These are the only locations the snap can access under confinement with the removable-media plug. 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 mount the drive manually first (mount command), copy data over, then modify fstab to have the mount persistent for next reboot, or modify fstab first, reboot to have the drive mounted automatically, then copy data, as you like. 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 . What Information do you need? Too busy. i deinstalled nextcloud-desktop, since I have the network-drive directly mounted now in nautilus, so I cannot debug this further. 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 I would go to the folder /etc/apache2/sites-available and create there file e.g. I dont like 777 permissions, so perhaps somebody can give us an advice if this is a security issue or not. Set up with 2 hard drives in raid 0 server error appliances (Docker, Snappy, VM, NCP) 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. 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 Nextcloud finds no matching database entry, it creates an additional one, which then works fine according to quick tests and user reports above. The entire /mnt/MyData now have permissions (set with sudo chmod -R 777 /mnt Im not sure how secure this is but it works. Error with the data file location and it doesnt work. Nextcloud stores the data directory location and all it's files locations inside it's database, that can be chosen during installation as well. $ ls /etc/apache2/sites-enabled You are absolutely right - I am not looking to have a backup in case my files are deleted; rather I am looking to have a backup in case my own PC/Mac/Mobile device drive fails, so there is a perfect copy of specific folders on Nextcloud. thanks, Last edited by chittu (2016-11-05 05:34:10). Disable maintenance mode sudo -u www php /usr/www/nextcloud/occ maintence:mode --off 7. webroot: /var/www/html/ Thanks for advice, MichaIng. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. 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 I get your point. Change the permission of your new data location: sudo chmod 0770 /mnt . This means that even if I run chmod -R 0770 ./html on my data directory, any new file will still have the incorrect permissions.. I just installed next cloud and it is up and running. Try 30days Free Nextcloud Trial and add your own domain to:=====https://bit.ly/3CGiKwQ=====#Nextcloud #Nextclouders #tabdigitalGet service grade: A+ Ne. Thats my config: /var/ncData/user1 There should be an option to delete or remove the account. which are not used any more. Enable maintenance mode (install sudo if you don't have it already in the jail), 4. The theme folder. Anyone knows how to change / move the nextcloud data to a new directory? 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. which can be created with the following command: sudo mkdir /var/www/nextcloud-data Great work, all! As you can see in my 100-nextcloud.conf, it has line: Header always set Referrer-Policy no-referrer. 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. Thanks for pointing me the right direction. can't cd into nextcloud data directory. So, if it is a bug, it still not fixed in the latest version. If you delete something on your Mac inside of one of these folders, it also gets deleted on your Nextcloud server and vice versa. Developer . This allows you to overwrite the files that are shipped by default with Nextcloud in core/skeleton. Make your admin user as usual and carry on, Nextcloud is using the external data. FreeNAS is now TrueNAS. Configure the data directory and change it to your data folder path 'datadirectory' => '/usr/local/www/nextcloud/nextclouddata/data' 6. drwxrr-- 4 pi pi 4096 Mar 15 15:51 After creating and enabling it I checked and got A+ at last. -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 362 Mar 11 10:56 version.php, /mnt/MyData/nextcloud 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. 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. 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. The solution describes the update from brrrlinguist very well. server. You signed in with another tab or window. i have set the datadirectory to 'datadirectory' => '/media/usbhd/data' my installation medium is: ubuntu20.04-preinstalled-server-arm64 my device is a: raspberry pi 3b in the folder usbhd i have the files: appdata_oc4rufk42j51 data files_encryption nextcloud.log. The partition you want to use must be mounted somewhere in /media/ or /mnt/. Edited 2 times, last by Alomon (Feb 3rd 2020). Im trying to move to two 500gb raid 0 drives. drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 15 15:46 files_external -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 2647 Mar 15 15:46 .htaccess Enable maintenance mode for your instance. -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 3056 Mar 11 10:52 public.php 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. Thats a bit strange for me because also my standard data folder (/var/ncData/) has 750 and thats work fine. 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. The methods here are still valid. That will change the owner and group of all files under /var/www/html to www-data. In the Configuration field enter the full filepath of the directory you want to mount.. Personal spot :: https://www.smirky.net/ :: Try not to get lost! No, not an unix user. 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. 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?" Nextcloud standard webroot: /var/www/html/nextcloud/ -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 542 Mar 15 15:46 .htaccess 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. I always received permissions errors for user1. 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. It should be ok once you can see a file listing entering this command: You then said to use the following command sudo chmod 0770 directory_name, which I also did. If I am not right, please, explain how to fix this when Nextcloud installed in this directory. By default all users have access. (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). You can perform many common server operations with occ, such as installing and upgrading Nextcloud, manage users, encryption, passwords, LDAP setting, and more. drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 11 10:52 ocm-provider Hence, intense search on changing Data after install. See nextcloud.import -h for more 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. You mean the UNIX user1? @b-pfl Will try CLI the next time I need it hopefully never, as I am still scared. first login. #nextcloud #hyperv #snap #ubuntu #windows #directory #change Nextcloud snap new setup and data changing directory to windows shared. The data folder. Thank you very much for your explanation. It is a hidden file), the entire data directory is owned by the web user (www-data on Debian/Ubuntu and the derivatives. The only problem that I faced was to understand how oc_storages DB table can be edited. Hello. I installed nextcloud in a docker container, I can access to the interface. 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 Sure I guess hacking could take place to achieve that, but Id like to rather not do this. 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 . Thanks a lot, @MichaIng for the clarification. Ive got Nextcloud installed onto a Raspberry Pi 4 with 2 GB of RAM, running Arch Linux ARM with a LEMP stack. My data folder is on an external hard drive, at the root of a partition on it. It should show up if you click on the three dots next to your username / account. 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? Because you edit config and try to disable site. 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! -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 283 Mar 11 10:52 occ 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. Then you switch the data-dir in config/config.php Installed as a snap. Configure the data directory and change it to your data folder path. To cd into the directory as sudo. Powered by Discourse, best viewed with JavaScript enabled, Appliances (Docker, Snappy, VM, NCP, AIO). 000-default.conf 000-default-le-ssl.conf, My nextcloud.conf is here: Leave empty to not copy any skeleton files. 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. What exactley does not work? This can leak referer information. There are also few topics about it, but it does not help for me. I would probably just start over in this case or do a lot of reading on how those permissions are set. Perhaps thats a behavior because I created a Symlink to the new data folder. Hi Rotational, does it mention to separate Data in the instructions? I still get Data directory (/mnt/myexternaldrive/nextcloud) is invalid. Nextcloud's occ command (origins from "ownCloud Console") is Nextcloud's command-line interface. You can see details here: If you have any guide or video link to help, Ill appreciate it. One question for me if this is a security issue or not, Oh damn. -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 0 Mar 15 15:46 index.html 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. Please read: Forum Rules and Wiki pages. To access the settings for configuring external storage mounts, click on your Profile icon in the top right and select settings from the dropdown. 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. I have Rpi 4 with 2gb and 2 5TB HDD on RAID 1. Nextcloud config config.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. Move /data to the new location Then I tried to adjust the permissions. Admin manual says :On other HTTP servers it is recommended to install Nextcloud outside of the document root., Assumptions: Logging an issue? drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 11 10:52 ocs Please contact your administrator. As there still appear qu. 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. The only thing that I had to do slightly different was to grant access to the www user and group to the mounted dataset. PS: of course since youre running that on a Windows Server 2018, youll have to adapt the path. This would explain why moving a single users data outside via symlink leads to permissions denied, because it would follow a symlink. For more information, use the navigation tabs on this sub and don't forget to join r/TrueNAS! because those changes will be overwritten on the next update of the Nextcloud Enable maintenance mode (install sudo if you don't have it already in the jail), 4. Also in my .htaccess file there is a following section existing: But for some reason the warning message is present. 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. affecting the originals. docker volume create -d local-persist -o mountpoint=/data/nextcloud-data --name=nextcloud-data. All the files in the data folder need to be owned by the www-data user of the container. click add folder synchronisation. drwxr-xr-x 8 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 15 15:47 appdata_octf179zqtl4 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. I was going to go for the easy method but read the warning from @nickvergessen on DB integrity topic and decided against it. Even if the data directory above is writable by root, if any part of the path above it (e.g. Stop apache. But now I would like to have all data in a different drive. Your webroot is /var/www/, and youll want to change the location of your data folder. /etc/apache2/conf-available/nextcloud.conf. But I am failing on both methods to change it: You set the correct rights for your nextcloud user for /mnt/external_hdd/nextcloud (use a linux formatted file system like ext4 or btfs). testing and simple single-user Nextcloud servers, but it does not scale for So I tried the original setup (putting data in /var/www/html/nextcloud/data), and got through the installation. Stop Apache. Under administrative settings you can allow users to mount external storage. 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. How do you remove user from client sync? 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. GitHub - nextcloud/nextcloud-snap/wiki/change-data-directory-to-use . : 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. See Configuring External Storage (GUI) for additional mount options and . Replace the current directory location with the one where you have copied the data folder. empty to not copy any skeleton files. with the question Continue with the conversion? This was exactly what I was looking for and it was harder to find than it needed to be. On the host the files will be owned by some . Well the question is which storage to update. fstab modification has not much to do with it. 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. Using the same setup, I put Nextcloud in /var/www/nextcloud/, and my Data folder in /opt/nextcloud/data. Haven't tried to move data location but other users did and pointed to some guides: Trying to change nextcloud data location Support Then I tried to follow the instructions from @MichaIng to change the data directory (specifically Solution 1). First, list out all of your installed apps with the command: sudo -u www-data php occ app:list. 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. Navigate to Settings > Personal > Sharing > Files. one, do a suggestion to have it added. 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. 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