac without having to move everything into the Nextcloud folder. Contains 2 Virtual hosts (IP 192.168.0.100 is internal local IP of the server), on port 80 I will do only redirect to the HTTPS and thats all: Only difference that you have to comment to get it A+: I have only the following files in there: Configure the data directory and change it to your data folder path. -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 0 Mar 15 15:46 .ocdata, Additionally, I have tried Solution 2 (symlinking), but I get stuck again on the same step (turning maintenance mode off) with the same exact error message. Thanks for the pointer on the config file. I first changed the autoconfig.php file data directory location before setting up admin user and then create admin user. I have tried running chmod -R o+s ./html, but it doesn't seem to do anything, and I have also tried setfacl -d -m o::--- ./html, but it errors with . GitHub After that save it: CTRL+O and exit using CTRL+X. I could have sworn Ive done this before. The following permission are working now for user1: /var/ncData/user1 >> Symlink 777 (standard) I have exactly the same problem since update to NC 15.x, I just ignore it, because settings were good and I did not found the way how to solve it. I have no clue on DBs so this was a challenge. Please describe in as much detail as possible what you are trying to achieve and what you already tried? Update storage location: sudo vim /var/snap/nextcloud/current/nextcloud/config/config.php change data location: 'datadirectory' => '/media/storage/data', Move the data directory to the storage device: sudo mv /var/snap/nextcloud/common/nextcloud/data /media/storage/ Start nextcloud snap: sudo snap start nextcloud Share Improve this answer Follow That custom directory should then be configured in the It is not evident to me and there is no such option in the client settings interface. But after this Ive got Not Found trying to open my Nextcloud in a browser. Is there a way to do that ? my permissions: Especially if your non-dummy admin Nextcloud user can access the files, from UNIX permissions side, all Nextcloud users must be able, as long as they have Nextcloud-internal permissions of course. That depends on what you mean exactley when you use the term backup. The server compare files and update only the new files. Once, to store nextcloud data, I created a raid and mounted it in a separate directory. Thats my config: /var/ncData/user1 $ ls /etc/apache2/sites-enabled Then you switch the data-dir in config/config.php This is not required. Nextcloud standard webroot: /var/www/html/nextcloud/ Nextcloud data location change Installation NC17 on Debian 10 and transfer the data folder to the NAS tflidd January 28, 2018, 4:53pm 2 Please check the parent folders as well, www-data needs to be able to read and execute within them. Please see the discussion, where it is mentioned that editing the database entry is indeed not required (as far as it was tested). Also NextCloudPi might provide own solutions: https://github.com/nextcloud/nextcloudpi I have only A security check result. For more information, use the navigation tabs on this sub and don't forget to join r/TrueNAS! Add it to fstab so it is mounted at boot. testing and simple single-user Nextcloud servers, but it does not scale for I think it didnt, I only found the Dropdown for sync, einstellngen, beenden. By default this imports the database, config, and data. Can i using SSL without domain? How to change data folder location in nextcloud? Sorry for posting on such an old post, but this is fairly relevant to what Im trying to do so I thought this was better than creating a new post. Then you switch the data-dir in config/config.php If I am not right, please, explain how to fix this when Nextcloud installed in this directory. If you delete something on your Mac inside of one of these folders, it also gets deleted on your Nextcloud server and vice versa. This is not possible btw. to exit: $ exit To . Im installing Nextcloud 18.0.2 manually onto a Raspberry Pi 4 (Raspian 10 - Buster), using MariaDB. You can simply stop the server, move data directory, change path in config and start server again. Am I understood correct: after creating this config, the old one which is: /etc/apache2/conf-available/nextcloud.conf ? But in case /var/www/nextcloud/ it is not possible to get A+ on scan.nextcloud.com with a __Host-Prefix security hardening issue. The mysql command line tool can be used from any shell/terminal/emulator/SSH, according to the HowTo: Usually is root, with MariaDB on modern Debian at least the -p option must or can be omitted when you logged in as root UNIX user. If anyone finds this when searching the answer is on the nextcloud-snap github page. One question for me if this is a security issue or not, Oh damn. Restart apache. I mean a dummy nextcloud user. Touching files only with the webserver unix user www-data. All the files in the data folder need to be owned by the www-data user of the container. > Everything under *-enabled is something are using now. I dont have the second menu with status setzen, abmelden and Konto Lschen there. Missing permissions. You can perform many common server operations with occ, such as installing and upgrading Nextcloud, manage users, encryption, passwords, LDAP setting, and more. What is the best location for the nextcloud data directory. I don't know what steps i need to do to change my data directory. What about other app on server? After searching forever (3 days), I stumbled upon phpMyadmin, installed it and used the user and password from config file lo behold, I was able to edit the DB. Change the permission of your new data location: sudo chmod 0770 /mnt . The respective partition is mounted at /var/nextcloud, and thats where Nextcloud looks for its data folder. The theme folder. At that stage, I am not sure whether to continue or not, in case I break something irrevocably. I rechecked the ownership from the new data folder, chown -R www-data:www-data /var/ncNewData/, and this solved it. : If you visited Nextcloud before now, refresh to re-evaluate the changed config (otherwise the directory won't change from the default). You want it outside of /var/www/. thanks, Last edited by chittu (2016-11-05 05:34:10). You therefore need to replace the nextcloud volume with a bind mount instead, I.E. Change data directory to use another disk/partition. The files in the skeleton directory are copied into the The new root nextcloud user data location for this single nextcloud user ist now /var/ncNewData. To successfully proceed with the conversion, you must type yes when prompted Because you edit config and try to disable site. To access the settings for configuring external storage mounts, click on your Profile icon in the top right and select settings from the dropdown. If altering the database on data dir transfer is recommended, then this should be just the same when migrating a Nextcloud instance to a different server and having a different data dir path there. Unfortunately, I cant make a specific recommendation, since I dont use a Mac myself. If you want to have diffrent synchronisation targets on your computer for diffrent folders on your Nextcloud, you should remove the already existing synchronisation of the root folder and then add every folder you want to sync one by one. drwxr-xr-x 8 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 15 15:47 appdata_octf179zqtl4 You can always delete the account from the app and remove or better rename the local folder and start from scratch. Anyone knows how to change / move the nextcloud data to a new directory? Nextcloud data folder is located at /var/lib/nethserver/nextcloud. 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