I am following the documents from nextcloud to set up local external directory. However I have been failing this miserably and cannot seem to get it to work.
Setting datadirectory to an external HDD (I cannot seem to link it no matter what I did). When I refresh and I get error on Chrome. However if I do not change anything, then my nc14.0.3 works 100%
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Setting up external HDD application support. I have done everything according to the manual with command below. However every time I use them and I get “Permission denied” error. But if I use chown -R www-data:www-data or CHMOD -R 0750 /path/to/new/external/dd and they work. However nextcloud app will not allow me to add the local drive …
You will redirect the Nextcloud “data” Directory to an external disk? I can’t see, for what reason, nor knowing if it is possible.
I also use Linux Mint 19 build as a LAMP-Server but in a virtual Environment (VMware) with an underlying Win7 Host for basic purposes (DynDNS, remote VNC). On this Host, that SSD and outside the virtuall Maschine I have some shares, that I can mount from Linux. Doing this, you have to create a mount-point (or more) and then rewrite with the correct syntax in the table, located at /etc/fstab
`With sudo mount -a the shares will be activated without reboot linux.
Then you can get access in Nextcloud bei configuring the external storage “local” with the path to this share.
But … This share an its content ist “read only” by default. Up to now I have not found a way to make it writable in Nextcloud.
I take another road to have a writable directory outside Nextcloud. Because I am using VMware, there ist the possibility to define “Shared Folders”. In this way folders on the SSD even outside Nextcloud an outside linux. With the correct VMware-Tools installed in linux, these folders after restart will be mouted at /mnt/hgfs
And that folders are writable by default, but you can set them to read only by configuring VMwares “Shared Folders”. With Nextclouds WEBDAV you can access these folders from everywhere. I use this feature to backup some Content at my Android-Smartphone with the APP FolderSync.
Then you are missing some permissions very likely in the parent folders. The webserver user must at least have the execute permissions to be able to go through these folders. It’s like you give someone the key for a door inside a house but this person does not have the permission to enter the house.
It is my understanding with the new NC and now you can also mount local External HDD as an access point. The other option which I did in the past was to change and re-direct the datadirectory to another external HDD /mount/external HDD for example. However I failed both methods this time miserably and I simply have no more clue how to fix this.
This is the outcome of local directory (which I can access and set up by default)
drwxrwx— 5 www-data www-data 4096 Oct 28 16:09 data
This is the other outcome of external HDD data directory (which I cannot mount or use as another datadirectory)
drwxrwx—+ 5 www-data www-data 4096 Oct 28 16:14 data
No I refer to the parent folder. If you new location is /path/to/new/external/dd, then perhaps you have the wrong permissions on folder /path or /path/to or …
I am not following. I can always remove the mounting and redo it again with another assigned mounting name. i.e. /media/partition1 to /mnt/partition1? So my questions are
Does it matter how the drive is mounted initially? (it is in /etc/fstab)
Does it mean the permission and ownership should only affect whats comes after? i.e. should I apply chown -R www-data:www-data to /mnt/partition1/ncdata (without /) and vice versa for chmod -R 0750?
Or do I have to apply chown and chmod to /mnt/partition1?
Mate, it worked! It had something to do with the mounting. Instead of using more than one path, I simply put it under /media/drive and now it can be mounted and I have also changed the datadirectory to external (just like the old days).
Now the next challenge would be… how to add other external HDD as local sharing with root and user account.
Hey, I’m running into the same problem, do you mind showing me either the /etc/fstab file or filing sudo ls -al /media so that I can see what permissions you used? Thank you!