No, its ticked off in the admin settings.
My data folder is here-
/mnt/sftp/owncloud
I had to change owner -
Chown -R apache:apache /mnt/sftp/owncloud
When i opened the web gui for the first time ie setup it asked me where i wanted the data folder.
My web pages are here -
/var/www/html/owncloud
i have installed this on a centos 7 machine