Nextcloud config hosed

Support and Troubleshooting
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Hi,

Running Umbrel 1.4.2

I upgraded Nextcloud, and after the upgrade, one of my trusted domains reverted to an earlier value.

I grabbed the config file using the Files application, downloading to my laptop, revising in text editor, and uploading back to its location in Apps\data\nextcloud\data\config.php (GUI dependent Boomer, can’t retain the SSH scripting method…)

Now I get this error, HOW DO I FIX PERMISSIONS ON THE CONFIG FILE?

Error

  • Cannot write into “config” directory!This can usually be fixed by giving the web server write access to the config directory.
    Thank you friends!
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Hey @hitheringwaters!

Try the following:

Navigate to the Nextcloud data directory and run:

cd umbrel/app-data/nextcloud/data/nextcloud

sudo chown -R 1000:1000 config

sudo chmod -R 750 config

This sets owner and group of the config directory to user 1000 and gives appropriate read/write/execute permissions for Nextcloud to work.

Then simply restart the app. :flexed_biceps:

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Thanks Denny, tried that and got the same error

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how do I check the permissions of the config.php within that directory?

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OK, ignore my didn’t work, In error I ran

sudo chown -R 750 config as my second command.

So I logged in again and repeated both commands as you wrote them, but now I get this error:
Configuration was not read or initialized correctly, not overwriting /var/www/html/config/config.php

I was gonna try the same steps on that location, but
when I try to cd to umbrel/var/www/html I get “No such directory”

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In case its helpful, the error message from the original question appears as a “system” message from within the Nextcloud environment (nicely formatted error message “cannot write into ‘config’ directory” with all the nice blue cloud graphics), whereas the second message “…not overwriting /var/www/html/config/config.php” , after following the steps that Denny recommended, appears as a plain text browser error

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Please try these commands instead:

cd /home/umbrel/app-data/nextcloud/data/nextcloud/
sudo chown -R 33:33 config
sudo chmod -R 750 config

This sets the owner and group to the web server user with ID 33 (www-data), which is often the correct setting for Nextcloud. After that, restart Nextcloud (right-click the Nextcloud icon in the Umbrel dashboard) and check if the issue is resolved.

Also, did you make any changes to the config.php file? If there is a syntax error inside, it can cause problems as well. Please make sure the file is correctly formatted and error-free.

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Thank you so much! That was the ticket!

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Awesome, glad that did the trick! :rocket: