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I’m new to nextcloud and today when I copied over files and ran a occ command it picked up all the files but when I try to upload from android I get permission error and I changed the permissions using
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /mnt/cloud/nextcloud
I get Error
Configuration was not read or initialized correctly, not overwriting /app/www/public/config/config.php
My config file is
GNU nano 8.4 docker-compose.yml
-–
services:
nextcloud:
image: lscr.io/linuxserver/nextcloud:latest
container_name: nextcloud
environment:
- PUID=1000
- PGID=1000
- TZ=Etc/UTC
volumes:
- /mnt/cloud/nextcloud/config:/config
- /mnt/cloud/nextcloud/data:/data
ports:
- 447:443
-8080:80
restart: unless-stopped
Portainer log
ctions
usermod: no changes
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GID/UID
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User UID: 1000
User GID: 1000
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Linuxserver.io version: 34.0.3-ls447
Build-date: 2026-08-25T12:06:59+00:00
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using keys found in /config/keys
[custom-init] No custom files found, skipping…
[ls.io-init] done.
Cannot write into “config” directory!
This can usually be fixed by giving the web server write access to the config directory.
But, if you prefer to keep config.php file read only, set the option “config_is_read_only” to true in it.
2026-09-01T09:50:00+00:00 3 fopen(/app/www/public/config/config.php): Failed to open stream: Permission denied at /app/www/public/lib/private/Config.php#221 | reqId=3v6Qls8vhPLib7xYFUd0 remoteAddr= user=-- app=PHP method= url=-- scriptName=/app/www/public/cron.php userAgent=-- version= occ_command=[“/app/www/public/cron.php”] data={“app”:“PHP”}
[migrations] started
[migrations] 01-nginx-site-confs-default: skipped
[migrations] 02-default-location: skipped
[migrations] done
usermod: no changes
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╚══════╝╚══════╝╚═╝ ╚═════╝
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───────────────────────────────────────
To support LSIO projects visit:
───────────────────────────────────────
GID/UID
───────────────────────────────────────
User UID: 1000
User GID: 1000
───────────────────────────────────────
Linuxserver.io version: 34.0.3-ls447
Build-date: 2026-08-25T12:06:59+00:00
───────────────────────────────────────
using keys found in /config/keys
[custom-init] No custom files found, skipping…
[ls.io-init] done.
Cannot write into “config” directory!
This can usually be fixed by giving the web server write access to the config directory.
But, if you prefer to keep config.php file read only, set the option “config_is_read_only” to true in it.
2026-09-01T09:55:00+00:00 3 fopen(/app/www/public/config/config.php): Failed to open stream: Permission denied at /app/www/public/lib/private/Config.php#221 | reqId=rM7bVXTZyrOWgBvtcthI remoteAddr= user=-- app=PHP method= url=-- scriptName=/app/www/public/cron.php userAgent=-- version= occ_command=[“/app/www/public/cron.php”] data={“app”:“PHP”}
Cannot write into “config” directory!
This can usually be fixed by giving the web server write access to the config directory.
But, if you prefer to keep config.php file read only, set the option “config_is_read_only” to true in it.
2026-09-01T10:00:00+00:00 3 fopen(/app/www/public/config/config.php): Failed to open stream: Permission denied at /app/www/public/lib/private/Config.php#221 | reqId=2I8pbXnmlG2MBbPtbza7 remoteAddr= user=-- app=PHP method= url=-- scriptName=/app/www/public/cron.php userAgent=-- version= occ_command=[“/app/www/public/cron.php”] data={“app”:“PHP”}
Cannot write into “config” directory!
This can usually be fixed by giving the web server write access to the config directory.
But, if you prefer to keep config.php file read only, set the option “config_is_read_only” to true in it.
2026-09-01T10:05:00+00:00 3 fopen(/app/www/public/config/config.php): Failed to open stream: Permission denied at /app/www/public/lib/private/Config.php#221 | reqId=YpVrLd7xZVi95gZ0BaKL remoteAddr= user=-- app=PHP method= url=-- scriptName=/app/www/public/cron.php userAgent=-- version= occ_command=[“/app/www/public/cron.php”] data={“app”:“PHP”}
Cannot write into “config” directory!
This can usually be fixed by giving the web server write access to the config directory.
But, if you prefer to keep config.php file read only, set the option “config_is_read_only” to true in it.
2026-09-01T10:10:00+00:00 3 fopen(/app/www/public/config/config.php): Failed to open stream: Permission denied at /app/www/public/lib/private/Config.php#221 | reqId=BDYTigOt3OE7cy1wUdll remoteAddr= user=-- app=PHP method= url=-- scriptName=/app/www/public/cron.php userAgent=-- version= occ_command=[“/app/www/public/cron.php”] data={“app”:“PHP”}
Cannot write into “config” directory!
This can usually be fixed by giving the web server write access to the config directory.
But, if you prefer to keep config.php file read only, set the option “config_is_read_only” to true in it.
2026-09-01T10:15:00+00:00 3 fopen(/app/www/public/config/config.php): Failed to open stream: Permission denied at /app/www/public/lib/private/Config.php#221 | reqId=R5jZyByDzALuq66xG2q4 remoteAddr= user=-- app=PHP method= url=-- scriptName=/app/www/public/cron.php userAgent=-- version= occ_command=[“/app/www/public/cron.php”] data={“app”:“PHP”}