I changed the data folder just for one user in my example. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. Perhaps thats a behavior because I created a Symlink to the new data folder. Even if the data directory above is writable by root, if any part of the path above it (e.g. drwxr-xr-x 33 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 11 10:56 3rdparty Enable maintenance mode (install sudo if you don't have it already in the jail), 4. 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?" What Information do you need? Edited 2 times, last by Alomon (Feb 3rd 2020). I had not this warning message until moved to virtual host from my old config. If you need to override this path for all users, you can set, Configuring Object Storage as Primary Storage, External Storage authentication mechanisms. See Configuring External Storage (GUI) for additional mount options and . With the default data directory everything works fine. and then I run ln -s /mnt/external_hdd/nextcloud /var/nextcloud, right? First set up the new database, here called new_db_name. 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 thank you, Last edited by chittu (2016-11-05 05:31:29), In /usr/share/webapps/nextcloud/config/config.php, 'datadirectory' => ''. Something Ill edit in the HowTo another day . Is there any difference? /etc/apache2/conf-available/nextcloud.conf. Don't forget to change it back to false when you are finished. 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: To create a new external storage mount, select an available backend from the dropdown Add storage. Although phpMyAdmin provides a nice GUI, it is not required to alter the database. Im installing Nextcloud 18.0.2 manually onto a Raspberry Pi 4 (Raspian 10 - Buster), using MariaDB. However you will want to relocate your data folder completely outside the web folder. Anyone have the same problem can help me? Then with your regular user account you go to settings -> External storage. 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. First, list out all of your installed apps with the command: sudo -u www-data php occ app:list. NTFS). fstab modification has not much to do with it. Disable maintenance mode sudo -u www php /usr/www/nextcloud/occ maintence:mode --off 7. in the sync client, click the three dots on the right, select remove folder synchronisation, 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: What exactley does not work? Pick a file or folder and click on Choose >> The chosen file or folder name gets displayed. The following permission are working now for user1: /var/ncData/user1 >> Symlink 777 (standard) Nextcloud directory can be found at /usr/share/nextcloud. This allows you to The updater will tell you which ones these are. I installed nextcloud in a docker container, I can access to the interface. 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. Then I tried to follow the instructions from @MichaIng to change the data directory (specifically Solution 1). existing users will not see files that are added to this directory after their Change default data folder. Well the question is which storage to update. But I get your point. total 12 Hello! Ive mounted the folder I want from the dataset, but struggling how to move the nextcloud data directory to the new directory. Anyone knows how to change / move the nextcloud data to a new directory? 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. If you updated your Nextcloud instance, there might be remnants of old tables So yes, your idea works fine, as of Solution 1. The solution describes the update from brrrlinguist very well. Is there a way to do that ? @nickvergessen No, not an unix user. For security, it's best to place the data directory outside of Nextcloud webroot directory. -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 542 Mar 15 15:46 .htaccess Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. E.g. You can simply stop the server, move data directory, change path in config and start server again. total 52 Please see the discussion, where it is mentioned that editing the database entry is indeed not required (as far as it was tested). The files in the skeleton directory are copied into the Nextcloud standard data directory: /var/www/html/nextcloud/data/. 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? But the issue with yours is that ALL old oc_filescache entries will stay, hence the database will grow enormously. > Everything under *-available is something that you could use, but it is not. 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. But see this post of nickvergessen that it is still the recommended way to keep the database entries clean and consistent. Im new to nexcloud but I want to use it. But I am failing on both methods to change it: Any ideas would be very helpful. This is not required. The only problem that I faced was to understand how oc_storages DB table can be edited. So, possibly it is somehow related to it. 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. By default this imports the database, config, and data. Can i using SSL without domain? . 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 entire /mnt/MyData now have permissions (set with sudo chmod -R 777 /mnt Im not sure how secure this is but it works. server. You decide what happens with your data, where it is and who can access it! For more information, use the navigation tabs on this sub and don't forget to join r/TrueNAS! -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 283 Mar 11 10:52 occ The data folder. PostgreSQL database with the Nextcloud command line tool. with the question Continue with the conversion? Thatss the nextcloud error message, when I change the permission from the new user folder (/var/ncNewData) to 750 and open a file: fopen(/var/nc_data/user1/files/files.pdf): failed to open stream: Permission denied at /var/www/nextcloud/lib/private/Files/Storage/Local.php#302, If I changed the permission back to 777 and everything works fine. the schema definitions in the apps to create the new table. Developer . I didnt find any tutorial for this precise use case but I can give you some answer. which can be created with the following command: sudo mkdir /var/www/nextcloud-data Thanks, was able to review the document and move the data directory to a new one. Basically of config.php does not contain a matching entry, Nextcloud could remove all obsolete ones before adding the correct new one. That custom directory should then be configured in the 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. Storage configuration. 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. It should show up if you click on the three dots next to your username / account. Indeed your statement (hence this HowTo) and Nextcloud docs do not match here. How can I achive this? Thats a bit strange for me because also my standard data folder (/var/ncData/) has 750 and thats work fine. Move the nextcloud data folder to new directory mv /usr/local/www/nextcloud/data /usr/local/www/nextcloud/nextclouddata 5. Note that the below does not apply to Nextcloud containers/appliances. Configure the data directory and change it to your data folder path 'datadirectory' => '/usr/local/www/nextcloud/nextclouddata/data' 6. 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's occ command (origins from "ownCloud Console") is Nextcloud's command-line interface. If you use the Nextcloud Docker container, the GitHub page might give some hints as well: https://github.com/nextcloud/docker I tried to search it via Google but could not find a tutorial to achive it. Only if you do not already syncing the root folder of your Nextcloud, which then would also include this newly created folder. Click on Change to change the choice if necessary. 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 Rotational, does it mention to separate Data in the instructions? 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 affecting the originals. Restart apache. And then you must rescan all with occ, sudo -u www-data php occ files:scan --all, https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/19/admin_manual/configuration_server/occ_command.html, Wyh not NextcloudPi https://ownyourbits.com/nextcloudpi/, You set the correct rights for your nextcloud user for /mnt/external_hdd/nextcloud (use a linux formatted file system like ext4 or btfs). How to change data folder location in nextcloud? Hello everyone. Check your folder /etc/apache2/sites-enables/there should be something like 000-default.conf this is your site configuration. drwxr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 15 15:53 config To not mess things, within this thread, lets stay with the provided two solutions or, if you find yours the better (3.) My NC config was in sites-enabled and your in conf-available. -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 15752 Mar 11 10:52 AUTHORS How to change data folder location in nextcloud? 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. Then go to settings. 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. Thanks for the guidance. What about other app on server? Youll have to create a volume with local-persist driver. Make your admin user as usual and carry on, Nextcloud is using the external data. -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 2976 Mar 11 10:52 index.php 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. I have no clue on DBs so this was a challenge. users data directories, so they may change and delete the files without That custom directory should then be configured in the config.php via the configuration option skeletondirectory (see Configuration Parameters ). Dude, thank you so much for this. I would go to the folder /etc/apache2/sites-available and create there file e.g. Create named local volumes that persist in the location(s) you want - CWSpear/local-persist, Create named local volumes that persist in the location(s) you want - CWSpear/local-persist, To install the local-persist driver: 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. 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: You signed in with another tab or window. Configure the data directory and change it to your data folder path 'datadirectory' => '/usr/local/www/nextcloud/nextclouddata/data' 6. 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. Disable maintenance mode sudo -u www php /usr/www/nextcloud/occ maintence:mode --off 7. I am able to navigate NCPi and all features at least till now. I always received permissions errors for user1. You can add additional folders to the synchronisation in the settings of the client. Too busy. -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 156 Mar 11 10:52 index.html Note that it requires sudo. 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. The database . Also NextCloudPi might provide own solutions: https://github.com/nextcloud/nextcloudpi GitHub 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. Please read: Forum Rules and Wiki pages. The only thing that I had to do slightly different was to grant access to the www user and group to the mounted dataset. What is the best location for the nextcloud data directory. I have Rpi 4 with 2gb and 2 5TB HDD on RAID 1. drwxr-xr-x 3 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 15 15:41 . The theme folder. Configure the data directory and change it to your data folder path. I rechecked the ownership from the new data folder, chown -R www-data:www-data /var/ncNewData/, and this solved it. The methods here are still valid. Nextcloud standard webroot: /var/www/html/nextcloud/ You can perform many common server operations with occ, such as installing and upgrading Nextcloud, manage users, encryption, passwords, LDAP setting, and more. These files will be copied only to new users after their initial login, and I was able to figure it out. drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 11 10:52 ocm-provider Decide where you want the new data to live. 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 On the host the files will be owned by some . > Everything under *-enabled is something are using now. How do you remove user from client sync? The following steps are necessary to move the data directory. This has probably been addressed many times but I just couldnt figure out the appropriate search keywords to find the answer. You therefore need to replace the nextcloud volume with a bind mount instead, I.E. 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. Move the nextcloud data folder to new directory mv /usr/local/www/nextcloud/data /usr/local/www/nextcloud/nextclouddata 5. 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. @Andy3153 Nextcloud's occ command (origins from "ownCloud Console") is Nextcloud's command-line interface. Thus, I use the same. It is a hidden file), the entire data directory is owned by the web user (www-data on Debian/Ubuntu and the derivatives. Does the webserver log, php-fpm.log (in case) or Nextcloud log show any related entry? Also in my .htaccess file there is a following section existing: But for some reason the warning message is present. This can leak referer information. Change data directory to use another disk/partition. You should generally not touch the the files directly outside of Nextcloud. I looked in the configuration file for the path to the data directory (all user files are stored in it): . Hello. aptalca. We'll use /media/nextcloud/data. But after this Ive got Not Found trying to open my Nextcloud in a browser. Start a shell in the Nextcloud container ( docker exec -it name-of-nc-container bash) and run chown -R www-data: /var/www/html. One of them uses the old $HOME/owncloud folder instead of $HOME/Nextcloud. The partition you want to use must be mounted somewhere in /media/ or /mnt/. 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. Just to mention (because i was thinking of that) there is no need to name your new path data at the very end. This is not possible btw. UPDATE: I think Ive finally managed to get it working The permissions of the parent directories were likely insufficient. thanks, Last edited by chittu (2016-11-05 05:34:10). I just installed next cloud and it is up and running. Best regards I selected my /data folder on Nextcloud parameters box (on Libreelec), but shouldn't I change something in fstab? If i clicked on beenden it immedeately ended. i deinstalled nextcloud-desktop, since I have the network-drive directly mounted now in nautilus, so I cannot debug this further. After creating and enabling it I checked and got A+ at last. 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. But anyway the warning still exists. Move /data to the new location Please describe in as much detail as possible what you are trying to achieve and what you already tried? To successfully proceed with the conversion, you must type yes when prompted Well, Stefan it really sucks that no one helped you out since I am having the exact same issue and cannot find a solution. Connect the removable-media plug as mentioned in the README in order to grant the snap permission to access external drives. Im trying to move to two 500gb raid 0 drives. As there still appear qu. This means that even if I run chmod -R 0770 ./html on my data directory, any new file will still have the incorrect permissions.. empty to not copy any skeleton files. Sure I guess hacking could take place to achieve that, but Id like to rather not do this. 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. You might consider /srv/nextcloud/data. Hi All, I am a newbie here and really appreciate this thriving community. To access the settings for configuring external storage mounts, click on your Profile icon in the top right and select settings from the dropdown. Would like to be able to copy/move files in this directory to an external drive for backup. This was exactly what I was looking for and it was harder to find than it needed to be. Anyone knows how to change / move the nextcloud data to a new directory? unfortunately it doesnt work does anyone have another solution? I dont like 777 permissions, so perhaps somebody can give us an advice if this is a security issue or not. Leave empty to not copy any skeleton files. Then you switch the data-dir in config/config.php Access & sync your files, contacts, calendars and communicate & collaborate across your devices. Enable maintenance mode (install sudo if you don't have it already in the jail), 4. I also tried Solution 2 to change a data folder just for a single user (user1) with a Symlink. Error with the data file location and it doesnt work. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. In the Folder name field enter the folder name that you want to appear on your Nextcloud Files page.. Locate the app in question from that list and then disable the offending app with the command: sudo . Please contact your administrator. But I am failing on both methods to change it: 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. webroot: /var/www/html/ /var/ncNewData/user1/ >> 750 etc. Has anyone fixed been about to get it working. So, other nextcloud users will not have a problem. Also note that the interface providing the ability to access removable media is not automatically connected upon install, so if youd like to use external storage (or otherwise use a device in /media or /mnt for data), you need to give the snap permission to access removable media by connecting that interface: Powered by Discourse, best viewed with JavaScript enabled, Snap installation with changed data directory, https://github.com/nextcloud/nextcloud-snap/wiki/Change-data-directory-to-use-another-disk-partition, Set up with 2 hard drives in raid 0 server error, When I do it after creating the admin user, I fail as described in my other posting, When I do it prior creating the admin user, my changes in file. So, I have 3 computers syncing files with a nextcloud 12 server. Heres a screenshot (in German). You can convert a SQLite database to a better performing MySQL, MariaDB or Because you edit config and try to disable site. -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 5048 Mar 11 10:52 cron.php BeakerRocks 3 yr. ago. After that save it: CTRL+O and exit using CTRL+X. Am I understood correct: after creating this config, the old one which is: /etc/apache2/conf-available/nextcloud.conf ? By default all users have access. 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. /media, or /media/nextcloud) is not accessible by root, it will not be able to access data either. I am wondering if it is possible to create a Samba share for Nextcloud that it can use as a data folder. Overwriting the files in core/skeleton is not recommended, 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. 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. 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). Hi. I have mount disk on UCS 4.3. The respective partition is mounted at /var/nextcloud, and thats where Nextcloud looks for its data folder. Try to enable it and disable old config: Check if it woks as before. Great work, all! With the default data directory everything works fine. You can always delete the account from the app and remove or better rename the local folder and start from scratch. Add it to fstab so it is mounted at boot. Key element is the 777 permission on the ncNewData folder! You then said to use the following command sudo chmod 0770 directory_name, which I also did. So this is ok. Admin or other sers will use the user folder whats stated in the nextcloud config (/var/ncData/). -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 2381 Mar 11 10:52 status.php first login. 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. If I am not right, please, explain how to fix this when Nextcloud installed in this directory. Snap/Docker Edit the database: In oc_storages change the path on the local::/old-data-dir/ entry. Ill dig into it by times to check for safe ways to identify the correct entries. Edit 1: was able to resolve it. drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 11 10:52 ocs-provider Decide where you want the new data to live. curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/CWSpear/local-persist/master/scripts/install.sh | sudo bash, To create a persistent volume named nextcloud-data: Enable maintenance mode for your instance. 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. drwxr-xr-x 14 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 15 15:39 . drwxr-xr-x 3 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 15 15:41 This screenshot shows a set of photos in the skeleton directory. /var/ncNewData >> 777 Hi nextcloud forum, You could use this command: My data folder is on an external hard drive, at the root of a partition on it. It could be that nextcloud.conf is also there, then run a2disconf nextcloud.conf. Move the nextcloud data folder to new directory, 5. Logging an issue? 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