Log permanently gives a warning .../data/tmp missing

FadeFx · November 28, 2018, 7:38pm

Hi, i have for a while moved my data directory to my external hdd, however, today i realized that in nextcloud logs there is a repettitve warning:

Temporary directory /var/www/nextcloud/data/tmp is not present or writable

In my /media/USBdrive/ncdata/ there is a tmp folder, why is nectcloud looking for it in /var/www/…?

wizlon · November 28, 2018, 7:50pm

Have you checked who owns the location? E.g. in Ubuntu, you can use:

ls -la /var/www/nextcloud/data/tmp

If it’s not owned by user www-data then you need to fix it. Again, in Ubuntu the command is:

sudo chown www-data:www-data -R /var/www/nextcloud/data/tmp

Your OS might have different instructions, but the requirements will be the same. www-data needs to have ownership before it can write to that directory.

Or you could change the location of the tmp directory to your /media folder.

Hope that helps.

FadeFx · November 28, 2018, 7:53pm

There isnt even a /data folder in /var/www/nextcloud this makes me think it isnt there because of the move to usbdrive and the tmp dir is somehow set to the wrong path

wizlon · November 28, 2018, 7:54pm

(/tmp location is a config.php parameter that you can change - go here and search for /tmp. It’s the second hit on the page:

https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/9/admin_manual/configuration_server/config_sample_php_parameters.html

And don’t forget to restart your apache or nginx server after any changes.

Regards).

FadeFx · November 29, 2018, 5:55am

Thanx, but i checked config.sample.php and there is no tmp directory to be configured:
E486: Pattern not found: tmp
E486: Pattern not found: temp

OliverV · November 29, 2018, 8:50am

You can add it to your config.php

‘tempdirectory’ =/media/USBdrive/ncdata/tmp

FadeFx · November 29, 2018, 3:51pm

That did the trick, however, i think this should be taken care of by the ncp pannel when moving the data directory, wht do u think @nachoparker

nachoparker · November 30, 2018, 1:44am

Unless they changed something in Nextcloud, this is taken care of in nc-datadir

github.com

nextcloud/nextcloudpi/blob/master/etc/ncp-config.d/nc-datadir.sh#L95




# use subvolumes, if BTRFS
[[ "$( stat -fc%T "$BASEDIR" )" == "btrfs" ]] && {
  echo "BTRFS filesystem detected"
  btrfs subvolume create "$DATADIR_" || return 1
}


cp --reflink=auto -raT "$SRCDIR" "$DATADIR_" || return 1
chown www-data:www-data "$DATADIR_"
 
# tmp upload dir
mkdir -p "$DATADIR_/tmp" 
chown www-data:www-data "$DATADIR_/tmp"
sed -i "s|^;\?upload_tmp_dir =.*$|upload_tmp_dir = $DATADIR_/tmp|" /etc/php/${PHPVER}/cli/php.ini
sed -i "s|^;\?upload_tmp_dir =.*$|upload_tmp_dir = $DATADIR_/tmp|" /etc/php/${PHPVER}/fpm/php.ini
sed -i "s|^;\?sys_temp_dir =.*$|sys_temp_dir = $DATADIR_/tmp|"     /etc/php/${PHPVER}/fpm/php.ini


# opcache dir
sed -i "s|^opcache.file_cache=.*|opcache.file_cache=$DATADIR_/.opcache|" /etc/php/${PHPVER}/mods-available/opcache.ini


# update fail2ban logpath

FadeFx · December 1, 2018, 5:10pm

hmm, this creates the folder as far as i can see, which has been done, but where is it set in config.php?

nachoparker · December 1, 2018, 7:50pm

that didn’t use to be necessary, unless it has changed

nachoparker · December 1, 2018, 9:56pm

I tried moving the datadir with nc-datadir and then uploading files and I see no warnings. I will add the tempdirectory setting in any case

If anybody can share the steps to reproduce consistently we can look at it again

FadeFx · December 1, 2018, 11:57pm

I had moved data dir while on a version 13.x of nextcloud, i actually didnt care about log output back then as everything seemed to work fine. Eventually after updating to 14.x i recently looked into logs and found that warning. However, i am not sure if this affected anything, there actually was no obvious problem before repair and i could not see any difference after that except of the warning disappeared from logs…

nachoparker · December 4, 2018, 12:54am

thanks for the info, this probably was fixed after you moved the datadir

Uniek · February 28, 2021, 2:22pm

Just after updating to Nextcloud 20.0.8 via ncp-config this happened to me as well. Nextcloud continues to spam my log-file with the message Temporary directory /var/www/nextcloud/data/tmp is not present or writable. My quick-fix was to create that folder. However, it is probably desirable to have its path correctly set in config.php. Just wanted to let you know this “bug” still occurs.

newby404 · March 21, 2021, 4:35pm

Uniek is correct, this issue also happened to me after updating to 20.0.8
It seems the news app is the one checking and writing to /var/www/nextcloud/data/tmp

newby404 · March 21, 2021, 6:00pm

Sorry to be a newbie, but where is this config.php located, or what is the full path?

FadeFx · March 21, 2021, 6:20pm

Its in your nc install dir, depending on the webserver/os you use…
in debian based systems it should be /var/www/nextcloud/config/config.php

michuvon · July 6, 2021, 8:11am

Seemingly out of nothing (or maybe because of the 20.0.11 update?) I got this same error, and I can’t sync files any more. The desktop client shows Connection Closed

The log is going crazy and is flooded with this output:

[no app in context] Warning: Temporary directory /var/www/nextcloud/data/tmp is not present or writable

PROPFIND /remote.php/dav/files/USERNAME/
from 5.149.32.95 by USERNAME at 2021-07-06T08:03:48+00:00

this seems the solution, but, I need a bit more help.

What does “tempdirectory” stand for?
the rest is the path to my data on the drive, as I understand.

thanks

OliverV · July 6, 2021, 8:20am

tempdirectory = Where Nextcloud saves files temporarily, until they are fully uploaded.

https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/20/admin_manual/configuration_files/big_file_upload_configuration.html#configuring-nextcloud

michuvon · July 6, 2021, 8:26am

so I actually input ‘tempdirectory’ =/media/MYDIRECTORY/ncdata/tmp