Some app directories are owned by a different user than the web server one

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I recently installed nextcloud 18.0.0 onto a raspberry pi 4. Everything went well except I am being told by nextcloud that Some app directories are owned by a different user than the web server one. Here is the entire posting from Security and Setup Warnings:

Some app directories are owned by a different user than the web server one. This may be the case if apps have been installed manually. Check the permissions of the following app directories:

/var/www/html/nextcloud/apps/accessibility
/var/www/html/nextcloud/apps/activity
/var/www/html/nextcloud/apps/admin_audit
/var/www/html/nextcloud/apps/cloud_federation_api
/var/www/html/nextcloud/apps/comments
/var/www/html/nextcloud/apps/dav
/var/www/html/nextcloud/apps/encryption
/var/www/html/nextcloud/apps/federatedfilesharing
/var/www/html/nextcloud/apps/federation
/var/www/html/nextcloud/apps/files
/var/www/html/nextcloud/apps/files_external
/var/www/html/nextcloud/apps/files_pdfviewer
/var/www/html/nextcloud/apps/files_rightclick
/var/www/html/nextcloud/apps/files_sharing
/var/www/html/nextcloud/apps/files_trashbin
/var/www/html/nextcloud/apps/files_versions
/var/www/html/nextcloud/apps/files_videoplayer
/var/www/html/nextcloud/apps/firstrunwizard
/var/www/html/nextcloud/apps/logreader
/var/www/html/nextcloud/apps/lookup_server_connector
/var/www/html/nextcloud/apps/nextcloud_announcements
/var/www/html/nextcloud/apps/notifications
/var/www/html/nextcloud/apps/oauth2
/var/www/html/nextcloud/apps/password_policy
/var/www/html/nextcloud/apps/photos
/var/www/html/nextcloud/apps/privacy
/var/www/html/nextcloud/apps/provisioning_api
/var/www/html/nextcloud/apps/recommendations
/var/www/html/nextcloud/apps/serverinfo
/var/www/html/nextcloud/apps/settings
/var/www/html/nextcloud/apps/sharebymail
/var/www/html/nextcloud/apps/support
/var/www/html/nextcloud/apps/survey_client
/var/www/html/nextcloud/apps/systemtags
/var/www/html/nextcloud/apps/text
/var/www/html/nextcloud/apps/theming
/var/www/html/nextcloud/apps/twofactor_backupcodes
/var/www/html/nextcloud/apps/updatenotification
/var/www/html/nextcloud/apps/user_ldap
/var/www/html/nextcloud/apps/viewer
/var/www/html/nextcloud/apps/workflowengine

During the install I did execute:

sudo chown www-data:www-data config apps

Any information to help me solve this wopuld be very appriciated.

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You can lookup the (wrong) user/group by executing:

  • cd /var/www/html/nextcloud/apps
  • ls -l

If you just want to fix it, execute:
chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/nextcloud/apps

If necessary replace www-data by the webserver user on your system (“www-data”, “http”, “apache”, …), although www-data should be the right choice on Raspbian.

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Thanks. The majority of the app directories were owned by root. Now the proper user owns them!

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I’m using docker to run NC, how I change the permission throw the CLI ?
My error:

Some app directories are owned by a different user than the web server one. This may be the case if apps have been installed manually. Check the permissions of the following app directories:
/var/www/html/custom_apps/bruteforcesettings
/var/www/html/custom_apps/occweb
So I try to change them using: chown 400 bruteforcesettings, but it didn’t remove the error.

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hello, I come to you in particular on this post because I have a similar concern I am a beginner in the Unix world, I installed nextcloud under docker, nextcloud tells me this

  • Some app directories are owned by a different user than the web server one. This may be the case if apps have been installed manually. Check the permissions of the following app directories:
    • /config/www/nextcloud/apps/activity
    • /config/www/nextcloud/apps/admin_audit
    • /config/www/nextcloud/apps/backup

you were talking about the web user but I don’t know if you are talking about the server admin user or another user, if it is another user or find it. Could you please help me