{"id":2354,"date":"2021-03-05T00:11:32","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T08:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wonghoi.humgar.com\/blog\/?p=2354"},"modified":"2021-03-05T00:11:33","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T08:11:33","slug":"nextcloud-quirks-moving-folder-breaks-the-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wonghoi.humgar.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/05\/nextcloud-quirks-moving-folder-breaks-the-site\/","title":{"rendered":"NextCloud quirks – moving folder breaks the site"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I changed the folder of where my NextCloud files is and got this error.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Adding the “.ocdata” dummy file there doesn’t work. The message is cryptic. I tried to run occ<\/code> at the root folder (hoping it’s some sort of management tool) by running this at the command\/SSH prompt:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

php .\/occ<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
and it spits out:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Your data directory is invalid\r\nEnsure there is a file called \".ocdata\" in the root of the data directory.\r\n\r\nAn unhandled exception has been thrown:\r\nException: Environment not properly prepared. in \n{New Folder}\/lib\/private\/Console\/Application.php:168\r\nStack trace:\r\n#0 {New Folder}\/console.php(99): ...<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
I replaced my actual path for the new location of the NextCloud files with {New Folder}, so you get the idea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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I also noticed the old <\/strong>path was regenerated with just a \/data<\/code> folder with two files<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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This means some programmer got lazy and hard-coded the path somewhere! <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Line 99 of console.php<\/code> didn’t give too much hint so I looked at the code around for some sort of config-related operations before. Then I noticed this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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So I searched for config.php<\/code> and found it’s located in \/config\/config.php<\/code>. Bingo!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<?php\n$CONFIG = array (\n...\n  'trusted_domains' => \n  array (\n    0 => '{Old URL}',\n  ),\n  'datadirectory' => '{Old Path}\/data',\n...\r\n  'overwrite.cli.url' => 'https:\/\/{Old URL}',\n...\n);<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
And to my horror the SQL password is stored in plain text in config.php<\/code>! WTF! I’ll choose a password that’s dedicated to one use and not shared!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I recalled a when I rename WordPress databases, I have to manually edit the changes in wp-config.php<\/code>. Turns out nobody warned us about that for NextCloud! That config file also contain database settings, so I bet if I change the database names or database usernames, I’ll have to come back and edit it manually too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The site is working after I made the migration changes, all in \/config\/config.php<\/code>.<\/p>\n
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