-rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 34520 Mar 11 10:52 COPYING overwrite the files that are shipped by default with Nextcloud in Can i using SSL without domain? affecting the originals. BTW, Im using Nextcloud 16.0.3. For example. Please see the discussion, where it is mentioned that editing the database entry is indeed not required (as far as it was tested). 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. See nextcloud.import -h for more 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. Unfortunately, I cant make a specific recommendation, since I dont use a Mac myself. But see this post of nickvergessen that it is still the recommended way to keep the database entries clean and consistent. I am very impressed with this forum! 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: config.php via the configuration option skeletondirectory (see I didnt find any tutorial for this precise use case but I can give you some answer. You can always delete the account from the app and remove or better rename the local folder and start from scratch. Am I understood correct: after creating this config, the old one which is: /etc/apache2/conf-available/nextcloud.conf ? Basically of config.php does not contain a matching entry, Nextcloud could remove all obsolete ones before adding the correct new one. But in case /var/www/nextcloud/ it is not possible to get A+ on scan.nextcloud.com with a __Host-Prefix security hardening issue. You can perform many common server operations with occ, such as installing and upgrading Nextcloud, manage users, encryption, passwords, LDAP setting, and more. -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 542 Mar 15 15:46 .htaccess Thanks for advice, MichaIng. But note that synchronisation is not a backup. If anyone finds this when searching the answer is on the nextcloud-snap github page. These files will be copied only to new users after their initial login, and drwxr-xr-x 14 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 15 15:39 . 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. In Nextcloud root folder call, --port="3306" the database port (optional), --password="mysql_user_password" password for the new database. Does the webserver log, php-fpm.log (in case) or Nextcloud log show any related entry? Edit the database: In oc_storages change the path on the local::/old-data-dir/ entry. Ive got Nextcloud installed onto a Raspberry Pi 4 with 2 GB of RAM, running Arch Linux ARM with a LEMP stack. I'm running NextCloud on Docker for Windows from within Ubuntu WSL. You signed in with another tab or window. 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. 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! But I am failing on both methods to change it: Locate the app in question from that list and then disable the offending app with the command: sudo . BeakerRocks 3 yr. ago. I don't know trueNAS, but if you copy the data to the new location, you could either create a symlink to the new folder or edit the filepath in your nextcloud config.php. This allows you to You want it outside of /var/www/. Don't forget to change it back to false when you are finished. The data dir entry/entries should be identifyable, although I know there are local:: entries as well for every user. Dude, thank you so much for this. Just to mention (because i was thinking of that) there is no need to name your new path data at the very end. The methods here are still valid. First, list out all of your installed apps with the command: sudo -u www-data php occ app:list. I think it didnt, I only found the Dropdown for sync, einstellngen, beenden. Storage configuration. drwxr-xr-x 4 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 11 10:52 resources But with this setting no file access r/w for user1 was possible. This can leak referer information. It seems that the umask is set to 0000 by default. Connect the removable-media plug as mentioned in the README in order to grant the snap permission to access external drives. Make your admin user as usual and carry on, Nextcloud is using the external data. 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.). Restart apache. 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. Logging an issue? -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 2976 Mar 11 10:52 index.php Then you switch the data-dir in config/config.php To cd into the directory as sudo. The respective partition is mounted at /var/nextcloud, and thats where Nextcloud looks for its data folder. So instead of storing users' files under /var/www/nextcloud/data/, we can change it to /var/www/nextcloud-data. I tried to search it via Google but could not find a tutorial to achive it. -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 2381 Mar 11 10:52 status.php Press J to jump to the feed. Add it to fstab so it is mounted at boot. Im installing Nextcloud 18.0.2 manually onto a Raspberry Pi 4 (Raspian 10 - Buster), using MariaDB. > Everything under *-enabled is something are using now. 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. Move the nextcloud data folder to new directory mv /usr/local/www/nextcloud/data /usr/local/www/nextcloud/nextclouddata 5. Also NextCloudPi might provide own solutions: https://github.com/nextcloud/nextcloudpi Then go to settings. 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. Configuration Parameters). What about other app on server? Nextcloud's occ command (origins from "ownCloud Console") is Nextcloud's command-line interface. nextcloud.import: Import data exported from another Nextcloud snap instance (via nextcloud.export). By default this imports the database, config, and data. Once, to store nextcloud data, I created a raid and mounted it in a separate directory. 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. 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 283 Mar 11 10:52 occ There are also few topics about it, but it does not help for me. Something Ill edit in the HowTo another day . You therefore need to replace the nextcloud volume with a bind mount instead, I.E. Use Rsync to sync the files from the current to the new directory. Thanks, was able to review the document and move the data directory to a new one. 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. 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. click add folder synchronisation. them in directory that is readable by the webserver user. drwxrr-- 4 pi pi 4096 Mar 15 15:51 which are not used any more. 000-default.conf - per default serving you HTTP requests with document root /var/www/html. I just installed next cloud and it is up and running. I also set symlink ownership and set the actual data folder ownership (like described in solution2). One question for me if this is a security issue or not, Oh damn. 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 am just scared to make changes in places where I have very little or no experience. 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. I changed the data folder just for one user in my example. This is really helpful. It is a hidden file), the entire data directory is owned by the web user (www-data on Debian/Ubuntu and the derivatives. Click on Choose file or folder to transfer >> A file picker opens, showing all files and folders in the user's account. What do I do if an update breaks Nextcloud. core/skeleton. I have only A security check result. You can see that in the below screenshot. drwxr-xr-x 3 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 15 15:41 First set up the new database, here called new_db_name. Anyone have the same problem can help me? Note that the below does not apply to Nextcloud containers/appliances. Change data directory to use another disk partition, If you just installed the snap, and haven't created an admin user yet, If you have already created an admin user, Connecting the Nextcloud Box to the Internet, Creating a Snappy development environment, Enable Nextcloud Box to send emails so it is able to send password reset emails on request, How to connect to the Nextcloud Box with SSH, How to migrate from Raspberry Pi 2 to Raspberry Pi 3, Migrating from nextcloud snap to Nextcloud server. 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. Hey, did you ever find any solutions for this? users data directories, so they may change and delete the files without If omitted the tool will ask you (optional) --clear-schema clear schema (optional) Thanks for the pointer on the config file. My standard permissions for folders are 750 and for files 640. If you are an administrator, edit the "trusted_domains" setting in config/config.php like the example in config.sample.php. Im also not sure how secure this is but its works for me too. Ok I ran touch .ocdata and when signing to web ui through lan ip I was greeted with this `Access through untrusted domain. 100-nextcloud.conf and pack there your old config by: Now you can play with 100-nextcloud.conf only. /etc/apache2/conf-available/nextcloud.conf. Only if you do not already syncing the root folder of your Nextcloud, which then would also include this newly created folder. 000-default.conf 000-default-le-ssl.conf, My nextcloud.conf is here: empty to not copy any skeleton files. Under administrative settings you can allow users to mount external storage. drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 11 10:52 ocs But anyway the warning still exists. Edit 1: was able to resolve it. 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. You may distribute a set of default files and folders to all users by placing So yes, your idea works fine, as of Solution 1. I installed nextcloud in a docker container, I can access to the interface. On the host the files will be owned by some . Anyone knows how to change / move the nextcloud data to a new directory? 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. Missing permissions. Hi nextcloud forum, 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 -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 156 Mar 11 10:52 index.html Then with your regular user account you go to settings -> External storage. Nextcloud data folder is located at /var/lib/nethserver/nextcloud. This would explain why moving a single users data outside via symlink leads to permissions denied, because it would follow a symlink. Great work, all! How do you remove user from client sync? What Information do you need? I copied the data directory to a new folder and indicated the owner and rights on behalf of which the web server is working: Has anyone fixed been about to get it working. You can move the folder and edit the config. It should show up if you click on the three dots next to your username / account. Im about to do a fresh re-install, and Ill use your suggested configuration. total 164 Thanks a lot, @MichaIng for the clarification. May be a bug (?) 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. I had not this warning message until moved to virtual host from my old config. Snap/Docker I have exactly the same problem since update to NC 15.x, I just ignore it, because settings were good and I did not found the way how to solve it. So, possibly it is somehow related to it. GitHub 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 . To access the settings for configuring external storage mounts, click on your Profile icon in the top right and select settings from the dropdown. One of them uses the old $HOME/owncloud folder instead of $HOME/Nextcloud. Im in the same boat running a raid on ubuntu but unable to change data dir. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Hello everyone. Nextcloud is an open source, self-hosted file sync & communication app platform. My data folder is on an external hard drive, at the root of a partition on it. On the left side under Administration select External Storage. to exit: $ exit To . You told me to cd and find the directory where the data folder is stored which I did. i deinstalled nextcloud-desktop, since I have the network-drive directly mounted now in nautilus, so I cannot debug this further. Navigate to Settings > Personal > Sharing > Files. If you still have trouble remember your nextcloud.conf. because those changes will be overwritten on the next update of the Nextcloud Ive mounted the folder I want from the dataset, but struggling how to move the nextcloud data directory to the new directory. With the default data directory everything works fine. 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. As there still appear qu. So, I have 3 computers syncing files with a nextcloud 12 server. I found this stupid issue. Thank you very much for your explanation. 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. How can I achive this? Enable maintenance mode for your instance. Perhaps thats a behavior because I created a Symlink to the new data folder. All the files in the data folder need to be owned by the www-data user of the container. I would probably just start over in this case or do a lot of reading on how those permissions are set. -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 26 Mar 11 10:52 robots.txt 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. GitHub - nextcloud/nextcloud-snap/wiki/change-data-directory-to-use . 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 dont like 777 permissions, so perhaps somebody can give us an advice if this is a security issue or not. Change the ownCloud configuration to point to the new data directory. -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 5048 Mar 11 10:52 cron.php You can see details here: You can simply stop the server, move data directory, change path in config and start server again. Change the permission of your new data location: sudo chmod 0770 /mnt . What is the best location for the nextcloud data directory. sudo mount --bind /mnt/kids /usr/share/webapps/nextcloud/data, All you need to do is append the path of your new data directory in the file, php_admin_value open_basedir "/srv/http/:/dev/urandom:/tmp/:/usr/share/pear/:/usr/share/webapps/nextcloud/:/etc/webapps/nextcloud:/srv/clouddata", [Solved] Nextcloud, change Data folder location. Please read: Forum Rules and Wiki pages. Is there any difference? Stop apache. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. 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. The server compare files and update only the new files. I am wondering if it is possible to create a Samba share for Nextcloud that it can use as a 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. 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. /var/ncNewData >> 777 Disable maintenance mode sudo -u www php /usr/www/nextcloud/occ maintence:mode --off 7. 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 3056 Mar 11 10:52 public.php 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. How to change data folder location in nextcloud? It is not evident to me and there is no such option in the client settings interface. one, do a suggestion to have it added. Access & sync your files, contacts, calendars and communicate & collaborate across your devices. 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. The following steps are necessary to move the data directory. 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. Youll have to create a volume with local-persist driver. You can convert a SQLite database to a better performing MySQL, MariaDB or The database . 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. Nextcloud standard webroot: /var/www/html/nextcloud/ Choose a displayed folder name and SMB / CIFS. Although phpMyAdmin provides a nice GUI, it is not required to alter the database. You cannot add more folders to the synchronistaion because it already syncs everything on your Nextcloud to the Nextcloud folder on your computer. docker volume create -d local-persist -o mountpoint=/data/nextcloud-data --name=nextcloud-data. That custom directory should then be configured in the config.php via the configuration option skeletondirectory (see Configuration Parameters ). They appear on the users Nextcloud Files page just like any other files. Ill dig into it by times to check for safe ways to identify the correct entries. I dont have the second menu with status setzen, abmelden and Konto Lschen there. unfortunately it doesnt work does anyone have another solution? The data folder. It should be ok once you can see a file listing entering this command: The theme folder. Nextcloud standard data directory: /var/www/html/nextcloud/data/. Then, youll have to map this volume to your Nextcloud docker when you create it. 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. I always received permissions errors for user1. See nextcloud.export -h for more information. Click on Change to change the choice if necessary. 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. the schema definitions in the apps to create the new table. thank you, Last edited by chittu (2016-11-05 05:31:29), In /usr/share/webapps/nextcloud/config/config.php, 'datadirectory' => ''. Nextcloud directory can be found at /usr/share/nextcloud. The folder /var/ncData/user1 is the data folder from the dummy nextcloud user1. 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. 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. Hello. drwxr-xr-x 3 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 15 15:46 KimAdmin 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. Leave Haven't tried to move data location but other users did and pointed to some guides: Trying to change nextcloud data location Support The files in the skeleton directory are copied into the Nextcloud doesn't really care too much where the data directory is located, as long as the path is right in the config.php file, the directory has a ".ocdata" file in it (note the leading dot. Edited 2 times, last by Alomon (Feb 3rd 2020). You could also use the Nextcloud database user, where /path/to/nextcloud/config/config.php provides its name and password. Personal spot :: https://www.smirky.net/ :: Try not to get lost! in the sync client, click the three dots on the right, select remove folder synchronisation, Make sure root has write access, but it's not accessible by others, for example: Important: Posix permissions take the entire path into account. The admin isnt quite clear about this so I have a couple of questions: Anyone knows how to change / move the nextcloud data to a new directory? The data folder is where users' files are stored. 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). Configure the data directory and change it to your data folder path 'datadirectory' => '/usr/local/www/nextcloud/nextclouddata/data' 6. drwxr-x 5 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 15 15:46 data, /mnt/MyData/nextcloud/data (identical to /var/www/html/nextcloud/data) PostgreSQL database with the Nextcloud command line tool. Please describe in as much detail as possible what you are trying to achieve and what you already tried? 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. You decide what happens with your data, where it is and who can access it! To create a new external storage mount, select an available backend from the dropdown Add storage. total 12 This is how to install s. Therefore it creates the tables oc_storages for the data directory and oc_filecache for the files. first login. Enable maintenance mode (install sudo if you don't have it already in the jail), 4. In the Folder name field enter the folder name that you want to appear on your Nextcloud Files page.. @b-pfl I just installed next cloud and it is up and running. and then I run ln -s /mnt/external_hdd/nextcloud /var/nextcloud, right? testing and simple single-user Nextcloud servers, but it does not scale for @nickvergessen Thanks for the guidance. By default this includes the Nextcloud database, configuration, and data. As you can see in my 100-nextcloud.conf, it has line: Header always set Referrer-Policy no-referrer. That will change the owner and group of all files under /var/www/html to www-data. So this is ok. with the question Continue with the conversion? You can ignore these tables. existing users will not see files that are added to this directory after their I replaced my screenshot in order to make it more obvious where to click. 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: Hi All, I am a newbie here and really appreciate this thriving community. I have Rpi 4 with 2gb and 2 5TB HDD on RAID 1. Include the output of this script. You set the correct rights for your nextcloud user for /mnt/external_hdd/nextcloud (use a linux formatted file system like ext4 or btfs). You can do it with docker-compose like in this docker-compose.yml to adapt at your needs. Because you edit config and try to disable site. I am able to navigate NCPi and all features at least till now. -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. Nextcloud installed onto a Raspberry Pi 4 ( Raspian 10 - Buster ), using MariaDB respective partition is at! 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