But I get your point. 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. You can see that in the below screenshot. server. Add-ons --> My Add-ons --> Nextcloud --> Configure --> Map /data. You can ignore these tables. with the question Continue with the conversion? I mean a dummy nextcloud user. If Nextcloud finds no matching database entry, it creates an additional one, which then works fine according to quick tests and user reports above. Nextcloud standard webroot: /var/www/html/nextcloud/ Im new to nexcloud but I want to use it. I trust youre right however not sure where it mentions it and therefore not sure where this data folder is that i need to separate. Your webroot is /var/www/, and youll want to change the location of your data folder. Update the Nextcloud config to use the new data directory by editing /var/snap/nextcloud/current/nextcloud/config/autoconfig.php and making sure the directory setting is pointing to the right place, e.g. This can leak referer information. Hmm, as long as the www-data has R/W access, everything else should not matter. So, if it is a bug, it still not fixed in the latest version. As there still appear qu. But I am failing on both methods to change it: Any ideas would be very helpful. But see this post of nickvergessen that it is still the recommended way to keep the database entries clean and consistent. As you can see in my 100-nextcloud.conf, it has line: Header always set Referrer-Policy no-referrer. Admin or other sers will use the user folder whats stated in the nextcloud config (/var/ncData/). -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 283 Mar 11 10:52 occ By default all users have access. This is really helpful. This allows you to This is not possible btw. You could also use the Nextcloud database user, where /path/to/nextcloud/config/config.php provides its name and password. You can see details here: I also tried Solution 2 to change a data folder just for a single user (user1) with a Symlink. No, not an unix user. You therefore need to replace the nextcloud volume with a bind mount instead, I.E. 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. Is there a way to do that ? After creating and enabling it I checked and got A+ at last. Then with your regular user account you go to settings -> External storage. To not mess things, within this thread, lets stay with the provided two solutions or, if you find yours the better (3.) For example. If omitted the tool will ask you (optional) --clear-schema clear schema (optional) 000-default.conf 000-default-le-ssl.conf, My nextcloud.conf is here: no file access r/w for user1 was possible. Nextcloud's occ command (origins from "ownCloud Console") is Nextcloud's command-line interface. Even if the data directory above is writable by root, if any part of the path above it (e.g. If you updated your Nextcloud instance, there might be remnants of old tables You can simply stop the server, move data directory, change path in config and start server again. Ive mounted the folder I want from the dataset, but struggling how to move the nextcloud data directory to the new directory. The new root nextcloud user data location for this single nextcloud user ist now /var/ncNewData. -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 2976 Mar 11 10:52 index.php Im installing Nextcloud 18.0.2 manually onto a Raspberry Pi 4 (Raspian 10 - Buster), using MariaDB. Stop Apache. Ensure permissions are still correct. docker volume create -d local-persist -o mountpoint=/data/nextcloud-data --name=nextcloud-data. PS: of course since youre running that on a Windows Server 2018, youll have to adapt the path. With the default data directory everything works fine. The updater will tell you which ones these are. Also running: /etc/apache2/conf-available/nextcloud.conf. You cannot add more folders to the synchronistaion because it already syncs everything on your Nextcloud to the Nextcloud folder on your computer. See nextcloud.import -h for more Ive mounted the folder I want from the dataset, but struggling how to move the nextcloud data directory to the new directory. Hence, intense search on changing Data after install. The data folder. What is the best location for the nextcloud data directory. The entire /mnt/MyData now have permissions (set with sudo chmod -R 777 /mnt Im not sure how secure this is but it works. Although phpMyAdmin provides a nice GUI, it is not required to alter the database. Interested in helping us evaluate a pull request? The config.php entry must be changed. Thus, I use the same. To successfully proceed with the conversion, you must type yes when prompted drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 11 10:53 updater Perhaps thats a behavior because I created a Symlink to the new data folder. The files in the skeleton directory are copied into the Therefore it creates the tables oc_storages for the data directory and oc_filecache for the files. It could be that nextcloud.conf is also there, then run a2disconf nextcloud.conf. (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). drwxr-xr-x 14 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 15 15:39 . 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.). This would explain why moving a single users data outside via symlink leads to permissions denied, because it would follow a symlink. Thank you very much for your explanation. So, I have 3 computers syncing files with a nextcloud 12 server. The server compare files and update only the new files. 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. The admin isnt quite clear about this so I have a couple of questions: Change data directory to use another disk/partition. -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 3056 Mar 11 10:52 public.php This protection is important, otherwise users could access the whole system by uploading symlinks, in theory. Mount the dataset you want to the nextcloud jail and called it what you want , mine would be "nextclouddata", 3. Anyone knows how to change / move the nextcloud data to a new directory? I replaced my screenshot in order to make it more obvious where to click. Just to mention (because i was thinking of that) there is no need to name your new path data at the very end. Move the nextcloud data folder to new directory, 5. Not sure then Btw. If so then add your new data-folder! I have only A security check result. > Everything under *-enabled is something are using now. Indeed your statement (hence this HowTo) and Nextcloud docs do not match here. Great work, all! Im also not sure how secure this is but its works for me too. empty to not copy any skeleton files. We'll use /media/nextcloud/data. But after this Ive got Not Found trying to open my Nextcloud in a browser. @b-pfl Also in my .htaccess file there is a following section existing: But for some reason the warning message is present. That will change the owner and group of all files under /var/www/html to www-data. $ ls /etc/apache2/sites-enabled 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. Please see the discussion, where it is mentioned that editing the database entry is indeed not required (as far as it was tested). -rw-r----- 1 www-data www-data 25937 Mar 15 15:49 nextcloud.log move your data, #nextcloud #hyperv #snap #ubuntu #windows #directory #change Nextcloud snap new setup and data changing directory to windows shared. Hi All, I am a newbie here and really appreciate this thriving community. Configure the data directory and change it to your data folder path. 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. Also NextCloudPi might provide own solutions: https://github.com/nextcloud/nextcloudpi The following steps are necessary to move the data directory. What Information do you need? It should be ok once you can see a file listing entering this command: Move the nextcloud data folder to new directory mv /usr/local/www/nextcloud/data /usr/local/www/nextcloud/nextclouddata 5. Navigate to Settings > Personal > Sharing > Files. Thanks, was able to review the document and move the data directory to a new one. Use Rsync to sync the files from the current to the new directory. Pick a file or folder and click on Choose >> The chosen file or folder name gets displayed. I think the idea here is that in case of a web server malfunction or breach that it could theoretically straight up serve your files on the web page. Make sure root has write access, but it's not accessible by others, for example: Important: Posix permissions take the entire path into account. This means that even if I run chmod -R 0770 ./html on my data directory, any new file will still have the incorrect permissions.. Heres a screenshot (in German). Im in the same boat running a raid on ubuntu but unable to change data dir. -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 2381 Mar 11 10:52 status.php 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. I followed all the steps for Solution 1 from @MichaIng and it went well. New data location: /var/ncNewData/user1. Connect the removable-media plug as mentioned in the README in order to grant the snap permission to access external drives. 000-default.conf - per default serving you HTTP requests with document root /var/www/html. 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. drwxr-xr-x 3 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 11 10:52 themes Thats a bit strange for me because also my standard data folder (/var/ncData/) has 750 and thats work fine. I tried to search it via Google but could not find a tutorial to achive it. Too busy. But now I would like to have all data in a different drive. If I am not right, please, explain how to fix this when Nextcloud installed in this directory. First, list out all of your installed apps with the command: sudo -u www-data php occ app:list. How to change data folder location in nextcloud? In the Configuration field enter the full filepath of the directory you want to mount.. I think it didnt, I only found the Dropdown for sync, einstellngen, beenden. You can do it with docker-compose like in this docker-compose.yml to adapt at your needs. How to change data folder location in nextcloud? You can add additional folders to the synchronisation in the settings of the client. Decide where you want the new data to live. This screenshot shows a set of photos in the skeleton directory. So I tried the original setup (putting data in /var/www/html/nextcloud/data), and got through the installation. Dude, thank you so much for this. Something Ill edit in the HowTo another day . total 12 In-depth tutorial on how to install Nextcloud on Ubuntu Server 18.04, how to combine multiple disks into one large virtual directory using mhddfs, how to pro. You can always delete the account from the app and remove or better rename the local folder and start from scratch. Check your folder /etc/apache2/sites-enables/there should be something like 000-default.conf this is your site configuration. Then go to settings. fstab modification has not much to do with it. config.php via the configuration option skeletondirectory (see 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. existing users will not see files that are added to this directory after their I want to mount that partition somewhere else since I want to use it for something else as well, say Im going to mount it on /mnt/external_hdd. Add it to fstab so it is mounted at boot. Does the webserver log, php-fpm.log (in case) or Nextcloud log show any related entry? -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 542 Mar 15 15:46 .htaccess Ubuntu 18.04 LTS I was able to figure it out. 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 . To cd into the directory as sudo. Ive successfully got the external drive feature to work in nextcloud, but I want the data directory to be using the dataset I want it too. I changed the data folder just for one user in my example. One question for me if this is a security issue or not, Oh damn. -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 5235 Mar 11 10:52 remote.php Thanks you for a question, just get an A+ after reconfiguring my server, Run a2dissite nextcloud.conf to disable this particular config and reload apache2 should be enough to take new config: service apache2 reload, I tried to comment alias and add the DocumentRoot in my /etc/apache2/conf-available/nextcloud.conf. Powered by Discourse, best viewed with JavaScript enabled, rename/move the folder to another location as you preffer, register on client software and search the new location of the MAIN FOLDER, Pick a local folder on your computer to sync (for example my Windows, Select a destination folder on Nextcloud server (or create new, also called. Hello. I first changed the autoconfig.php file data directory location before setting up admin user and then create admin user. So this is ok. Hence for me, phpMyAdmin was a boon. 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 drwxr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 15 15:53 config 000-default-le-ssl.conf - per default serving your HTTPS requests with document root /var/www/html. Because you edit config and try to disable site. And then you must rescan all with occ, sudo -u www-data php occ files:scan --all, https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/19/admin_manual/configuration_server/occ_command.html, Wyh not NextcloudPi https://ownyourbits.com/nextcloudpi/, You set the correct rights for your nextcloud user for /mnt/external_hdd/nextcloud (use a linux formatted file system like ext4 or btfs). 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: -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 5048 Mar 11 10:52 cron.php The solution describes the update from brrrlinguist very well. Can someone assist? webroot: /var/www/html/ drwxr-xr-x 33 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 11 10:56 3rdparty I'm running NextCloud on Docker for Windows from within Ubuntu WSL. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. But anyway the warning still exists. apps will not be converted even with option --all-apps. affecting the originals. I performed the following steps: I was given an error message, stating that Nextcloud could not read nor write to the given directory. unfortunately it doesnt work does anyone have another solution? The data folder is where users' files are stored. Restart apache. drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 11 10:52 ocs-provider 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. I also set symlink ownership and set the actual data folder ownership (like described in solution2). Click on Change to change the choice if necessary. I have some problems with Nextcloud after installation app i found my difficult to change my data directory to another disk. -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 34520 Mar 11 10:52 COPYING For security, it's best to place the data directory outside of Nextcloud webroot directory. drwxr-xr-x 8 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 15 15:47 appdata_octf179zqtl4 You may distribute a set of default files and folders to all users by placing Could you please check my current config? -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 3910 Mar 11 10:52 console.php Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Nextcloud Data directory. Decide where you want the new data to live. Well the question is which storage to update. Thanks for the guidance. 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: To create a persistent volume named "nextcloud-data": docker volume create -d local-persist -o mountpoint=/data/nextcloud-data --name=nextcloud-data Then, you'll have to map this volume to your Nextcloud docker when you create it. My first plan was to install it directly with a data directory (/mnt/MyData/nextcloud/data). 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. If i clicked on beenden it immedeately ended. SQLite is good for Nextcloud data folder is located at /var/lib/nethserver/nextcloud. Powered by Discourse, best viewed with JavaScript enabled, Nextcloud webroot and data directory - best practices on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Aufruf Nextcloud ber https://meinedomain/Nextcloud statt nur ber https://meinedomain, HowTo: Change / Move data directory after installation, https://github.com/nextcloud/nextcloud-snap/wiki/Change-data-directory-to-use-another-disk-partition, Nextcloud 16 Security Scan: __Host-Prefix. drwxr-x 5 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 15 15:46 data, /mnt/MyData/nextcloud/data (identical to /var/www/html/nextcloud/data) Admin manual says :On other HTTP servers it is recommended to install Nextcloud outside of the document root., Assumptions: Leave Try 30days Free Nextcloud Trial and add your own domain to:=====https://bit.ly/3CGiKwQ=====#Nextcloud #Nextclouders #tabdigitalGet service grade: A+ Ne. Hey, did you ever find any solutions for this? I am able to navigate NCPi and all features at least till now. 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