Write permission issues when updating from 10.0.1 to 10.0.2

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I believe the updater overwrites almost everything in the NC root as the www-data user, yet basically all of that is owned by root with no R/W for the www-data group.

What are some of the files it suggests can’t be written out of interest?

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As far as I can see it only mentions files within the updater folder, none from the root directory:

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Maybe it’s because the mentioned files don’t exist in the updater folder?

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@nickvergessen @LukasReschke

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I guess this is related…

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Same problem here, but the list of files is very short

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/var/www/nextcloud/updater/ is owned by www:data ,Permissions 0755
and includes only index.php

Edit: Ubuntu Linux 16.04.1, PHP 7.0.8

Edit2: sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/nextcloud
solved the problem…

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I have the same problem updating 10.0.1 to 10.0.2

Check for write permissions
The following places can not be written to:

    /var/www/nextcloud/html/updater/../.
    /var/www/nextcloud/html/updater/../.htaccess

The only file inside …/updater is index.php
The owner of the whole structure is www-data:www-data rw-r-r

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Hi, guys!
Same trouble:

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Looks like all permissions are done. Where i’m get mistake?

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I think the webroot must be chown -R www-data:www-data nextcloud_dir
I will check tomorrow morning to see the history how I resolved it

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I had. almost, the same problem and checked my history, it was fixed with chown -R www-data:www-data nextcloud_web_dir (-R) in case something into there was root:root

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Shot man that worked! thanks a mil!

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this also worked for me - many thanks. any reason why this is happening and needed? Will it be needed again for future upgrades? I don’t recall doing anything in particular on my install to change permissions of files.

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I had exactly the same problem when I went to update from 11.0.1 to 11.0.2 ( apache2 ).
Me too solved the problem of permissions, executing :
sudo shown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/Nextcloud_Dir
but it is the right way ?

The right is to follow these permissions , correctly ?

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A similar chown fix is outlined here: https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/11/admin_manual/maintenance/manual_upgrade.html

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chown -R www-data:www-data

def worked for me

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Worked for me too… Thank you very much

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Hi, I know this is old post, but it was still on first google page in my lookup for v12->v13 update, so I decided to give a hint for people that couldn’t make Updater going with chown and chmod commands.

I had Nextcloud installation on Fedora server in folder outside of primary Apache folder, so any permission I used, even 777 apache:apache on everything didn’t work, because SELinux was blocking writing. If this is your case, use:

sudo chcon -R -t httpd_sys_rw_content_t /path/to/your/nextcloud/folder

See: this and then this.

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Thanks you very much, your solution still works on update 13.0.4 -> 13.0.5

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Thank you for guiding but It still had same problem when I update from 17.02 to 18.01 (I had use: # chown -R apache:apache /var/www/html/nextcloud)

Please help!

  • Initializing

Current version is 17.0.2.
Update to Nextcloud 18.0.1 available. (channel: “stable”)
Following file will be downloaded automatically: https://download.nextcloud.com/server/releases/nextcloud-18.0.1.zip
Open changelog :arrow_upper_right:
Retry update

  • Check for expected files

  • Check for write permissions

The following places can not be written to:

  • /var/www/html/nextcloud/updater/…/console.php
  • /var/www/html/nextcloud/updater/…/version.php
  • /var/www/html/nextcloud/updater/…/COPYING
  • /var/www/html/nextcloud/updater/…/AUTHORS
  • /var/www/html/nextcloud/updater/…/index.php
  • /var/www/html/nextcloud/updater/…/status.php
  • /var/www/html/nextcloud/updater/…/robots.txt
  • /var/www/html/nextcloud/updater/…/occ
  • /var/www/html/nextcloud/updater/…/remote.php
  • /var/www/html/nextcloud/updater/…/cron.php
  • /var/www/html/nextcloud/updater/…/index.html
  • /var/www/html/nextcloud/updater/…/public.php
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I have the same issue @Rdot-idps (same set of written places refused as well) trying to figure it out now. Did you have any luck?

Update: Fixed the initial issue: run this script here:
https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/9/admin_manual/installation/installation_wizard.html#setting-strong-directory-permissions

Fixed this!

Update 2: That script does not fix an issue, it adds another one. This issue is an SELinux issue (I’m on Fedora 32). I’ve played around with the SELinux settings for a few hours but they’re just a royal pain in the rear end. Disable SELInux, run the web updater, and then re-enable it.

I wrote a more detailed fix here:

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This saved my day thank you !