Starting over with a fresh installation... "Can't create or write into the data directory"

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#1

Hello all,

I could use some help. Due to a corrupted drive I had a pretty messed up Nextcloud install. Part of it is because I am using an odroid-c2 (so itā€™s x64), and i originally had owncloud before the switch on very beta software.

Still, was mostly stable for two years.

I decided to start over with a fresh install. I have backups of all my data so itā€™s not a big deal.

Iā€™ve gotten to the installation wizard, but cannot continue due to this error: ā€œCanā€™t create or write into the data directoryā€. When I try to move forward with setting up the new database.

My external drive is mounted in /media. Itā€™s currently formatted BTRFS.

Iā€™ve tried every combo of permissions on the mount location. Iā€™m running apache so the owner is www-data:www-data, I have chmod the mounted folder location 0770, 0775, 0755, none of them work.

I could use some helpā€¦ I know itā€™s a simple permission issue. Iā€™ve tried having a folder called data, iā€™ve tried not having a folder called dataā€¦ But I am out of ideas.

Thanks.

#2

So where does your ā€˜datadirectoryā€™ setting in config.php point to?

#3

It doesnā€™t point to anywhere yetā€¦ I havenā€™t been able to run the install that would setup my config.php. Itā€™s basically blank atm with an instance ID

#4

my nextcloud folder config.php has the owner and group the same as the Nextcloud data folder Iā€™m looking at the IDs right now.