Hi all
Cannot upgrade through browser updater, keeps stopping at “Create Backup”
Current working setup:
NC21.0.0
Ubuntu20LTS
Nginx 1.18
Mysql8
PHP8
Redis
Data folder located @ /mnt/nextcloud/
Changed permissions chown -R www-data:www-data /mnt/nextcloud/
Trying to upgrade to 21.0.1.
EDIT: I just tried “sudo -u www-data php occ upgrade” and it says that “Nextcloud is already latest version”? Now I am baffled
you may try this command from a terminal on your NC Server
sudo -u www-data php updater/updater.phar
after upgrade has finished, you can complete with
sudo -u www-data php /location-of-your-nextcloud/occ upgrade
don’t forget to update columns and indices of your database.
Hi I am getting errors:
root@webserv:/var/www/nextcloud# sudo -u www-data php updater/updater.phar
Nextcloud Updater - version: v20.0.0beta4-11-g68fa0d4
Current version is 21.0.0.
Update to Nextcloud 21.0.1 available. (channel: "stable")
Following file will be downloaded automatically: https://download.nextcloud.com/server/releases/nextcloud-21.0.1.zip
Open changelog ↗
Steps that will be executed:
[ ] Check for expected files
[ ] Check for write permissions
[ ] Create backup
[ ] Downloading
[ ] Verify integrity
[ ] Extracting
[ ] Enable maintenance mode
[ ] Replace entry points
[ ] Delete old files
[ ] Move new files in place
[ ] Done
Start update? [y/N] y
Info: Pressing Ctrl-C will finish the currently running step and then stops the updater.
[✔] Check for expected files
[✔] Check for write permissions
[ ] Create backup ...PHP Warning: copy(/var/www/nextcloud/config/config.php.bak): Failed to open stream: Permission denied in phar:///var/www/nextcloud/updater/updater.phar/lib/Updater.php on line 395
[✘] Create backup failed
Could not copy "/var/www/nextcloud/config/config.php.bak" to "/mnt/nextcloud/updater-ocgy2wtg640w/backups/nextcloud-21.0.0.18-1619406940/config/config.php.bak". Source /var/www/nextcloud/config/config.php.bak is not readable. Destination /mnt/nextcloud/updater-ocgy2wtg640w/backups/nextcloud-21.0.0.18-1619406940/config/config.php.bak is not writable
Update failed. To resume or retry just execute the updater again.
root@webserv:/var/www/nextcloud# How do I get around this?
Thank you for your help
Failed to open stream: Permission denied in
So, before you start your update, have you checked your directory permissions of nextcloud folders?
For the updater to work i ususally set my folders beneath /var/www/nextcloud
chown -R www-data:www-data so that the updater is owner of the files that have to be overwritten.
Maybe your data folder also should be in ownership of your www user → check were you have placed your data folder in config.php.
The backups will be placed in a subfolder of your data folder, so it looks like your data folder is not writable by your www user in the moment when the updater starts the backup.
→ /mnt/nextcloud/…
check sudo su - and after that ls -la /mnt/nextcloud/... if all folders are owned by www user (www-data)
if there is one folder not in ownership of www-data:www-data then retry
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /mnt/nextcloud
That will set recursive (incl. subfolders) every folder and file in ownership to www-data
after that retry the updater …
Great News Thank you, that worked…
and don’t forget to re-secure your installation!
https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/21/admin_manual/maintenance/manual_upgrade.html
mine problem was in file config.php.back owned by root so updater was unable to make backup of config file, after taken ownership of this file to www-data it update worked.
Perfect, thansk you
worked for me !