Nextcloud version (eg, 20.0.5): 21.0.1
Operating system and version (eg, Ubuntu 20.04): Ubuntu 20.04
Apache or nginx version (eg, Apache 2.4.25): Apache2
PHP version (eg, 7.4): 7.4
The issue you are facing:
I removed my config.php by mistake
Is this the first time you’ve seen this error? (Y/N): Y
Steps to replicate it:
- Have a issue with sharing
- Try to reinstall
- cp config.php ~/public_html/config.php && cd && rm -r public_html
The output of your Nextcloud log in Admin > Logging:
Not needed
The output of your config.php file in /path/to/nextcloud (make sure you remove any identifiable information!):
REMOVED
The output of your Apache/nginx/system log in /var/log/____:
Not needed
On update Nextcloud creates an backup. Perhaps you can use it.
/path/to/nextcloud/data/updater-***/backups/nextcloud-*/config/config.php
I just checked and it was not there, here is a tree of that folder
root@mail /NSCS# cd /data
root@mail /data# ls
appdata_oc9w9uu04m0u/ files_external/ git/ __groupfolders/ jsturtz/ msturtz/ nextcloud.log nsturtz/ rainloop-storage/ updater-oc9w9uu04m0u/
audit.log flow.log gpxpod/ index.html lost+found/ '#nextcloud.log#' nextcloud.log.1 onlyoffice/ updater.log
root@mail /data# tree updater-oc9w9uu04m0u/
updater-oc9w9uu04m0u/
└── downloads
1 directory, 0 files
root@mail /data#
Search with user “root”:
find /data config.php
Perhaps full path:
find / config.php
For both commands I get find: ‘config.php’: No such file or directory
I think it is not possible to re-build config.php .
Do you ever have updated from a a minor nextcloud version?
Why is there no backup?
If not you need a backup. Sorry i think there is no other possibility.
If you install a new system:
a.) backup all data, you can re-use them in your nextcloud with “occ” and “re-scan”
b.) export your MariaDB, perhaps you can import some parts from your database
If you have a lot of files and only few database-entries (users and shares) re-build all.
there is about a VERY rough estimate 10GB of data on there,
the reason why there never was any backups was b/c I updated manually.
and can I just re fill out a new config.php file and put the DB info in it? Will that work?
I think there could be some problems:
'instanceid' => '***',
found the value in the path name: /data/appdata_***
'passwordsalt' => '***',
Perhaps you can reset all passwords with “occ”.
'secret' => ***',
???
Read Lost config.php - #2 by koenada
Please make a backup of your data and MariaDB before testing it.
is oc9w9uu04m0u the instanceid? I pulled this out of appdata_oc9w9uu04m0u/