Can't create or write into the apps-external directory

[11125]

Problem
I was trying to install owncloud on Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS, I followed the instructions online and everything was going smoothly. In the finally step I found this Problem

it says that Can’t create or write into the apps-external directory
I tried to fix this problem by
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data apps-external
but it says no such file or directory.

Really appreciate if anyone could solve this problem:)

[protektwar]

Try this:

ownCloud 10.2 / apps-external directory

Hello everyone, I’m trying ownCloud 10.2, in this version a directory is created for external apps within the root directory. I’m creating ISO of ownCloud to install them on VMs, they are read only so I’m sure no one is changing the ownCloud core, it also takes less RAM etc … For apps I use the apps_paths feature which is quite practical, I use it to store apps in different directories if they are themes, from my company etc … So, now that I gave the main background, there goes my problem. Sin…

[cs35]

Hello,

indeed, to sum up you can create the directory by yourself and set the permissions correctly (even if not used, apps-external requires correct permissions for the installation process to end).
FYI, I created a bug report about it and the ownCloud team is working on it.
Cheers.

[sgomon]

I am having the same issue and am stuck. I noticed that there was a /var/www/html/owncloud/apps/external directory. Shouldn’t it be using it, instead of the non-existant /var/www/html/owncloud/apps-external directory? Is there a config file somewhere that I can point it the right place?

[eneubauer]

Check your config.php:

  'apps_paths' =>
  array (
    0 =>
    array (
      'path' => '/var/www/owncloud/apps',
      'url' => '/apps',
      'writable' => false,
    ),
    1 =>
    array (
      'path' => '/var/www/owncloud/apps-external',
      'url' => '/custom',
      'writable' => true,
    ),
  ),

AND
ls -al /var/www/owncloud/apps-external

[sgomon]

Bear with me, I am new to this. Here is the contents of /var/www/html/owncloud/config/config.php:

<?php $CONFIG = array ( 'instanceid' => 'ocnbvtm2fzca', ); Am I looking at the wrong file? Also, the apps-external directory was never created by the install. It did create /var/www/html/owncloud/apps/external with a bunch of files and directories in it. I installed version 10.4.0. Is the install really that broken that is trying to reference directories that it was supposed to create but didn't???

[sgomon]

The code above broke the site altogether. I added this variant and now I can go to the site, but I still get the same error when trying to create admin account.

<?php $CONFIG = [ 'apps_paths' => [ [ 'path' => OC::$SERVERROOT.'/apps', 'url' => '/apps', 'writable' => false, ], [ 'path' => OC::$SERVERROOT.'/apps-external', 'url' => '/apps-external', 'writable' => true, ], ], 'instanceid' => 'ocnbvtm2fzca', ]; Also, I added the app-external directory and it didn't fix the problem.