# Change ownership of Nextcloud files (root to www-data)

**URL:** <https://help.nextcloud.com/t/change-ownership-of-nextcloud-files-root-to-www-data/150657>\
**Category:** ℹ️ Support\
**Tags:** data\_directory\
**Created:** [November 25, 2022, 1:26pm UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/change-ownership-of-nextcloud-files-root-to-www-data/150657 "2022-11-25T13:26:12Z")\
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You can. The documentation says to do it like this:

```auto
chown -R www-data:www-data nextcloud
find nextcloud/ -type d -exec chmod 750 {} ;
find nextcloud/ -type f -exec chmod 640 {} ;

```

These examples use relative paths, so make sure they are correct for your system.

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