The admin isn’t quite clear about this so I have a couple of questions: Admin manual says :“On other HTTP servers it is recommended to install Nextcloud outside of the document root.” Assumptions: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS webroot: /var/www/html/ Nextcloud standard webroot: /var/www/html/nextcloud/ Nex…

Your webroot is /var/www/, and you’ll want to change the location of your data folder. Using the same setup, I put Nextcloud in /var/www/nextcloud/, and my Data folder in /opt/nextcloud/data. You want it outside of /var/www/. Assuming all of the above, also make sure www-data (your web user) owns…

Nextcloud webroot and data directory - best practices on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

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gas85 June 13, 2019, 8:42am 4

You can simply stop the server, move data directory, change path in config and start server again.