drwxrr-- 4 pi pi 4096 Mar 15 15:51 I performed the following steps: I was given an error message, stating that Nextcloud could not read nor write to the given directory. If you have any guide or video link to help, Ill appreciate it. -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 362 Mar 11 10:56 version.php, /mnt/MyData/nextcloud So I tried the original setup (putting data in /var/www/html/nextcloud/data), and got through the installation. The theme folder. Under administrative settings you can allow users to mount external storage. So instead of storing users' files under /var/www/nextcloud/data/, we can change it to /var/www/nextcloud-data. Has anyone fixed been about to get it working. core/skeleton. 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. It seems that the umask is set to 0000 by default. To not mess things, within this thread, lets stay with the provided two solutions or, if you find yours the better (3.) drwxr-xr-x 3 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 15 15:41 Well, Stefan it really sucks that no one helped you out since I am having the exact same issue and cannot find a solution. Ive mounted the folder I want from the dataset, but struggling how to move the nextcloud data directory to the new directory. -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 5235 Mar 11 10:52 remote.php Decide where you want the new data to live. Therefore it creates the tables oc_storages for the data directory and oc_filecache for the files. thank you, Last edited by chittu (2016-11-05 05:31:29), In /usr/share/webapps/nextcloud/config/config.php, 'datadirectory' => ''. But I am failing on both methods to change it: Also note that the interface providing the ability to access removable media is not automatically connected upon install, so if youd like to use external storage (or otherwise use a device in /media or /mnt for data), you need to give the snap permission to access removable media by connecting that interface: Powered by Discourse, best viewed with JavaScript enabled, Snap installation with changed data directory, https://github.com/nextcloud/nextcloud-snap/wiki/Change-data-directory-to-use-another-disk-partition, Set up with 2 hard drives in raid 0 server error, When I do it after creating the admin user, I fail as described in my other posting, When I do it prior creating the admin user, my changes in file. Click on Change to change the choice if necessary. Im new to nexcloud but I want to use it. apps will not be converted even with option --all-apps. Hence, intense search on changing Data after install. drwxr-xr-x 14 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 15 15:39 . My data folder is on an external hard drive, at the root of a partition on it. Stop Apache. The only thing that I had to do slightly different was to grant access to the www user and group to the mounted dataset. My NC config was in sites-enabled and your in conf-available. /etc/apache2/conf-available/nextcloud.conf. 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. -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 542 Mar 15 15:46 .htaccess drwxr-xr-x 8 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 15 15:47 appdata_octf179zqtl4 drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 11 10:52 ocs @Andy3153 Please contact your administrator. 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. See nextcloud.export -h for more information. Connect the removable-media plug as mentioned in the README in order to grant the snap permission to access external drives. -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 156 Mar 11 10:52 index.html Double-check the directory permissions on the new directory. How to change data folder location in nextcloud? Ensure permissions are still correct. Powered by Discourse, best viewed with JavaScript enabled, HowTo: Change / Move data directory after installation. Please see the discussion, where it is mentioned that editing the database entry is indeed not required (as far as it was tested). Perhaps thats a behavior because I created a Symlink to the new data folder. If you have questions for use in a company or government at scale (>1000 users), do yourself a favor and contact Nextcloud itself - this community is mostly home-user focused! Decide where you want the new data to live. I also set symlink ownership and set the actual data folder ownership (like described in solution2). But to be sure and not mess up the database with obsolete entries it is recommended to replace the old entry with the new one manually as mentioned in solution 1. But I am failing on both methods to change it: Any ideas would be very helpful. Ill dig into it by times to check for safe ways to identify the correct entries. I am able to navigate NCPi and all features at least till now. I always received permissions errors for user1. We'll use /media/nextcloud/data. Using the same setup, I put Nextcloud in /var/www/nextcloud/, and my Data folder in /opt/nextcloud/data. Thatss the nextcloud error message, when I change the permission from the new user folder (/var/ncNewData) to 750 and open a file: fopen(/var/nc_data/user1/files/files.pdf): failed to open stream: Permission denied at /var/www/nextcloud/lib/private/Files/Storage/Local.php#302, If I changed the permission back to 777 and everything works fine. Thats a bit strange for me because also my standard data folder (/var/ncData/) has 750 and thats work fine. You could use this command: For example. 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 . My Site config example was listed here: This is my LIVE config for NC ( 100-nextcloud.conf ). I am running Docker on Windows Server 2016. I tried to search it via Google but could not find a tutorial to achive it. E.g. This screenshot shows a set of photos in the skeleton directory. I have all the right permissions and there should be no issue with reading and writing, but it still occurs. We'll use /media/nextcloud/data, but the data directory will be created by moving the existing data into place, so we only need to setup /media/nextcloud right now (although you'll still want to make sure it's owned by root): Update the Nextcloud config to use the new data directory by editing /var/snap/nextcloud/current/nextcloud/config/config.php and making sure the datadirectory setting is pointing to the right place, e.g. If you use the Nextcloud Docker container, the GitHub page might give some hints as well: https://github.com/nextcloud/docker You therefore need to replace the nextcloud volume with a bind mount instead, I.E. to exit: $ exit To . You can use any backup software that supports WebDAV for that purpose. The data folder is where users' files are stored. I just installed next cloud and it is up and running. Move the nextcloud data folder to new directory, 5. -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 101 Mar 11 10:52 .user.ini Note that the below does not apply to Nextcloud containers/appliances. I managed to get to step 8, but as soon as I try to switch off maintenance mode, I get the following error: Does anybody know why this is happening? To successfully proceed with the conversion, you must type yes when prompted Add-ons --> My Add-ons --> Nextcloud --> Configure --> Map /data. You then said to use the following command sudo chmod 0770 directory_name, which I also did. aptalca. I need to change thatso all 3 have the same path, but I would like to avoid re-starting the whole sync process from zero. Is there a way to do that ? Note that it requires sudo. Hi All, I am a newbie here and really appreciate this thriving community. You can convert a SQLite database to a better performing MySQL, MariaDB or -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 34520 Mar 11 10:52 COPYING This is not required. You can add additional folders to the synchronisation in the settings of the client. This can leak referer information. drwxr-xr-x 3 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 15 15:46 KimAdmin 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. Then go to settings. Thanks for the guidance. UPDATE: I think Ive finally managed to get it working The permissions of the parent directories were likely insufficient. I dont like 777 permissions, so perhaps somebody can give us an advice if this is a security issue or not. Dude, thank you so much for this. On the host the files will be owned by some . Please describe in as much detail as possible what you are trying to achieve and what you already tried? Ubuntu 18.04 LTS based on https://github.com/nextcloud/nextcloud-snap/wiki/Change-data-directory-to-use-another-disk-partition there are two possibilities to change the data directory in context of installation: before and after creating the admin user. Include the output of this script. One of them uses the old $HOME/owncloud folder instead of $HOME/Nextcloud. drwxr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 15 15:53 config Also running: /etc/apache2/conf-available/nextcloud.conf. You can always delete the account from the app and remove or better rename the local folder and start from scratch. They appear on the users Nextcloud Files page just like any other files. And that will tell docker-compose that youve already created this volume and its name is nextcloud-data otherwise docker-compose will create a new volume named nextcloud-data and will prefix it with the stack name (here nextcloud so it would be nextcloud_nextcloud-data. I didnt find any tutorial for this precise use case but I can give you some answer. Change the ownCloud configuration to point to the new data directory. 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? Choose a displayed folder name and SMB / CIFS. Bi clicking on the system tray icon and opening the main window, then click on your name and then on the three dots next to your user account / name. Moving Nextcloud database to external drive. After doing so you can use occ to scan the new location and update the database accordingly as needed. That depends on what you mean exactley when you use the term backup. You could also use the Nextcloud database user, where /path/to/nextcloud/config/config.php provides its name and password. First, list out all of your installed apps with the command: sudo -u www-data php occ app:list. I had not this warning message until moved to virtual host from my old config. Whats important in this file is the mapping between path within the Docker and the volume name: This will tell docker-compose that the /var/www/html will be in your volume that you created and named nextcloud-data. I am very impressed with this forum! testing and simple single-user Nextcloud servers, but it does not scale for -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 0 Mar 15 15:46 index.html Does the webserver log, php-fpm.log (in case) or Nextcloud log show any related entry? 000-default-le-ssl.conf - per default serving your HTTPS requests with document root /var/www/html. drwxr-xr-x 3 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 15 15:41 . Snap/Docker Would like to be able to copy/move files in this directory to an external drive for backup. Ive mounted the folder I want from the dataset, but struggling how to move the nextcloud data directory to the new directory. -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 26 Mar 11 10:52 robots.txt /media, or /media/nextcloud) is not accessible by root, it will not be able to access data either. 000-default.conf 000-default-le-ssl.conf, My nextcloud.conf is here: 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 Admin or other sers will use the user folder whats stated in the nextcloud config (/var/ncData/). existing users will not see files that are added to this directory after their 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. Haven't tried to move data location but other users did and pointed to some guides: Trying to change nextcloud data location Support NTFS). Edit 1: Solved, I was able to move it to a new directory, Mount the dataset you want to the nextcloud jail and called it what you want , mine would be "nextclouddata", 3. There are also few topics about it, but it does not help for me. By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. total 52 Ive successfully got the external drive feature to work in nextcloud, but I want the data directory to be using the dataset I choose. Thanks a lot, @MichaIng for the clarification. So yes, your idea works fine, as of Solution 1. Im having the same issue and have uploaded my issues cannt change data directory before or after adding admin. You may distribute a set of default files and folders to all users by placing For security, it's best to place the data directory outside of Nextcloud webroot directory. I also tried Solution 2 to change a data folder just for a single user (user1) with a Symlink. First set up the new database, here called new_db_name. drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Mar 15 15:38 Could I not create a new folder (separate to my Nextcloud folder) in my Nextcloud account on the server and sync it with another folder on my computer? By default all users have access. Then Install as normal lets me add a user then try to move the data file over to the raid 0 in the config.php file and when attempt to log in through local host. Even if the data directory above is writable by root, if any part of the path above it (e.g. Actually using Nextcloud database user is the much better way, since it has only permissions to alter the Nextcloud database and no other, hence one cannot by accident break something within other databases. BeakerRocks 3 yr. ago. Did you set open_basedir? Move /data to the new location Also NextCloudPi might provide own solutions: https://github.com/nextcloud/nextcloudpi This has probably been addressed many times but I just couldnt figure out the appropriate search keywords to find the answer. The default path for user templates is at /Templates (translated in the users language). Nextcloud standard data directory: /var/www/html/nextcloud/data/. Thanks for the pointer on the config file. Also in my .htaccess file there is a following section existing: But for some reason the warning message is present. But now I would like to have all data in a different drive. Then with your regular user account you go to settings -> External storage. Im about to do a fresh re-install, and Ill use your suggested configuration. In the Folder name field enter the folder name that you want to appear on your Nextcloud Files page.. the schema definitions in the apps to create the new table. $ ls /etc/apache2/sites-enabled As I understand it, if using Apache, putting Nextcloud in the web root filer is fine. I was going to go for the easy method but read the warning from @nickvergessen on DB integrity topic and decided against it. So this is ok. Click on Choose file or folder to transfer >> A file picker opens, showing all files and folders in the user's account. The methods here are still valid. (Recently, my MicroSD on my phone died, taking thousands of pictures with it - I have them backed up on Google Drive, but at lower quality). Nextcloud is an open source, self-hosted file sync & communication app platform. Set up with 2 hard drives in raid 0 server error appliances (Docker, Snappy, VM, NCP) 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 Nextcloud stores the data directory location and all it's files locations inside it's database, that can be chosen during installation as well. . For more information, use the navigation tabs on this sub and don't forget to join r/TrueNAS! config.php via the configuration option skeletondirectory (see Make your admin user as usual and carry on, Nextcloud is using the external data. total 164 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 My understanding of how to sync a folder in Nextcloud that is not the "Nextcloud" folder is: Add folder sync connection Pick a local folder on your computer to sync (for example my Windows Documents folder) Select a destination folder on Nextcloud server (or create new, also called Documents) However, at that stage I am getting a warning: Not sure then Btw. That custom directory should then be configured in the 100-nextcloud.conf and pack there your old config by: Now you can play with 100-nextcloud.conf only. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. thanks, Last edited by chittu (2016-11-05 05:34:10). Here is the output of sudo ls -la in my /var/www/html/nextcloud directory and my /mnt/MyData/nextcloud directory: /var/www/html/nextcloud: See the W3C. drwxr-xr-x 4 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 11 10:52 resources Leave empty to not copy any skeleton files. I am wondering if it is possible to create a Samba share for Nextcloud that it can use as a data folder. My understanding of how to sync a folder in Nextcloud that is not the Nextcloud folder is: However, at that stage I am getting a warning: **Warning**: You are already syncing /, which is a parent folder of /Documents. Now you have restore point, you can play only with 100-nextcloud.conf and if something goes really wrong - disable it and enable your 000* defaults. 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. @nickvergessen Your webroot is /var/www/, and youll want to change the location of your data folder. Best regards Assuming all of the above, also make sure www-data (your web user) owns everything recursively in /var/www/nextcloud/ and /opt/nextcloud/ when youve finished setting things up (before launching the install wizard). If you are an administrator, edit the "trusted_domains" setting in config/config.php like the example in config.sample.php. Nextcloud config config.php. It should be ok once you can see a file listing entering this command: You should generally not touch the the files directly outside of Nextcloud. This allows you to overwrite the files that are shipped by default with Nextcloud in core/skeleton. I don't know what steps i need to do to change my data directory. /var/ncNewData/user1/ >> 750 etc. Nextcloud's occ command (origins from "ownCloud Console") is Nextcloud's command-line interface. You can do it with docker-compose like in this docker-compose.yml to adapt at your needs. users data directories, so they may change and delete the files without Just to mention (because i was thinking of that) there is no need to name your new path data at the very end. My standard permissions for folders are 750 and for files 640. You can do it with docker-compose like in this docker-compose.yml to adapt at your needs. curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/CWSpear/local-persist/master/scripts/install.sh | sudo bash, To create a persistent volume named nextcloud-data: That will change the owner and group of all files under /var/www/html to www-data. Hey, did you ever find any solutions for this? Could you please check my current config? Hence for me, phpMyAdmin was a boon. -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. Ive got Nextcloud installed onto a Raspberry Pi 4 with 2 GB of RAM, running Arch Linux ARM with a LEMP stack. 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 . webroot: /var/www/html/ Edited 2 times, last by Alomon (Feb 3rd 2020). The entire /mnt/MyData now have permissions (set with sudo chmod -R 777 /mnt Im not sure how secure this is but it works. Add it to fstab so it is mounted at boot. Error with the data file location and it doesnt work. Then, youll have to map this volume to your Nextcloud docker when you create it. Something Ill edit in the HowTo another day . no file access r/w for user1 was possible. Hmm, as long as the www-data has R/W access, everything else should not matter. So, I have 3 computers syncing files with a nextcloud 12 server. Next Official Post . New data location: /var/ncNewData/user1. drwxr-xr-x 6 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 11 10:52 lib Try to enable it and disable old config: Check if it woks as before. i deinstalled nextcloud-desktop, since I have the network-drive directly mounted now in nautilus, so I cannot debug this further. PostgreSQL database with the Nextcloud command line tool. 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 . But to be sure and not mess up the database with obsolete entries it is recommended to replace the old entry with the new one manually as mentioned in solution 1. I have some problems with Nextcloud after installation app i found my difficult to change my data directory to another disk. I changed the data folder just for one user in my example. nextcloud.import: Import data exported from another Nextcloud snap instance (via nextcloud.export). So, other nextcloud users will not have a problem. I replaced my screenshot in order to make it more obvious where to click. I dont have the second menu with status setzen, abmelden and Konto Lschen there. You told me to cd and find the directory where the data folder is stored which I did. Stop apache. Although phpMyAdmin provides a nice GUI, it is not required to alter the database. Thus, I use the same. I would probably just start over in this case or do a lot of reading on how those permissions are set. Change the permission of your new data location: sudo chmod 0770 /mnt . Developer . with the question Continue with the conversion? 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. See nextcloud.import -h for more Pick a file or folder and click on Choose >> The chosen file or folder name gets displayed. You set the correct rights for your nextcloud user for /mnt/external_hdd/nextcloud (use a linux formatted file system like ext4 or btfs). Also I think its best if I do this with the whole thing turned off, do all the things on the external hard drive, then take the SD card out of the Raspberry Pi, create the symlink and modify the fstab this way. Nextcloud standard webroot: /var/www/html/nextcloud/ Any ideas? -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 2647 Mar 15 15:46 .htaccess If omitted the tool will ask you (optional), --clear-schema clear schema (optional), --all-apps by default, tables for enabled apps are converted, use to convert also tables of deactivated apps (optional), -n, --no-interaction do not ask any interactive question, Note: The converter searches for apps in your configured app folders and uses Again, read the HowTo, putting Nextcloud in maintenance mode assures that no data R/W is done, hence is absolutely sufficient to have a safe data transfer. drwxr-x 5 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 15 15:46 data, /mnt/MyData/nextcloud/data (identical to /var/www/html/nextcloud/data) Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. Touching files only with the webserver unix user www-data. 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. affecting the originals. 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: Configuration Parameters). in the sync client, click the three dots on the right, select remove folder synchronisation, Nextcloud Data directory. It should show up if you click on the three dots next to your username / account. Disable maintenance mode sudo -u www php /usr/www/nextcloud/occ maintence:mode --off 7. 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. Installed as a snap. The solution describes the update from brrrlinguist very well. Admin manual says :On other HTTP servers it is recommended to install Nextcloud outside of the document root., Assumptions: Youll have to create a volume with local-persist driver. Thats my config: /var/ncData/user1 The server compare files and update only the new files. Great work, all! drwxr-x 49 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 15 15:47 apps 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. Move the nextcloud data folder to new directory, 5. What about other app on server? 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