Hi all, I recently set up Nextcloud using the latest NextcloudPi docker image incl. bullseye debian. Everything works smoothly, but I ran into one issue: I have multiple folders in my Nextcloud of which some were created via the web interface and some via the Windows 11 client. One huge folder con…

Yes, you were supposed to have changed the permissions when you copied them. If they are owned by root, Nextcloud will get access denied when trying to manage them. All files must be owned by www-data:www-data with permission 640 on files and 750 on folders.

Thanks for the quick reply. I am not unix proficient. Is it safe to just run sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/nextcloud ? Or does that break anything else?

You can. The documentation says to do it like this: 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.

@KarlF12 Are you able to change the user used by nextcloud? For example if I change the apache default user, will that change what user nextcloud uses to make changes to the app? Or is there a config variable that can be changed to change the default user nextcloud uses?

Nextcloud runs in the user context of the web server. I haven’t tried changing it, but I think you can.

Off to make a dev environment… Will report back. [image] Changing the Nextcloud server user ℹ️ Support I wanted to share some knowlege that I was able to change the user used by Nextcloud by changing the apache default user. This is something that Ive been wanting to try…

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

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Off to make a dev environment… Will report back.