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kjr1995
kjr1995

Reputation: 420

owncloud cannot access directory

I am running Raspbian version 7 on my raspberry pi. I am running owncloud on this. I have mounted an external drive under /media/Owncloud. This is where I have owncloud store all the files. I cannot access this directory. When I try cd /media/Owncloud it gives me the following error:
-bash: cd: /media/Owncloud/: Permission denied
How can I access this directory?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 15404

Answers (4)

Martin Malec
Martin Malec

Reputation: 11

The issue is with wrong permissions.

If the webserver runs as user www-data, the mounted folder must be somehow accessible to that user

  • either that user must be owner of mounted folder and its contents, and have the "user" permissions, or

  • the the folder must be accessible to the group the webserver user is in (usually www-data).

To see the current permissions use the ls -l command.

To change the owner use chown command,

to change the permissions for the user-owner, and group-owner, use the chmod command,

or just use Midnight commander (mc) or some GUI to do that.

If you are mounting the external volume through /etc/fstab check the options in there. I would not recommend using the volume with some dynamic mounting (like the file managers do (gvfs-fuse)) if is a key folder for a webserver with ownCloud and you need to have it auto-mounted on boot, as some specific user that the webserver is run as.

I have an experience with having the ownCloud data folder on /srv/data (also ownCloud 7.0 on Ubuntu Server 14.04 VPS), the permissions are 770 and the owner is www-data:www-data, and in the ownCloud config file, I use the line

'datadirectory' => '/srv/data',

I would not recommend using 777 permissions, as it is not a good security practice in general.

Upvotes: 0

Pseudonym Enigma
Pseudonym Enigma

Reputation: 129

In order to access /media/Owncloud, you need to set the proper permissions. Run the command sudo chmod 755 /media/Owncloud(for more security relative to permission 777).

You also may need to allow to webserver to access the directory. In order to do that, run sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /media/Owncloud

Sources: My own experience and frusteration in running into the exact same problem http://www.instructables.com/id/Raspberry-Pi-Owncloud-dropbox-clone/?ALLSTEPS A great albeit somewhat outdated guide to set up owncloud on a Raspberry Pi.

Upvotes: 0

Pseudonym Enigma
Pseudonym Enigma

Reputation: 129

If you just want to cd into the directory, change to root with sudo -i.

Upvotes: 0

q33q3
q33q3

Reputation: 51

OwnCloud and external hard drives are tricky and you have a permission issue. For some reason, trying to make a link to an external hard drive has issues, so you need to try mounting your external hard drive.

External hard drive - Apply the proper group and read permissions:

chown -R www-data:www-data /media/user/your_hard_drive/owncloud_data/
chmod -R 777 /media/user/your_hard_drive/owncloud_data/

Local hard drive - Apply the proper group and read permissions:

mkdir /var/www/owncloud/data
chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/owncloud/data
chmod -R 777 /var/www/owncloud/data

Make the mount of local hard drive to external hard drive

mount --bind /media/user/your_hard_drive/owncloud_data/ /var/www/owncloud/data/

Source:

Upvotes: 5

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