Where are phisically my file?

[marco89]

hi,
hi, I do not speak English very well, so I hope I do not have a bad category.
I would like to install nextcloud on one of my sites. what I do not understand is: the files where they are loaded? on my hosting, or on your server? I tried to install nextcloud on my website, I uploaded an image but then when I tried to find it through filezilla I did not find it. So, I would like to know that image I see through nextcloud, physically where is it? On my website / space hosting, or on your server?

thanks

[Reiner_Nippes]

the files are in your “datadirectory”.
look in the config.php file in the …/nextcloud/config folder. there you should find an entry like:

'datadirectory' => '/var/www/nextcloud/data',

[marco89]

thank you very much.

[Reiner_Nippes]

and some more details are explained here:

Nextcloud storage

The files are into the data folder. You have then a folder for each users and then a thrashbin, a versionning folder, a folder for datas. Into the database you have all the magic that links thoses files/folders. Permissions, caches, passwords, sharings, contacts, calendars etc… both elements are important. Nextcloud isn’t a server for backup. It’s for sync. Don’t forget to backup as good as possible the following : 1- web files (/var/www/nextcloud) espacially the config.php file. 2- the w…