This will hopefully be some low hanging fruit for someone. I am almost a NOOB but I do have some skills. This issue has me stumped. I am simply trying to manually update my instance of nextcloud. I need to copy the new files to my existing /var/www/html folder.
bigdaddy@ubuntu_lamp:/mnt/NextCloud/updater-ocrk95mdq67l/downloads/nextcloud$ ls -al
total 270
drwxrwxr-x 13 www-data www-data 27 May 3 14:51 .
drwxrwx--- 3 www-data www-data 3 May 3 15:39 ..
-rwxrwxrwx 1 bigdaddy www-data 2537 Apr 22 19:23 .htaccess
-rwxrwxrwx 1 bigdaddy www-data 101 Apr 22 19:23 .user.ini
d-wx-wx--- 33 www-data www-data 40 May 3 14:51 3rdparty
-rwxrwxrwx 1 bigdaddy www-data 15752 Apr 22 19:23 AUTHORS
-rwxrwxrwx 1 bigdaddy www-data 34520 Apr 22 19:23 COPYING
d-wx-wx--- 43 www-data www-data 43 May 3 14:22 apps
d-wx-wx--- 2 www-data www-data 5 May 3 14:26 config
-rwxrwxrwx 1 bigdaddy www-data 3910 Apr 22 19:23 console.php
d-wx-wx--- 23 www-data www-data 29 May 3 14:26 core
-rwxrwxrwx 1 bigdaddy www-data 5048 Apr 22 19:24 cron.php
-rwxrwxrwx 1 bigdaddy www-data 156 Apr 22 19:24 index.html
-rwxrwxrwx 1 bigdaddy www-data 2976 Apr 22 19:24 index.php
d-wx-wx--- 6 www-data www-data 9 May 3 14:32 lib
-rwxrwxrwx 1 bigdaddy www-data 283 Apr 22 19:24 occ
d-wx-wx--- 2 www-data www-data 3 May 3 15:39 ocm-provider
d-wx-wx--- 2 www-data www-data 5 May 3 14:20 ocs
d-wx-wx--- 2 www-data www-data 3 May 3 14:20 ocs-provider
-rwxrwxrwx 1 bigdaddy www-data 3056 Apr 22 19:24 public.php
-rwxrwxrwx 1 bigdaddy www-data 5235 Apr 22 19:24 remote.php
d-wx-wx--- 4 www-data www-data 8 May 3 15:39 resources
-rwxrwxrwx 1 bigdaddy www-data 26 Apr 22 19:24 robots.txt
-rwxrwxrwx 1 bigdaddy www-data 2381 Apr 22 19:24 status.php
d-wx-wx--- 3 www-data www-data 4 May 3 14:26 themes
d-wx-wx--- 2 www-data www-data 4 May 3 14:26 updater
-rwxrwxrwx 1 bigdaddy www-data 362 Apr 22 19:29 version.php
I am finding it impossible to change the permissions or owner of the directories above. www-data uid = 33, www-data gid=33, bigdaddy uid=1000, bigdaddy gid=1000 and www-data and bigdaddy are members of each group.
When I try the command below I get an error.
bigdaddy@ubuntu_lamp:/mnt/NextCloud/updater-ocrk95mdq67l/downloads$ chmod -Rv g+r /mnt/NextCloud/updater-ocrk95mdq67l/downloads/nextcloud/lib/
chmod: changing permissions of '/mnt/NextCloud/updater-ocrk95mdq67l/downloads/nextcloud/lib/': Operation not permitted
failed to change mode of '/mnt/NextCloud/updater-ocrk95mdq67l/downloads/nextcloud/lib/' from 0330 (-wx-wx---) to 0370 (-wxrwx---)
chmod: cannot read directory '/mnt/NextCloud/updater-ocrk95mdq67l/downloads/nextcloud/lib/': Permission denied
failed to change mode of '/mnt/NextCloud/updater-ocrk95mdq67l/downloads/nextcloud/lib/' from 0330 (-wx-wx---) to 0370 (-wxrwx---)
I am at a loss as to what I am doing wrong. The /mnt/NextCloud folder is mounted from a freenas folder. The line in the fstab folder is below.
192.168.1.142:/mnt/BigdaddyZFS/NextCloud /mnt/NextCloud nfs auto,rw,exec
I would sincerely appreciate any help someone might be able to give. Everytime I think I understand permissions I seem to get stumped. Thanks so much in advance.
I’m confused as to why you need to chmod. Typically you would use sudo cp to copy the files with administrative rights. The files should come w/ correct permissions unless you downloaded them in winblows or something odd like that.
After the files are copied you may need to use sudo chown to give the webserver ownership of the files/directories.
If I try to copy I get the following error.
sudo cp /mnt/NextCloud/updater-ocrk95mdq67l/downloads/nextcloud/. /var/www/html
cp: cannot stat '/mnt/NextCloud/updater-ocrk95mdq67l/downloads/nextcloud/.': Permission denied
Interesting, how about sudo cp -r /mnt/NextCloud/updater-ocrk95mdq67l/downloads/nextcloud/* /var/www/html/ ?
I had tried -r earlier. I knew I needed it.
sudo cp -r /mnt/NextCloud/updater-ocrk95mdq67l/downloads/nextcloud/* /var/www/html/
cp: cannot stat '/mnt/NextCloud/updater-ocrk95mdq67l/downloads/nextcloud/3rdparty': Permission denied
cp: cannot stat '/mnt/NextCloud/updater-ocrk95mdq67l/downloads/nextcloud/AUTHORS': Permission denied
cp: cannot stat '/mnt/NextCloud/updater-ocrk95mdq67l/downloads/nextcloud/COPYING': Permission denied
cp: cannot stat '/mnt/NextCloud/updater-ocrk95mdq67l/downloads/nextcloud/apps': Permission denied
cp: cannot stat '/mnt/NextCloud/updater-ocrk95mdq67l/downloads/nextcloud/config': Permission denied
cp: cannot stat '/mnt/NextCloud/updater-ocrk95mdq67l/downloads/nextcloud/console.php': Permission denied
cp: cannot stat '/mnt/NextCloud/updater-ocrk95mdq67l/downloads/nextcloud/core': Permission denied
cp: cannot stat '/mnt/NextCloud/updater-ocrk95mdq67l/downloads/nextcloud/cron.php': Permission denied
cp: cannot stat '/mnt/NextCloud/updater-ocrk95mdq67l/downloads/nextcloud/index.html': Permission denied
cp: cannot stat '/mnt/NextCloud/updater-ocrk95mdq67l/downloads/nextcloud/index.php': Permission denied
cp: cannot stat '/mnt/NextCloud/updater-ocrk95mdq67l/downloads/nextcloud/lib': Permission denied
cp: cannot stat '/mnt/NextCloud/updater-ocrk95mdq67l/downloads/nextcloud/occ': Permission denied
cp: cannot stat '/mnt/NextCloud/updater-ocrk95mdq67l/downloads/nextcloud/ocm-provider': Permission denied
cp: cannot stat '/mnt/NextCloud/updater-ocrk95mdq67l/downloads/nextcloud/ocs': Permission denied
cp: cannot stat '/mnt/NextCloud/updater-ocrk95mdq67l/downloads/nextcloud/ocs-provider': Permission denied
cp: cannot stat '/mnt/NextCloud/updater-ocrk95mdq67l/downloads/nextcloud/public.php': Permission denied
cp: cannot stat '/mnt/NextCloud/updater-ocrk95mdq67l/downloads/nextcloud/remote.php': Permission denied
cp: cannot stat '/mnt/NextCloud/updater-ocrk95mdq67l/downloads/nextcloud/resources': Permission denied
cp: cannot stat '/mnt/NextCloud/updater-ocrk95mdq67l/downloads/nextcloud/robots.txt': Permission denied
cp: cannot stat '/mnt/NextCloud/updater-ocrk95mdq67l/downloads/nextcloud/status.php': Permission denied
cp: cannot stat '/mnt/NextCloud/updater-ocrk95mdq67l/downloads/nextcloud/themes': Permission denied
cp: cannot stat '/mnt/NextCloud/updater-ocrk95mdq67l/downloads/nextcloud/updater': Permission denied
cp: cannot stat '/mnt/NextCloud/updater-ocrk95mdq67l/downloads/nextcloud/version.php': Permission denied
I went through this one recently. NFS and permissions are strange at best. Any chance you can ssh directly into that box and change permissions on the machine that serves NFS? I wish I found another solution, but that’s what I did recently in a very similar situation. Some ID remaps are problematic and I hope someone else can point to why.