BeakerRocks 3 yr. ago. Change the permission of your new data location: sudo chmod 0770 /mnt . Then with your regular user account you go to settings -> External storage. Add-ons --> My Add-ons --> Nextcloud --> Configure --> Map /data. -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 101 Mar 11 10:52 .user.ini 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. @b-pfl /var/ncNewData >> 777 drwxr-xr-x 3 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 15 15:41 It could be that nextcloud.conf is also there, then run a2disconf nextcloud.conf. Connect the removable-media plug as mentioned in the README in order to grant the snap permission to access external drives. I have mount disk on UCS 4.3. You can add additional folders to the synchronisation in the settings of the client. -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 34520 Mar 11 10:52 COPYING Replace the current directory location with the one where you have copied the data folder. You can ignore these tables. Hence for me, phpMyAdmin was a boon. 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! So, other nextcloud users will not have a problem. The files in the skeleton directory are copied into the The respective partition is mounted at /var/nextcloud, and thats where Nextcloud looks for its data folder. i deinstalled nextcloud-desktop, since I have the network-drive directly mounted now in nautilus, so I cannot debug this further. By default this includes the Nextcloud database, configuration, and data. Enable maintenance mode (install sudo if you don't have it already in the jail), 4. 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 the Available for field enter the users or groups who have permission to access the mount. 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. My standard permissions for folders are 750 and for files 640. To cd into the directory as sudo. affecting the originals. Powered by Discourse, best viewed with JavaScript enabled, HowTo: Change / Move data directory after installation. Does the webserver log, php-fpm.log (in case) or Nextcloud log show any related entry? That custom directory should then be configured in the config.php via the configuration option skeletondirectory (see Configuration Parameters ). Im installing Nextcloud 18.0.2 manually onto a Raspberry Pi 4 (Raspian 10 - Buster), using MariaDB. -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 26 Mar 11 10:52 robots.txt And here I have little concerns about the 777 permission. On the host the files will be owned by some . My data folder is on an external hard drive, at the root of a partition on it. Could you please check my current config? Dude, thank you so much for this. This is not required. To successfully proceed with the conversion, you must type yes when prompted can't cd into nextcloud data directory. There should be an option to delete or remove the account. My first plan was to install it directly with a data directory (/mnt/MyData/nextcloud/data). -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 283 Mar 11 10:52 occ You might consider /srv/nextcloud/data. to exit: $ exit To . 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. Note that it requires sudo. 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. The methods here are still valid. Thanks for pointing me the right direction. 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. I would go to the folder /etc/apache2/sites-available and create there file e.g. SQLite is good for Ensure permissions are still correct. Im about to do a fresh re-install, and Ill use your suggested configuration. 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. Move the nextcloud data folder to new directory, 5. 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. Basically of config.php does not contain a matching entry, Nextcloud could remove all obsolete ones before adding the correct new one. Then you switch the data-dir in config/config.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 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. See the W3C. Well the question is which storage to update. One question for me if this is a security issue or not, Oh damn. Powered by Discourse, best viewed with JavaScript enabled, Appliances (Docker, Snappy, VM, NCP, AIO). You may distribute a set of default files and folders to all users by placing them in directory that is readable by the webserver user. Will try CLI the next time I need it hopefully never, as I am still scared. drwxrr-- 4 pi pi 4096 Mar 15 15:51 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. First, list out all of your installed apps with the command: sudo -u www-data php occ app:list. But after this Ive got Not Found trying to open my Nextcloud in a browser. Access & sync your files, contacts, calendars and communicate & collaborate across your devices. On the left side under Administration select External Storage. 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. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. The only problem that I faced was to understand how oc_storages DB table can be edited. You can see details here: My NC config was in sites-enabled and your in conf-available. one, do a suggestion to have it added. I first changed the autoconfig.php file data directory location before setting up admin user and then create admin user. there is only one data dir for all users (of course subdirs each user) and there should be a protection against symlinks from inside the data dir to outside. Missing permissions. PS: of course since youre running that on a Windows Server 2018, youll have to adapt the path. FreeNAS is now TrueNAS. because those changes will be overwritten on the next update of the Nextcloud drwxr-xr-x 4 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 11 10:52 resources Pick a file or folder and click on Choose >> The chosen file or folder name gets displayed. 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. -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 156 Mar 11 10:52 index.html Any ideas? But note that synchronisation is not a backup. Hi nextcloud forum, I just installed next cloud and it is up and running. Stop apache. You could also use the Nextcloud database user, where /path/to/nextcloud/config/config.php provides its name and password. For example. It is not evident to me and there is no such option in the client settings interface. -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 5048 Mar 11 10:52 cron.php If an external drive is where you want to end, and not somewhere else on the filesystem, then just rsync or cp -a your current data directory to the external drive and then mount it to your current data directory location. docker volume create -d local-persist -o mountpoint=/data/nextcloud-data --name=nextcloud-data. Anyone have the same problem can help me? So yes, your idea works fine, as of Solution 1. This protection is important, otherwise users could access the whole system by uploading symlinks, in theory. Would like to be able to copy/move files in this directory to an external drive for backup. nextcloud.import: Import data exported from another Nextcloud snap instance (via nextcloud.export). For security, it's best to place the data directory outside of Nextcloud webroot directory. Please see the discussion, where it is mentioned that editing the database entry is indeed not required (as far as it was tested). Hello! See Configuring External Storage (GUI) for additional mount options and . Nextcloud's occ command (origins from "ownCloud Console") is Nextcloud's command-line interface. Configure the data directory and change it to your data folder path 'datadirectory' => '/usr/local/www/nextcloud/nextclouddata/data' 6. drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 11 10:53 updater Nextcloud Data directory. May be a bug (?) Check your folder /etc/apache2/sites-enables/there should be something like 000-default.conf this is your site configuration. Edit 1: was able to resolve it. Thanks for the pointer on the config file. That custom directory should then be configured in the Interested in helping us evaluate a pull request? 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. drwxr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 15 15:53 config I rechecked the ownership from the new data folder, chown -R www-data:www-data /var/ncNewData/, and this solved it. 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: You can always delete the account from the app and remove or better rename the local folder and start from scratch. All the files in the data folder need to be owned by the www-data user of the container. 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. Overwriting the files in core/skeleton is not recommended, See nextcloud.export -h for more information. You set the correct rights for your nextcloud user for /mnt/external_hdd/nextcloud (use a linux formatted file system like ext4 or btfs). 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.). You can simply stop the server, move data directory, change path in config and start server again. Move /data to the new location Move the nextcloud data folder to new directory, 5. As there still appear qu. It should be ok once you can see a file listing entering this command: drwxr-xr-x 3 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 15 15:46 KimAdmin If anyone finds this when searching the answer is on the nextcloud-snap github page. Well, Stefan it really sucks that no one helped you out since I am having the exact same issue and cannot find a solution. Make your admin user as usual and carry on, Nextcloud is using the external data. 000-default.conf - per default serving you HTTP requests with document root /var/www/html. 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: How do you remove user from client sync? This has probably been addressed many times but I just couldnt figure out the appropriate search keywords to find the answer. server. Locate the app in question from that list and then disable the offending app with the command: sudo . 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