Configuration Parameters

Nextcloud uses the config/config.php file to control server operations. config/config.sample.php lists all the configurable parameters within Nextcloud, along with example or default values. This document provides a more detailed reference. Most options are configurable on your Admin page, so it is usually not necessary to edit config/config.php.

Note

The installer creates a configuration containing the essential parameters. Only manually add configuration parameters to config/config.php if you need to use a special value for a parameter. Do not copy everything from config/config.sample.php . Only enter the parameters you wish to modify!

Multiple config.php file

Nextcloud supports loading configuration parameters from multiple files. You can add arbitrary files ending with .config.php in the config/ directory, for example you could place your email server configuration in email.config.php. This allows you to easily create and manage custom configurations, or to divide a large complex configuration file into a set of smaller files. These custom files are not overwritten by Nextcloud, and the values in these files take precedence over config.php.

Default Parameters

These parameters are configured by the Nextcloud installer, and are required for your Nextcloud server to operate.

instanceid

'instanceid' => '',

This is a unique identifier for your Nextcloud installation, created automatically by the installer. This example is for documentation only, and you should never use it because it will not work. A valid instanceid is created when you install Nextcloud.

‘instanceid’ => ‘d3c944a9a’,

passwordsalt

'passwordsalt' => '',

The salt used to hash all passwords, auto-generated by the Nextcloud installer. (There are also per-user salts.) If you lose this salt you lose all your passwords. This example is for documentation only, and you should never use it.

secret

'secret' => '',

Secret used by Nextcloud for various purposes, e.g. to encrypt data. If you lose this string there will be data corruption.

trusted_domains

'trusted_domains' =>
   [
    'demo.example.org',
    'otherdomain.example.org',
    '10.111.112.113',
    '[2001:db8::1]'
  ],

Your list of trusted domains that users can log into. Specifying trusted domains prevents host header poisoning. Do not remove this, as it performs necessary security checks.

You can specify:

the exact hostname of your host or virtual host, e.g. demo.example.org.
the exact hostname with permitted port, e.g. demo.example.org:443. This disallows all other ports on this host
use * as a wildcard, e.g. ubos-raspberry-pi*.local will allow ubos-raspberry-pi.local and ubos-raspberry-pi-2.local
the IP address with or without permitted port, e.g. [2001:db8::1]:8080 Using TLS certificates where commonName=<IP address> is deprecated

datadirectory

'datadirectory' => '/var/www/nextcloud/data',

Where user files are stored. The SQLite database is also stored here, when you use SQLite.

Default to data/ in the Nextcloud directory.

version

'version' => '',

The current version number of your Nextcloud installation. This is set up during installation and update, so you shouldn’t need to change it.

dbtype

'dbtype' => 'sqlite3',

Identifies the database used with this installation. See also config option supportedDatabases

Available:

sqlite3 (SQLite3)
mysql (MySQL/MariaDB)
pgsql (PostgreSQL)

Defaults to sqlite3

dbhost

'dbhost' => '',

Your host server name, for example localhost, hostname, hostname.example.com, or the IP address.

To specify a port use hostname:####, for IPv6 addresses use the URI notation [ip]:port. To specify a Unix socket use /path/to/directory/containing/socket, e.g. /run/postgresql/.

dbname

'dbname' => 'nextcloud',

The name of the Nextcloud database, which is set during installation. You should not need to change this.

dbuser

'dbuser' => '',

The user that Nextcloud uses to write to the database. This must be unique across Nextcloud instances using the same SQL database. This is set up during installation, so you shouldn’t need to change it.

dbpassword

'dbpassword' => '',

The password for the database user. This is set up during installation, so you shouldn’t need to change it.

dbtableprefix

'dbtableprefix' => 'oc_',

Prefix for the Nextcloud tables in the database.

Default to oc_

dbpersistent

'dbpersistent' => '',

Enable persistent connexions to the database.

This setting uses the “persistent” option from doctrine dbal, which in turn uses the PDO::ATTR_PERSISTENT option from the pdo driver.

dbreplica

'dbreplica' => [
        ['user' => 'nextcloud', 'password' => 'password1', 'host' => 'replica1', 'dbname' => ''],
        ['user' => 'nextcloud', 'password' => 'password2', 'host' => 'replica2', 'dbname' => ''],
],

Specify read only replicas to be used by Nextcloud when querying the database

installed

'installed' => false,

Indicates whether the Nextcloud instance was installed successfully; true indicates a successful installation, and false indicates an unsuccessful installation.

Defaults to false

Default config.php Examples

When you use SQLite as your Nextcloud database, your config.php looks like this after installation. The SQLite database is stored in your Nextcloud data/ directory. SQLite is a simple, lightweight embedded database that is good for testing and for simple installations, but for production Nextcloud systems you should use MySQL, MariaDB, or PosgreSQL.

<?php
$CONFIG = array (
  'instanceid' => 'occ6f7365735',
  'passwordsalt' => '2c5778476346786306303',
  'trusted_domains' =>
  array (
    0 => 'localhost',
    1 => 'studio',
  ),
  'datadirectory' => '/var/www/nextcloud/data',
  'dbtype' => 'sqlite3',
  'version' => '7.0.2.1',
  'installed' => true,
);

This example is from a new Nextcloud installation using MariaDB:

<?php
$CONFIG = array (
  'instanceid' => 'oc8c0fd71e03',
  'passwordsalt' => '515a13302a6b3950a9d0fdb970191a',
  'trusted_domains' =>
  array (
    0 => 'localhost',
    1 => 'studio',
    2 => '192.168.10.155'
  ),
  'datadirectory' => '/var/www/nextcloud/data',
  'dbtype' => 'mysql',
   'version' => '7.0.2.1',
  'dbname' => 'nextcloud',
  'dbhost' => 'localhost',
  'dbtableprefix' => 'oc_',
  'dbuser' => 'oc_carla',
  'dbpassword' => '67336bcdf7630dd80b2b81a413d07',
  'installed' => true,
);

User Experience

These optional parameters control some aspects of the user interface. Default values, where present, are shown.

default_language

'default_language' => 'en',

This sets the default language on your Nextcloud server, using ISO_639-1 language codes such as en for English, de for German, and fr for French. The default_language parameter is only used, when the browser does not send any language, and the user hasn’t configured own language preferences.

Nextcloud has two distinguished language codes for German, ‘de’ and ‘de_DE’. ‘de’ is used for informal German and ‘de_DE’ for formal German. By setting this value to ‘de_DE’ you can enforce the formal version of German unless the user has chosen something different explicitly.

Defaults to en

force_language

'force_language' => 'en',

With this setting a language can be forced for all users. If a language is forced, the users are also unable to change their language in the personal settings. If users shall be unable to change their language, but users have different languages, this value can be set to true instead of a language code.

Defaults to false

default_locale

'default_locale' => 'en_US',

This sets the default locale on your Nextcloud server, using ISO_639 language codes such as en for English, de for German, and fr for French, and ISO-3166 country codes such as GB, US, CA, as defined in RFC 5646. It overrides automatic locale detection on public pages like login or shared items. User’s locale preferences configured under “personal -> locale” override this setting after they have logged in.

Defaults to en

default_phone_region

'default_phone_region' => 'GB',

This sets the default region for phone numbers on your Nextcloud server, using ISO 3166-1 country codes such as DE for Germany, FR for France, … It is required to allow inserting phone numbers in the user profiles starting without the country code (e.g. +49 for Germany).

No default value!

force_locale

'force_locale' => 'en_US',

With this setting a locale can be forced for all users. If a locale is forced, the users are also unable to change their locale in the personal settings. If users shall be unable to change their locale, but users have different languages, this value can be set to true instead of a locale code.

Defaults to false

default_timezone

'default_timezone' => 'Europe/Berlin',

This sets the default timezone on your Nextcloud server, using IANA identifiers like Europe/Berlin or Pacific/Auckland. The default timezone parameter is only used when the timezone of the user can’t be determined.

Defaults to UTC

knowledgebaseenabled

'knowledgebaseenabled' => true,

true enables the Help menu item in the user menu (top right of the Nextcloud Web interface). false removes the Help item.

knowledgebase.embedded

'knowledgebase.embedded' => false,

true embeds the documentation in an iframe inside Nextcloud.

false only shows buttons to the online documentation.

allow_user_to_change_display_name

'allow_user_to_change_display_name' => true,

true allows users to change their display names (on their Personal pages), and false prevents them from changing their display names.

skeletondirectory

'skeletondirectory' => '/path/to/nextcloud/core/skeleton',

The directory where the skeleton files are located. These files will be copied to the data directory of new users. Leave empty to not copy any skeleton files.

{lang} can be used as a placeholder for the language of the user. If the directory does not exist, it falls back to non dialect (from de_DE to de). If that does not exist either, it falls back to default

Defaults to core/skeleton in the Nextcloud directory.

templatedirectory

'templatedirectory' => '/path/to/nextcloud/templates',

The directory where the template files are located. These files will be copied to the template directory of new users. Leave empty to not copy any template files.

{lang} can be used as a placeholder for the language of the user. If the directory does not exist, it falls back to non dialect (from de_DE to de). If that does not exist either, it falls back to default

If this is not set creating a template directory will only happen if no custom skeletondirectory is defined, otherwise the shipped templates will be used to create a template directory for the user.

User session

session_lifetime

'session_lifetime' => 60 * 60 * 24,

The lifetime of a session after inactivity.

The maximum possible time is limited by the session.gc_maxlifetime php.ini setting which would overwrite this option if it is less than the value in the config.php

Defaults to 60*60*24 seconds (24 hours)

davstorage.request_timeout

'davstorage.request_timeout' => 30,

The timeout in seconds for requests to servers made by the DAV component (e.g., needed for federated shares).

session_relaxed_expiry

'session_relaxed_expiry' => false,

true enabled a relaxed session timeout, where the session timeout would no longer be handled by Nextcloud but by either the PHP garbage collection or the expiration of potential other session backends like redis.

This may lead to sessions being available for longer than what session_lifetime uses but comes with performance benefits as sessions are no longer a locking operation for concurrent requests.

session_keepalive

'session_keepalive' => true,

Enable or disable session keep-alive when a user is logged in to the Web UI.

Enabling this sends a “heartbeat” to the server to keep it from timing out.

Defaults to true

auto_logout

'auto_logout' => false,

Enable or disable the automatic logout after session_lifetime, even if session keepalive is enabled. This will make sure that an inactive browser will be logged out even if requests to the server might extend the session lifetime.

Defaults to false

token_auth_enforced

'token_auth_enforced' => false,

Enforce token authentication for clients, which blocks requests using the user password for enhanced security. Users need to generate tokens in personal settings which can be used as passwords on their clients.

Defaults to false

token_auth_activity_update

'token_auth_activity_update' => 60,

The interval at which token activity should be updated.

Increasing this value means that the last activity on the security page gets more outdated.

Tokens are still checked every 5 minutes for validity max value: 300

Defaults to 300

auth.bruteforce.protection.enabled

'auth.bruteforce.protection.enabled' => true,

Whether the brute force protection shipped with Nextcloud should be enabled or not.

Disabling this is discouraged for security reasons.

Defaults to true

auth.bruteforce.protection.testing

'auth.bruteforce.protection.testing' => false,

Whether the brute force protection shipped with Nextcloud should be set to testing mode.

In testing mode brute force attempts are still recorded, but the requests do not sleep/wait for the specified time. They will still abort with “429 Too Many Requests” when the maximum delay is reached. Enabling this is discouraged for security reasons and should only be done for debugging and on CI when running tests.

Defaults to false

ratelimit.protection.enabled

'ratelimit.protection.enabled' => true,

Whether the rate limit protection shipped with Nextcloud should be enabled or not.

Disabling this is discouraged for security reasons.

Defaults to true

auth.webauthn.enabled

'auth.webauthn.enabled' => true,

By default, WebAuthn is available, but it can be explicitly disabled by admins

auth.storeCryptedPassword

'auth.storeCryptedPassword' => true,

Whether encrypted password should be stored in the database

The passwords are only decrypted using the login token stored uniquely in the clients and allow to connect to external storages, autoconfigure mail account in the mail app and periodically check if the password it still valid.

This might be desirable to disable this functionality when using one time passwords or when having a password policy enforcing long passwords (> 300 characters).

By default, the passwords are stored encrypted in the database.

WARNING: If disabled, password changes on the user back-end (e.g. on LDAP) no longer log connected clients out automatically. Users can still disconnect the clients by deleting the app token from the security settings.

hide_login_form

'hide_login_form' => false,

By default, the login form is always available. There are cases (SSO) where an admin wants to avoid users entering their credentials to the system if the SSO app is unavailable.

This will show an error. But the direct login still works with adding ?direct=1

lost_password_link

'lost_password_link' => 'https://example.org/link/to/password/reset',

If your user backend does not allow password resets (e.g. when it’s a read-only user backend like LDAP), you can specify a custom link, where the user is redirected to, when clicking the “reset password” link after a failed login-attempt.

In case you do not want to provide any link, replace the url with ‘disabled’

logo_url

'logo_url' => 'https://example.org',

URL to use as target for the logo link in the header (top-left logo)

Defaults to the base URL of your Nextcloud instance

Mail Parameters

These configure the email settings for Nextcloud notifications and password resets.

mail_domain

'mail_domain' => 'example.com',

The return address that you want to appear on emails sent by the Nextcloud server, for example nc-admin@example.com, substituting your own domain, of course.

mail_from_address

'mail_from_address' => 'nextcloud',

FROM address that overrides the built-in sharing-noreply and lostpassword-noreply FROM addresses.

Defaults to different from addresses depending on the feature.

mail_smtpdebug

'mail_smtpdebug' => false,

Enable SMTP class debugging.

Defaults to false

mail_smtpmode

'mail_smtpmode' => 'smtp',

Which mode to use for sending mail: sendmail, smtp or qmail.

If you are using local or remote SMTP, set this to smtp.

For the sendmail option you need an installed and working email system on the server, with /usr/sbin/sendmail installed on your Unix system.

For qmail the binary is /var/qmail/bin/sendmail, and it must be installed on your Unix system.

Defaults to smtp

mail_smtphost

'mail_smtphost' => '127.0.0.1',

This depends on mail_smtpmode. Specify the IP address of your mail server host. This may contain multiple hosts separated by a semicolon. If you need to specify the port number append it to the IP address separated by a colon, like this: 127.0.0.1:24.

Defaults to 127.0.0.1

mail_smtpport

'mail_smtpport' => 25,

This depends on mail_smtpmode. Specify the port for sending mail.

Defaults to 25

mail_smtptimeout

'mail_smtptimeout' => 10,

This depends on mail_smtpmode. This sets the SMTP server timeout, in seconds. You may need to increase this if you are running an anti-malware or spam scanner.

Defaults to 10 seconds

mail_smtpsecure

'mail_smtpsecure' => '',

This depends on mail_smtpmode. Specify ssl when you are using SSL/TLS. Any other value will be ignored.

If the server advertises STARTTLS capabilities, they might be used, but they cannot be enforced by this config option.

Defaults to '' (empty string)

mail_smtpauth

'mail_smtpauth' => false,

This depends on mail_smtpmode. Change this to true if your mail server requires authentication.

Defaults to false

mail_smtpname

'mail_smtpname' => '',

This depends on mail_smtpauth. Specify the username for authenticating to the SMTP server.

Defaults to '' (empty string)

mail_smtppassword

'mail_smtppassword' => '',

This depends on mail_smtpauth. Specify the password for authenticating to the SMTP server.

Default to '' (empty string)

mail_template_class

'mail_template_class' => '\OC\Mail\EMailTemplate',

Replaces the default mail template layout. This can be utilized if the options to modify the mail texts with the theming app is not enough.

The class must extend \OC\Mail\EMailTemplate

mail_send_plaintext_only

'mail_send_plaintext_only' => false,

Email will be sent by default with an HTML and a plain text body. This option allows to only send plain text emails.

mail_smtpstreamoptions

'mail_smtpstreamoptions' => [],

This depends on mail_smtpmode. Array of additional streams options that will be passed to underlying Swift mailer implementation.

Defaults to an empty array.

mail_sendmailmode

'mail_sendmailmode' => 'smtp',

Which mode is used for sendmail/qmail: smtp or pipe.

For smtp the sendmail binary is started with the parameter -bs:

Use the SMTP protocol on standard input and output.

For pipe the binary is started with the parameters -t:

Read message from STDIN and extract recipients.

Defaults to smtp

Proxy Configurations

overwritehost

'overwritehost' => '',

The automatic hostname detection of Nextcloud can fail in certain reverse proxy and CLI/cron situations. This option allows you to manually override the automatic detection; for example www.example.com, or specify the port www.example.com:8080.

overwriteprotocol

'overwriteprotocol' => '',

When generating URLs, Nextcloud attempts to detect whether the server is accessed via https or http. However, if Nextcloud is behind a proxy and the proxy handles the https calls, Nextcloud would not know that ssl is in use, which would result in incorrect URLs being generated.

Valid values are http and https.

overwritewebroot

'overwritewebroot' => '',

Nextcloud attempts to detect the webroot for generating URLs automatically.

For example, if www.example.com/nextcloud is the URL pointing to the Nextcloud instance, the webroot is /nextcloud. When proxies are in use, it may be difficult for Nextcloud to detect this parameter, resulting in invalid URLs.

overwritecondaddr

'overwritecondaddr' => '',

This option allows you to define a manual override condition as a regular expression for the remote IP address. For example, defining a range of IP addresses starting with 10.0.0. and ending with 1 to 3: ^10\.0\.0\.[1-3]$

Defaults to '' (empty string)

overwrite.cli.url

'overwrite.cli.url' => '',

Use this configuration parameter to specify the base URL for any URLs which are generated within Nextcloud using any kind of command line tools (cron or occ). The value should contain the full base URL: https://www.example.com/nextcloud

Defaults to '' (empty string)

htaccess.RewriteBase

'htaccess.RewriteBase' => '/',

To have clean URLs without /index.php this parameter needs to be configured.

This parameter will be written as “RewriteBase” on update and installation of Nextcloud to your .htaccess file. While this value is often simply the URL path of the Nextcloud installation it cannot be set automatically properly in every scenario and needs thus some manual configuration.

In a standard Apache setup this usually equals the folder that Nextcloud is accessible at. So if Nextcloud is accessible via “https://mycloud.org/nextcloud” the correct value would most likely be “/nextcloud”. If Nextcloud is running under “https://mycloud.org/” then it would be “/”.

Note that the above rule is not valid in every case, as there are some rare setup cases where this may not apply. However, to avoid any update problems this configuration value is explicitly opt-in.

After setting this value run occ maintenance:update:htaccess. Now, when the following conditions are met Nextcloud URLs won’t contain index.php:

mod_rewrite is installed
mod_env is installed

Defaults to '' (empty string)

htaccess.IgnoreFrontController

'htaccess.IgnoreFrontController' => false,

For server setups, that don’t have mod_env enabled or restricted (e.g. suEXEC) this parameter has to be set to true and will assume mod_rewrite.

Please check, if mod_rewrite is active and functional before setting this parameter, and you updated your .htaccess with occ maintenance:update:htaccess. Otherwise, your nextcloud installation might not be reachable anymore. For example, try accessing resources by leaving out index.php in the URL.

proxy

'proxy' => '',

The URL of your proxy server, for example proxy.example.com:8081.

Note: Guzzle (the http library used by Nextcloud) is reading the environment variables HTTP_PROXY (only for cli request), HTTPS_PROXY, and NO_PROXY by default.

If you configure proxy with Nextcloud any default configuration by Guzzle is overwritten. Make sure to set proxyexclude accordingly if necessary.

Defaults to '' (empty string)

proxyuserpwd

'proxyuserpwd' => '',

The optional authentication for the proxy to use to connect to the internet.

The format is: username:password.

Defaults to '' (empty string)

proxyexclude

'proxyexclude' => [],

List of host names that should not be proxied to.

For example: ['.mit.edu', 'foo.com'].

Hint: Use something like explode(',', getenv('NO_PROXY')) to sync this value with the global NO_PROXY option.

Defaults to empty array.

allow_local_remote_servers

'allow_local_remote_servers' => true,

Allow remote servers with local addresses e.g. in federated shares, webcal services and more

Defaults to false

Deleted Items (trash bin)

These parameters control the Deleted files app.

trashbin_retention_obligation

'trashbin_retention_obligation' => 'auto',

If the trash bin app is enabled (default), this setting defines the policy for when files and folders in the trash bin will be permanently deleted.

The app allows for two settings, a minimum time for trash bin retention, and a maximum time for trash bin retention.

Minimum time is the number of days a file will be kept, after which it may be deleted. A file may be deleted after the minimum number of days is expired if space is needed. The file will not be deleted if space is not needed.

Whether “space is needed” depends on whether a user quota is defined or not:

If no user quota is defined, the available space on the Nextcloud data partition sets the limit for the trashbin (issues: see https://github.com/nextcloud/server/issues/28451).

If a user quota is defined, 50% of the user’s remaining quota space sets the limit for the trashbin.

Maximum time is the number of days at which it is guaranteed to be deleted. There is no further dependency on the available space.

Both minimum and maximum times can be set together to explicitly define file and folder deletion. For migration purposes, this setting is installed initially set to “auto”, which is equivalent to the default setting in Nextcloud.

Available values (D1 and D2 are configurable numbers):

auto
default setting. keeps files and folders in the trash bin for 30 days and automatically deletes anytime after that if space is needed (note: files may not be deleted if space is not needed).
D1, auto
keeps files and folders in the trash bin for D1+ days, delete anytime if space needed (note: files may not be deleted if space is not needed)
auto, D2
delete all files in the trash bin that are older than D2 days automatically, delete other files anytime if space needed
D1, D2
keep files and folders in the trash bin for at least D1 days and delete when exceeds D2 days (note: files will not be deleted automatically if space is needed)
disabled
trash bin auto clean disabled, files and folders will be kept forever

Defaults to auto

File versions

These parameters control the Versions app.

versions_retention_obligation

'versions_retention_obligation' => 'auto',

If the versions app is enabled (default), this setting defines the policy for when versions will be permanently deleted.

The app allows for two settings, a minimum time for version retention, and a maximum time for version retention. Minimum time is the number of days a version will be kept, after which it may be deleted. Maximum time is the number of days at which it is guaranteed to be deleted. Both minimum and maximum times can be set together to explicitly define version deletion. For migration purposes, this setting is installed initially set to “auto”, which is equivalent to the default setting in Nextcloud.

Available values:

auto
default setting. Automatically expire versions according to expire rules. Please refer to Controlling file versions and aging for more information.
D, auto
keep versions at least for D days, apply expiration rules to all versions that are older than D days
auto, D
delete all versions that are older than D days automatically, delete other versions according to expire rules
D1, D2
keep versions for at least D1 days and delete when exceeds D2 days
disabled
versions auto clean disabled, versions will be kept forever

Defaults to auto

Nextcloud Verifications

Nextcloud performs several verification checks. There are two options, true and false.

appcodechecker

'appcodechecker' => true,

Checks an app before install whether it uses private APIs instead of the proper public APIs. If this is set to true it will only allow to install or enable apps that pass this check.

Defaults to false

updatechecker

'updatechecker' => true,

Check if Nextcloud is up-to-date and shows a notification if a new version is available. It sends current version, php version, installation and last update time and release channel to the updater server which responds with the latest available version based on those metrics.

Defaults to true

updater.server.url

'updater.server.url' => 'https://updates.nextcloud.com/updater_server/',

URL that Nextcloud should use to look for updates

Defaults to https://updates.nextcloud.com/updater_server/

updater.release.channel

'updater.release.channel' => 'stable',

The channel that Nextcloud should use to look for updates

Supported values:

daily
beta
stable

has_internet_connection

'has_internet_connection' => true,

Is Nextcloud connected to the Internet or running in a closed network?

Defaults to true

connectivity_check_domains

'connectivity_check_domains' => [
        'www.nextcloud.com',
        'www.startpage.com',
        'www.eff.org',
        'www.edri.org'
],

Which domains to request to determine the availability of an Internet connection. If none of these hosts are reachable, the administration panel will show a warning. Set to an empty list to not do any such checks (warning will still be shown).

If no protocol is provided, both http and https will be tested. For example, ‘http://www.nextcloud.com’ and ‘https://www.nextcloud.com’ will be tested for ‘www.nextcloud.com’ If a protocol is provided, only this one will be tested.

Defaults to the following domains:

www.nextcloud.com

www.startpage.com

www.eff.org

www.edri.org

check_for_working_wellknown_setup

'check_for_working_wellknown_setup' => true,

Allows Nextcloud to verify a working .well-known URL redirects. This is done by attempting to make a request from JS to https://your-domain.com/.well-known/caldav/

Defaults to true

check_for_working_htaccess

'check_for_working_htaccess' => true,

This is a crucial security check on Apache servers that should always be set to true. This verifies that the .htaccess file is writable and works.

If it is not, then any options controlled by .htaccess, such as large file uploads, will not work. It also runs checks on the data/ directory, which verifies that it can’t be accessed directly through the Web server.

Defaults to true

check_data_directory_permissions

'check_data_directory_permissions' => true,

In rare setups (e.g. on Openshift or Docker on Windows) the permissions check might block the installation while the underlying system offers no means to “correct” the permissions. In this case, set the value to false.

In regular cases, if issues with permissions are encountered they should be adjusted accordingly. Changing the flag is discouraged.

Defaults to true

config_is_read_only

'config_is_read_only' => false,

In certain environments it is desired to have a read-only configuration file.

When this switch is set to true, writing to the config file will be forbidden. Therefore, it will not be possible to configure all options via the Web interface. Furthermore, when updating Nextcloud it is required to make the configuration file writable again and to set this switch to false for the update process.

Defaults to false

Logging

log_type

'log_type' => 'file',

This parameter determines where the Nextcloud logs are sent.

file: the logs are written to file nextcloud.log in the default Nextcloud data directory. The log file can be changed with parameter logfile. syslog: the logs are sent to the system log. This requires a syslog daemon to be active. errorlog: the logs are sent to the PHP error_log function. systemd: the logs are sent to the Systemd journal. This requires a system that runs Systemd and the Systemd journal. The PHP extension systemd must be installed and active.

Defaults to file

log_type_audit

'log_type_audit' => 'file',

This parameter determines where the audit logs are sent. See log_type for more information.

Defaults to file

logfile

'logfile' => '/var/log/nextcloud.log',

Name of the file to which the Nextcloud logs are written if parameter log_type is set to file.

Defaults to [datadirectory]/nextcloud.log

logfile_audit

'logfile_audit' => '/var/log/audit.log',

Name of the file to which the audit logs are written if parameter log_type is set to file.

Defaults to [datadirectory]/audit.log

logfilemode

'logfilemode' => 0640,

Log file mode for the Nextcloud logging type in octal notation.

Defaults to 0640 (writeable by user, readable by group).

loglevel

'loglevel' => 2,

Loglevel to start logging at. Valid values are: 0 = Debug, 1 = Info, 2 = Warning, 3 = Error, and 4 = Fatal. The default value is Warning.

Defaults to 2

loglevel_frontend

'loglevel_frontend' => 2,

Loglevel used by the frontend to start logging at. The same values as for loglevel can be used. If not set it defaults to the value configured for loglevel or Warning if that is not set either.

Defaults to 2

loglevel_dirty_database_queries

'loglevel_dirty_database_queries' => 0,

Loglevel used by the dirty database query detection. Useful to identify potential database bugs in production. Set this to loglevel or higher to see dirty queries in the logs.

Defaults to 0 (debug)

syslog_tag

'syslog_tag' => 'Nextcloud',

If you maintain different instances and aggregate the logs, you may want to distinguish between them. syslog_tag can be set per instance with a unique id. Only available if log_type is set to syslog or systemd.

The default value is Nextcloud.

syslog_tag_audit

'syslog_tag_audit' => 'Nextcloud',

If you maintain different instances and aggregate the logs, you may want to distinguish between them. syslog_tag_audit can be set per instance with a unique id. Only available if log_type is set to syslog or systemd.

The default value is the value of syslog_tag.

log.condition

'log.condition' => [
        'shared_secret' => '57b58edb6637fe3059b3595cf9c41b9',
        'users' => ['sample-user'],
        'apps' => ['files'],
],

Log condition for log level increase based on conditions. Once one of these conditions is met, the required log level is set to debug. This allows to debug specific requests, users or apps

Supported conditions:

shared_secret: if a request parameter with the name log_secret is set to
this value the condition is met
users: if the current request is done by one of the specified users,
this condition is met
apps: if the log message is invoked by one of the specified apps,
this condition is met

Defaults to an empty array.

log.backtrace

'log.backtrace' => false,

Enables logging a backtrace with each log line. Normally, only Exceptions are carrying backtrace information which are logged automatically. This switch turns them on for any log message. Enabling this option will lead to increased log data size.

Defaults to false.

logdateformat

'logdateformat' => 'F d, Y H:i:s',

This uses PHP.date formatting; see https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php

Defaults to ISO 8601 2005-08-15T15:52:01+00:00 - see DateTime::ATOM (https://www.php.net/manual/en/class.datetime.php#datetime.constants.atom)

logtimezone

'logtimezone' => 'Europe/Berlin',

The timezone for logfiles. You may change this; see https://www.php.net/manual/en/timezones.php

Defaults to UTC

log_query

'log_query' => false,

Append all database queries and parameters to the log file. Use this only for debugging, as your logfile will become huge.

log_rotate_size

'log_rotate_size' => 100 * 1024 * 1024,

Enables log rotation and limits the total size of logfiles. Set it to 0 for no rotation. Specify a size in bytes, for example 104857600 (100 megabytes = 100 * 1024 * 1024 bytes). A new logfile is created with a new name when the old logfile reaches your limit. If a rotated log file is already present, it will be overwritten.

Defaults to 100 MB

profiler

'profiler' => false,

Enable built-in profiler. Helpful when trying to debug performance issues.

Note that this has a performance impact and shouldn’t be enabled on production.

Alternate Code Locations

Some Nextcloud code may be stored in alternate locations.

customclient_desktop

'customclient_desktop' =>
        'https://nextcloud.com/install/#install-clients',
'customclient_android' =>
        'https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nextcloud.client',
'customclient_ios' =>
        'https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/nextcloud/id1125420102?mt=8',
'customclient_ios_appid' =>
                '1125420102',

This section is for configuring the download links for Nextcloud clients, as seen in the first-run wizard and on Personal pages.

Defaults to:

Desktop client: https://nextcloud.com/install/#install-clients
Android client: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nextcloud.client
iOS client: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/nextcloud/id1125420102?mt=8
iOS client app id: 1125420102

Apps

Options for the Apps folder, Apps store, and App code checker.

defaultapp

'defaultapp' => 'dashboard,files',

Set the default app to open on login. Use the app names as they appear in the URL after clicking them in the Apps menu, such as documents, calendar, and gallery. You can use a comma-separated list of app names, so if the first app is not enabled for a user then Nextcloud will try the second one, and so on. If no enabled apps are found it defaults to the dashboard app.

Defaults to dashboard,files

appstoreenabled

'appstoreenabled' => true,

When enabled, admins may install apps from the Nextcloud app store.

Defaults to true

appstoreurl

'appstoreurl' => 'https://apps.nextcloud.com/api/v1',

Enables the installation of apps from a self-hosted apps store.

Requires that at least one of the configured apps directories is writeable.

Defaults to https://apps.nextcloud.com/api/v1

appsallowlist

'appsallowlist' => [],

Filters allowed installable apps from the appstore.

Empty array will prevent all apps from the store to be found.

apps_paths

'apps_paths' => [
        [
                'path'=> '/var/www/nextcloud/apps',
                'url' => '/apps',
                'writable' => true,
        ],
],

Use the apps_paths parameter to set the location of the Apps directory, which should be scanned for available apps, and where user-specific apps should be installed from the Apps store. The path defines the absolute file system path to the app folder. The key url defines the HTTP Web path to that folder, starting from the Nextcloud webroot. The key writable indicates if a Web server can write files to that folder.

Previews

Nextcloud supports previews of image files, the covers of MP3 files, and text files. These options control enabling and disabling previews, and thumbnail size.

enable_previews

'enable_previews' => true,

By default, Nextcloud can generate previews for the following filetypes:

Image files
Covers of MP3 files
Text documents

Valid values are true, to enable previews, or false, to disable previews

Defaults to true

preview_concurrency_all

'preview_concurrency_all' => 8,

Number of all preview requests being processed concurrently, including previews that need to be newly generated, and those that have been generated.

This should be greater than ‘preview_concurrency_new’. If unspecified, defaults to twice the value of ‘preview_concurrency_new’.

preview_concurrency_new

'preview_concurrency_new' => 4,

Number of new previews that are being concurrently generated.

Depending on the max preview size set by ‘preview_max_x’ and ‘preview_max_y’, the generation process can consume considerable CPU and memory resources. It’s recommended to limit this to be no greater than the number of CPU cores. If unspecified, defaults to the number of CPU cores, or 4 if that cannot be determined.

preview_max_x

'preview_max_x' => 4096,

The maximum width, in pixels, of a preview. A value of null means there is no limit.

Defaults to 4096

preview_max_y

'preview_max_y' => 4096,

The maximum height, in pixels, of a preview. A value of null means there is no limit.

Defaults to 4096

preview_max_filesize_image

'preview_max_filesize_image' => 50,

Max file size for generating image previews with imagegd (default behavior).

If the image is bigger, it’ll try other preview generators, but will most likely either show the default mimetype icon or not display the image at all. Set to -1 for no limit and try to generate image previews on all file sizes.

Defaults to 50 megabytes

preview_max_memory

'preview_max_memory' => 256,

max memory for generating image previews with imagegd (default behavior) Reads the image dimensions from the header and assumes 32 bits per pixel.

If creating the image would allocate more memory, preview generation will be disabled and the default mimetype icon is shown. Set to -1 for no limit.

Defaults to 256 megabytes

preview_libreoffice_path

'preview_libreoffice_path' => '/usr/bin/libreoffice',

custom path for LibreOffice/OpenOffice binary

Defaults to '' (empty string)

preview_ffmpeg_path

'preview_ffmpeg_path' => '/usr/bin/ffmpeg',

custom path for ffmpeg binary

Defaults to null and falls back to searching avconv and ffmpeg in the configured PATH environment

preview_imaginary_url

'preview_imaginary_url' => 'http://previews_hpb:8088/',

Set the URL of the Imaginary service to send image previews to.

Also requires the OC\Preview\Imaginary provider to be enabled.

See https://github.com/h2non/imaginary

preview_imaginary_key

'preview_imaginary_key' => 'secret',

If you want set a api key for imaginary.

enabledPreviewProviders

'enabledPreviewProviders' => [
        'OC\Preview\BMP',
        'OC\Preview\GIF',
        'OC\Preview\JPEG',
        'OC\Preview\Krita',
        'OC\Preview\MarkDown',
        'OC\Preview\MP3',
        'OC\Preview\OpenDocument',
        'OC\Preview\PNG',
        'OC\Preview\TXT',
        'OC\Preview\XBitmap',
],

Only register providers that have been explicitly enabled

The following providers are disabled by default due to performance or privacy concerns:

OC\Preview\Font

OC\Preview\HEIC

OC\Preview\Illustrator

OC\Preview\Movie

OC\Preview\MSOffice2003

OC\Preview\MSOffice2007

OC\Preview\MSOfficeDoc

OC\Preview\PDF

OC\Preview\Photoshop

OC\Preview\Postscript

OC\Preview\StarOffice

OC\Preview\SVG

OC\Preview\TIFF

OC\Preview\EMF

Defaults to the following providers:

OC\Preview\BMP

OC\Preview\GIF

OC\Preview\JPEG

OC\Preview\Krita

OC\Preview\MarkDown

OC\Preview\MP3

OC\Preview\OpenDocument

OC\Preview\PNG

OC\Preview\TXT

OC\Preview\XBitmap

LDAP

Global settings used by LDAP User and Group Backend

ldapUserCleanupInterval

'ldapUserCleanupInterval' => 51,

defines the interval in minutes for the background job that checks user existence and marks them as ready to be cleaned up. The number is always minutes. Setting it to 0 disables the feature.

See command line (occ) methods ldap:show-remnants and user:delete

Defaults to 51 minutes

sort_groups_by_name

'sort_groups_by_name' => false,

Sort groups in the user settings by name instead of the user count

By enabling this the user count beside the group name is disabled as well.

Comments

Global settings for the Comments infrastructure

comments.managerFactory

'comments.managerFactory' => '\OC\Comments\ManagerFactory',

Replaces the default Comments Manager Factory. This can be utilized if an own or 3rdParty CommentsManager should be used that – for instance – uses the filesystem instead of the database to keep the comments.

Defaults to \OC\Comments\ManagerFactory

systemtags.managerFactory

'systemtags.managerFactory' => '\OC\SystemTag\ManagerFactory',

Replaces the default System Tags Manager Factory. This can be utilized if an own or 3rdParty SystemTagsManager should be used that – for instance – uses the filesystem instead of the database to keep the tags.

Defaults to \OC\SystemTag\ManagerFactory

Maintenance

These options are for halting user activity when you are performing server maintenance.

maintenance

'maintenance' => false,

Enable maintenance mode to disable Nextcloud

If you want to prevent users from logging in to Nextcloud before you start doing some maintenance work, you need to set the value of the maintenance parameter to true. Please keep in mind that users who are already logged-in are kicked out of Nextcloud instantly.

Defaults to false

maintenance_window_start

'maintenance_window_start' => 1,

UTC Hour for maintenance windows

Some background jobs only run once a day. When an hour is defined for this config, the background jobs which advertise themselves as not time sensitive will be delayed during the “working” hours and only run in the 4 hours after the given time. This is e.g. used for activity expiration, suspicious login training and update checks.

A value of 1 e.g. will only run these background jobs between 01:00am UTC and 05:00am UTC.

Defaults to 100 which disables the feature

ldap_log_file

'ldap_log_file' => '',

Log all LDAP requests into a file

Warning: This heavily decreases the performance of the server and is only meant to debug/profile the LDAP interaction manually. Also, it might log sensitive data into a plain text file.

SSL

openssl

'openssl' => [
        'config' => '/absolute/location/of/openssl.cnf',
],

Extra SSL options to be used for configuration.

Defaults to an empty array.

Memory caching backend configuration

Available cache backends:

\OC\Memcache\APCu APC user backend
\OC\Memcache\ArrayCache In-memory array-based backend (not recommended)
\OC\Memcache\Memcached Memcached backend
\OC\Memcache\Redis Redis backend

Advice on choosing between the various backends:

APCu should be easiest to install. Almost all distributions have packages. Use this for single user environment for all caches.
Use Redis or Memcached for distributed environments. For the local cache (you can configure two) take APCu.

memcache.local

'memcache.local' => '\OC\Memcache\APCu',

Memory caching backend for locally stored data

Used for host-specific data, e.g. file paths

Defaults to none

memcache.distributed

'memcache.distributed' => '\OC\Memcache\Memcached',

Memory caching backend for distributed data

Used for installation-specific data, e.g. database caching
If unset, defaults to the value of memcache.local

Defaults to none

redis

'redis' => [
        'host' => 'localhost', // can also be a unix domain socket: '/tmp/redis.sock'
        'port' => 6379,
        'timeout' => 0.0,
        'read_timeout' => 0.0,
        'user' =>  '', // Optional: if not defined, no password will be used.
        'password' => '', // Optional: if not defined, no password will be used.
        'dbindex' => 0, // Optional: if undefined SELECT will not run and will use Redis Server's default DB Index.
        // If redis in-transit encryption is enabled, provide certificates
        // SSL context https://www.php.net/manual/en/context.ssl.php
        'ssl_context' => [
                'local_cert' => '/certs/redis.crt',
                'local_pk' => '/certs/redis.key',
                'cafile' => '/certs/ca.crt'
        ]
],

Connection details for redis to use for memory caching in a single server configuration.

For enhanced security it is recommended to configure Redis to require a password. See http://redis.io/topics/security for more information.

We also support redis SSL/TLS encryption as of version 6. See https://redis.io/topics/encryption for more information.

redis.cluster

'redis.cluster' => [
        'seeds' => [ // provide some or all of the cluster servers to bootstrap discovery, port required
                'localhost:7000',
                'localhost:7001',
        ],
        'timeout' => 0.0,
        'read_timeout' => 0.0,
        'failover_mode' => \RedisCluster::FAILOVER_ERROR,
        'user' =>  '', // Optional: if not defined, no password will be used.
        'password' => '', // Optional: if not defined, no password will be used.
        // If redis in-transit encryption is enabled, provide certificates
        // SSL context https://www.php.net/manual/en/context.ssl.php
        'ssl_context' => [
                'local_cert' => '/certs/redis.crt',
                'local_pk' => '/certs/redis.key',
                'cafile' => '/certs/ca.crt'
        ]
],

Connection details for a Redis Cluster.

Redis Cluster support requires the php module phpredis in version 3.0.0 or higher.

Available failover modes:

\RedisCluster::FAILOVER_NONE - only send commands to master nodes (default)
\RedisCluster::FAILOVER_ERROR - failover to slaves for read commands if master is unavailable (recommended)
\RedisCluster::FAILOVER_DISTRIBUTE - randomly distribute read commands across master and slaves

WARNING: FAILOVER_DISTRIBUTE is a not recommended setting, and we strongly suggest to not use it if you use Redis for file locking. Due to the way Redis is synchronized it could happen, that the read for an existing lock is scheduled to a slave that is not fully synchronized with the connected master which then causes a FileLocked exception.

See https://redis.io/topics/cluster-spec for details about the Redis cluster

Authentication works with phpredis version 4.2.1+. See https://github.com/phpredis/phpredis/commit/c5994f2a42b8a348af92d3acb4edff1328ad8ce1

memcached_servers

'memcached_servers' => [
        // hostname, port and optional weight
        // or path and port 0 for unix socket. Also see:
        // https://www.php.net/manual/en/memcached.addservers.php
        // https://www.php.net/manual/en/memcached.addserver.php
        ['localhost', 11211],
        //array('other.host.local', 11211),
],

Server details for one or more memcached servers to use for memory caching.

memcached_options

'memcached_options' => [
        // Set timeouts to 50ms
        \Memcached::OPT_CONNECT_TIMEOUT => 50,
        \Memcached::OPT_RETRY_TIMEOUT =>   50,
        \Memcached::OPT_SEND_TIMEOUT =>    50,
        \Memcached::OPT_RECV_TIMEOUT =>    50,
        \Memcached::OPT_POLL_TIMEOUT =>    50,

        // Enable compression
        \Memcached::OPT_COMPRESSION =>          true,

        // Turn on consistent hashing
        \Memcached::OPT_LIBKETAMA_COMPATIBLE => true,

        // Enable Binary Protocol
        \Memcached::OPT_BINARY_PROTOCOL =>      true,

        // Binary serializer vill be enabled if the igbinary PECL module is available
        //\Memcached::OPT_SERIALIZER => \Memcached::SERIALIZER_IGBINARY,
],

Connection options for memcached

cache_path

'cache_path' => '',

Location of the cache folder, defaults to data/$user/cache where $user is the current user. When specified, the format will change to $cache_path/$user where $cache_path is the configured cache directory and $user is the user.

Defaults to '' (empty string)

cache_chunk_gc_ttl

'cache_chunk_gc_ttl' => 60*60*24,

TTL of chunks located in the cache folder before they’re removed by garbage collection (in seconds). Increase this value if users have issues uploading very large files via the Nextcloud Client as upload isn’t completed within one day.

Defaults to 60*60*24 (1 day)

Using Object Store with Nextcloud

objectstore

'objectstore' => [
        'class' => 'OC\\Files\\ObjectStore\\Swift',
        'arguments' => [
                // trystack will use your facebook id as the username
                'username' => 'facebook100000123456789',
                // in the trystack dashboard go to user -> settings -> API Password to
                // generate a password
                'password' => 'Secr3tPaSSWoRdt7',
                // must already exist in the objectstore, name can be different
                'container' => 'nextcloud',
                // prefix to prepend to the fileid, default is 'oid:urn:'
                'objectPrefix' => 'oid:urn:',
                // create the container if it does not exist. default is false
                'autocreate' => true,
                // required, dev-/trystack defaults to 'RegionOne'
                'region' => 'RegionOne',
                // The Identity / Keystone endpoint
                'url' => 'http://8.21.28.222:5000/v2.0',
                // uploadPartSize: size of the uploaded chunks, defaults to 524288000
                'uploadPartSize' => 524288000,
                // required on dev-/trystack
                'tenantName' => 'facebook100000123456789',
                // dev-/trystack uses swift by default, the lib defaults to 'cloudFiles'
                // if omitted
                'serviceName' => 'swift',
                // The Interface / url Type, optional
                'urlType' => 'internal'
        ],
],

This example shows how to configure Nextcloud to store all files in a swift object storage.

It is important to note that Nextcloud in object store mode will expect exclusive access to the object store container because it only stores the binary data for each file. The metadata is currently kept in the local database for performance reasons.

WARNING: The current implementation is incompatible with any app that uses direct file IO and circumvents our virtual filesystem. That includes Encryption and Gallery. Gallery will store thumbnails directly in the filesystem and encryption will cause severe overhead because key files need to be fetched in addition to any requested file.

objectstore

'objectstore' => [
        'class' => 'OC\\Files\\ObjectStore\\Swift',
        'arguments' => [
                'autocreate' => true,
                'user' => [
                        'name' => 'swift',
                        'password' => 'swift',
                        'domain' => [
                                'name' => 'default',
                        ],
                ],
                'scope' => [
                        'project' => [
                                'name' => 'service',
                                'domain' => [
                                        'name' => 'default',
                                ],
                        ],
                ],
                'tenantName' => 'service',
                'serviceName' => 'swift',
                'region' => 'regionOne',
                'url' => 'http://yourswifthost:5000/v3',
                'bucket' => 'nextcloud',
        ],
],

To use swift V3

objectstore.multibucket.preview-distribution

'objectstore.multibucket.preview-distribution' => false,

If this is set to true and a multibucket object store is configured then newly created previews are put into 256 dedicated buckets.

Those buckets are named like the mulibucket version but with the postfix -preview-NUMBER where NUMBER is between 0 and 255.

Keep in mind that only previews of files are put in there that don’t have some already. Otherwise, the old bucket will be used.

To migrate existing previews to this new multibucket distribution of previews use the occ command preview:repair. For now this will only migrate previews that were generated before Nextcloud 19 in the flat appdata_INSTANCEID/previews/FILEID folder structure.

Hashing

hashing_default_password

'hashing_default_password' => false,

By default, Nextcloud will use the Argon2 password hashing if available.

However, if for whatever reason you want to stick with the PASSWORD_DEFAULT of your php version. Then set the setting to true.

Nextcloud uses the Argon2 algorithm (with PHP >= 7.2) to create hashes by its own and exposes its configuration options as following. More information can be found at: https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.password-hash.php

hashingThreads

'hashingThreads' => PASSWORD_ARGON2_DEFAULT_THREADS,

The number of CPU threads to be used by the algorithm for computing a hash.

The value must be an integer, and the minimum value is 1. Rationally it does not help to provide a number higher than the available threads on the machine. Values that undershoot the minimum will be ignored in favor of the minimum.

hashingMemoryCost

'hashingMemoryCost' => PASSWORD_ARGON2_DEFAULT_MEMORY_COST,

The memory in KiB to be used by the algorithm for computing a hash. The value must be an integer, and the minimum value is 8 times the number of CPU threads.

Values that undershoot the minimum will be ignored in favor of the minimum.

hashingTimeCost

'hashingTimeCost' => PASSWORD_ARGON2_DEFAULT_TIME_COST,

The number of iterations that are used by the algorithm for computing a hash.

The value must be an integer, and the minimum value is 1. Values that undershoot the minimum will be ignored in favor of the minimum.

hashingCost

'hashingCost' => 10,

The hashing cost used by hashes generated by Nextcloud Using a higher value requires more time and CPU power to calculate the hashes

All other configuration options

dbdriveroptions

'dbdriveroptions' => [
        PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_SSL_CA => '/file/path/to/ca_cert.pem',
        PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_SSL_KEY => '/file/path/to/mysql-client-key.pem',
        PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_SSL_CERT => '/file/path/to/mysql-client-cert.pem',
        PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_SSL_VERIFY_SERVER_CERT => false,
        PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_INIT_COMMAND => 'SET wait_timeout = 28800'
],

Additional driver options for the database connection, e.g. to enable SSL encryption in MySQL or specify a custom wait timeout on a cheap hoster.

When setting up TLS/SSL for encrypting the connections, you need to ensure that the passed keys and certificates are readable by the PHP process. In addition, PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_SSL_VERIFY_SERVER_CERT might need to be set to false, if the database servers certificates CN does not match with the hostname used to connect. The standard behavior here is different from the MySQL/MariaDB CLI client, which does not verify the server cert except –ssl-verify-server-cert is passed manually.

sqlite.journal_mode

'sqlite.journal_mode' => 'DELETE',

sqlite3 journal mode can be specified using this configuration parameter - can be ‘WAL’ or ‘DELETE’ see for more details https://www.sqlite.org/wal.html

mysql.utf8mb4

'mysql.utf8mb4' => false,

During setup, if requirements are met (see below), this setting is set to true and MySQL can handle 4 byte characters instead of 3 byte characters.

If you want to convert an existing 3-byte setup into a 4-byte setup please set the parameters in MySQL as mentioned below and run the migration command: ./occ db:convert-mysql-charset The config setting will be set automatically after a successful run.

Consult the documentation for more details.

MySQL requires a special setup for longer indexes (> 767 bytes) which are needed:

[mysqld] innodb_large_prefix=ON innodb_file_format=Barracuda innodb_file_per_table=ON

Tables will be created with

character set: utf8mb4
collation: utf8mb4_bin
row_format: dynamic

See: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/charset-unicode-utf8mb4.html https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/innodb-parameters.html#sysvar_innodb_large_prefix https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/xtradbinnodb-server-system-variables/#innodb_large_prefix http://www.tocker.ca/2013/10/31/benchmarking-innodb-page-compression-performance.html http://mechanics.flite.com/blog/2014/07/29/using-innodb-large-prefix-to-avoid-error-1071/

mysql.collation

'mysql.collation' => null,

For search queries in the database, a default collation – depending on the character set – is chosen. In some cases a different behaviour is desired, for instances when an accent sensitive search is desired.

MariaDB and MySQL have an overlap in available collations, but also incompatible ones, also depending on the version of the database server.

This option allows to override the automatic choice. Example:

‘mysql.collation’ => ‘utf8mb4_0900_as_ci’,

This setting has no effect on setup or creating tables. In those cases always utf8[mb4]_bin is being used. This setting is only taken into consideration in SQL queries that utilize LIKE comparison operators.

supportedDatabases

'supportedDatabases' => [
        'sqlite',
        'mysql',
        'pgsql',
        'oci',
],

Database types that are supported for installation.

Available:

sqlite (SQLite3)
mysql (MySQL)
pgsql (PostgreSQL)
oci (Oracle)

Defaults to the following databases:

sqlite (SQLite3)
mysql (MySQL)
pgsql (PostgreSQL)

tempdirectory

'tempdirectory' => '/tmp/nextcloudtemp',

Override where Nextcloud stores temporary files. Useful in situations where the system temporary directory is on a limited space ramdisk or is otherwise restricted, or if external storage which do not support streaming are in use.

The Web server user/PHP must have write access to this directory. Additionally you have to make sure that your PHP configuration considers this a valid tmp directory, by setting the TMP, TMPDIR, and TEMP variables to the required directories. On top of that you might be required to grant additional permissions in AppArmor or SELinux.

updatedirectory

'updatedirectory' => '',

Override where Nextcloud stores update files while updating. Useful in situations where the default datadirectory is on network disk like NFS, or is otherwise restricted. Defaults to the value of datadirectory if unset.

If set, the value MUST be located _outside_ of the installation directory of Nextcloud and writable by the Web server user.

blacklisted_files

'blacklisted_files' => ['.htaccess'],

Blacklist a specific file or files and disallow the upload of files with this name. .htaccess is blocked by default.

WARNING: USE THIS ONLY IF YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING.

Defaults to array('.htaccess')

forbidden_chars

'forbidden_chars' => [],

Blacklist characters from being used in filenames. This is useful if you have a filesystem or OS which does not support certain characters like windows.

The ‘/’ and ‘' characters are always forbidden.

Example for windows systems: array('?', '<', '>', ':', '*', '|', '"', chr(0), "\n", "\r") see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems#Limits

Defaults to array()

theme

'theme' => '',

If you are applying a theme to Nextcloud, enter the name of the theme here.

The default location for themes is nextcloud/themes/.

Defaults to the theming app which is shipped since Nextcloud 9

enforce_theme

'enforce_theme' => '',

Enforce the user theme. This will disable the user theming settings This must be a valid ITheme ID.

E.g. dark, dark-highcontrast, default, light, light-highcontrast, opendyslexic

cipher

'cipher' => 'AES-256-CTR',

The default cipher for encrypting files. Currently supported are:

AES-256-CTR
AES-128-CTR
AES-256-CFB
AES-128-CFB

Defaults to AES-256-CTR

encryption.use_legacy_base64_encoding

'encryption.use_legacy_base64_encoding' => false,

Use the legacy base64 format for encrypted files instead of the more space-efficient binary format. The option affects only newly written files, existing encrypted files will not be touched and will remain readable whether they use the new format or not.

Defaults to false

minimum.supported.desktop.version

'minimum.supported.desktop.version' => '2.3.0',

The minimum Nextcloud desktop client version that will be allowed to sync with this server instance. All connections made from earlier clients will be denied by the server. Defaults to the minimum officially supported Nextcloud desktop client version at the time of release of this server version.

When changing this, note that older unsupported versions of the Nextcloud desktop client may not function as expected, and could lead to permanent data loss for clients or other unexpected results.

Defaults to 2.3.0

localstorage.allowsymlinks

'localstorage.allowsymlinks' => false,

Option to allow local storage to contain symlinks.

WARNING: Not recommended. This would make it possible for Nextcloud to access files outside the data directory and could be considered a security risk.

Defaults to false

localstorage.umask

'localstorage.umask' => 0022,

Nextcloud overrides umask to ensure suitable access permissions regardless of webserver/php-fpm configuration and worker state.

WARNING: Modifying this value has security implications and may soft-break the installation.

Most installs shall not modify this value.

Defaults to 0022

localstorage.unlink_on_truncate

'localstorage.unlink_on_truncate' => false,

This options allows storage systems that don’t allow to modify existing files to overcome this limitation by removing the files before overwriting.

Defaults to false

quota_include_external_storage

'quota_include_external_storage' => false,

EXPERIMENTAL: option whether to include external storage in quota calculation, defaults to false.

Defaults to false

external_storage.auth_availability_delay

'external_storage.auth_availability_delay' => 1800,

When an external storage is unavailable for some reasons, it will be flagged as such for 10 minutes. When the trigger is a failed authentication attempt the delay is higher and can be controlled with this option. The motivation is to make account lock outs at Active Directories (and compatible) more unlikely.

Defaults to 1800 (seconds)

files_external_allow_create_new_local

'files_external_allow_create_new_local' => true,

Allows to create external storages of type “Local” in the web interface and APIs.

When disabled, it is still possible to create local storages with occ using the following command:

% php occ files_external:create /mountpoint local null::null -c datadir=/path/to/data

Defaults to true

filesystem_check_changes

'filesystem_check_changes' => 0,

Specifies how often the local filesystem (the Nextcloud data/ directory, and NFS mounts in data/) is checked for changes made outside Nextcloud. This does not apply to external storage.

0 -> Never check the filesystem for outside changes, provides a performance increase when it’s certain that no changes are made directly to the filesystem

1 -> Check each file or folder at most once per request, recommended for general use if outside changes might happen.

Defaults to 0

part_file_in_storage

'part_file_in_storage' => true,

By default, Nextcloud will store the part files created during upload in the same storage as the upload target. Setting this to false will store the part files in the root of the users folder which might be required to work with certain external storage setups that have limited rename capabilities.

Defaults to true

mount_file

'mount_file' => '/var/www/nextcloud/data/mount.json',

Where mount.json file should be stored, defaults to data/mount.json in the Nextcloud directory.

Defaults to data/mount.json in the Nextcloud directory.

filesystem_cache_readonly

'filesystem_cache_readonly' => false,

When true, prevent Nextcloud from changing the cache due to changes in the filesystem for all storage.

Defaults to false

trusted_proxies

'trusted_proxies' => ['203.0.113.45', '198.51.100.128', '192.168.2.0/24'],

List of trusted proxy servers

You may set this to an array containing a combination of - IPv4 addresses, e.g. 192.168.2.123 - IPv4 ranges in CIDR notation, e.g. 192.168.2.0/24 - IPv6 addresses, e.g. fd9e:21a7:a92c:2323::1 - IPv6 ranges in CIDR notation, e.g. 2001:db8:85a3:8d3:1319:8a20::/95

When an incoming request’s REMOTE_ADDR matches any of the IP addresses specified here, it is assumed to be a proxy instead of a client. Thus, the client IP will be read from the HTTP header specified in forwarded_for_headers instead of from REMOTE_ADDR.

So if you configure trusted_proxies, also consider setting forwarded_for_headers which otherwise defaults to HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR (the X-Forwarded-For header).

Defaults to an empty array.

forwarded_for_headers

'forwarded_for_headers' => ['HTTP_X_FORWARDED', 'HTTP_FORWARDED_FOR'],

Headers that should be trusted as client IP address in combination with trusted_proxies. If the HTTP header looks like ‘X-Forwarded-For’, then use ‘HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR’ here.

If set incorrectly, a client can spoof their IP address as visible to Nextcloud, bypassing access controls and making logs useless!

Defaults to 'HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'

filelocking.enabled

'filelocking.enabled' => true,

Enables transactional file locking.

This is enabled by default.

Prevents concurrent processes from accessing the same files at the same time. Can help prevent side effects that would be caused by concurrent operations. Mainly relevant for very large installations with many users working with shared files.

Defaults to true

filelocking.ttl

'filelocking.ttl' => 60*60,

Set the lock’s time-to-live in seconds.

Any lock older than this will be automatically cleaned up.

Defaults to 60*60 seconds (1 hour) or the php: max_execution_time, whichever is higher.

memcache.locking

'memcache.locking' => '\\OC\\Memcache\\Redis',

Memory caching backend for file locking

Because most memcache backends can clean values without warning using redis is highly recommended to avoid data loss.

Defaults to none

filelocking.debug

'filelocking.debug' => false,

Enable locking debug logging

Note that this can lead to a very large volume of log items being written which can lead to performance degradation and large log files on busy instance.

Thus enabling this in production for longer periods of time is not recommended or should be used together with the log.condition setting.

upgrade.disable-web

'upgrade.disable-web' => false,

Disable the web based updater

upgrade.cli-upgrade-link

'upgrade.cli-upgrade-link' => '',

Allows to modify the cli-upgrade link in order to link to a different documentation

debug

'debug' => false,

Set this Nextcloud instance to debugging mode

Only enable this for local development and not in production environments This will disable the minifier and outputs some additional debug information

Defaults to false

data-fingerprint

'data-fingerprint' => '',

Sets the data-fingerprint of the current data served

This is a property used by the clients to find out if a backup has been restored on the server. Once a backup is restored run ./occ maintenance:data-fingerprint To set this to a new value.

Updating/Deleting this value can make connected clients stall until the user has resolved conflicts.

Defaults to '' (empty string)

copied_sample_config

'copied_sample_config' => true,

This entry is just here to show a warning in case somebody copied the sample configuration. DO NOT ADD THIS SWITCH TO YOUR CONFIGURATION!

If you, brave person, have read until here be aware that you should not modify ANY settings in this file without reading the documentation.

lookup_server

'lookup_server' => 'https://lookup.nextcloud.com',

use a custom lookup server to publish user data

gs.enabled

'gs.enabled' => false,

set to true if the server is used in a setup based on Nextcloud’s Global Scale architecture

gs.federation

'gs.federation' => 'internal',

by default federation is only used internally in a Global Scale setup If you want to allow federation outside your environment set it to ‘global’

csrf.optout

'csrf.optout' => [
        '/^WebDAVFS/', // OS X Finder
        '/^Microsoft-WebDAV-MiniRedir/', // Windows webdav drive
],

List of incompatible user agents opted out from Same Site Cookie Protection.

Some user agents are notorious and don’t really properly follow HTTP specifications. For those, have an opt-out.

WARNING: only use this if you know what you are doing

simpleSignUpLink.shown

'simpleSignUpLink.shown' => true,

By default, there is on public pages a link shown that allows users to learn about the “simple sign up” - see https://nextcloud.com/signup/

If this is set to “false” it will not show the link.

login_form_autocomplete

'login_form_autocomplete' => true,

By default, autocompletion is enabled for the login form on Nextcloud’s login page.

While this is enabled, browsers are allowed to “remember” login names and such. Some companies require it to be disabled to comply with their security policy.

Simply set this property to “false”, if you want to turn this feature off.

no_unsupported_browser_warning

'no_unsupported_browser_warning' => false,

If your user is using an outdated or unsupported browser, a warning will be shown to offer some guidance to upgrade or switch and ensure a proper Nextcloud experience.

They can still bypass it after they have read the warning.

Simply set this property to “true”, if you want to turn this feature off.

files_no_background_scan

'files_no_background_scan' => false,

Disable background scanning of files

By default, a background job runs every 10 minutes and execute a background scan to sync filesystem and database. Only users with unscanned files (size < 0 in filecache) are included. Maximum 500 users per job.

Defaults to false

query_log_file

'query_log_file' => '',

Log all queries into a file

Warning: This heavily decreases the performance of the server and is only meant to debug/profile the query interaction manually. Also, it might log sensitive data into a plain text file.

redis_log_file

'redis_log_file' => '',

Log all redis requests into a file

Warning: This heavily decreases the performance of the server and is only meant to debug/profile the redis interaction manually. Also, it might log sensitive data into a plain text file.

diagnostics.logging

'diagnostics.logging' => true,

Enable diagnostics event logging

If enabled the timings of common execution steps will be logged to the Nextcloud log at debug level. log.condition is useful to enable this on production systems to only log under some conditions

diagnostics.logging.threshold

'diagnostics.logging.threshold' => 0,

Limit diagnostics event logging to events longer than the configured threshold in ms

when set to 0 no diagnostics events will be logged

profile.enabled

'profile.enabled' => true,

Enable profile globally

Defaults to true

account_manager.default_property_scope

'account_manager.default_property_scope' => [],

Allows to override the default scopes for Account data.

The list of overridable properties and valid values for scopes are in OCP\Accounts\IAccountManager. Values added here are merged with default values, which are in OC\Accounts\AccountManager.

For instance, if the phone property should default to the private scope instead of the local one:

[
  \OCP\Accounts\IAccountManager::PROPERTY_PHONE => \OCP\Accounts\IAccountManager::SCOPE_PRIVATE
]

projects.enabled

'projects.enabled' => false,

Enable the deprecated Projects feature, superseded by Related resources as of Nextcloud 25

Defaults to false

bulkupload.enabled

'bulkupload.enabled' => true,

Enable the bulk upload feature.

Defaults to true

reference_opengraph

'reference_opengraph' => true,

Enables fetching open graph metadata from remote urls

Defaults to true

unified_search.enabled

'unified_search.enabled' => false,

Enable use of old unified search

Defaults to false

enable_non-accessible_features

'enable_non-accessible_features' => true,

Enable features that are do respect accessibility standards yet.

Defaults to true

App config options

Activity app

Retention for activities of the activity app:

'activity_expire_days' => 365,

Every day a cron job is ran, which deletes all activities for all users which are older then the number of days that is set for activity_expire_days

'activity_use_cached_mountpoints' => false,

Before enabling this, read the warning in Activities in groupfolders or external storages

Settings app

If an email address of a user is changed by an admin, then it triggers an email to the user that states “Your email address on URL was changed by an administrator.”. In some cases this should not be triggered, because it was a normal maintenance change. To disable this specific email the appconfig option disable_email.email_address_changed_by_admin can be set to yes:

occ config:app:set settings disable_activity.email_address_changed_by_admin --value yes

To disable this behaviour change it to any other value or delete the app config:

occ config:app:delete settings disable_activity.email_address_changed_by_admin

Configuration Parameters

Multiple config.php file

Default Parameters

instanceid

passwordsalt

secret

trusted_domains

datadirectory

version

dbtype

dbhost

dbname

dbuser

dbpassword

dbtableprefix

dbpersistent

dbreplica

installed

Default config.php Examples

User Experience

default_language

force_language

default_locale

default_phone_region

force_locale

default_timezone

knowledgebaseenabled

knowledgebase.embedded

allow_user_to_change_display_name

skeletondirectory

templatedirectory

User session

remember_login_cookie_lifetime

session_lifetime

davstorage.request_timeout

session_relaxed_expiry

session_keepalive

auto_logout

token_auth_enforced

token_auth_activity_update

auth.bruteforce.protection.enabled

auth.bruteforce.protection.testing

ratelimit.protection.enabled

auth.webauthn.enabled

auth.storeCryptedPassword

hide_login_form

lost_password_link

logo_url

Mail Parameters

mail_domain

mail_from_address

mail_smtpdebug

mail_smtpmode

mail_smtphost

mail_smtpport

mail_smtptimeout

mail_smtpsecure

mail_smtpauth

mail_smtpname

mail_smtppassword

mail_template_class

mail_send_plaintext_only

mail_smtpstreamoptions

mail_sendmailmode

Proxy Configurations

overwritehost

overwriteprotocol

overwritewebroot

overwritecondaddr

overwrite.cli.url

htaccess.RewriteBase

htaccess.IgnoreFrontController

proxy

proxyuserpwd

proxyexclude

allow_local_remote_servers

Deleted Items (trash bin)

trashbin_retention_obligation

File versions

versions_retention_obligation