The default path for user templates is at /Templates (translated in the users language). Include the output of this script. Then go to settings. drwxr-xr-x 3 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 15 15:46 KimAdmin Im new to nexcloud but I want to use it. Stop apache. drwxr-xr-x 3 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 15 15:41 . Im trying to to do an install Im having issues when I try and switch the data directory file over to mounted two drives in raid 0. If you need to override this path for all users, you can set, Configuring Object Storage as Primary Storage, External Storage authentication mechanisms. You can use any backup software that supports WebDAV for that purpose. If omitted the tool will ask you (optional) --clear-schema clear schema (optional) One of them uses the old $HOME/owncloud folder instead of $HOME/Nextcloud. My Site config example was listed here: This is my LIVE config for NC ( 100-nextcloud.conf ). 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 GitHub But anyway the warning still exists. Decide where you want the new data to live. drwxr-xr-x 3 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 11 10:52 themes I could have sworn Ive done this before. Am I understood correct: after creating this config, the old one which is: /etc/apache2/conf-available/nextcloud.conf ? Hey, did you ever find any solutions for this? Click on Change to change the choice if necessary. Move the nextcloud data folder to new directory, 5. This is really helpful. Nextcloud config config.php. I performed the following steps: I was given an error message, stating that Nextcloud could not read nor write to the given directory. This may take longer, because all the files have to be downloaded from the server again, but on the plus side it works without potential sync conflicts, which in the worst case could lead to data loss, I tried to move the already synchronized directory from one hard drive to another new hard drive without downloading all the data from the server from the beginning, so I followed step by step as described here and still there were a few directories that must be downloaded from the server from the start, and it took a long time. Leave empty to not copy any skeleton files. 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. I dont have the second menu with status setzen, abmelden and Konto Lschen there. You can move the folder and edit the config. Not sure then Btw. Thus, I use the same. core/skeleton. 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. Note that it requires sudo. Anyone have the same problem can help me? I followed all the steps for Solution 1 from @MichaIng and it went well. drwxr-x 5 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 15 15:46 data, /mnt/MyData/nextcloud/data (identical to /var/www/html/nextcloud/data) I have mount disk on UCS 4.3. 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. I am very impressed with this forum! Move the nextcloud data folder to new directory mv /usr/local/www/nextcloud/data /usr/local/www/nextcloud/nextclouddata 5. HowTo: Change / Move data directory after installation howto Please describe in as much detail as possible what you are trying to achieve and what you already tried? But after this Ive got Not Found trying to open my Nextcloud in a browser. I copied the data directory to a new folder and indicated the owner and rights on behalf of which the web server is working: Then you switch the data-dir in config/config.php -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 2647 Mar 15 15:46 .htaccess By default this imports the database, config, and data. drwxr-xr-x 14 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 15 15:39 . Great work, all! Could you please check my current config? If you have any guide or video link to help, Ill appreciate it. Nextcloud data folder is located at /var/lib/nethserver/nextcloud. You might consider /srv/nextcloud/data. /var/ncNewData >> 777 On the left side under Administration select External Storage. Now you can edit your 100-nextcloud.conf and bring it to something like this (my with letsencrypt and nextcloud under /var/www/nextcloud, I also copied your nextcloud.conf here) check what is already there especially regarding IPs and SSL configuration: Hello. To create a new external storage mount, select an available backend from the dropdown Add storage. Thats a bit strange for me because also my standard data folder (/var/ncData/) has 750 and thats work fine. Use Rsync to sync the files from the current to the new directory. If so then add your new data-folder! That custom directory should then be configured in the config.php via the configuration option skeletondirectory (see Configuration Parameters ). Hence, intense search on changing Data after install. @Andy3153 You then said to use the following command sudo chmod 0770 directory_name, which I also did. But I am failing on both methods to change it: Any ideas would be very helpful. Move the nextcloud data folder to new directory, 5. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. First set up the new database, here called new_db_name. Choose a displayed folder name and SMB / CIFS. Any ideas? Thanks for advice, MichaIng. Under administrative settings you can allow users to mount external storage. So I tried the original setup (putting data in /var/www/html/nextcloud/data), and got through the installation. first login. Move /data to the new location Change data directory to use another disk/partition. Did you set open_basedir? drwxrr-- 4 pi pi 4096 Mar 15 15:51 Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. Im about to do a fresh re-install, and Ill use your suggested configuration. Once, to store nextcloud data, I created a raid and mounted it in a separate directory. Also running: /etc/apache2/conf-available/nextcloud.conf. Logging an issue? -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 101 Mar 11 10:52 .user.ini But now I would like to have all data in a different drive. Configuration Parameters). There should be an option to delete or remove the account. Would like to be able to copy/move files in this directory to an external drive for backup. So, if it is a bug, it still not fixed in the latest version. multiple-user production servers. 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 . no file access r/w for user1 was possible. You can perform many common server operations with occ, such as installing and upgrading Nextcloud, manage users, encryption, passwords, LDAP setting, and more. I found this stupid issue. Can someone assist? Hmm, as long as the www-data has R/W access, everything else should not matter. 000-default-le-ssl.conf - per default serving your HTTPS requests with document root /var/www/html. There are also few topics about it, but it does not help for me. 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. #nextcloud #hyperv #snap #ubuntu #windows #directory #change Nextcloud snap new setup and data changing directory to windows shared. What I am thinking of is sharing out this Samba share to the Nextcloud VM, mount it within the Nextcloud VM using /etc/fstab to some directory, then pointing the data folder during the installation to the locally mounted Samba share. Nextcloud's occ command (origins from "ownCloud Console") is Nextcloud's command-line interface. You can always delete the account from the app and remove or better rename the local folder and start from scratch. One question for me if this is a security issue or not, Oh damn. GitHub - nextcloud/nextcloud-snap/wiki/change-data-directory-to-use . 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.). -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. The entire /mnt/MyData now have permissions (set with sudo chmod -R 777 /mnt Im not sure how secure this is but it works. How do you remove user from client sync? Error with the data file location and it doesnt work. I have all the right permissions and there should be no issue with reading and writing, but it still occurs. . 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: Navigate to Settings > Personal > Sharing > Files. So, possibly it is somehow related to it. I selected my /data folder on Nextcloud parameters box (on Libreelec), but shouldn't I change something in fstab? thanks, Last edited by chittu (2016-11-05 05:34:10). -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 362 Mar 11 10:56 version.php, /mnt/MyData/nextcloud Then I tried to follow the instructions from @MichaIng to change the data directory (specifically Solution 1). 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? Best regards This protection is important, otherwise users could access the whole system by uploading symlinks, in theory. users data directories, so they may change and delete the files without If Nextcloud finds no matching database entry, it creates an additional one, which then works fine according to quick tests and user reports above. Basically of config.php does not contain a matching entry, Nextcloud could remove all obsolete ones before adding the correct new one. This allows you to overwrite the files that are shipped by default with Nextcloud in core/skeleton. You should generally not touch the the files directly outside of Nextcloud. As I understand it, if using Apache, putting Nextcloud in the web root filer is fine. Replace the current directory location with the one where you have copied the data folder. 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. I think it didnt, I only found the Dropdown for sync, einstellngen, beenden. You decide what happens with your data, where it is and who can access it! Ive mounted the folder I want from the dataset, but struggling how to move the nextcloud data directory to the new directory. thank you, Last edited by chittu (2016-11-05 05:31:29), In /usr/share/webapps/nextcloud/config/config.php, 'datadirectory' => ''. Hello. 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. 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. 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! Thanks for pointing me the right direction. Nextcloud is an open source, self-hosted file sync & communication app platform. Unfortunately, I cant make a specific recommendation, since I dont use a Mac myself. I would probably just start over in this case or do a lot of reading on how those permissions are set. Edit 1: was able to resolve it. The respective partition is mounted at /var/nextcloud, and thats where Nextcloud looks for its data folder. empty to not copy any skeleton files. Configure the data directory and change it to your data folder path. After doing so you can use occ to scan the new location and update the database accordingly as needed. Overwriting the files in core/skeleton is not recommended, total 12 -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 542 Mar 15 15:46 .htaccess Haven't tried to move data location but other users did and pointed to some guides: Trying to change nextcloud data location Support Dude, thank you so much for this. edit: Heres a site config file for Apache that works with the above setup and has strong SSL settings. -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 3056 Mar 11 10:52 public.php them in directory that is readable by the webserver user. Add it to fstab so it is mounted at boot. But the issue with yours is that ALL old oc_filescache entries will stay, hence the database will grow enormously. My NC config was in sites-enabled and your in conf-available. I also tried Solution 2 to change a data folder just for a single user (user1) with a Symlink. 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