Change permissions for /nextcloud folder

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#1

Hi together,

short question:

Iā€™d like to change the permissions for the
/var/www/nextcloud
folder with
chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/nextcloud
so i can edit things like upload-restrictions, etc.

Is there any disadvantage through this Action?

Thanks for your responses!

#2

What are you trying to do? Increase max upload size?

You really should follow the ā€œSetting Strong Directory Permissionsā€ outlined in the documentation for production deployments. However, short deviations from this (for updates, changes) should be fine, but they do open security holes, namely if the webserver gets compromised.

#3

Two Points why I wanna do this -

  1. To increase the max. upload size over the webinterface
  2. To bind the skeleton-folder (/var/www/nextcloud/core/skeleton) in as an external storage to make it available for admins.
#4

What you are trying to adjust are settings not folder permission which is what you try to do. The settings for your Skeleton-folder is in your config.php file and the max upload can be increase via the .htaccess file in your root directory.

#5

I know what im trying to change :wink: Id just like to know if any security-issues are caused by changing the owner of the whole /nextcloud folder through this.
But ill refer to this:
https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/9.0/admin_manual/installation/installation_wizard.html#strong-perms-label

Thanks anyway