At the moment the data folder is located under /usr/share/webapps/nextcloud/data (I need to move this to /mnt/drivex/data) and I don't have any conf folder under /usr/share/webapps/nextcloud, The only conf file I found is; /etc/httpd/conf/extra/nextcloud.conf, any suggestions on "how to change the location of data folder?" This allows you to One of them uses the old $HOME/owncloud folder instead of $HOME/Nextcloud. 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. Hi. 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: in the sync client, click the three dots on the right, select remove folder synchronisation, Thanks a lot, @MichaIng for the clarification. Great work, all! These are the only locations the snap can access under confinement with the removable-media plug. You decide what happens with your data, where it is and who can access it! Decide where you want the new data to live. You can do it with docker-compose like in this docker-compose.yml to adapt at your needs. Nextcloud data folder is located at /var/lib/nethserver/nextcloud. edit: Heres a site config file for Apache that works with the above setup and has strong SSL settings. 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. If you need to override this path for all users, you can set, Configuring Object Storage as Primary Storage, External Storage authentication mechanisms. This is really helpful. Then go to settings. Am I understood correct: after creating this config, the old one which is: /etc/apache2/conf-available/nextcloud.conf ? 000-default.conf - per default serving you HTTP requests with document root /var/www/html. Hi nextcloud forum, You could also use the Nextcloud database user, where /path/to/nextcloud/config/config.php provides its name and password. Im installing Nextcloud 18.0.2 manually onto a Raspberry Pi 4 (Raspian 10 - Buster), using MariaDB. 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. drwxr-xr-x 14 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 15 15:39 . See Configuring External Storage (GUI) for additional mount options and . I copied the data directory to a new folder and indicated the owner and rights on behalf of which the web server is working: Configuration Parameters). For security, it's best to place the data directory outside of Nextcloud webroot directory. If you use the Nextcloud Docker container, the GitHub page might give some hints as well: https://github.com/nextcloud/docker I selected my /data folder on Nextcloud parameters box (on Libreelec), but shouldn't I change something in fstab? In the Configuration field enter the full filepath of the directory you want to mount.. 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. First, list out all of your installed apps with the command: sudo -u www-data php occ app:list. But I am failing on both methods to change it: Also NextCloudPi might provide own solutions: https://github.com/nextcloud/nextcloudpi -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 5048 Mar 11 10:52 cron.php 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. Edit the database: In oc_storages change the path on the local::/old-data-dir/ entry. So, if it is a bug, it still not fixed in the latest version. apps will not be converted even with option --all-apps. 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: 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? the schema definitions in the apps to create the new table. The folder /var/ncData/user1 is the data folder from the dummy nextcloud user1. Disable maintenance mode sudo -u www php /usr/www/nextcloud/occ maintence:mode --off 7. Click on Change to change the choice if necessary. total 164 thank you, Last edited by chittu (2016-11-05 05:31:29), In /usr/share/webapps/nextcloud/config/config.php, 'datadirectory' => ''. What about other app on server? You then said to use the following command sudo chmod 0770 directory_name, which I also did. drwxr-x 49 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 15 15:47 apps Set up with 2 hard drives in raid 0 server error appliances (Docker, Snappy, VM, NCP) New data location: /var/ncNewData/user1. drwxr-xr-x 3 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 15 15:46 KimAdmin Could you please check my current config? Ive successfully got the external drive feature to work in nextcloud, but I want the data directory to be using the dataset I choose. /etc/apache2/conf-available/nextcloud.conf. 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? So this is ok. I also tried Solution 2 to change a data folder just for a single user (user1) with a Symlink. BeakerRocks 3 yr. ago. I have mount disk on UCS 4.3. Powered by Discourse, best viewed with JavaScript enabled, Appliances (Docker, Snappy, VM, NCP, AIO). Change the ownCloud configuration to point to the new data directory. Hmm, as long as the www-data has R/W access, everything else should not matter. If you have any guide or video link to help, Ill appreciate it. Your webroot is /var/www/, and youll want to change the location of your data folder. I had not this warning message until moved to virtual host from my old config. See nextcloud.import -h for more I dont like 777 permissions, so perhaps somebody can give us an advice if this is a security issue or not. 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 Try to enable it and disable old config: Check if it woks as before. 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. Under administrative settings you can allow users to mount external storage. This screenshot shows a set of photos in the skeleton directory. Then you switch the data-dir in config/config.php 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. The entire /mnt/MyData now have permissions (set with sudo chmod -R 777 /mnt Im not sure how secure this is but it works. Make sure root has write access, but it's not accessible by others, for example: Important: Posix permissions take the entire path into account. Also running: /etc/apache2/conf-available/nextcloud.conf. Don't forget to change it back to false when you are finished. You can move the folder and edit the config. I tried to search it via Google but could not find a tutorial to achive it. 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 . First, list out all of your installed apps with the command: sudo -u www-data php occ app:list. The respective partition is mounted at /var/nextcloud, and thats where Nextcloud looks for its data folder. Indeed your statement (hence this HowTo) and Nextcloud docs do not match here. One question for me if this is a security issue or not, Oh damn. Im also not sure how secure this is but its works for me too. Once, to store nextcloud data, I created a raid and mounted it in a separate directory. Thanks for the guidance. If Nextcloud finds no matching database entry, it creates an additional one, which then works fine according to quick tests and user reports above. 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! Then with your regular user account you go to settings -> External storage. What do I do if an update breaks Nextcloud. no file access r/w for user1 was possible. so all the data in and under /var/www/html (as the container sees it) actually resides on your . But it is of course also possible to use the Nextcloud as a storage backend for backups. 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. Anyone have the same problem can help me? I moved all /mnt/dietpi_userdata/nextcloud_data files to /mnt/myexternaldrive/nextcloud, then done chown -R www-data:www-data /mnt/myexternaldrive/nextcloud and changed settings in config.php and in oc_storage in the database. At the moment the data folder is located under /usr/share/webapps/nextcloud/data (I need to move this to /mnt/drivex/data) and I don't have any conf folder under /usr/share/webapps/nextcloud At that stage, I am not sure whether to continue or not, in case I break something irrevocably. 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. 000-default.conf 000-default-le-ssl.conf, My nextcloud.conf is here: Configure the data directory and change it to your data folder path, https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/20/admin_manual/configuration_server/occ_command.html#command-line-installation-label. You can see details here: drwxr-x 5 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 15 15:46 data I rechecked the ownership from the new data folder, chown -R www-data:www-data /var/ncNewData/, and this solved it. This allows you to overwrite the files that are shipped by default with Nextcloud in core/skeleton. Key element is the 777 permission on the ncNewData folder! Youll have to create a volume with local-persist driver. drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 11 10:52 ocm-provider drwxr-xr-x 6 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 11 10:52 lib Move /data to the new location @b-pfl Change the permission of your new data location: sudo chmod 0770 /mnt . But note that synchronisation is not a backup. Interested in helping us evaluate a pull request? But a definit solution to rule out any issues would be if Nextcloud altered the database automatically according to config.txt entry, to have a single matching entry for local data dir only. Can someone assist? drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 15 15:46 files_external It should show up if you click on the three dots next to your username / account. Hello! Move the nextcloud data folder to new directory, 5. 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. 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. How can I achive this? PS: of course since youre running that on a Windows Server 2018, youll have to adapt the path. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. 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. I am wondering if it is possible to create a Samba share for Nextcloud that it can use as a data folder. What exactley does not work? Disable maintenance mode sudo -u www php /usr/www/nextcloud/occ maintence:mode --off 7. to exit: $ exit To . -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 15752 Mar 11 10:52 AUTHORS Because you edit config and try to disable site. That will change the owner and group of all files under /var/www/html to www-data. one, do a suggestion to have it added. 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. For a safe moving of data directory, supported by Nextcloud, recommended actions are: Make sure no cron jobs are running. Then, youll have to map this volume to your Nextcloud docker when you create it. But see this post of nickvergessen that it is still the recommended way to keep the database entries clean and consistent. I just installed next cloud and it is up and running. thanks, Last edited by chittu (2016-11-05 05:34:10). Ensure permissions are still correct. 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. In Nextcloud root folder call php occ db:convert-type [options] type username hostname database The Options --port="3306" the database port (optional) --password="mysql_user_password" password for the new database. GitHub which are not used any more. total 12 All the files in the data folder need to be owned by the www-data user of the container. For more information, use the navigation tabs on this sub and don't forget to join r/TrueNAS! Well the question is which storage to update. The following permission are working now for user1: /var/ncData/user1 >> Symlink 777 (standard) The files in the skeleton directory are copied into the After that save it: CTRL+O and exit using CTRL+X. -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 0 Mar 15 15:46 index.html The following steps are necessary to move the data directory. But anyway the warning still exists. Hello everyone. 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 -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 26 Mar 11 10:52 robots.txt They appear on the users Nextcloud Files page just like any other files. See nextcloud.export -h for more information. I'm running NextCloud on Docker for Windows from within Ubuntu WSL. -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 283 Mar 11 10:52 occ I have some problems with Nextcloud after installation app i found my difficult to change my data directory to another disk. It should be ok once you can see a file listing entering this command: Double-check the directory permissions on the new directory. Use Rsync to sync the files from the current to the new directory. It is not evident to me and there is no such option in the client settings interface. My NC config was in sites-enabled and your in conf-available. Pick a file or folder and click on Choose >> The chosen file or folder name gets displayed. : Move (or copy) the current data directory to the new place: And you should be up and running using external storage for Nextcloud's data. multiple-user production servers. Check your folder /etc/apache2/sites-enables/there should be something like 000-default.conf this is your site configuration. 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. Is there a way to do that ? Hence for me, phpMyAdmin was a boon. -rw-r----- 1 www-data www-data 25937 Mar 15 15:49 nextcloud.log But I am failing on both methods to change it: Any ideas would be very helpful. -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 5235 Mar 11 10:52 remote.php 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. I have Rpi 4 with 2gb and 2 5TB HDD on RAID 1. Im in the same boat running a raid on ubuntu but unable to change data dir. The new root nextcloud user data location for this single nextcloud user ist now /var/ncNewData. So I tried the original setup (putting data in /var/www/html/nextcloud/data), and got through the installation. -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 2381 Mar 11 10:52 status.php Can i using SSL without domain? I first changed the autoconfig.php file data directory location before setting up admin user and then create admin user. There should be an option to delete or remove the account. them in directory that is readable by the webserver user. Does the webserver log, php-fpm.log (in case) or Nextcloud log show any related entry? Nextcloud standard webroot: /var/www/html/nextcloud/ 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 . drwxrr-- 4 pi pi 4096 Mar 15 15:51 Did you set open_basedir? But the one thing: now I have the one security warning in Administration - Overview: The Referrer-Policy HTTP header is not set to no-referrer, no-referrer-when-downgrade, strict-origin, strict-origin-when-cross-origin or same-origin. By default all users have access. Stop Apache. 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. Nextcloud is an open source, self-hosted file sync & communication app platform. Im trying to move to two 500gb raid 0 drives. Im about to do a fresh re-install, and Ill use your suggested configuration. drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 11 10:53 updater Change data directory to use another disk/partition. No, not an unix user. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. As you can see in my 100-nextcloud.conf, it has line: Header always set Referrer-Policy no-referrer. Just to mention (because i was thinking of that) there is no need to name your new path data at the very end. This has probably been addressed many times but I just couldnt figure out the appropriate search keywords to find the answer. Then I tried to adjust the permissions. The admin isnt quite clear about this so I have a couple of questions: 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. : If you visited Nextcloud before now, refresh to re-evaluate the changed config (otherwise the directory won't change from the default). users data directories, so they may change and delete the files without Sure I guess hacking could take place to achieve that, but Id like to rather not do this. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. 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. Unfortunately, I cant make a specific recommendation, since I dont use a Mac myself. If I am not right, please, explain how to fix this when Nextcloud installed in this directory. What is the best location for the nextcloud data directory. Press J to jump to the feed. I always received permissions errors for user1. Change default data folder. You can perform many common server operations with occ, such as installing and upgrading Nextcloud, manage users, encryption, passwords, LDAP setting, and more. Thanks for the pointer on the config file. GitHub - nextcloud/nextcloud-snap/wiki/change-data-directory-to-use . I would go to the folder /etc/apache2/sites-available and create there file e.g. Snap/Docker PostgreSQL database with the Nextcloud command line tool. Thus, I use the same. 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. click add folder synchronisation. Hence, intense search on changing Data after install. In the Available for field enter the users or groups who have permission to access the mount. 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. unfortunately it doesnt work does anyone have another solution? Nextcloud config config.php. Try 30days Free Nextcloud Trial and add your own domain to:=====https://bit.ly/3CGiKwQ=====#Nextcloud #Nextclouders #tabdigitalGet service grade: A+ Ne. Thank you very much for your explanation. I mean a dummy nextcloud user. Nextcloud Data directory. Start a shell in the Nextcloud container ( docker exec -it name-of-nc-container bash) and run chown -R www-data: /var/www/html. Powered by Discourse, best viewed with JavaScript enabled, HowTo: Change / Move data directory after installation. The only thing that I had to do slightly different was to grant access to the www user and group to the mounted dataset. I am very impressed with this forum! 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? Dude, thank you so much for this. Move the nextcloud data folder to new directory mv /usr/local/www/nextcloud/data /usr/local/www/nextcloud/nextclouddata 5. You want it outside of /var/www/. For example, I have copied it at /mnt/g/data. 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. So, other nextcloud users will not have a problem. Missing permissions. You set the correct rights for your nextcloud user for /mnt/external_hdd/nextcloud (use a linux formatted file system like ext4 or btfs). It seems that the umask is set to 0000 by default. @Andy3153 My standard permissions for folders are 750 and for files 640. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. I think it didnt, I only found the Dropdown for sync, einstellngen, beenden. Ive mounted the folder I want from the dataset, but struggling how to move the nextcloud data directory to the new directory. Locate the app in question from that list and then disable the offending app with the command: sudo . drwxr-xr-x 3 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 15 15:41 . drwxr-xr-x 33 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 11 10:56 3rdparty You might consider /srv/nextcloud/data. 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 Also NextCloudPi might provide own solutions: 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. $ ls /etc/apache2/sites-enabled -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 362 Mar 11 10:56 version.php, /mnt/MyData/nextcloud affecting the originals. These files will be copied only to new users after their initial login, and I am able to navigate NCPi and all features at least till now. I am just scared to make changes in places where I have very little or no experience. E.g. 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 Ive got Nextcloud installed onto a Raspberry Pi 4 with 2 GB of RAM, running Arch Linux ARM with a LEMP stack. Touching files only with the webserver unix user www-data. Thats my config: /var/ncData/user1 I have all the right permissions and there should be no issue with reading and writing, but it still occurs. If you still have trouble remember your nextcloud.conf. Ill dig into it by times to check for safe ways to identify the correct entries. But the issue with yours is that ALL old oc_filescache entries will stay, hence the database will grow enormously.

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